Examples
Rapid Results with Instant Corporate University
Here are some situations where clients have realized rapid results from our flexible, hosted learning services infrastructure.
Learning solution for outside learners
You may already have an LMS for learners in your company, but need to provide training to people outside the organization. Examples may be partners, customers, resellers, or others. Often your internal LMS won't handle e-commerce or your IT people are reluctant to let outsiders access to systems behind your firewall. PowerU provides a low-cost, scalable option to serve the needs of these external constituencies.
Example: eBay required a new program to be developed to train and certify a community of instructors so that training on how to sell on eBay would be delivered consistently with solid quality. Rather than attempting to serve the needs of this new program with existing tools, eBay had ARI create the program using PowerU. You can see more about the program by clicking here.
Filling a short-term need
Organizations that feel a need for a sophisticated LMS and are planning on moving to one in the future will often want a learning solution that can be quickly implemented to serve the needs of both learners and training administrators in the meantime. PowerU is the perfect solution for this situation because it can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively.
Example: Misys, a large health-care software company, plans to implement a large commercial LMS but it will be a year or more before it can go live. In the meantime, they implemented and began using PowerU in less than two weeks. PowerU is providing training solutions to over 500 of their customers and is being well-received by both administrators and learners.
First Learning Management System
You typically need little more than a spreadsheet and a part-time person to handle bookings and registrations for most small training programs. Once your organization starts to manage larger training programs or corporate universities you quickly discover that the simple spreadsheet approach is no longer manageable. In the past, the next logical step involved a purchase of a large-scale LMS solution once an organization could no longer manage training activities effectively through spreadsheets. Historically, however, large-scale solutions (with the additional functionality, tools, and services) also involved large-scale costs and long time-frames. PowerU provides an excellent first LMS. It is hosted, can be quickly implemented, and can grow with your needs. You only pay for what you use.
Example: Vonage Corporation needed a corporate university to manage their courses and learners. They chose PowerU and had it implemented in under a week. In four days, ARI had customized the site with the Vonage University logo, loaded information on 1,500 learners provided on a spreadsheet, and loaded three starter courses. Today, there are over 7,000 users and there are over 115 courses in the system.