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Aptech prepares students for global careers in IT, multimedia & animation, hardware &
networking, aviation, hospitality and travel & tourism. Corporate solutions include corporate
training, assessment solutions for corporate & universities/ academic institutions and custom
content development for overseas & domestic customers.
Aptech is one of the two largest computer training and education companies in India with
revenues of Rs.3.2 billion (US$65.2 million) in calendar year 2002. Aptech has a network of
2,449 training centers spread across 52 countries and has trained over 2.5 million students
across the globe. Aptech was the first IT training and education organization to be awarded the
ISO 9001 certification (International Organization for Standardization) for Education Support
Services in 1993. This has ensured consistent high quality standards in delivering world-class
curriculum. The company measures its performance against several benchmarks. As a public
company, the first metric is return to shareholders. Given Aptech’s vision is to become a
premier provider of computer education and training globally, it also measures its performance
in terms of corporate citizenship. Several of Aptech’s initiatives are aimed at increasing financial
opportunity through IT empowerment.
The company has grown & diversified into various education-related businesses & its stock is
listed on the BSE & the NSE.
SBUs function as independent business entities and have their main research and development
activities headquartered in India.
Retail businesses
Aptech Computer
Education
IT training & education
Arena Animation
Animation &
multimedia training
MAAC
High-end 3D animation & VFX education
Avalon Academy
Aviation, Hospitality & Tourism education
N-Power
Hardware & networking
Aptech Worldwide
International IT &
multimedia training
English Express
English language training
Corporate businesses
Aptech Training
Solutions
Corporate training & training outsourcing
Attest
Assessment solutions for universities & corporates
Learning Services
Customised content
development
Competitors of APTECH
Major competitors are Educomp Sol, NIIT, Everonn Edu, Edsev Softsyst. A comparison is given
bellow in the table:
CRM AT APTECH
There are two units of CRM are used at aptech
CRS
CAS
CRS
CRS is a customer service solution and not a data crunching operation. Using CRS students can
gives feedback on Centre, Product, People, and Specific Issues. R.O., Product Design, And General
Management for Monitoring Centre Performance, Improving or Revamping the Product, Making
policy decisions and for overall improvement in delivery process uses this feedback.
It covers three locations: Centre, Regional Office and Head Office. In the Centres and Regional
offices CRS consists of the Client Server Modules, while in the head office it consists of the
Client Server as well as the Knowledge Management modules.
CAS
CAS (Centre Automation System) is the data base of students. This data base is used by Centre
personnel for student tracking and by the R.O for monitoring centre performances. Plan is there
to extend a call centre and data base for Alumni.
Provide sufficient information, through a easy to access interface, to the customer for
judging their current status and make a plan for the future based on same.
Provide an interface for the customer to communicate his\or her views on the service
received by them.
Have a mechanism in place to capture warnings signals at an early stage to enable
proactive preventive action.
Client module server module has a back end developed in Oracle and a front end developed in
Powerbuilder. In each centre CRS are linked to Centre Automation system. In regional Office it is
linked to Regional Automation System.
The Client Server module has various screens like review categories\notifications – Exception,
Today’s feedback, Awaiting Ratification, Ratified, and Pending Closure.
CRS INTERFACE
There are three levels of interacting or interfacing with the system.
Discussion group
Knowledge repository
Latest update
Best practices
FAQs
Provides easy access to the answers your end users need most. Help to documentation, answers
to frequently-asked questions, product briefs, all the latest essential information.
This central information repository offers your users 24/7 customer support, reducing your
service requests while improving your support team’s efficiency.
Organize the content any way you wish – even invite your end users to get involved by helping
to identify the most valuable content.
The architecture of the knowledge management module
Students started using the CRS system in the fourth week of April 2000 and have found it very
useful. They were satisfied with the system response to a particular issue. Action were taken
very fast.
In carrying informal networks within the organisation to link with expertise employees
and would be consulted on the particular subject.
Measuring the performance of employees.
Best customer service
Creating a well-knit network among employees.
Improving the quality of response to feedback