Online Training Clouds
For most enterprises, effective online training is a critical and strategic function that enables employee, customer and partner success. When students practice what they’ve learned, knowledge retention rates are at their highest (better than 75%). But the feasibility of physical classroom training is falling more rapidly than ever due to numerous challenges:
- The increasing capital and operating expenses associated with providing physical classroom training.
- The current economic climate is forcing significant and immediate cost-cutting measures, travel restrictions and budget reductions.
- Instructor productivity is limited by manual resource management processes and tools.
- With globally distributed students using a wide range of complex services and applications, training reach and support is limited.
Streamline Course Administration and Delivery with the Surgient Training Solution
The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform™ with Training Solution is an enterprise application that automates the setup, provisioning, and teardown of live software environments to deliver them in a true self-service manner, on a scheduled or on-demand basis. With its patented virtualization automation and enterprise cloud technology, Surgient helps enterprise training organizations save millions of dollars in capital and operating expenses, while delivering a wide range of training and education initiatives regardless of application complexity, number of students, or delivery method:
- Classroom Training
- On-Site Training
- Live Online Training
- Self-Paced Learning
- Blended Learning
- Partner Training
Virtual Training ROI
Reduce Operating Expenses
- Increase productivity, morale and billable hours by empowering instructors to focus on teaching – not configuring
- Minimize travel expenses of students and instructors and maximize training reach by accessing environments through a web browser
Decrease Capital Expenses
- Reduce delivery costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automating the setup, configuration, and deployment of training environments
- Dynamically allocate and recover virtual and physical resources with need and exploiting fluctuations in demand
- Increase training reach by sharing training resources across multiple courses, delivery methods and constituents
Maximize Training Effectiveness
- Make better decisions about training investments by accurately measuring learner behavior and course satisfaction
Increase Business Agility
- Gain competitive advantage by effectively and efficiently educating global employees, customers, and partners
- Empower users to quickly access resources, eliminating wait times and inefficiencies
With Surgient, enterprise training organizations and the employees, customers, and partners they serve are rapidly adopting e-Learning for the tremendous cost savings, flexibility, and reach that it provides.
| Core Capability | What it Does | What Does it Mean to You |
|---|---|---|
| Centralized Training Lab Management | Enables administrators to centrally manage complex software environments, and to administer infrastructure resources and the policies by which they’re dynamically allocated | Flexible and highly efficient approach for managing hands-on labs (shared across instructor-led and self-paced courses) saves you time and money |
| Automated Lab Deployment | Allows instructors and students to safely reserve lab capacity without conflicts, and deploys multiple labs on a scheduled or on-demand basis with no manual intervention | Superior resource utilization means hands-on training is reliably and cost-effectively delivered regardless of software complexity, the number of students, or the delivery method |
| Hands-On Access and Interaction | Allows instructors and students to securely access their labs using a browser (no download); can save and restore lab sessions without tying up resources | Compelling and personalized experience empowers students to effectively train on the actual software (not a simulation) from any computer in any location |
| Measurement and Reporting | Allows organizations to accurately gather valuable course and lab data from instructors and students | Measure and track student experience and resource utilization patterns to increase training effectiveness |
| Enterprise Readiness | Standards-base architecture enables the Training Solution to complement and work with today’s Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Live Virtual Classroom (LVC) solutions | Best-of-breed approach leverages and preserves your investment in existing personnel, systems, and processes |
How it Works
With Surgient, IT and lab administrators consolidate, pool, and centrally manage training infrastructure and course information that are shared across multiple courses, according to policies and SLAs. Leveraging proven virtualization technology, Surgient delivers as much as two to five times more training capacity with your existing hardware resources, resulting in unmatched utilization. Instructors and students worldwide can reliably request and securely access training labs, which are automatically provisioned (24x7) – all from a self-service portal and without burdening IT or lab admins. Upon completion of the course, Surgient automatically tears down the configuration, making the resources immediately available for other business needs.
Additional Resources for Training
Following are some additional resources to help you as you continue to evaluate training solutions and assist you in your learning initiatives.
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