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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, November 13, 2012 ) Houston, TX -- Executives from several retail companies recently asked Gov. Mark Dayton for state help in establishing a program training people to learn how to operate a software program vital to their businesses’ success.
The executives, who hailed from Scheels, Best Buy, Von Maur, Gander Mountain, and Logic Information Systems, joined the Governor on Friday at North Hennepin Community College to highlight the importance of teaching students Oracle Retail software.
Oracle Retail allows companies to track purchasing, shipping, inventory, and sales, as well as to make forecasts. While most larger companies use a similar type of software, Oracle’s program is the most popular, said the executives.
The problem is finding employees capable of operating Oracle Retail, they added.
“I actually could hire three people today if I could find people with a little experience,” said Armand Nelson, information systems director at Gander Mountain.
The jobs would pay a minimum of $80,000 per year, said several of the executives.
Amber Naqvi, Logic Information Systems president of retail and distribution, said he has offered to donate the expensive software to various community colleges as well as to train instructors to train students in its use.
Area education and company officials planned to meet to discuss the subject again next week.
It is not enough for prospective employees to know how to run the software, said Bruce Lindberg, executive director of Advance IT Minnesota. He noted that employees need to have an understanding of how a given company operates in order to know who information should be incorporated into the program. That is a set of skills that is challenging to quantify.
“You need to know something about how the business functions,” he said.
Minnesota counts the IT services industry among its faster growing economic sectors, according to the Governor’s office.
The state has historically been a leader in information technology. Last year, the industry employed more than 96,000 people and paid a total of more than $8.1 billion in wages in Minnesota.
IT services employment is expected to grow by 22 percent over the next eight years, with employees earning an average of $60,000 per year.
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