AmerIT Learning Awarded Three Year ITIL® Education Contract from The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
Technology Education Partnership will Provide SMUD IT Employees with IT Service Management Best Practices Education Courses and Industry Certifications.
Sacramento, CA, May 10, 2006 --(PR.com)-- AmerIT Learning, the leader in full service ITIL® Education in North America, today announced that the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country, has selected AmerIT Learning, as their ITIL® education partner, awarding them with a three-year contract.
This highly coveted contract was initially sought after by twelve bidders, each outlining their education program features and pricing their bids competitively, making the decision even tougher.
More CIO’s are turning to ITIL® best practices for IT service management improvements to help align IT with the business, proactively detect, and eliminate problems before they happen. Organizations that have adopted the ITIL® framework have cut costs, improved processing time and enhanced their overall service provisions significantly. Although the ITIL® revolution is still relatively new in North America, organizations are already reaping in the rewards that ITIL® has to offer.
“We are excited about partnering with SMUD, not only because it adds to the number of companies and government agencies that we service here in the Sacramento (and Bay) area,” said Stephanie Piché, ITIL® Education Evangelist and Head of Marketing for AmerIT Learning. “But it as a Certified California Small Business and supporter of the regional community, we are proud to be a part of the growth in IT Service Management by providing the best education programs available.”
As a provider of ITIL® Education in the Greater Sacramento (and San Francisco Bay) area for over four years, AmerIT Learning was able to demonstrate their dedication to providing superior adult education programs, geared towards knowledge-transfer from field experienced practitioners, as well as, tracking feedback from their students through a score carding system not offered by any other vendor. It took more than being competitive on price for AmerIT Learning to win this contract, they had to raise the bar and show how truly unique their programs were.
SMUD now joins the ranks of companies such as Proctor and Gamble, Ontario Justice Enterprise, and Caterpillar, who have started utilizing the ITIL® best practices framework that originated in the UK in the 1980’s, in the past three years and have seen a dramatic cost savings in operating costs. By focusing on improving the processes around IT, the organization can benefit from lower operating costs, improved availability, reliability, and security of mission critical IT services, be more competitive, and improve productivity.
About SMUD
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country in terms of customers served. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District began providing electricity to customers on December 31, 1946. SMUD's purpose is to provide solutions for meeting our customers' electrical energy needs. SMUD’s mission is to be Northern California's premier information source on technology applications that can help our business customers perform better and our residential customers live better. For more on AMDU, please visit their website at http://www.smud.org
About AmerIT Learning
Our Mission: To provide the industry’s best value and top satisfaction in ITIL® education. AmerIT Learning is comprised of a team of veteran professionals with an IT background and passion for excellence with a dedication to leadership in the support of ITIL® framework adopters. Combining a unique focus on equipping clients for success through the passionate pursuit of educational best practices, unmatched customer service, and IT professional experience, AmerIT Learning excels at offering the best-in-class education in a cost conscious delivery model.
AmerIT Learning has been providing ITIL® training and certification for over three years with course offerings that cover the full scope of certification for Foundations, Practitioner, and Service Management Master Requirements. They also offer Awareness and Executive level classes along with a new team-building, interactive program based on the Apollo13 mission. With this new program, students new to ITIL® can work together and experience first hand the new processes they are learning through ITIL education. For more on AmerIT Learning, please visit their website at http://www.ameritlearning.com.
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This highly coveted contract was initially sought after by twelve bidders, each outlining their education program features and pricing their bids competitively, making the decision even tougher.
More CIO’s are turning to ITIL® best practices for IT service management improvements to help align IT with the business, proactively detect, and eliminate problems before they happen. Organizations that have adopted the ITIL® framework have cut costs, improved processing time and enhanced their overall service provisions significantly. Although the ITIL® revolution is still relatively new in North America, organizations are already reaping in the rewards that ITIL® has to offer.
“We are excited about partnering with SMUD, not only because it adds to the number of companies and government agencies that we service here in the Sacramento (and Bay) area,” said Stephanie Piché, ITIL® Education Evangelist and Head of Marketing for AmerIT Learning. “But it as a Certified California Small Business and supporter of the regional community, we are proud to be a part of the growth in IT Service Management by providing the best education programs available.”
As a provider of ITIL® Education in the Greater Sacramento (and San Francisco Bay) area for over four years, AmerIT Learning was able to demonstrate their dedication to providing superior adult education programs, geared towards knowledge-transfer from field experienced practitioners, as well as, tracking feedback from their students through a score carding system not offered by any other vendor. It took more than being competitive on price for AmerIT Learning to win this contract, they had to raise the bar and show how truly unique their programs were.
SMUD now joins the ranks of companies such as Proctor and Gamble, Ontario Justice Enterprise, and Caterpillar, who have started utilizing the ITIL® best practices framework that originated in the UK in the 1980’s, in the past three years and have seen a dramatic cost savings in operating costs. By focusing on improving the processes around IT, the organization can benefit from lower operating costs, improved availability, reliability, and security of mission critical IT services, be more competitive, and improve productivity.
About SMUD
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country in terms of customers served. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District began providing electricity to customers on December 31, 1946. SMUD's purpose is to provide solutions for meeting our customers' electrical energy needs. SMUD’s mission is to be Northern California's premier information source on technology applications that can help our business customers perform better and our residential customers live better. For more on AMDU, please visit their website at http://www.smud.org
About AmerIT Learning
Our Mission: To provide the industry’s best value and top satisfaction in ITIL® education. AmerIT Learning is comprised of a team of veteran professionals with an IT background and passion for excellence with a dedication to leadership in the support of ITIL® framework adopters. Combining a unique focus on equipping clients for success through the passionate pursuit of educational best practices, unmatched customer service, and IT professional experience, AmerIT Learning excels at offering the best-in-class education in a cost conscious delivery model.
AmerIT Learning has been providing ITIL® training and certification for over three years with course offerings that cover the full scope of certification for Foundations, Practitioner, and Service Management Master Requirements. They also offer Awareness and Executive level classes along with a new team-building, interactive program based on the Apollo13 mission. With this new program, students new to ITIL® can work together and experience first hand the new processes they are learning through ITIL education. For more on AmerIT Learning, please visit their website at http://www.ameritlearning.com.
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www.ameritlearning.com
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