NIIT expands Europe presence with Norway office

NEW DELHI: NIIT which offers learning management and training delivery solutions to corporations has announced the establishment of a new facility in Bergen, Norway to expand near-shore multi-lingual delivery capability and further invest in the growth of its business in Europe.

With the establishment of this office, the company will be able to work more closely with its Scandinavian customers with onsite administrative support and real-time delivery.

Devenderjit Chadha, senior VP learning delivery at NIIT said, “As a national center for higher education and finance, Bergen is a city of choice for us.”

NIIT's Corporate Learning Group (CLG) offers Managed Training Services (MTS) to market-leading companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

It now has three established centers in Europe – Dublin, Bergen, and London with a diverse mix of pan-European staff from the UK, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. NIIT provides localisation and multi-lingual delivery capability in 25 languages including major European languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Russian.

NIIT’s European workforce is comprised of experienced and expert instructional design professionals, instructors with specialized and domain-specific skillsets, learning administrators, learning technology professionals, consultants, and strategic sourcing experts.

In Europe, it has about 30 clients, 13 of whom are part of the Fortune Global 500 list. NIIT’s new European facilities have been jump started with an order book from these existing clients in the oil and gas, energy, financial services, pharmaceutical, technology, telecom, logistics, and life sciences sectors.

Rahul Patwardhan, CEO, NIIT added that the company is looking at being ‘glocal’, and leveraging local capability and blending it with offshore capability in the right mix to ensure superior services.