About ALC

ALC - now apart of the Tesserent/Thales Group

We are pleased to advise that as of 17 March 2023, ALC Training has become a part of the Tesserent Group of companies as the first key step of the new Tesserent Academy initiative. Furthermore, in September, 2023 Tesserent Cyber Services was acquired by Thales as a larger group.

The mission statement of the Tesserent/Thales is to be the pre-eminent provider of cyber security education in the Asia-Pacific region. ALC, with its very strong background of nearly 30 years in information and cyber security training will provide Tesserent/Thales with an immediate and commanding position in this sector. By joining Tesserent/Thales, ALC will have access to a much greater range of resources which will lead to many new opportunities and significantly increased growth potential. The focus will be on portfolio expansion, the development of new skills-based programs, and the creation of new certifications relevant to our region.

At ALC ...we deliver!

ALC is a leading Asia-Pac provider of quality training for business and government, since 1994. Our focus is on best-practice methods and frameworks that help ensure you get the most out of your investment in IT.

Our public courses are held regularly throughout Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand. Our in-house training is conducted  anywhere and everywhere including China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand. More than 52,000 people have trained with ALC.

Why choose ALC?

There are many providers of training, just as there are many providers of most services. So how do you choose?

Well, for starters, training for us is not a sideline activity – it is all that we do. And we have been doing it since March 1994. In that time we have seen many training companies come and go. To be a market leader all this time, we must be doing something right.

We are a team of dedicated and capable people who care about what we do. We give it single-minded focus. We offer commitment, professionalism and enthusiasm.

When you train with ALC you get:

Quality
Many things go into making a great training course but the most important is always the trainer.

Everyone claims they have great trainers. What we can say is that we have a long history of sourcing the best. That has been our business model for more than 27 years. For certain subjects our trainers are in fact world leaders. And for other subjects they are all outstanding – people with extensive experience who have distinguished themselves as training professionals over many years. They are enthusiastic about what they do and make learning an engaging experience.

Reliability
We have a proven track record of helping more than 48,000 people in the region pass their exams.

Value
Quality usually comes at a premium but we work hard at all levels to ensure competitive pricing. Whether you’re a small, medium or large organisation or a private individual, we make sure you get excellent value for your money.

Customer Service
Our team is totally committed to providing the best customer service at all times. We will walk that extra mile.

The 80s – decade of the PC

The ALC story actually started back in 1981,  with the formation of MTE Management Technology Education. MTE specialised in bringing quality information on latest developments in technology to IT and business professionals and rapidly grew to become the leading technology training provider in Australia. In 1984 MTE expanded to Singapore and Hong Kong and subsequently to London, Dublin and Amsterdam.

Lots of things happened in technology in the 80s but we would argue that the single most transformative was the PC. Time Magazine went so far as to dispense with its annual “Man of the Year” award in 1982 and awarded it instead to the personal computer, calling it “Machine of the Year”. This is the first time a non-human received this front-page award since its inception in 1927.

MTE's first seminar in November 1981 was on financial modelling using mainframe computers. During the lunch break one of the speakers brought along his Apple II personal computer and demonstrated Visicalc, the very first spreadsheet. It caused a sensation – people skipped lunch. In our view it is the spreadsheet that led the transformation in IT – it was a “must have” for managers – and it spearheaded the devolution of IT from the IT department to the user.

MTE quickly introduced hands-on training centres covering a host of PC applications, but the dominant one was the spreadsheet, first Visicalc then Multiplan then Excel. We also ran an extensive series of seminars on operating systems such as CP/M, DOS, OS2, Windows and database applications such as dBASE and Clipper. By 1986 MTE had more than 40 staff throughout the region. MTE was acquired by the Computer Power Group in 1987.

The 90s – the decade of Networking and The Internet

If the 80s was the decade of the PC then the 90s was the decade of networking. ALC was formed in 1994 as a successor to MTE and the first ALC seminar, Understanding Data Communications, was held on 7-9 March 1994. Other topics, to name a few, followed: Designing Implementing & Managing TCP/IP Networks; Client-Server Computing; Networking with NetWare; Installing & Managing Windows NT 4.0; Information & Network Security; Integrating Windows with NetWare; The Complete SNA; Networking with X25.

But the real transformative power of networking was …. the internet. In 1994 one of our leading US TCP/IP presenters told us that back in the US the internet was becoming of great interest. So we ran a seminar on it. In fact, we ran the very first seminar on the internet ever held in Aisa-Pacific – Connecting to the Internet – in Brisbane on 24-25 November 1994.

The Internet seminar soon led to courses such as Gainining Global Presence on the Web, Creating Your Own Internet & Intranet Web Site and then in 1998 we held the first-ever seminar on Electronic Commerce – Ecommerce Strategies for Success.  At that seminar – full of business managers as well as IT people – our US presenter boldly asserted that one day every company would have its own web site. There was a muted response from a somewhat incredulous audience.

ALC seminars were held on a regular basis in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur as well as London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Stockholm.

The 2000s – the decade of Process

The 80s and 90s encapsulated the romance of technology, the excitement of and total fascination with the new. Whatever it is, I’ve got to have it! But getting IT to take a business perspective did not come naturally.

The dot com crash of 2000, together with the Y2K bug hysteria, provided one whopping circuit breaker. Also, a very neat demarcation point between the decades, and the millennium for that matter.

It was very much a case of the morning after the night before. The Nasdaq came crashing down from an all-time peak on 10 March 2000. All of a sudden, a sober perspective came to bear on IT. Technical acronyms gave way to the dreaded ROI.

For ALC this manifested most clearly in two areas of “best practice” initially developed within the British Government – ITIL for Service Management and PRINCE2 for Project Management.

In the well-known People-Process-Technology triangle, in the 80s and 90s it was Technology that got all the attention. But now the spotlight was very much on Process.

ALC, through sister company PDA, launched ITIL in Singapore and Malaysia in July 1998. We ran our first ITIL course in Australia in August 1999 and are now the longest-serving provider of ITIL in the Asia-Pacific. Our first PRINCE2 course was in November 1999 making us the 2nd longest-serving provider of PRINCE2.