Training Industry is the most trusted source of information on the business of learning. Our Top IT Training List is based on thorough analysis of the capabilities, experience and expertise of IT training providers.
IT training is specific to the skills required to perform the tasks and processes of IT professionals and employees across departments. This training targets jobs that require some level of computer science, network administration, information telecommunication or other technical component. IT training includes courses related to the application, design, development, implementation, support or management of cloud- and computer-based information systems.
For this list, IT training also includes data science training which can include courses on data mining, data literacy, analytics, machine learning, etc.
IT training or data science training providers offer courses on a range of technology topics, including applications such as network administration, programming or vendor training.
We continuously monitor the training marketplace looking for the best providers of IT training that offer a breadth of courses and content. This annual list is designed to help buy-side organizations in their search for the right training partners.
Selection of this year’s Top IT Training Companies List was based on the following criteria:
- Breadth and quality of IT training content and courses.
- Leadership and innovation in IT training.
- Company size and growth potential.
- Strength of clients and geographic reach.
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Click on a company’s logo below to find more information about its products and services. Continue scrolling for this year’s IT Training Watch List Companies, representing companies with emerging or unique strengths and capabilities.
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Due to the diversity of services included in IT training, no attempt is made to rank the companies.
Top 20 Companies
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O'Reilly
Boston
O’Reilly empowers organizations and their workforces to keep pace with today’s fast-changing tech landscape by helping them develop the technical and business skills necessary for success, enabling learners to develop the expertise they need regarding the most useful emerging technologies in the market.
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ExitCertified | Tech Data
Clearwater, Florida
Tech Data Education and Training is a certified provider of IT training services, offering training globally in over 60 countries. They operate under two brands – Tech Data Academy and ExitCertified – offering training services authorized by top technology vendors, including AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Docker, RedHat, SAP, VMWare and many more.
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NIIT
Gurgaon, India
For 39 years, NIIT has trained 39 million people in IT across 30 countries worldwide. NIIT can virtually design, develop and deliver any technology customer education service or solution customized to the needs of the technology, audience, geographic distribution, regional requirements and scale.
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Arrow Electronics (Arrow ECS Education)
Centennial, Colorado
Arrow has established close relationships with all major IT vendors – both on the education and distribution sides of the business. With its broad coverage, commitment to quality, innovative delivery methods and experienced instructors, Arrow strives to provide the best learning experiences to clients on the latest IT technologies.
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Firebrand Training
London
Firebrand Training is a leader in accelerated learning and the fastest route to new skills, certification and knowledge. With over 1,000 courses – ranging from project management to cybersecurity – more than 76,000 students have already trained at twice the speed.
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LearnQuest
Philadelphia
LearnQuest works with enterprise and government agencies globally to plan, create and deploy learning solutions, enabling clients to accelerate technology adoption within their organizations. Its team offers a blended approach to training while delivering courses in areas such as cloud, mobility, DevOps, artificial intelligence and blockchain.
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New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
Tampa, Florida
New Horizons’ IT and business training solutions have kept businesses ahead of the technology curve for over 35 years. It combines the resources of the world’s largest IT training company with the responsiveness of a local partner. New Horizons is certified as an authorized partner for Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and VMware.
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Pluralsight
Farmington, Utah
Pluralsight believes everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills they need for tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, its platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products.
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Dell Technologies
Round Rock, Texas
Dell Technologies is recognized across the world as a leader in IT. Dell Technologies’ education services provide award-winning training and certification to accelerate adoption of new and emerging technologies and develop the skills to execute transformational strategies for all of Dell’s employees, partners and end customers.
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TTA
Marlborough, Massachusetts
TTA collaborates with global corporations within many technical verticals to incorporate and continually develop best practices and new strategies for agile IT training. Based on this knowledge, its trainers have delivered IT training to millions of learners across a spectrum of learning formats.
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Infosec
Madison, Wisconsin
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. Infosec helps IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cybersafe at work and home.
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Learning Tree International
Herndon, Virginia
As a leading global training solution partner for more than 45 years, Learning Tree International prides itself on its collaboration with and track record of delivering training results for its clients. Learning Tree’s solutions-oriented approach provides access to real-world expertise through a learning ecosystem proven to support clients’ goals and develop employees’ skills.
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GP Strategies
Columbia, Maryland
GP Strategies is a leading service provider with a broad range of IT and platform adoption solutions designed to improve employee and business performance. GP has proven approaches and frameworks that enable employees to leverage technology to deliver critical business outcomes.
