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QA receives Hortonworks EMEA Training Partner of the Year Award

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QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has been presented with the EMEA Training Partner of the Year Award from Hortonworks.

“We’re really delighted to have been presented with this award by Hortonworks.  It’s always really pleasing when the quality of our work is recognised and with 95% of our delegates saying our training improved their job performance it’s nice to know we make a difference”, said Bill Walker, QA’s Technical Director.

Hortonworks is a leading innovator in the industry creating, distributing and supporting enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications.  Their mission is to manage the world’s data.  They have a single-minded focus on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi, and Spark.  Along with their 1600+ partners, they provide the expertise, training and services that allow our customers to unlock transformational value for their organisations across any line of business.  Their connected data platforms powers modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from all data:  data-in-motion and data-at-rest. 

There were 12 other training partners in the running. The Training Partner of the Year Award was selected based on a combination of the number of students and the post-class survey results.

“Hortonworks is delighted to award QA with our EMEA Certified Training Partner of the Year 2015 award. We thank QA for their world-class training services delivered on behalf of Hortonworks and look forward to another great year of partnership in 2016.” Alex Alwin, Sr. Manager, Hortonworks Training Partner Programs.

About QA

QA is one of the largest learning services organisations in the UK, developing skills and capabilities for everyone from apprentices to business leaders. With training centres throughout the UK QA delivers an exceptionally broad training curriculum to meet the needs of individuals and corporate businesses. 

With a client base covering 80% of the FTSE 250, and employing over 300 instructors, subject matter experts and learning professionals across a portfolio of 1,500 courses, QA is currently the number one provider of technical and business training in the UK.

More information is available at www.qa.com