Launch of the Functional Graduate Certification for Openbravo ERP 2.50!!

by Renate Nieuwkoop
Senior Education Specialist at Global Partner Services

After a successful launch of Foundation Certification programme last year, we are now happy to announce the first Graduate Exam. The Functional Graduate Certification has been made widely available starting February 26, 2010.

Since the launch of the Foundation exams, many partners have become certified and can now progress to the next level to become certified at a Graduate level.

Certification is essential to end customers, partners and us at Openbravo for several reasons:

• Assures customers of your knowledge, skill and credentials
• Shows tangible evidence of your ability
• Adds to your credibility in the Openbravo ecosystem
• Allows Openbravo to set a brand standard and monitor the quality of our partners

Whereas the Functional Foundation knowledge can be mastered through participation in the Basic Functional Training, the Graduate exam is going beyond that and is based on knowledge that can only be gained through practical use and implementation of the Openbravo ERP application. The objective of the Graduate exam is to demonstrate the ability to configure and use the application in a real life scenario.

For more information about the Functional Graduate Certification, please click here. For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us directly at training@openbravo.com

Online courses and Openbravo's e-learning strategy

The end of the year was an exciting period for the Global Partner Services, wrapping up a successful year, planning new products for 2009, while delivering some of the latest ones.

The Education department was proud to introduce the new Online Basic Functional Training in a unique e-learning format. The 5-week long course took place between the 17th of November and 19th of December. Eight students participated and completed the course which was an overall success.

The course covers the basic functionality and usability of Openbravo ERP:

Using a Learning Management System (based on Open Source Moodle platform) and practical use of Openbravo ERP hosted on Amazon, the Online Basic Funtional Training provides a unique learning environment supervised by Openbravo training specialists, which also includes the following:

• Weekly live sessions through webcast
• News blog where live sessions and other news are published
• Materials (navigable slide show) for each module
• Links to additional readings
• Quizzes
• Discussion and Q&A forums answered by Openbravo Training Specialists
• Exercises and assignments
• A link to each participants' own Openbravo ERP application, which is used to experience the product and execute the exercises and assignments
• Evaluation form

This way the students are given various channels of content, making sure that exercises, quizzes and assignments are successfully completed.

Openbravo's online courses are the answer for those individuals with limited time, and who cannot necessarily afford to fly to a location to complete one of our live intensive courses.

As for the upcoming year, we will continue expanding our online course offer to keep pursuing the efficient dissemination of Openbravo knowledge.

Rok Lenardic
Senior Training Specialist

Training experiences

Openbravo ERP is a sophisticated application. Companies that go live with Openbravo ERP can revolutionize the way they run their businesses. However, learning how to implement and use Openbravo ERP takes time and can initially seem like a daunting task. We have designed our training curriculum to enable our partners and customers to jumpstart the learning curve!

In Openbravo Education we believe in presenting functional and technical material with a customer focus. Our functional classes take a business approach and show students how to configure and use Openbravo applications to perform many of the essential processes their companies require. Our more technical classes focus on the installation, architecture, customization and development of Openbravo applications. All of our classes include extensive exercises based on practical scenarios. Openbravo classes can be delivered in an instructor lead, customized or online format depending on partner or customer requirements.

Openbravo Education comprises of a team of highly motivated training professionals. Every member of the education staff has extensive IT industry experience in at least one of the following areas: consulting, development or support.

Our training classes have drawn praise from Openbravo customers and partners alike:

This was one of the most, if not the most, valuable training classes I've had. VERY impressed with the application and the format of the course, using hands on and taking the info (laptops) with us is very helpful
Jon Castleman, President, CyberOptic Group
(Training Convention, Miami, June 2008)

We encourage you to review a synopsis of any of the classes we currently offer.

David Herring
Training Manager