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Skillsoft
Nashua, New Hampshire
Skillsoft is the most robust source for enterprise technology and software developer training, as organizations seek to rapidly upskill employees in the age of digital disruption. With 28 million hours of technical learning content delivered each year, Skillsoft enables technology professionals to master new skills and prepare for their certification exams.
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Fast Lane Institute for Knowledge Transfer
Zurich Switzerland
Fast Lane is a global, IT-focused training company delivering a multi-vendor portfolio of education, services and content development solutions using subject matter experts in emerging technologies to help customers achieve their digital business strategies.
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Trainocate Holdings
Tokyo
Trainocate Holdings, Ltd. is Asia’s largest and most-awarded IT training provider, passionate about its vision to enrich lives through the power of education and knowledge. With 25 years of experience under its belt, Trainocate aspires to advocate for lifelong learning, educate its communities and innovate through continual improvement.
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CGS
New York
CGS is a trusted partner to many of the world’s most dynamic companies – delivering innovative, custom learning solutions essential to scaling people, processes and performance. Through tech-forward, engaging programs, leveraging artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, and gamification, CGS blends emerging technologies with virtual shoulder-to-shoulder training
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Simplilearn Solutions
San Francisco, California
Simplilearn Solutions teaches digital skills that drive the global economy. Its courses are codeveloped with experts in each field and align to authoritative certification providers. Simplilearn’s blended learning method drives great completion rates and outcomes. Its solutions are delivered through its proprietary learning management system and dedicated customer success team.
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ROI Training
New York
ROI Training is the industry-recognized leader in designing, developing and delivering customized technology training programs. ROI’s world-class instructors and authors work closely with clients to deliver the skills and best practices required in a fast-paced, global enterprise. ROI supports customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
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Global Knowledge
Cary, North Carolina
Global Knowledge is the world’s leading technology skills training provider, supporting major enterprises and tech professionals with innovative and flexible learning solutions – anytime, anywhere and anyhow.
Watchlist Companies
Watchlist
Our 2020 IT Training Companies Watch List is intended to help buyers of training services evaluate IT training providers, representing emerging or unique strengths and capabilities.
Selection of the Watch List is based on the same criteria used for Top 20 companies.
Click on a company’s logo below to find more information about its products and services.
Due to the diversity of services included in IT training, no attempt is made to rank the companies.
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ONLC Training Centers
Wilmington, Delaware
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ONLC Training Centers
Wilmington, Delaware
ONLC Training Centers delivers virtual instructor-led training in over 300 training sites across the U.S and online. Its facilities offer a quiet, interruption-free learning environment for learning. In addition to live training, ONLC has a large library of on-demand content for self-study.
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Sovelto Oyj
Helsinki Finland
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Sovelto Oyj
Helsinki Finland
Sovelto Oyj is well known for delivering first-class training with the latest methodologies. Sovelto was the first to bring microlearning, virtual classroom and virtual training solutions to the Finnish training market. It researches and tests constantly the best solutions for its customers' needs.
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Amstar Technologies
Bangalore, India
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Amstar Technologies
Bangalore, India
Amstar Technologies is a 15 year-old IT services organization with a mission to enhance IT skills globally. It services customers in over 50 countries to empower IT skills and improve employability. With the right talent, policies, quality processes, products and values, Amstar has aggressive plans for growth in the next three years.
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Learn on Demand Systems
New Port Richey, Florida
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Learn on Demand Systems
New Port Richey, Florida
Learn on Demand Systems empowers organizations to accelerate technology learning through hands-on experience and skills validation. A global leader in hands-on live learning, it recognizes the challenges companies face to create and maintain engaging labs, workshops, courses and assessments that make technical concepts tangible across the globe.
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Judge Learning Solutions
Wayne, Pennsylvania
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Judge Learning Solutions
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Judge Learning Solutions is a supplier of enterprise learning and performance support solutions, including learning strategy consultation and solutions architecture, traditional instructor-led training delivery, custom learning asset creation, organizational change management, staff augmentation services, electronic medical record solutions, and large-scale rollout support.
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LinkedIn Learning
San Francisco, California
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LinkedIn Learning
San Francisco, California
LinkedIn Learning expertly leverages learners’ data to analyze job history, connections, social profiles and inferred skills, as well as those of their peers, to generate learning paths and course recommendations that are personalized, useful and directly relevant to learners’ current and future career path.
