We are pleased to introduce ourselves as the pioneer in providing trainings and consultancy services exclusively for the service industry in Bangladesh. The lack of standard training programs in the service industry in Bangladesh have prompted us to set up this training facility with an aim to develop international standard trained resources for this fast growing service industry in Bangladesh.

Our integrated services include Training and Certification for frontline customer service and Sales executives working for local and multinational companies in the service industry in Bangladesh. All our courses provide practical ready-to-use inputs and are aided by tools, guides, manuals, data, benchmarks, games, case studies and exercises used in developed markets.

We are the first company in Bangladesh to launch the concept of Public Course where any individual can join the programs by simply registering him/her for the programs, thus creating opportunity for self development for those who want to reach higher echelon in life. Our training center, situated at 81, North South Road, Bijoynagar, Dhaka, can accommodate 25 trainees and is equipped with all modern audio visual facilities.

Our mission is to ensure that the organizations have the top performing teams they need to successfully execute their strategies. Through our unparalleled training curriculum and consulting we provide training and coaching that produces results and gives people the know-how and tools to exceed their goals and build lasting, profitable relationships with their clients.

Our Partner

Addvalue Training Consultants (ATC)

Amplitude Solutions Ltd. has partnered with ATC to impart trainings on soft skills for frontline customer interfacing group in Bangladesh.

ATC is a team of corporate training specialists based in Kolkata, India. Established in December 2005, ATC have developed an excellent track record in the field of ‘Soft Skills’, Process’ and Voice & Accent trainings. All the trainers come from a training background, and have been associated with it in some role or the other and this makes ATC a force to recon with where soft skills training is concerned.

ATC’s trainers are from highly recognized training organizations and MNC’s, such as Hero Mindmine, Holistic Training Solutions, Bharti, Aircel, ABN Amro etc and experts in their own domain, be it in Soft Skills or Voice and Accent, this ensures that you get world class quality training content with competent trainers delivering it to you. Our trainers have been certified as trainers from world renowned organizations like GE, Convergys, Heromindmine and Holistic Training Solutions.

The overall feedback from the clients on ATC’s trainers and their delivery skills currently stands at 97% and program content and its effectiveness stands at 98%, which means that the training results are immediate and can be seen and implemented the very next day.

Promotion activities

Software Freedom Day

Go Open Source, a South African campaign to create awareness of, educate about, and provide access to open-source software. It is important, once awareness of OSS has been created, that interested parties have the ability to gain access to the software and services, and that they have access to additional resources for support and training. It ran from May 2004 to May 2006.

Geek Freedom League, The Freedom League is a South African project designed to bring together the best of the open source world and the massive country-wide community of people driven to introduce as many new people as possible to the use of open source software. Anyone with the passion and ability can sign-up and receive all the materials needed to convert as many people and computers as possible. People will be able to log their installs and track their progress.<ref>http://www.go-opensource.org/freedom/what-is-the-freedom-league.html</ref>

Freedom Toaster, kiosk-style machines located in South Africa designed to avoid costly and prohibitive download costs. Users provide their own blank CD media and after insertion they can choose a GNU/Linux distribution of their choice to take home.

Proprietary projects

Landscape, a tool for managing large numbers of Ubuntu-based systems via a web-browser.

Launchpad a centralised website containing several component web applications designed to make collaboration between Free Software projects easier:

* Rosetta, an online language translation tool to help localisation of software (cf. the Rosetta Stone).

* Malone (as in "Bugsy Malone"), a collaborative bug-tracker that allows linking to other bug-trackers.

* Soyuz, a tool for creating custom-distributions, such as Kubuntu and Xubuntu.

* Hosting of Bazaar branches

Employees

At the 2007 OSCON Mark Shuttleworth stated that Canonical currently employees 110 people.

;Notable current employees of Canonical include:

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and self-styled "SABDFL" of the Ubuntu project, former Debian maintainer of Apache and founder of Thawte Consulting (2004–).

Matt Zimmerman, formerly of the Debian security team. Now Canonical/Ubuntu Chief Technical Officer (2004–).

Scott James Remnant, Debian and GNU maintainer of GNU Libtool and co-author of the Planet aggregator. At Canonical, he has developed Upstart (2004–).

Jono Bacon, of LugRadio fame. Canonical's new Ubuntu community leader. (2006–)

Ian Jackson, developer of dpkg and former Debian Project Leader (2005–).

Ben Collins, former Debian Project Leader and kernel developer. (2006–).

;Notable past employees:

Jeff Waugh, employee no. 3 of GNOME and Planet-fame, Business Development (2004–2006).

Benjamin Mako Hill, Debian developer and former board member of SPI, now at MIT working on the OLPC. Core developer and Community Coordinator (2004–2005).

Offices

Canonical originally started as a wholly virtual organisation with employees working from home. The company now maintains a facility on the 27th floor of the Millbank Tower near Westminster. In the summer of 2006 Canonical opened an office in Montreal, Quebec to house their global support and services operation.

References

External links

Canonical.com, official site

Ubuntu.com, Ubuntu home page