Aptech Forays into Digital Training, Signs Strategic Partnership with HandyTrain

Aptech Ltd, the global career education company, announced today its strategic partnership with HandyTrain, a smartphone based training platform for workforce. With this partnership, Aptech aims to augment its existing offering with a digital solution that will greatly propel sales and revenues in this new mobile age. The partnership will overcome many of the barriers that are faced by people when it comes to their training needs.

Mobility based training ensures that productive time is used efficiently and the experience is interactive and in real-time. HandyTrain enables real-time interactive training that is bite-sized and easy to remember. The software is all-encompassing with over-the-air updates and leadership boards to ensure motivation.

According to Gourav Jaswal, Director HandyTrain, “In an attention-deficit era, a smartphone based training solution has many intrinsic benefits. HandyTrain has the capability to revolutionize training by making learning more efficient, focused and customised.”

Mr. Ninad Karpe, MD & CEO of Aptech Ltd said, “Aptech’s foray into digital learning will be another key offering coupled with our offline services. With an increase in smart-phone penetration not only into the middle class, but also to people from every walk of life, this portable training system will ensure access to training materials irrespective of class, geography and costs.”

About HandyTrain

HandyTrain, a venture incubated by Prototyze, is a mobile platform for corporate training. Some of its key features include:

1. Train anywhere, even while traveling to the office in a bus or train

2. Track and assess training goals in real-time

3. Over-the-air updates of content so that it is always relevant

4. Leaderboards and incentives for continuous motivation

5. Access to all the training material, including customer-based presentations, on the mobile

6. Self-paced learning that utilizes dead time thereby saving of productive time

7. Surveys, polls and ratings that capture immediate feedback

About Aptech Ltd. 

Aptech commenced its education and training business in 1986 and has globally trained over 7 million students. Aptech is an ISO 9001:2008 organization and the first IT Training and Education company to

get this certification for Education Support Services in 1993. Aptech has presence in more than 40 emerging countries through its two main streams of businesses – Individual training and Enterprise Business. It has over 1300+ centres of learning across the world.

Under Individual Training, Aptech offers career and professional training through its Aptech Computer Education, Arena Animation & Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (both in Animation & Multimedia), Aptech Hardware & Networking Academy, Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy and Aptech English Learning Academy brands. Enterprise business includes Content Development (Aptech Learning Services), Training and Assessment Solutions for Corporates & Institutions (Aptech Training Solutions, Aptech Assessment & Testing Solutions).

About Prototyze:

Prototyze is an incubator, currently working in stealth mode on building mobile technology centered businesses in multiple sectors such as Financial Services, Health & Fitness, and Training & Learning. Two ventures catalyzed by it (MobieFit and HandyTrain) have already been incorporated as independent companies with independent teams, investment and trajectory.