Achievements
Aptech’s rapid growth has led the company to mark several milestones in India & overseas.
Among the top few are:
- IT & Multimedia education pioneer. More than 2 decades of experience in training (since 1986). Trained over 6.4 million students.
- First IT education & training company in Asia to receive the ISO 9001: 2000 quality certification.
- Aptech Learning Services receives two ‘Apex 2010 - Awards for Excellence’.
- Aptech Vietnam declared No. 1 IT training provider in Vietnam for 7 consecutive years.
- Among Brand Equity’s Top 50 Most Trusted Service Brands.
- Among Forbes Global Best 300 Small Companies worldwide.
India
- 2009: Aptech wins Franchise India’s prestigious ‘Hall of Fame’ Award for excellence in franchising.
- 2009: Aptech Learning Services receives ‘APEX 2009 - Award for Excellence’ for its work on eLearning Course on Anatomy.
- 2008: Featured among the India’s Biggest Newsmakers in the prestigious Business Today - Cirrus Review of CEOs & companies for 4 consecutive years – 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007-08. Among ‘Top 10 Biggest Newsmakers in IT’ for 2006, 2007, 2008-09.
- 2008: Aptech wins Indira India Innovation Award 2008 for innovation in ‘New pedagogy in IT training & mLearning solutions'.
- 2008: Winner of the ‘Indian Global Franchisor of the Year Award’ (Aptech Worldwide) & ‘Win-win Franchising Partnership of the Year Award’ (Aptech Computer Education), ‘Franchising Woman of the Year’ (Avalon Academy) & ‘Franchisee of the Year’ (Arena Animation, NDSE - Delhi). All Awards conferred by: Indian Franchising Awards 2008.
- Pramod Khera, MD & erstwhile CEO of Aptech, conferred ‘CEO with an HR Orientation Award’ for outstanding contribution to building a peoples’ organization.
- 2007: Aptech bags ‘IT People Award for Leadership in IT Education’.
- 2007: Anuj Kacker, Senior Vice President - International Operations, conferred ‘Indira Super Achievers Award 2007’.
- 2007: Arena Animation conferred the ‘Maharashtra State IT Award 2007’ (IT HRD).
- 2007: Winner of the ‘Indian Global Franchisor of the Year Award’ & ‘Win-win Franchising Partnership of the Year Award’. Arena bags ‘Franchise Growth Driver of the Year Award’. All Awards conferred by: Indian Franchising Awards 2007.
- Preeti Malik, Vice President & Head, Avalon Academy, conferred ‘Indira Super Achievers Award for Brand Building’.
- Nominated for Avaya GlobalConnect Customer Responsiveness Award.
- 2004: Among Brand Equity’s ‘Top 50 Most Trusted Service Brands’.
- 2004: Among ‘Top 100 Electronic Companies’ (Source: Electronics For You).
- 2003: Best IT Trainer Award (Source: Franchising World 2003).
- 2003: CEO & MD of Aptech Limited conferred ‘Man of Franchising Award’ (Source: Franchising World 2003).
- 2002: ABCI Award for ‘Technology Journal, Technology and Academic Journal’.
- 2002: Among ‘Top 100 Electronic Companies’ (Source: Electronics For You).
- 2001: In Business India’s ‘Super Ranking for Top 100 Companies’.
- 2001: In Business Today’s listing of ‘India’s Top 100 Most Valuable Companies’.
- 2001: Among ‘Top 500 Companies’ (Source: Economic Times - ET 500).
- 2001: Among ‘Top 20 IT Companies in India’ (Source: Dataquest 2001).
- 2001: Among ‘Fastest Growing Companies in India in 2001’ (Source: Business World).
- 2001: Largest Network of Centres in the World Today (Source: Dataquest, July 15, 2001).
- 2001: Arena bags first ‘Indian Express Marketing Excellence Award for Brand Excellence in IT’.
Global
- 2012: Aptech & TRRAIN Foundation win 'Best Innovation in Vocational Education and Skills Training Award' at the World Education Awards, 2012.
