Ever since it was founded on 1 April 1976, Informatika a.d. of Belgrade has had a Training Centre of its own, set up to train the company's clients.
The Training Centre has changed its name over the years, but its essence has stayed the same – training, schooling, education. Course content has evolved with IT, yet that does not change the essence: this is probably the oldest centre for advancing clients' IT knowledge in the country, running continuously for 50 years.
The centre was established to train Informatika's clients, above all the staff of the SDK (Social Accounting Service), as the company was introducing computer systems across the SDK of Yugoslavia. It also trained other large users – this was the era of mainframe computers, and Informatika supplied the SDK with both hardware and application software, for its computing centres and for its computer network throughout Yugoslavia (except the then SR Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Informatika's own staff regularly trained in England, in both hardware and system software support – continuously and many times over – and received the corresponding credentials, today's certificates.
On 1 April 1976, Informatika a.d. establishes its Training Centre to train the company's clients.
From autumn 1996, the then School Centre becomes a Microsoft ATEC (Authorized Technical Education Center, later renamed Certified TEC) – one of only two in the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – and substantially broadens its range of courses.
Prometric authorisation is granted and a Testing Centre opens for candidates pursuing professional certifications. Prometric is one of the world's leading certification providers, serving individuals, training centres and corporations.
The Informatika a.d. Training Centre has operated in its current form and under its current name since 2010.
The Training Centre becomes a Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center.
The Training Centre is Microsoft's certified education partner – a Microsoft (Silver) Learning Partner – delivering training to the highest standards Microsoft sets worldwide.
On several occasions, multi-month programmes were organised with Microsoft, including the hire of resources, premises and equipment. During them, Microsoft trainers from abroad trained future staff of online regional and local support centres for Microsoft product users.
NCI works with a wide circle of collaborators: alongside its own experts, it engages other top lecturers – university professors, programmers and adult-education specialists.
Over fifty years, many people have passed through the Informatika Training Centre and successfully applied the knowledge and skills gained here in practice. We continue to enjoy the trust of organisations – companies, government bodies, international corporations – and of individuals.
As wise people said long ago –
“Knowledge is power.”