The company I work for is going to pay for me to do some IT training this year. I've been looking around at the various courses etc that I want to do and it pretty much comes down to 2 companies as far as I can tell.

Dimension Data
and
Excom

has anyone done any training with either of these companies, was it good/bad? If you've done training at both, what did you prefer?

Dimension Data is usually a tiny bit more expensive, but the company won't care about spending a little bet extra if it offers superior training and/or lunches.

Thanks guys....Trying to make an informed decision here.

Um, what courses? "IT training" is pretty broad, really.

ive heard alot of badness about excom from a fair few people including a couple on here. so i'd cross excom off the list if i were you.

most of em didnt even bother to finish it they were so apalled.

I was just mainly looking for experiences/stories that anyone had from either of those places, but I'm probably going to be doing some/all of the following.

ITIL Fundamentals Foundation Certificate
CCA for Citrix Presentation Server 4.0
Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

So, so far EXCOM looks a bit dodgy from the sounds of it, thanks for the heads-up.

Excom, the place i work for put me on a 5 day training coruse for 'Supporting Windows XP apps and few other things' really nice place ;)

Next time you want specific information about this kind of training, you should go with something more specific like, "stuff ... work ... need ... know ... NOW!"

excon are pretty dodgy, i have heard nothing but bad reports of them, and the people that have sent me resumes for positions that have done that excom course crap have all been utter morons (with exception to one).

Di Data (the company with a gstring for a logo, which wins points for me) are a great training company.. Ihave used them a number of times before with great success.


Failing that, I hear that computer power are doing cheap courses at the moment... ;-)

Typo - My question wasn't about finding IT courses or information, it was about comparing dimension data and excom as training facilities. So I didn't think I really needed to go into the courses that I was doing for you to answer that.

I've done training through Dimension Data as well as done MCSE exams with them and have done exams with Excom. DiData had excellent trainers and facilities, the trainer knew his stuff backwards which is always a bonus, and they take you to decent restaurants for lunch, so it was all good.

Excom were ok, nothing special. Their testing facilities were a bit on the small side so it's not a place I'm in a hurry to return to.

OK - I think I'm sold on Dimension Data then, thanks guys.