With a team of expert instructors around the world, DevelopMentor expands the Global Knowledge application-development training portfolio to more than 300 courses and bolsters the company's asynchronous learning-delivery capabilities.

"The developer-education market is an important growth area for our company, and this investment supports that objective," said Brian Branson, CEO and president, Global Knowledge. "We're very pleased to add DevelopMentor to the Global Knowledge team. With this expansion, we will have a broader set of software and application-development learning solutions to provide to our customers, as well as greater depth of expertise to help them carve a pathway for success and reach their goals with the highest-quality instruction and support."

Global Knowledge's application-development portfolio of courses and learning services provide individuals, teams, and organizations with opportunities to develop or refine skills needed to master programming languages like Python, Swift, and Java and to operate across platforms and methodologies. The growing adoption of mobile and cloud operating systems, along with corporate initiatives aligned to BYOD, software-defined networking, and big-data analytics, are forcing greater breadth of application-development capability from traditional IT staff, as well as enterprise architects. 

"We understand that organizations across industries face increasing challenges when recruiting and fostering talent for developer skills - and that those skills are critical for organizations to innovate and transform their businesses within the technology trends of hybrid cloud, mobile enterprise applications, Web commerce, and cybersecurity," said Michael Fox, SVP, Enterprise Solutions for Global Knowledge. "Our app-dev portfolio has grown gradually during the past few years, but more and more customers are indicating a need for professional development solutions to address growing requirements for these skills. The addition of the DevelopMentor course portfolio will enable us to offer our customers the broadest, most modern skills-development capability for their growing developer teams."