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information on the Internet and the amount of time it takes to sift through a print book. “We [at Safari Books] talk about just-in-case learning, just-in-time learning — the immediacy of information. [IT professionals need] access to the newest and the freshest information,” Kilian said. Services such as Safari’s offer one solution to increasing productivity for the IT population. “A lot of people talk about structured learning and informal learning,” said Kilian. That’s what IT professionals are engaging in when looking for resources on the job: “They want to go find some information, [and] they go to [a place like] Safari and get [timely] answers to their questions.” So one way to improve IT productivity is to find convenient and trusted sources of information and make them readily available to the professionals who need access to them daily. By providing these kinds of resources, organizations will “greatly improve the efficiency of the technical organization.” Program Updates VCampus Corp. announced the newest certification in its Certified Internet Web Professional Program: the CIW v5 Database Design Specialist — intended for programmers, administrators, database administrators and even designers looking to make their way into the database world. As a vendor-neutral offering, it covers the basics of design theory of databases, including Microsoft, MySQL, IBM, DB2 and Oracle. The cert measures key skills including normalization and proper scaling, as well as database life cycle and planning. Another VCampus offering gained momentum a few months ago with the announcement of its endorsement by the Telecommunications Industry Association, the global information and communications technology organization involved in standards development. The Convergence Technologies Professional (CTP), a vendor-neutral telephony certification, earned a new level of legitimacy with this support. 8 – Deanna Hartley, dhartley@certmag.com; Meagan Polakowski, meaganp@certmag.com SERVING IT GOVERNANCE PROFESSIONALS ISACA Now Offering a New Certification in IT Governance Certified in the Governance of Enterprise ITTM (CGEITTM) recognizes IT professionals who have the knowledge, personal skill and business experience to maximize IT’s contribution to enterprise success while managing and mitigating the risks posed by IT. • Supports the growing business demands related to IT governance • Increases the awareness and importance of IT governance good practices and issues • Defines the roles and responsibilities of the professionals performing IT governance work Final Registration: 24 September 2008 First Exam: 13 December 2008 Grandfathering Program Now Available! Apply for certification without taking the CGEIT exam through 31 October 2008. Visit www.isaca.org/cgeit for more information. http://www2.vcampus.com/ http://www.isaca.org/cgeit http://www.isaca.org/cgeit

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Certification - July 2008

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