- 2010: Aptech Learning Services wins two ‘Apex Awards for Excellence’.
- 2009: Aptech ranked among Global Top 20 IT Training Companies by TrainingIndustry.com.
- 2009: Aptech Beida Jade Bird wins China’s ‘Top 10 Outstanding Franchise Brand’ Award, given by Ministry of Commerce, Government of China. Aptech the only education company to get this award.
- 2009: Aptech Beida Jade Bird - China, rated the No. 1 IT training provider for 7 consecutive years since 2002.
- 2009: Aptech Vietnam wins ICT Gold Medal For Highest Turnover (Category: Training) & Top ICT Training Cup from Ho Chi Minh Computer Association (HCA). Declared No. 1 IT Training company in Vietnam for 7 consecutive years (2003-2009).
- 2009: Aptech Vietnam presented ‘The best ICT product’ award for training units voted by communities of Information Technology in the world through a survey conducted by PC World Vietnam & the International Data Group (IDG).
- 2009: Aptech Vietnam wins Top ICT Vietnam 2009 Cup & ICT 2009 Gold medal for the 7th consecutive year. (Award conferred by: Ho Chi Minh City
Computer Association). - 2009: Aptech Vietnam wins ‘The Most Favorite IT and Communications Product’ Award for training services. (Awards organized by: Computer World magazine & IDG).
- 2008: Among ‘Top 20 Global Training Outsourcing Service Provider (OSP) Companies’ in 2006, 2007 & 2008 (Source: TrainingOutsourcing.com).
- 2008: Winner of the Indian Global Franchisor of the Year Award in 2007 & 2008.
- 2008: Among ‘Top Global Product Training Companies, 2008’ (Source: SalesTrainingIndustry.com).
- 2008: Aptech declared No. 1 IT training company in Vietnam for 6 consecutive years from 2003 to 2008. Study initiated by: IDG and Ho Chi Minh Computer Association.
- 2008: Aptech Vietnam wins ICT Gold Medal for Highest Turnover (Category: Training) & ‘Top ICT Training Cup’. Conferred by: Ho Chi Minh Computer Association.
- 2007: Aptech Beida Jade Bird wins China’s ‘Top 10 Outstanding Franchise Brand Award’. Conferred by: Ministry of Commerce, Government of China. Aptech the only education company to win this Award.
- 2007: Ranked No. 1 IT training company in China for 5 consecutive years from 2002 to 2007. Source: Ministry of Information Industry, PRC, China Center for Information Industry Development.
- Lauded by Dataquest as ‘Global Guru’, thus carving a place among top global IT training providers.
- First non-formal education provider in Turkey to receive Government recognition from the Ministry of Education for the flagship ACCP (Aptech Certified Computer Professional) program.
- ‘Technology Pioneer Award’ conferred by World Economic Forum.
- Among ‘Best 300 Small Companies Worldwide’. Source: Forbes Global.
- Among ‘Five Local Heroes in the IT Training Industry in Asia Pacific’. Source: IDC Survey.
- Arena approved by Iran’s Ministry of Science Research & Technology to offer Open Courses.
- Aptech’s Diploma in Information Systems Management approved by Directorate of Training Institute Affairs, Ministry of Labour, Bahrain.
- Aptech’s India Window Program delivers unique IT courses to foreign students. Participants from Korea, Japan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Kenya, El Salvador, Iran, Sri Lanka, Madagascar & Tanzania come to India for the India Window Program.
- Aptech empanelled by Ministry of External Affairs, India, for prestigious ITEC/ SCAAP program for international students.
- Aptech partners Human Resource Development Corporation (PSMB) of Human Resource Ministry, Malaysia, to build capability in software programming skills.
- Aptech partners KZNonSOURCE (Government of KZN Province), South Africa, to conduct Customer Contact Centre Training.
- Aptech partners Department of Vocational Training, Government of Thailand, to create IT curriculum in government colleges.
- ACCP World Program certified by Fiji National Training Council, Fijian Affairs Board, and Ministry of Education, Fiji.