Themen

International Growth

IMC Opens Office in San Francisco

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - With subsidiaries in Graz, London, Melbourne, Sibiu, and Zurich, IMC has mainly been present in Europe and Asia. Now, however, due to the global spread of the company's learning solutions, a higher demand for its service and support activities has risen in North and South America. » MORE

White Paper

Top Tips for Successful Talent Management

Cobham (UK), July 2013 - Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a provider of business applications and services, has commissioned a white paper that explores the increasing importance of -œtalent management- in the HR field. The paper looks at how an organisation can maximise efforts to attract, mould, and retain the best people in the current financial climate and as employee expectations continue to change. » MORE

SkillSet

Customer Success Story: British American Tobacco

London (UK), July 2013 - British American Tobacco recently implemented a new eRecruitment system based on the Kenexa 2x BrassRing platform. The company needed to find a way to train and support users - spread across more than 180 countries - and ensure that the new system was successfully adopted. » MORE

Workplace Health

CM Group Creates NHS-Endorsed Stress Training

Kim JenkinsBristol (UK), July 2013 - CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative learning solutions comprising interactive eLearning and mLearning, has created Lighten Up's eLearning courses. These form part of a blended-learning programme to help address stress, improve the work-life balance of employees; and reduce the cost of absenteeism for employers. » MORE

For the Third Time

Hat-trick for Tata Interactive Systems

Mumbai (IN), July 2013 - Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is a strategic partner in enabling the success of key organizational initiatives of Fortune 500 companies. In 2013, TIS has again been placed among the top twenty global content-development companies - being honored for the third straight year. TrainingIndustry.com's annual global survey results confirm Tata Interactive Systems' supremacy in developing custom content. » MORE

Trends and Realities

EMEA Analyst Launches New 9-Grid™ Model

David Wilson, Elearnity Managing DirectorCirencester (UK), July 2013 - Elearnity, the leading European analyst, has announced a new model for analysing the performance and potential of solutions and vendors in the learning and talent market place. The Elearnity 9-Grid™ model is based on the results of independent research and insights from Elearnity's corporate research network of over 100 client organisations, including BP, Lloyds Banking Group, Rolls Royce, and Vodafone. » MORE

Diabetes

Online Support Resource for People with Diabetes

Brighton (UK), July 2013 - Diabetes UK and next-generation learning expert Brightwave, together with Bupa, have partnered to create support and resources for people with Type 2 diabetes. In the UK, ninety percent of the three million people living with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes, while a further 850,000 people have Type 2 but have not yet been diagnosed. » MORE

"On-the-Go"

New Personal Training Fitness App

London (UK), July 2013 - Award-winning personal training provider MotivatePT have partnered with European software developer Mercier Technologies SARL to create their latest fitness application designed to help clients with their personal training programs. The fitness app is the latest in a suite of technology developments designed for MotivatePT to use in conjunction with their customers' personal training sessions. » MORE

Machine Learning

Saba's Next-Generation Talent-Management Platform

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), July 2013 - Saba has announced that it has built patent-pending machine-learning technology into its open, standards-based talent-management platform. This bold innovation adds to the company's advanced cloud platform that was announced this past March at People 2013, Saba's annual global user conference. In addition, the company has continued to enhance end-user engagement and several other key features of its platform, including social, mobile, and core learning functionalities. » MORE

Easier and More Secure

Questionmark LTI Connector Enables Integration

Norwalk, CT (USA), July 2013 - Integration between the Questionmark® OnDemand assessment-management system and a wide range of learning-management systems is now easier and more secure thanks to the new LTI Connector for Questionmark OnDemand. With the connector, instructors and administrators who use Questionmark OnDemand to create, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests, exams, and surveys can use an LTI-compliant learning-management system to make these assessments available to their students. » MORE