Cloud Academy announced
the addition of Hands-on Labs results, empowering enterprises to drive
employee training programs with quantifiable measurements of real-world
skill competencies. Available for all enterprise customers, Hands-On
Labs results now contribute to Skill Profiles, which enable leadership
to take a data-driven approach to determine strengths, identify skills
gaps, and align training efforts with broader business goals.
As
budgets shift away from traditional IT spending and into the cloud, the
technologies and skills needed to succeed will continue to change.
According to Gartner, over $1.3 trillion dollars will
be impacted by 2022, requiring organizations to reskill existing staff
and invest in training programs to meet the needs of specific job roles
and project requirements.
"Having
the right skills in your organization is a competitive advantage today,
especially with the constant introduction of new technologies and
methodologies," said Stefano Bellasio, CEO, Cloud Academy. "Skill
Profiles allow organizations to visualize how their teams' skills change
over time, address skills gaps, and create accountability around
training priorities."
An
industry first, Skill Profiles leverage not only results from
exam-based skill assessments but more importantly, results from Hands-on
Labs - live cloud environments for enterprises to build and validate
practical experience directly on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform,
Docker, Kubernetes, data pipelines, and more. Validation steps in each
Hands-on Lab check whether the learner correctly completed the Lab and
whether best practices were followed in the console or on the command
line. The results of the validation steps contribute to an updated Skill
Profile score for key technologies, concepts, and cloud platform in
use, making Skill Profiles the first measurement of real-world
practitioner skills that can be delivered digitally at scale.
Skill
Profiles are updated in real-time as learners complete Cloud Academy
Quizzes, Exams, and Hands-on Labs. Skill Profiles provide management
with:
- Measurement
of real-world proficiency across cloud platforms, domains, concepts and
software vendors over time - reducing risk around architecture
decision-making, project execution, security, and compliance and
allowing companies to accelerate modernization through cloud adoption.
- A skills growth rate chart showing the week-over-week percentage increase in skills for a configurable time period.
- A skills leaderboard that shows aggregate Skill Profile scores for users and teams.
Hands-on
Labs' addition to the calculation of Skill Profiles is a continuation
of Cloud Academy's leadership in the enterprise training space as
companies scramble to develop programmatic training programs to
accelerate organizational skill development for the cloud. Cloud Academy
combines skill attainment reporting with additional Analytics
Dashboards that measure training effort across the training activities
delivered by the platform (Courses, Exams, Hands-on Labs, Quizzes, and
Learning Paths).
According to Harvard Business Review, over 90% of the $200 billion spent in U.S. corporate training goes to waste because
the training lacks context. Cloud Academy's Content Engine empowers
organizations to easily clone, customize, and extend tens of thousands
of hours of pre-built content to provide company-specific context to the
training. All of the content is then released in an automated process
using Training Plans, which provide robust training cycle management
with role-specific content selection, assignment, and automatic
reminders to train.
"Taken
together," says Bellasio, "Cloud Academy is simply the most effective
way to align your teams and technology training program to your
organization's roadmap."
Skill
Profiles, Hands-on Labs, Content Engine, and Training Plans are
available today on Cloud Academy's platform. To learn more, visit cloudacademy.com/.