At this stage in the LMS buying process, you’ve conducted your LMS vendor research and successfully constructed your LMS business case. Now it’s time to define your LMS requirements and document exactly what will meet your business goals.

While at first glance, many LMS platforms may seem alike, each one offers distinct capabilities. LMS vendors often specialize in specific use cases and industries, resulting in variations in functionality, integration options, deployment methods, technical certifications, service and implementation support, global expertise, and licensing models. By clearly defining your requirements across these categories, you’ll be better prepared to choose a shortlist of qualified vendor options and significantly increase your chances of selecting an LMS that aligns perfectly with your unique needs.

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Define LMS Functional Requirements Like A Pro

To choose the right LMS, you need a clear requirements roadmap. By breaking down your needs into key categories — business goals, use cases, functional capabilities, deployment, support, and licensing — you can confidently navigate the complexities of LMS selection. Let’s dive into how to define each of these requirements like a pro:

• Business Case: Outline your objectives and desired outcomes to ensure technology solutions align with your strategic goals
• Use Case: Identify how the LMS will serve your organization’s specific scenarios and workflows
• Functional Requirements: Define critical features and capabilities needed for user engagement, content delivery, reporting, and more
• Deployment Needs: Specify technical parameters, including data migration, integrations, and system compatibility
• Service & Support: Capture your expectations for ongoing support, training, and customer service
• License Requirements: Understand different licensing models to find the best fit for your budget and user structure

Mapping LMS Functional Requirements Pays Off

By defining requirements like a professional, you and your organization will reap multiple benefits:

• Focus your internal team on what’s important in a new learning platform
• Prevent surprises by clarifying business and functional use case, integration, deployment, implementation, support, and license requirements
• Narrow your vendor search to specialized solutions that do exactly what you need the way you need it, and fit within your budget parameters
• Educate vendors more quickly about your needs so they can deliver accurate, high-impact, lower-cost proposals
• Eliminate the risk of choosing the wrong learning platform, both for your organization and for you, personally
• Improve the odds of finding your best LMS!

The Talented Learning Center has the resources you need, available on demand, to define your learning management system requirements, prevent the misery of making the wrong choice, and find the best LMS platform for your employees, business partners, and customers.

LMS Requirements Resources

Choosing the right LMS for your organization is a complex decision that depends on your ability to align technology with your unique business goals. Easier said than done.

At Talented Learning, we simplify the process through our Adaptive Learning Systems Requirements Survey service — a tool designed to identify, organize, and qualify your LMS selection requirements.

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