IBC: EditShare Academy Launched

EditShare LLC, a provider of storage solutions for media creation and management, announced at the IBC2019 the launch of EditShare Academy.

A mix of instructor-led and e-learning courses designed to take students from beginner to expert in EditShare tools and workflows, the Academy offers sales and video professionals a structured curriculum that culminates in industry certification in one of three areas: EditShare Associate, EditShare Engineer, and EditShare Sales Professional.

With EditShare, the solution to manage the exponential growth in video production, the Academy gives sales engineers, IT managers and video professionals the confidence that systems are running at performance and knowledge to maximize the ROI.

“As the media landscape shifts beyond the traditional production and post-production practices and demand for video professionals expands into new markets, our customers and sales channel partners require training and certification programs that can equip them to navigate the new technical waters and distinguish themselves from the pack,” comments Stuart McGeechan, VP of customer success, EditShare. “EditShare Academy is an important foundation for customer and partner enablement and success, which are top priority at EditShare. It is a tremendous learning platform that the community can leverage to gain new professional skills and enhance their talents across media workflow design, installation and operational maintenance. Courses combined with certification will help advance careers in creative and or sales tracks, and for business owners, help their company thrive whether they are a post facility, corporation with a media department or a sales partner providing the wider community guidance and support.“

The Academy training and certification curriculum covers technical operations and workflow for EditShare’s EFS shared storage solutions, Flow media asset management (MAM), QScan automated quality control (AQC) and Helmut.

Program tracks include: 

• The Associate Program: Providing channel partners and customers with foundational knowledge of EditShare products, workflows and solutions.
• The  Engineer Program: Upon completion of this track, channel partners and customers will command expert technical and operational knowledge of EditShare products and solutions.
• The Sales Professional Program: Designed for channel partners who actively support customers through the sales process and manage ongoing customer success.

The Academy training and certification is developed in conjunction with CSMD Group, a specialist in building training and certification programs for both emerging and Fortune 500 customers.