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XtremeLabs
McLean, Virginia
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XtremeLabs
McLean, Virginia
XtremeLabs has rapidly assembled the most robust training catalog, complemented with its industry leading experiential technology platform to deliver impactful training outcomes to customers around the world. Its building-block approach to training content allows for development of expertise across platforms.
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Sunset Learning Institute (SLI)
Reston, Virginia
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Sunset Learning Institute (SLI)
Reston, Virginia
Sunset Learning Institute (SLI) is always striving to be the go-to IT training provider for its customers. SLI is constantly growing its portfolio to meet the needs of existing customers and open the door to new ones. It does this by expanding its own expertise and acquiring companies who help fulfill those needs.
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Udemy for Business
San Francisco, California
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Udemy for Business
San Francisco, California
Udemy for Business helps companies stay competitive in today’s rapidly changing business environment by offering fresh, on-demand learning content through a powerful content marketplace. Its mission is to help employees succeed in whatever comes next. With over 5,000 high quality courses on the most in-demand topics, Udemy sets companies and employees up for success.
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BizLibrary
Town and Country, Missouri
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BizLibrary
Town and Country, Missouri
BizLibrary’s online employee training solution is everything your organization needs to develop your employees and drive measurable results. It offers high-quality content, covering topics organizations need to remain competitive, delivered on a powerful and easy-to-use platform.
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DevelopIntelligence
Denver, Colorado
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DevelopIntelligence
Denver, Colorado
DevelopIntelligence’s mission is to help companies attract, retain and grow top technical talent by creating and managing comprehensive, customized developer learning programs. Its technical training solutions encompass all aspects of learning, from identification and design to delivery and follow up.
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Decoded
London
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Decoded
London
Decoded is an enterprise training partner, enabling its clients to transform into data-driven and digitally fluent organizations. Decoded’s programs work for all levels — from educating leaders on critical technologies to upskilling individuals with new data skills through their Data Academy.
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Infopro Learning
Plainsboro, New Jersey
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Infopro Learning
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Infopro Learning’s vision is to help people stay relevant by unlocking human potential and extending organizational capabilities and capacities to deliver transformational learning. As a leading provider of learning solutions, Infopro designs, develops and deploys learning experiences for global customers using all learning modalities.
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OpenSesame
Portland, Oregon
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OpenSesame
Portland, Oregon
With the most comprehensive catalog of over 20,000 curated eLearning courses from the world’s top publishers — including software, programming, desktop applications, cybersecurity and more — OpenSesame offers companies a single source for all their IT training and compliance needs.
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CTU Training Solutions
Pretoria, South Africa
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CTU Training Solutions
Pretoria, South Africa
CTU Training Solutions has been developing skilled professionals since 1987. Originally, CTU only specialized in IT training but has added business, design, engineering and humanities to its offerings. IT is still CTU’s number one seller, specializing in Microsoft, CompTIA, AWS, CISCO and more.
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Metis
New York
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Metis
New York
Metis is a best-in-class data science and analytics training organization respected in the industry for delivering quality instruction to both individuals and corporations.
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QuickStart Learning
Austin, Texas
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QuickStart Learning
Austin, Texas
QuickStart is the industry's first IT workforce readiness platform, using artificial intelligence (AI), adaptive learning and multimodal delivery to personalize learning plans mapped to the IT and career goals of its clients. It also offers benchmarking of roles-based competencies using AI and third-party data.
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NetCom Learning
New York
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NetCom Learning
New York
NetCom Learning helps build innovative learning organizations by structuring a smarter workforce and driving growth. Since 1998, its been empowering organizations to reach optimal performance results by managing all aspects of organizational learning. NetCom has helped over 14,000 organizations and 150,000 professionals achieve their business goals.
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DATAVERSITY Education
Studio City, California
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DATAVERSITY Education
Studio City, California
DATAVERSITY Education provides the single best source of education for anyone working with data in their professional life. Its training resources offer professionals at all levels and across departments the opportunity to learn from data-driven experts with real-world experiences to share. This knowledge transfer is what makes DATAVERSITY's programs unique.
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The Leading Learning Partners Association
Leidschendam, Netherlands
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The Leading Learning Partners Association
Leidschendam, Netherlands
The Leading Learning Partners Association (LLPA), together with its 33 members, drive technology skills enablement with unique and consistent learning solutions to retail, financial technology, manufacturing, education, health, telemedicine and other sectors across the globe. Its centralized global approach allows customers to achieve learning and digital transformation at scale.
