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NewProducts: LMS Everything employees need to prepare themselves for the future job will be delivered at their fingertips. For additional information, visit the Website www.learn.com. TALENT SUITE ADDS COMPENSATION The 8.2 version of SumTotal’s Talent Development suite empowers organizations to align, engage, develop and retain employees to gain productivity and a significant competitive advantage. The latest release includes a new compensation management module, tighter integration of the performance management and learning management systems for unified talent development, new reporting architecture, and continuing education credits to align talent development with strategic initiatives such as compliance. Additional new features and cross-platform workflows include improved, unified reporting capabilities, enhanced 360-feedback functionality, and continuing education credits to help meet the compliance needs of regulated industries. The new compensation module enables managers and the HR team to import upto-the-minute performance ratings into a user-friendly worksheet. For more information, visit the Website www.sumtotalsystems.com. PLUGGING TRAINING INTO THE ENTERPRISE Xyleme LCMS has been integrated into the EMC Documentum platform. This combined solution is an industry-first that eliminates the need for a stand-alone LCMS by providing learning content management as a native application on top of the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. The Xyleme LCMS application on EMC Documentum eliminates major LCMS issues by utilizing the native content and media repositories of the Documentum platform and leveraging its functionality to achieve three major goals for the training organization: >> Ensuring that learning content is no longer stored in a separate repository, but instead managed with existing enterprise content and ready to be used at the point of performance. >> Providing immediate availability to existing enterprise content services such as collaboration tools, workflow, records management and Web 2.0 technology. >> Enabling SCORM-compliant XML learning content to be shared with other departments, including technical documentation. To learn more, visit the Website www.xyleme.com. PULL TECHNOLOGY PUTS LEARNING IN USER HANDS The MyProfile module for the LearnCenter Platform introduces true pull learning technology (PLT) to the industry for the first time. PLT is the converse of the more traditional learning method known as “push” or “assigned” learning. The MyProfile module for the LearnCenter platform and soon-to-bereleased WebPad platform has pioneered PLT, thus putting the power of self-development and learning into the hands of the individual employee for the first time ever. Using the MyProfile module for the LearnCenter platform, end-users are now able to: >> compare their current skill set, quickly isolating gaps and areas of improvement; >> view a graphical representation of skills gaps; >> request a job profile from their manager; >> create bench strength by allowing the users to begin elevating their skill sets, and >> import requested job profiles into a current development plan. 48 February/March 2009 Elearning! http://www.learn.com http://www.sumtotalsystems.com http://www.xyleme.com

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Elearning - February/March 2009 Contents Editor’s Note News Social Networking Popular Learning Needs Technology On Competency Management IT Employment Drops Trendlines Deals Learning Roles in Talent Management Informal E-Learning and Web 2.0 Cover Story: Learning Your Way to Profits Collaboration Trends, Strategies 12 Wishes for LMSs, LCMSs Tips: Recession-Proofing Your Job Case Study: Military Training Case Study: City of Arlington, Va. New Products Pop Quiz Last Word

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