Elearning - June/July 2008 - (Page 37) TipsSaaS On-Demand Learning, Enterprise learning technology has become complex and more strategic. Fueled by both domestic and global competition, organizations are addressing the challenges of training widely dispersed employees, business partners and customers who may only share one characteristic … access to the Internet. Trends toward online learning and emphasizing learning’s impact on business results have stimulated the development of new learning and performance management choices. As the enterprise LMS evolves into a critical component of a company’s performance management strategy, the LMS also must be able to integrate with other applications and ensure a seamless user interface and functionality across the enterprise. Learning leaders must then select an LMS solution that meets their business needs and integrates with the organization’s overall IT strategy. FLEXIBILITY AND FUNCTIONALITY Increasingly, organizations are turning to on-demand technology to implement an LMS Performance Management Show Growth, Results that meets their unique business demands and solves their distinctive organizational challenges. On-demand (also called “Software as a Service” or “SaaS”) is hosted and supported by a vendor as a service, which users access via the Internet without the need to deploy and maintain an onpremise IT infrastructure. Clients benefit by receiving product updates automatically “pushed” from the LMS provider to the client. SaaS eliminates all the headaches, hassles and risks associated with traditional on-premises software. On-demand vendors focus on key strength areas and develop strong partnerships to provide “best-of-breed” solutions that meet the client’s needs on a broader scale. For example, GeoLearning has Elearning! June/July 2008 37
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