Extended Enterprise

Organizations continue to purchase standalone LMS systems every day and rarely consider more than one HR or talent suite LMS products as the starting point.

An extended enterprise LMS supports learning efforts for non-employees, including channel partners, customers, prospects, members, franchises, resellers and distributors. 

Responsive design is popular because it works on any device and all platforms, thus eliminating the need to test everything on many devices.

A common value proposition you will hear from your employee LMS provider is that there are economies of scale in licensing, maintenance and implementation, so from a cost standpoint, it makes sense to expand the existing LMS to external audiences.

The Accord LMS has strong gamification, social, mobile and eCommerce features needed in today’s extended enterprise learning efforts; they have also built out their first handful of language localizations for North American and European deployments.

BlueVolt targets the manufacturing industry including the relevant member-based organizations and brings together manufacturing companies and their independent sales distribution channels.

Content that is customized for specific training, continuing education and certification capabilities your association members need and want to help them manage their careers more effectively.

A key to my success was the ability to ferret out unspoken requirements (landmines) by conducting good discovery and exploring deeply in a whole range potential functionality.

Caspio is a great example of the contrast between learning for customers versus employees. Find out how Caspio won me over with an approach that nearly caused me to purchase this solution. 

Extended enterprise learning solutions serve a much different audience than corporate LMS platforms. Find out how these solutions meet the needs of external learners...