IT Courses - Degree & Diploma courses - Informal Sector (part 2)

This sector comprises of private training institutes offering flexible intakes and customised training. Challenges of credibility and standardisation of the courses offered by the non-formal segment have, however, been under intense scrutiny.

There are hundreds of computer training institutes which have opened in the country to impart training in computer applications. They offer short and long duration courses. The course content includes computer languages. Some institutes impart training in Application Software. However, the recognition and value of course taken at a private institute depends on the accreditation the course receives from DOEACC.

Department of Electronics Accredition of Computer Courses (DOEACC) – Brings method into computer training, so as to bring quality and standardisation at all levels. Department of Electronic (DOE) is operating a scheme, namely, department of Electronics Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC) under which computer training institutes/organisations in the non-formal sector, subject to meeting well-defined norms and criteria, are given accreditation for conducting courses. There are four levels of courses under this scheme:


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Level	Description	Eligibility
‘O’level – Foundation Level	Certifies Competence as a Programmer Assistant	Std 12 passed + 1 year full time course
‘A’ Level – Advanced Diploma	Certified Programmer	Graduation + ‘O’ Level Exam + 1 year full time course / relevant experience
‘B’ Level – Graduate Level	Certified Systems analyst / Software Designer / Engineer	Graduate + ‘A’ Level + 2 years relevant experience
‘C’ Level – Masters Degree Level	Certified Systems Manager	‘B’ Level / B. Tech / BE/MCA/Msc/Masters in maths, stats, OR/MBA + ‘C’ Level course (18 months experience)

Address: DOEACC Control Centre, c/o Manpower Development Division, Department of Electronics, Electronics Niketan (2nd Floor), 6 Lodhi Road, CGO Complex, New Delhi.

National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) – This is an autonomous R&D Organisation of the Department of Electronics, Government of India. Conducts competence in Software Technology Examination (CST) for the following levels of proficiency: G – Graduate level, D – Diploma level, I – Intermediate level and E – Entry level.

Eligibility for the tests is a degree in any subject and computer competence ranging from no computer training (E level) to a full fledged computer science degree (G level). Those with a Diploma in Engineering can also take the E level exam. Examination centres are at Allahabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram and Visakhapatnam.

Address: National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9, Juhu, Mumbai - 400049.

IBM courses – IBM Global Services India Ltd has 25 ACE training centres in metros and a number of Authorised Training Partners in many cities across the country. The thrust is on software development, offering training in AS/400, Mainframe and E-Business.

IBM global services India Ltd. offers E-Business solutions training at IBM School of Enterprise Wide Computing and SQL Star (authorised training partners) - Hyderabad, Maars Software International, Pentafour Communications-Chennai.

Asset International has 35 centres offering IBM's E- Business course which includes E- Business Foundation, Web Publishing, Java application development, administration, Web application development, administration and security, E-commerce and Lotus notes.

Technocampus, a software finishing school managed by Globsyn Group, set up in academic collaboration with IBM in Calcutta, conducts 3 courses in co-certification with IBM. Young Software Manager Program (YSM) is a combined training in software and management. The training is for software team managers. This is a six month program beginning in February and September. B Tech, MCA, M Stats or MBA and Knowledge of COBOL, Pascal, C, and FORTRAN are required or graduates with 2 year computer training can take the entrance test. This is a general and software aptitude test.

SAP courses – Sapient College, the training and education wing of SAP, offers courses in current SAP R/3 business applications. SAP India is a wholly owned subsidiary of global ERP major SAP AG.

World Wide Web Institute, Geneva, Switzerland has its Authorised Training Centres in Delhi, Hyderabad and offers the Certified Webmasters Programme.

Microsoft Education and Certification in India has four main study/training initiatives.
60 Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centres (CTECs) including NIIT and Aptech offering Microsoft certification courses

Microsoft Authorised Academic Training institutions impart training on Microsoft products and technologies. This option can be availed at Xaviers (Mumbai); Narsi Monji Institute of Management Studies (Mumbai); Gujarat University (Ahmedabad) and PES Institute of Technology (Bangalore).

NIIT, a part of the HCL group, has alliance with Microsoft Corporation as training partner in India for training on Microsoft technologies and products.

ORACLE – Oracle is a forerunner in RDBMS with almost a 70% market share. It offers the best training option for those planning to enter software development. The courses offered are:

Oracle Certified Database Administrator Programme for database administrators has 5 course tests followed by a certification.

