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emTRAiN LMS Dashboard Helps Businesses Easily Plan, Deploy and Track Employee and Customer Training Online

Posted on: Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 10:00 CDT

New SaaS Training Platform Enables Delivery of Any SCORM Online Course; Tracks Webinars and Live Workshops in Easy Interface; Affordable Solution Designed for Budget-Conscious Businesses with Limited Staff and IT Expertise

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- emTRAiN, Inc., a leading provider of online training solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the emTRAiN LMS Dashboard, its web-based, hosted Learning Management System (LMS) uniquely designed to help businesses of all sizes securely plan, deploy and track employee training activities with an easy-to-use and affordable online interface that requires virtually no IT expertise to operate or manage.

Designed with input from HR generalists and employment lawyers, the emTRAiN LMS Dashboard specifically addresses the needs of both technically sophisticated and non-technical HR practitioners with full-featured functionality in a simplified workflow and user interface. Delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, emTRAiN LMS Dashboard adds improved security, reliability and remote access not commonly available with installed personnel and training management systems.

"Large companies with significant staff and resources have invested in robust, complex database software to organize personnel and training information," said Janine Yancey, CEO of emTRAiN. "But, smaller companies often have little or no HR technology solutions because of the high price and extra staff required to operate most applications on the market. In our search for a platform to meet our own needs in offering emTRAiN's web-based HR compliance courses, we grew frustrated because none of the available systems met our criteria for intuitiveness and ease of use."

In response, the company developed the emTRAiN LMS Dashboard based on years of customer feedback and requests for features and modifications as a comprehensive solution for managing a wide range of training needs, including emTRAiN's HR compliance courses. For example, many companies must train their sub-contractors or customers, in addition to their own employees. The emTRAiN LMS Dashboard provides customers with an outstanding ROI by allowing them to cut costs and improve efficiencies within the business.

Optimum Functionality, Quick Deployment, Short Learning Curve

Where traditional database systems fall short of offering intuitive workflows, graphical interfaces and quick time to competency, the emTRAiN LMS Dashboard is an automated, self-service learning management system that can be deployed in a single day's notice and requires minimal training to achieve proficiency. Once up and running, emTRAiN LMS Dashboard provides administrators with up-to-the-minute data on who has received training, who is scheduled for training, on what topics and when.

For companies that require reporting and auditing functions to mitigate the risk of legal claims, emTRAiN LMS Dashboard tracks historical training data and generates litigation-ready reports that are admissible in a court of law to defend against employment claims by providing evidence of training - no more scrambling to find sign up sheets that may be easily lost or damaged over time.

emTRAiN LMS Dashboard allows companies to develop a full-spectrum training course library comprised of e-learning courses, in-person workshops and webinars. Training administrators may create different groups of learners and implement corresponding learning tracks for each group. With emTRAiN LMS Dashboard, the training administrator can also:

• customize and send training notification and reminder emails to individual trainees and/or groups;
• create and schedule in-person workshops for various locations, and create and print a trainee roster list;
• schedule and assign webinars to trainees and sync them with desktop calendaring systems to ensure better attendance;
• easily edit or retire trainees or courses from the system;
• create training cycles for compliance or other courses offered on a routine basis;
• ensure full inclusion of the complete current employee population with a sync tool that matches trainee records with current payroll or HRIS records; and
• track and report progress by trainee, groups of trainees or course with customizable reports.

Innovative, Affordable and Easy to Use

The current economic downturn has accelerated the demand for easy-to-use, cost-effective technology solutions in the HR market. Because many companies have been forced to lay off HR staff, and the remaining staff are typically generalists who are now tasked with duties outside their core competencies, this creates a technological and time-management bottleneck.

"All too often, business applications are designed and built by technology specialists who aren't intimately familiar with needs of the end-user," said Yancey. "With its intuitive interface that automates the learning management process, emTRAiN LMS Dashboard makes it easy for an administrative assistant to manage the learning system, instead of requiring a more highly paid HR technologist or learning specialist."

emTRAiN's LMS Dashboard is a break from convention not only in its simplicity, affordability and ease of use, but also in its evolution.

"It's very significant that emTRAiN has grown organically to produce this kind of solution in response to customer demand as a woman-owned business enterprise (WBE) in a field that is predominantly female," Yancey said. "Why is this relevant? We haven't spent inordinate amounts of money to build complex features and functionality that aren't necessary, which only serve to drive up system costs and exponentially increase administrator training time."

For more information about the emTRAiN LMS Dashboard or other emTRAiN solutions, visit www.emtrain.com or call 1.866.651.7474.

About emTRAiN

emTRAiN is the leading provider of online training and web based training platforms. Founded in 2000, emTRAiN works with customers across all industry sectors and is the preferred choice for training decision-makers in both large and small companies. emTRAiN helps top industry-leading companies effectively and efficiently manage their training programs. For more information, visit www.emtrain.com.

SOURCE emTRAiN, Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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