Speak With Your Trusted Partner 21CS About Interskill’s Workforce-Scale Mainframe Training
21CS has partnered with Interskill Learning to deliver workforce-scale mainframe training to its clients.
This collaboration combines 21CS’s consulting expertise with Interskill’s industry-recognized mainframe education, helping organizations build, modernize, and sustain critical IBM Z skills across their teams.
Strategic, data-driven, mainframe training that elevates, empowers, and skills benchmarks your entire mainframe workforce.
Learn about the 3 core elements of this mainframe workforce training powerhouse.
Workforce Training
A massive, on-demand resource of 400+ mainframe training elements, empowering teams to excel in today’s mainframe workplace.
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IBM Credentials
150+ industry recognized IBM digital credentials, industry-benchmarking skills & motivating self-directed learning. Supercharge your training program.
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Customer Success
Full-service administration, reporting & analytics from our experienced team. We manage this training program for you, ensuring success & ROI.
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Competencies, Catalog & Courses
Elevate, empower, and benchmark your mainframe technologists, whatever their role, whatever their experience level, whatever your organization’s specific needs.
Discover the core & advanced mainframe competencies required for success in mainframe job roles.
Explore the breadth, depth & currency of 400+ online courses, videos, assessments & hands-on exercises.
Sample 8 award-winning, mainframe course modules, videos, & skills assessments for free!
Your needs, your solution
Interskill is the globally recognized standard for mainframe training, trusted by leading organizations worldwide to skill and reskill their mainframe workforces.
Licensing through your trusted provider 21CS makes the decision easy and safe. You avoid new contracts, speed through procurement, and get the product backed by a partner who already knows your business, stands behind the solution, and has all the reasons to make it successful.
Access the world's most extensive mainframe eLearning library. With over 400 titles for every mainframe job role, our enterprise-grade training delivered over one million hours of instruction globally last year.
Our mainframe training is developed by veteran experts with over 30 years of experience. We use interactive simulations and exercises to build practical, job-ready skills tailored to real-world mainframe roles.
Our courses align with IBM digital credentials, allowing learners to earn industry-validated proof of skills. In fact, our training powers 80% of all IBM mainframe credentials awarded.
Our courses use robust exercises, quizzes, and assessments to validate progress and reinforce learning. All training data is captured in the LMS, giving you objective insights to align skills with business goals.
Mainframe Skills Portfolios
Defining the Core, Advanced, Business & Optional competencies required by each mainframe job role, this is your map to an optimally skilled mainframe workforce.
Case Studies
From global enterprises to government institutions, industry leaders trust Interskill to train and empower their mainframe teams at-scale.
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Client Testimonials
Mainframers say it best! Here’s what mainframe organizations, managers and learners have to say about our impact on their businesses, careers and lives.
“We are honored to have Interskill Learning as a partner in our continuous learning strategy.”
Kyndryl
“Interskill is a fantastic industry case study in how leadership, top talent, and innovation in learning design and digital credentialing come together to provide a great product and great user experience.”
Digital Badge Academy
“When building teams at scale that can manage and modernize mainframe environments and support new technologies like AI, it can be challenging to find the right experts. We leverage Interskill’s platform to upskill our talent in mainframe skills.”
Viviane Sanches
Director of Learning, Development and Enablement Strategy
“The power of Interskill’s online and on-demand platform is that it adapts to what works for each employee. It also allows the team to keep current on emerging data and trends within the mainframe world, as Interskill’s content stays up to date.”
Shelley Westman
Vice President of Business Development and Go-to-Market
“Our aim is to build an always-on supply of mainframe talent to help our clients overcome mainframe staffing challenges, The Mainframe Academy has been a great success and Interskill’s engaging training resources play a vital role.”
Laura Sherwin
Senior Manager, Mainframe Systems Training and Development
“Kudos to you Interskill, because your training has worked really, really, well for us! It’s just the whole package and it fits very neatly into what we’re trying to do. It has helped us scale the number of trainees we can accept and to expand the Mainframe Academy globally.”
Laura Sherwin
Senior Manager, Mainframe Systems Training and Development
“I call it my mainframe resource continuum! With everybody aging out of this environment, how do we bring people in, and move them from entry level to intermediate, to senior. Our leveraging of the Interskill licenses is key to that continuum for me!”
Greg Hulliberger
Director of Operations
“There’s a lot of our senior guys that use Interskill heavily. Our people still care to continue their education, even when they’re already in a senior spot!”
Erin Guise
DISA Operations Manager, DDC IT
“We have 10 new people from business, marketing, and sales positions, that have come to work with us on the mainframe platform and are using the Interskill platform extensively to build their mainframe skills.”
Roberto Chirinos
Mainframe Chapter Leader
“Such great information and an awesome way to learn new, refresh, or fill in gaps in what your mainframe teams need to know day to day, to reinforce core systems and help progress hybrid enterprise computing environments. Our teams use it and it helps across the board!”
John “JJ” Lovett
Head of Education & Customer Engagement for the Mainframe Software Division
“Interskill is the most effective platform for Mainframe training and development. The way it breaks down complex topics into clear, practical modules makes a real difference, especially for teams that are juggling day-to-day operations while trying to upskill.”
Rafael Bernini
Vice President Global Manager IT Mainframe UIT Platform Lead
“In today’s fast-paced world, continuous learning is essential for any professional. This is especially true in the mainframe space, where there’s always something new to explore. One excellent resource for learning mainframe topics is Interskill Learning.”
Senthil Nathan
Head of Product, DevOps on Z
Frequently asked questions
Explore our FAQs to get quick answers about Interskill’s training plans, pricing, and the benefits of our certifications to enhance your learning experience.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all price list, we believe in crafting a solution that’s perfectly aligned with your organization’s unique goals and scale. Connect directly with our expert team to design a tailored plan that delivers maximum impact and value for your investment.
Learners can earn over 140 IBM digital credentials, including IBM Skills Badges for key mainframe skills and IBM Professional Certificates that benchmark competency in specific job roles. These are recognized by the global mainframe industry and are issued by IBM instantly upon completion of requirements.
Typically, it is mainframe organizations that license this workforce-scale, low-cost, mainframe skilling resource for their mainframe teams or workforce, but individuals can certainly license the complete mainframe course curriculum.
All courses are delivered online and on-demand through the MyInterskill Learning Management System (LMS) or via integration with your organization’s existing LMS. This ensures anytime, anywhere access, with self-paced learning that scales across a global workforce.
Interskill is the mainframe industry’s only resource of online mainframe skills training. For mainframe organizations, there is no other workforce-scale, low-cost, digital mainframe training resource available to upskill and future proof their mainframe teams. IBM digital credentials are critical to motivate self-directed learning and industry-benchmark mainframe skills, and Interskill training powers a stunning 80% of all IBM digital badges awarded for mainframe training globally!
Getting started is simple. Chat with us now and tell us about your workforce training goals and challenges. Our experienced team of mainframers has the mainframe skilling solutions for you!
ABOUT INTERSKILL
We understand that as well as you wanting to train and empower your mainframe computing workforce, you also want to do business with friendly, helpful, experienced people. We are real mainframers working with you to upskill your mainframe workforce!
The experienced Interskill team has been working with the world’s premier mainframe computing organizations for over 30 years. We unite that three decades of proven best practice with technologically and educationally superior training products, and a ‘can-do’ attitude to ensure your mainframe training program is the very best that it can be.
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