Career Development Program is a 45 day course covers Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer, Java programming and Oracle Web server. Authorised Training partners (ATCs) at 20 locations in the country conduct the programme for IT professionals, MCAs, Engineers,etc.


Their ATCs are Asset, SQL, Koenig Aptech, Bitech, Renaissance, TGV group, PSG College, Path Consultants, System Logic, Karrox Technologies Ltd and Aquila Software. Certification examination on completion of the course at the ATCs is taken by Sylvan Prometric, a worldwide professional testing body.

Oracle Global Education Centres conduct 2 fulltime masters’ certificate programmes in Financial Application implementation and Manufacturing Application Implementation for Finance and manufacturing professionals. The degree enhances overseas employment prospects as ERP implementation consultants.

Address: Oracle Education, 5th Floor,GopalDass Bhawan,Barakhamba Road, New Delhi.

BAAN – Baan Institute offers 2 courses for ERP professionals. Boundary Spanner consultant designed for engineers, MBAs and Finance professionals with 3 years of work experience in a 10 week course. The Boundary Spanner Developer course is designed for IT professionals (B.Tech/BE/MCA) with 2 years of work experience and skills in fourth generation language and relational database management systems (17 week course).

Address: Baan Institute, 8-2-248/A, 4th Floor, Maharishi Building, Road No3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-34.

I.I.T. – Indian Institute of Technology offers 6 month certificate courses to graduates in 'C' Data Structures& UNIX; OOP&GUI Designing(Windows programming & VC++); Telecommunication Technology; Computer network and Internet Applications; RDBMS Design & Oracle at EL Net-3L study centres located in Delhi, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Varanasi.

CEDT – Centre for Electronics Design and Technology of India A-34, Industrial Area, Phase-8, SAS Nagar-160059, Punjab is an autonomous establishment under the Department of Electronics, Government of India. The centre imparts software and hardware training programme through its Authorised Training Centres (ATC) across the country.

IT Courses - Degree & Diploma courses - Informal Sector (part 1)

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IT (Information Technology) Job prospects

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Job prospects in IT include Application software jobs which further can be categorized as mentioned below.

Application Software is a design program for specific use, i.e., it helps in the use of the computer.

Application Programmers:

• Design & write specific programs which tell the computer what to do
• These programs are tailored to a specific task and function, and involve large systems which may be interlinked
• Working on briefs by systems analysts or designers and working together with them for part of a project as a team.
• Following the designer's instructions to allow the computer system to operate effectively.
• Use certain computer languages, to write an application for a computer
• After coding is complete, the software is tested to ensure that the program functions accurately and that there are no faults. This is a time consuming process
• Reprogramming and changes may be needed at this stage
• Programmers specialize in applications for mainframes, minicomputers or PCs

EDP Manager:

• EDP managers are responsible for assimilating technology into the company.

E-Commerce:

• Online Business : Electronic commerce is the convergence of computers & telecommunication technologies
• E-commerce has generated an Internet economy activating world wide marketing and banking activities
• Professionals working for this are 'Infomediaries' - trained to use virtual skills to turn data into useable information via a community based buying environment or powerful technology based buying aids
• Information based and involves consumer/buyer information and services, developing and managing seller 'Web-Portals', creation of Internet market, virtual customer management, consulting, etc. Network economy is envisaged to generate opportunities in knowledge management, software programming on the Internet, central banking and the like.

Enterprise Resource Planning:

• Used for planning the resources of the entire worldwide network of an enterprise
• Sales, service, distribution, marketing, purchase, manufacturing, inventory, finance, accounts etc. are integrated on one software backbone through ERP

Database Management:

• Information is data and IT systems deal with managing of information. Most popular of database is the Relational databases (RDBMS) used by major corporates and banks.

Operating Jobs

• Enter data into the machine and are employed in all user and consultancy units, large and small. Could also be the end user.

Computer Operators:

• The duties of computer and peripheral equipment operators vary with the size of the installation, the type of equipment used, and the policies of the employer.
• In organisations with small computer systems - computer operators may run both the computer and all the peripheral equipment such as printer, disk drives and tape readers.
• In large computer organizations - computer operators specialise in console operation while peripheral equipment operators run the related devices.
• Computer operators work according to operating instructions prepared by programmers or operations managers. They set controls on the computer and on peripheral devices required to run a particular job. While the computer is running, computer operators monitor the computer and, if an error message appears operators locate the problem and solve it or terminate the program.

