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 Company: GeoLearning
Company Description: GeoLearning is the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and hosted learning technology. Our products and services are used by organizations worldwide to manage human capital development and drive organizational performance. GeoLearning’s Software as a Service model means there is no hardware or software for clients to install.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best New Product or Service - Computer Software
Nomination Title: GeoLearning's GeoMaestro 5 Series
- Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 500 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and sales to date. You may include hyperlinks to product photos and data sheets. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
In 2005, GeoLearning was achieving what technology companies dream of:
exponential revenue growth exceeding 300% and a three-fold increase in its
customer base. Focused on the future, leadership concluded that GeoLearning
would eventually operationally outgrow the core product’s ColdFusion code
limitations. GeoLearning assembled a dedicated team of 23 product development
professionals led by product managers Sue Hall and Chris Lennon to construct a
robust and complex learning management system (LMS) that would be quick to
deploy and simple for clients to configure and use. This investment ran
parallel to GeoLearning conducting business as usual and investing in a product
that would eventually sunset.
It would take $5 million and 2 years to complete the new generation of
GeoLearning’s LMS. The GeoMaestro 5 Series was released in February 2007 with
the new .NET architecture. Gaining accolades from GeoLearning employees,
clients and industry analysts, the GeoMaestro 5 Series delivers the vision of
taking learning and performance and combining it with powerful simplicity in
design, deployment and ease of use.
GeoLearning’s GeoMaestro 5 Series LMS is an Internet-hosted human capital
management and development platform that enables organizations to capture,
create, manage and share knowledge to accelerate critical business processes
and drive organizational performance. The system centralizes and automates the
entire learning process, making the administration of enterprise learning and
performance effective and efficient.
The GeoMaestro 5 Series takes learning administration to a new level by
providing users and administrators with advanced usability and wizard-based
functionality to assist with complex workflow and other customizable processes.
The intuitive “What’s Next” wizard predicts what the user will want to do next
and provides shortcuts to that functionality. All users also enjoy dynamic,
real-time, customizable reporting. The LMS offers system reports or the ability
to configure a report to take LMS data and convert it to customized, useable,
actionable information. And for organizations that want to provide users with a
unique learning experience, the GeoMaestro 5 Series allows administrators to
configure learning domains, or “mini-LMSs” with unique look, feel and business
rules for different divisions or departments within a client organization. The
role-based permission system also allows users to create and assign roles and
permissions needed to enhance the learning process and create focus for the
user.
In today’s dynamic marketplace, an organization must be able to maximize its
most important competitive asset—its employees. GeoLearning provides our
clients with turnkey Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions with best-of-breed
content and application integrations that are easy to administer and can be
implemented quickly to maximize training results.
Using GeoLearning’s products and services:
• International Rectifier reduced course development costs by 90% and
course development time was reduced by 80%, saving the company $250,000 in the
first year (a 75% reduction).
• TeleTech Holdings launched learning programs for 50 sites in 15
countries globally and registers 1 million course completions annually.
• Dell increased the attach rate of its online training programs (% of
sales that included online training) from 1% to 10%.
• Adecco colleagues generated 49,357 logins and 53,499 training hours on
the site and 47,559 courses completed over ten short months.
GeoMaestro Product Sheet
http://www.geolearning.com/main/docs/pdf/GeoMaestro.pdf
- List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, product reviews, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
Geolearning’s GeoMaestro Again Named “Best on-Demand LMS” by E-Learning!
Magazine Readers
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=297
Medical Staffing Network Switches to GeoLearning’s LMS Suite
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=295
GeoLearning Names to Software 500 for 3rd Consecutive Year
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=291
GeoLearning Named “2008 Software Company of the Year” by Technology Association
of Iowa
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=301
GeoLearning Takes Gold at 2007 CLO Learning In Practice Awards
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=289
GeoLearning Again Recognized as Customer Satisfaction Leader in enterprise LMS
Category of 2007 Bersin LMS Study
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=261
Brandon-Hall.com Recognizes New
GeoMaestro 5 Series LMS Suite in 2007 LMS Report
http://www.geolearning.com/main/about/dsp_article.cfm?NewsID=262
- Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of the team that developed this nominated product or service:
Sue Hall and Chris Lennon are the Product Management leaders behind the
development of the GeoMaestro 5 Series.
Sue has 17 years of experience designing e-learning courses and development
applications, and has designed award-winning training for dozens of clients,
including MGM Mirage Resorts & Casinos, Northrop Grumman Newport News and Eli
Lilly.
Chris has over 10 years of experience in the learning industry ranging from
trainer to LMS design and development. Chris has been involved in managing LMS
development for eight years. He managed learning management system design for
Gateway, Google and NIIT before joining GeoLearning.
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