The EXIN Foundation is working to develop certification programs in 'cloud computing' and 'green IT'.
In 2007, the OGC (Office of Government Commerce), which owns the intellectual property ITIL decided to change the accreditation scheme for which examinations are administered at the highest level by APM Group, which acts as the official ITIL accreditation to OGC. Examinations, the rating structure and the same is done in turn by Examination Institute.
Ricardo Santiago, director general of the English subsidiary of EXIN (Examination Institute for Information Science), a Dutch non-profit that landed in Mexico in 2007. "The choice of Spain is strategic because it acts as a bridge to the English market" says Santiago.
The English subsidiary is the second location EXIN available in Europe as well as headquarters in the Netherlands, which continues to act "back-office as European as it is where correct all examinations and certificates are sent " says Santiago.
In these three years of activity in Spain EXIN has seen a growth in the number of certificates of between 7 % to 10%. The bulk of them concentrated in Madrid and Barcelona but "has been detected in Andalucia, Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura and Galicia are increasing requests for examination , according to James.
However, training is still the primera partida sacrificada dentro de las empresas en tiempos de crisis, en palabras de Santiago "muchos de los profesionales que han perdido su empleo han optado por la formación y la certificación, a nivel Foundation, como la mejor manera de mejorar su competitividad y volver lo antes posible al mercado laboral" .
Esta tendencia ha hecho que varias universidades de España decidieran incluir en sus programas académicos la certificación en ITIL o ISO 20000. Según Santiago, "muchos alumnos han visto en la certificación profesional un valor añadido a sus estudios oficiales".
Source: computerworld.com
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