When the client has the installed system, it is ready for use. The system requires only employee/management training and conversion from an older manual or software business system.

The training can be partially completed prior to system completion, through courses given by the business software manufacturer and the netware supplier. Connectco will arrange such courses for the client.

Connectco's trainer and conversion analysts each have many years of experience with the business and network system sold by Connectco. Further, although they are skilled in computer and network technology, their main experience and education has been in accounting, office automation, or manufacturing operations. Thus, they speak the trainee's language, and not "computerese."

First, one or two key employees will attend the core courses for the business and netware systems, at the manufacturer's designated sites. Then those key employees can oversee any necessary conversion.

In most cases, where an older computerized business system is being replaced, Connectco can automate file conversion by preparing a small site-specific software program. Our conversion analysts have written such programs for many clients, avoiding laborious and expensive data re-entry. However, it is usually necessary for client employees to edit the converted data once it is in the new files.

Our trainers will come to the client's facility and utilize one or more work stations of the new network for "hands-on" training in all facets of the new business and office automation system. In this way, employees are dealing with familiar accounts, customers and operations and learn much more quickly. Employees can ask questions that pertain directly to their business duties.

With one or two key employees pre-trained in core skills, the majority of employees will have someone to help them do their "homework" in the intervals between professional training.

Connectco always strives to keep training professional time as short as possible, consistent with a thorough, "hands-on" ability of the employees to work productively with the new system.