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consultants. Traci Blowers quickly recognized that Binary Tree needed to identify a better
solution.
Solution
After a thorough evaluation of the marketplace, Traci Blowers selected Skytap based on its
ability to quickly and cost-effectively support its partner enablement and certification
courses. "We saw the Skytap Cloud as a means of providing our partners with 24x7
worldwide access to standardized training resources," said Traci Blowers. "We can now
enable any student to become certified without having to leverage a Binary Tree instructor
or execute a nonbillable shadowing exercise."

Skytap provides Binary Tree SMEs with immediate access to virtual machines for knowledge
development, enablement and certification. The company is currently utilizing Skytap
across its worldwide client base, and initiatives for Microsoft and the Microsoft Partner
Channel. These groups leverage Skytap for virtual, interactive classrooms that help partners
gain certifications and/or execute messaging coexistence and migration proof-of-concept
projects.

Using Skytap, Binary Tree created a centralized library of existing classroom images
based on its current training machines. As a result, Binary Tree has eliminated the need to
constantly upload images to its FTP server. "Our SMEs can use Skytap's self-service web
UIto provision new classrooms and run multiple classes instantly." Because Skytap is a
cloud based service, Binary Tree can scale the number of virtual classrooms to match our
business needs." Students can securely access the classroom for which they are authorized
from anywhere in the world. Classes can be scheduled to run at specific times enabling
Binary Tree to provide a new level of flexibility to its partners. Once a class is completed,
Binary Tree can remove or clone student environments for later use.
Benefits
Since adopting Skytap Cloud for its partner training, demo and proof of concept
deployments, Binary Tree has received a tremendous amount of positive feedback. Binary
Tree partner, Microsoft, views the cloud as a new means of scaling the Binary Tree process
globally and offering effortless coexistence demonstrations and migration proof-of-concept
projects. "We are experiencing significant demand from our worldwide partners for training
material to help them meet the demand they are seeing from customers looking to migrate
to the Microsoft Platform," said Terry Birdsell, Director for Productivity & Enterprise
Sales at Microsoft, a Binary Tree partner. "The portal Binary Tree has created will go a long
way towards sharing the invaluable knowledge they have gathered after years of successful
migration and coexistence projects."

Additionally, Binary Tree has seen a tremendous increase in the number of global partners
leveraging its new CMT University offering and CMT Sandbox, which enables hands-on
skill set building to become certified for delivery. "Instead of asking partners to participate
in a single calendared training event, we now enable them to become certified at their
convenience and on their timeline." Furthermore, only one administrator is needed to
monitor requests, saving significant time and budget.

Question
Discuss how does the representation of binary tree accelerates partner training.
Source: http://www.skytap.com/downloads/case-studies/skytap_casestudy_binarytree.pdf

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