Marketing Jobs - Marketing Advisors

• Marketing stream covers the sale of hardware as well as software
• Work for computer manufacturers and companies representing manufacturer or computer firms that stock products of more than one manufacturer.

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IT (Information Technology) Software Job Types

IT (Information Technology) Software jobs are in systems software and application software.

• Systems software developers work on operating systems which are crucial to software. This system determines the way the computer will work. When a new computer is manufactured, the systems software engineer writes the code for the operating system and checks the functioning of the computer.
• Application software is a design program for specific use, i.e., it helps in the use of the computer. (Continued...)

System programmer/Software engineer

• Research, develop and adapt application programs for computer systems
• Create new programs and, sometimes, new languages
• Find employment with software firms, computer manufacturers, large firms who use computers and develop their own programs
• Work as individuals writing a program for one particular task or as part of a team to write a more complex and sophisticated program.
• Quality testing against pre-defined standards to ensure the program functions correctly.
• Create and adapt software

Systems Analyst

• Analyses and understands the company's needs and the kind of work involved
• Understands and documents the way in which an organization controls its work.
• Determines which procedures can best be executed by computers
• Provides cost-effective solution by outlining and developing a new system.
• System design commences. The objective is improvement of the information systems in the business and carrying out existing procedures more effectively if possible.
• Leads to the development of an information system together with its database
• Alternatively, the existing system might need to be evaluated as to its suitability and efficiency. Sometimes the Systems Analyst may design a new system entirely.

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IT Hardware Jobs Types & Courses

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Hardware jobs are in production, service, R&D and maintenance.

Designing Computers –

• Electronics and computer engineers work on developing new designs and modifying earlier ones.
• Work on chips, circuit design, computer architecture or the design of devices that are not a part of the computer but work with it, such as a printer.
• Engineers who design and develop computers only work for the big manufacturers.
• Research and development in peripheral integration. Product quality control and reliability testing

Computer Manufacture –

• Large unorganized sector in this industry - use the screwdriver technology, i.e., they get all the parts from abroad and assemble the computer.
• Jobs in manufacturing are from component assembly to testing and monitoring of the computers being manufactured

Maintenance Service –

• Maintenance equipment is supplied by the manufacturers, large machines require closer monitoring. Hence, service engineers are mostly hired by manufacturers of computer equipment and maintenance firms
• An emerging field is third party maintenance firm in which companies other than the computer manufacturers provide maintenance service for a fee.
• With leadership skills, you could become a supervisor or service manager in this field. There is scope for entrepreneurial work too.

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Career in Information Technology
IT (Information Technology) means different things to different people - to some, it means the whole lot of activities that revolve around the ubiquitous computers, to others, "pure" IT might mean only hardware or programming jobs, and to some, even producing content for the Web might be a part of this vast and ever-increasing field called IT.

With the Internet, very literally, encompassing all in its "web", the scope this field offers to people is wide and varied. Entries can be made as programmers, systems analysts, web developer, E- commerce specialists etc.

The only thing you need to have to be successful in this sector is focus; you need to have your goals determined and your path defined. Since most of the work to be found in this sector is in the private sector, and promotions and appraisals will almost always be performance-based, you have to be constantly on your toes. This is a hugely competitive field, with thousands, if not millions making entries into it everyday. Having said that, it also needs to be emphasized that the opportunities are immense and ever-increasing.

So if you have a logical mind and the ability to grasp, retain and stay abreast of all the innovations being made in this field everyday - IT is the industry to be in.

The Prospects

Best places to work include – IBM, Compaq, HP, Wipro, Oracle, Infosys, Accenture, SAP, PeopleSoft etc.

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Minimum Education Qualification - Graduate (UG) Engineer in Electronics/Computer or a Postgraduate (PG) Engineer in Microelectronics / Computers

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Minimum Education Qualification - Any UG program with knowledge of computer programmes and programming skills.

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Minimum Education Qualification - An engineering degree and MCA. Programming skills and should be experienced in systems design.

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Minimum Education Qualification - UG in Engineering/Applied Maths/Accountancy/ Business/Physical Sciences / Computer Science / Information Science/ Computer Information Systems / Data Processing.

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Minimum Education Qualification - UG in Arts/Science/Commerce/Statistics/ Engineering/MBA (systems) , PG - MCA

JOB - Sales & Marketing
Minimum Education Qualification - Diploma in Electronics / Experience in computer maintenance. UG / Diploma / PG in Sales Marketing

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