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10 Steps in Presenting an Effective Business Case for a Learning Management System

Following these 10 steps will help you address immediate problems, build alliances throughout the organization, and make a Learning Management System business case. These best-practices come directly from SumTotal customers who have faced similar challenges.

10 Steps to Justifying a Learning Management System for Your Partner and Supplier Training

How can organizations develop their stakeholders to the same level of competency and product knowledge as their internal employees? And how can organizations instill common messaging, brand identity, and quality practices across this extended enterprise?

10 Things You Can’t Afford to Overlook when Selecting a Learning Management System (LMS)

Here are 10 pieces of LMS functionality that will help your organization manage learning better, and help you avoid those unexpected “gotchas” that inevitably add to additional cost and frustration down the line.

Calculating the ROI of your Learning Management System: How ResultsOnDemand can change your organization’s equation

In this whitepaper you will see:
1. The best way to assess how an LMS can positively affect your business by focusing on improving one process.
2. How to calculate an LMS’s real cost of ownership.

This can be assessed in either a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution or a traditional software purchase model.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in learning and talent management software - The Pros and Cons

SaaS is defined as model of delivery where the software company provides hosting, maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for the software provided to their client. This whitepaper outlines the specific benefits of software-as-a-service and things to look out for before fully adopting the approach.

SumTotal Enterprise Suite - Product Architecture

An architecturally strong foundation is required to achieve the return on investment that software buyers expect. The SumTotal Enterprise Suite capitalizes on three dimensions of architecture (functional, operational, and software) to provide our customers with innovative and pacesetting solutions.

The 10 Key Steps in Developing an Enterprise-Wide ComplianceTraining Strategy

Organizations often uncover redundant processes that manage separate compliance needs. These could be leveraged with better planning. So how can your organization reduce the costs and compliance risks of mandatory training?

The Value of a Learning Management Compliance Solution

One of the biggest challenges that organizations face today is reducing costs from fines and lawsuits. This whitepaper explains how a Learning Management Compliance Solution can help manage an organization’s compliance requirements.

Trends in Training Your Extended Enterprise - Partners and Customers

SumTotal Systems recently sent a survey to 10,000 directors of training to find out how companies are extending a learning management system (LMS) outside of their corporate walls – to the “extended enterprise” of partners and customers. Know more...