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Maximise value from business systems. Interquad and Touchstone - a new alliance

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Slough, 22 October 2004. InterQuad Learning announce a new alliance with Touchstone Group. To get the most out of any business system, organisations need to ensure that their people have the necessary skills in all three areas - infrastructure, productivity tools, and the particular business application involved.

The Touchstone InterQuad alliance meets this need - offering training on a range of products that include SunSystems, Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Office, Windows 2003, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Citrix technologies. Courses are available at 10 locations across the UK.

Finance and CRM systems are now much more closely integrated with the productivity tools (e-mail, spreadsheets etc.) that users work with on a daily basis. The infrastructure required to support this level of integration in a stable and secure way has become more complex. To get the most out of any business system, organisations need to ensure that their people have the necessary skills in all three areas - infrastructure, productivity tools, and the particular business application involved.

The Touchstone InterQuad alliance meets this need - offering training on a range of products that include SunSystems, Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Office, Windows 2003, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Citrix technologies. Courses are available at 10 locations across the UK.

"We are excited by the opportunity to offer a complete solution to an organisation's IT training needs - across the desktop, server, and business application." said John Kauffman, MD of Interquad Learning.

"Interquad have a great reputation for quality and value. We believe that together we can help clients drive more value from their business systems" adds Paul White, Managing Director of Touchstone. "Clients will also be able to take advantage of InterQuad's unique 'Corporate Skills Licence' and 'Skills Protection Guarantee'."

To discuss training requirements in more detail, contact Rabia Arif on Tel 020 7121 4700 or [email protected]

About InterQuad
Voted IT Training Company of the Year by the Institute of IT Training in February 2004, InterQuad Learning is a leading provider of vendor-accredited IT training including ECDL-compliant user skills. InterQuad is a Microsoft Gold Partner, the largest Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions in the EMEA region, and the number 1 Citrix Authorised Learning Centre in the world. Other key technologies supported by InterQuad Learning include Oracle, Lotus, Novell, UNIX, Linux and programming languages (C, C++, Java, Web tools).

About Touchstone
Touchstone is an IT Services Group that offers integrated business solutions to help its clients address a range of business issues, from financial control, sales force productivity, marketing effectiveness, customer service, management information to operational efficiency.