HONG KONG,CHINA - Media OutReach - 29 August 2019 - Arrow Electronics today announced an agreement withCourseMonster® to deliver IBM training across Australia, Singapore, Middle Eastand Africa. The agreement extends Arrow's geographical reach as one of fiveIBM's Global Training Providers.

CourseMonster®,Australia's leading provider of professional IT training and certificationcourses, joins this worldwide cooperation program to further enhance Arrow'sexisting enterprise computing solutions education coverage and infrastructurewith select partners. Effective immediately, CourseMonster® will offerauthorized IBM Training through its global learning network in Australia,Singapore, Middle East and Africa, to complement Arrow's capabilities andofferings.

With thislaunch, Arrow is able to further expand its global learning ecosystem that willmake IBM Training available around the world, delivered in a consistent manner,and based on local requirements.

The scope ofavailable trainings spans from IBM's cloud solutions to badge- orcertification-related courses and involves their online training catalog onself-paced courses as well as customized, individual workshops.

The list ofkey training topics includes:

• IBM Cloud and Securitysolutions
• IBM Analytics
• IBM Watson, Internet ofThings
• IBM Power, AI andmainframe systems, and many more.

"Education is a key element of our value-added services,enabling the market and the channel to support technology suppliers withproduct and solution readiness," says Jacques Assant, Business DevelopmentServices Director, Arrow`s enterprise computing solutions business in EMEA. "Welook forward to our new cooperation with CourseMonster®, a well-establishedtraining provider serving ideal conditions to provide IBM training in this partof the world. They have demonstrated their expertise in the training businessfor more than 20 years -- and are extremely well-positioned to cover the richcatalog of IBM learning solutions in the respective regions."

"Iam very excited to work with Arrow, a value-added solutions provider for IBM aswell as other key IT suppliers. We can leverage Arrow's expertise and widerbusiness network to provide training solutions that help individuals andorganizations to achieve productivity, growth, career, and business goals", saidKelvin Durcan, Managing Director, CourseMonster®.

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