[August 06, 2014]

Edureka to Launch 36 More Courses to Address Growing Skill-Gap in IT

Edureka, India's leading online IT, cloud and mobility education provider offering extensive live-instructor based online courses globally today announced its plans to take the total course count this year to 50 from its existing portfolio of 14.

Offering mission-critical courses on Big Data, Data Science, Analytics, NoSQL, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, Mobility and several other key industry paced courses, Edureka will be focusing on building up its portfolio on courses around streams where there is a global skill gap. The upcoming courses will be tailored to suit the particular industry needs for USA, UK, India, Australia and South-East Asia among other regions in Western Europe.

"The global scenario in the IT industry is changing rapidly and IT professionals are finding it hard to keep up to the change. Realizing this, we have already rolled out 14 industry ready courses for mid-career professionals and will be launching another 36 courses to skill-up by the end of 2014," said Lovleen Bhatia, Co-Founder and CEO, Edureka.

With its innovative approach to online courses through the live-instructor model, Edureka has already witnessed a 30 fold increase in its revenues since 2011-12 and has registered a CAGR of 430% last 2 years.

"Businesses across the globe now consider Big Data, Hadoop and related technologies as the key drivers for their business. However, globally, there is an acute shortage of IT professionals in these domains. Our aim at Edureka is to skill-up the IT professionals in these sectors as these skills are becoming the prerequisites for success in the IT industry," said Kapil Tyagi, Co-Founder and COO, Edureka.

"The learners can interact with the lecturer directly on a webinar, video call or web-chat to get his query addressed and not just listen to a recording," Tyagi added.

Edureka, having a strong subscriber base of 200,000 learners has successfully assisted in upgrading the skills of over 80,000 IT professionals globally.

About Edureka:

Edureka (Education+Eureka) aims to bridge the growing skills gap of professionals in Big Data, Cloud and Mobility globally. Edureka offers a range of online technical courses in Android (News - Alert), Big Data & Hadoop, Hadoop Administration, Apache Cassandra, Cloud Computing, Data Science and Business Analytics among others for global professionals. Its delivery methodology consists of 'Live instructor led courses' with project based assignment evaluation. It provides 24x7 support and life-time content support setting them apart from its competitors. Edureka has a dropout rate of only 10% and huge student market base in India, USA, UK and Australia.

For more details, visit: http://www.edureka.co

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