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New Accredited ITIL Exam Institute: TÜV SÜD

5 March 2009, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire..... TÜV SÜD Akademie, based in Germany, has become an APM Group certified ITIL Examination Institute. The APM Group's role as OGC's official accreditor for the ITIL Qualification scheme allows it to license Examination Institutes to administer ITIL qualification and accreditation activities.

Renate Eberle, Head of the Certification Body for Persons said: "TÜV SÜD Akademie has been well known in IT Service Management and especially in ITIL certification for many years. ITSM stakeholders in Germany appreciate that TÜV SÜD Akademie has become an active partner on the Examination and Qualification Board at the Official Accreditor APM Group. TÜV SÜD Akademie is committed to customers by providing state of the art service, examination management on a high level and together with its partners assures high quality translations into German within ITIL V3 scheme. Based on these competencies, TÜV SÜD is striving to expand towards an even greater and strategically appropriate international customer base."

Richard Pharro, CEO, The APM Group, said, "We're pleased to recognize TÜV SÜD as an APM Group accredited Examination Institute. Their reputation for delivering high quality training and examinations will help German speaking candidates progress through the ITIL V3 Qualification Scheme."

For more information see the TÜV SÜD website.


About TÜV SÜD Akademie

The TÜV SÜD Group founded in 1866 in Mannheim, Germany is well known for consulting, testing, certification and training on behalf of industry, trade and commerce, public institutions and private individuals. TÜV SÜD creates increased safety and added economic value by supporting the competitive strength of our customers through the world (TÜV SÜD Mission: Choose certainty. Add value.). In 600 locations about 13,000 employees establish national and international annual sales of € 1.000 million. The headquarter is located in Munich, Germany. In the Strategic Business Segment - PEOPLE services addressing integrated management systems, employee qualification, occupational health and safety are established.

Personnel Certification is the subject of the Certification Body for Persons at TÜV SÜD Akademie GmbH.

Our main topics are:

  • Recognizes personnel certificates (accredited with TGA - German Association for Accreditation GmbH as a Certification Body - ISO 17024 since 1995)
  • TÜV SÜD tested qualifications as well as
  • Third -party certification and assessment of education and training programmes.
  • An extraordinary market position and customer relation was set up in the field of IT Service Management based on ITIL during the last five years. In the German speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) more than 300 training institutes use this service of TÜV SÜD Akademie as an independent body.