Extended Enterprise Learning

 These "all purpose" LMS platforms are used to deliver, support and measure online and classroom training programs for any combination of employees, channel partners, dealers, franchisees, customers, business prospects and others.

To deliver and manage this kind of training, it's wise to invest in an extended enterprise LMS -- a learning management system designed specifically for this purpose.

They are experts at endless and varying topics and their job is to teach it, but they don’t teach employees though – just everyone else including external sales and distribution channels, customers, members, dealers, agents and the public at large.

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

Absorb is definitely extended enterprise ready and has many features to support external audiences; the interface can be skinned and globalized very neatly with clients’ colors, logos, fonts, language and dynamic group functionality.

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.

Cornerstone supports extended enterprise initiatives with deep social, certification, reporting, ecommerce, globalization and audience management features -- it's easy to deploy, use and maintain.

Founded in 2001, eLogic Learning is a mature and proven industry leader in strategy, design and implementation of training and development products and services.

Expertus is pushing the envelope in mobile, social, gamification, virtual classroom, ecommerce and integration -- in each category, they show up with deeply integrated technology that is going further than the norm.

WBT’s flagship product is TopClass, a web-based Learning Management System that enables employees, members, partners or any learners globally to access training and events.