BlackBeltFactory (aka JavaBlackBelt) is a global leader in IT skills assessment and elearning, powered by more than 70,000 community members. With BBF, IT developers and managers improve technical skills of their teams at all critical points in their development process, including at hiring, staffing, training, appraisals, and planning. BBF Community Edition is a free certification portal where members mass-author Java and related technologies exams. IT developers have their technology knowledge and development abilities recognized by the global BBF Community. Everybody is welcome to take existing exams and to enhance them or even create new ones. BBF Coached eLearning combines coaching and eLearning to deliver the fastest and most cost‐effective way to gain skills in IT technologies incl. Spring, Hibernate, Vaadin, and .Net, Oracle, and many others. It is also a marketplace for coaches and students to meet and help one another. BBF SkillScan is used by recruiters and hiring managers to screen IT candidates and staff teams with the right combination of skills. In less than two hours, SkillScan provides a comprehensive and conclusive report of candidate skills in Java programming, sub-topics in Java, and related technologies. BBF Enterprise Edition allows managers to evaluate Java and related technologies skills of their team, and to give learning targets groups and individuals. BBF solutions are used by IT consulting firms and education centers around the world.
