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Meridian Knowledge Solutions LLC has signed the first of several planned agreements that will help the company build a large, online library of training content to complement its software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for managing learning and knowledge.
The SaaS version of Meridian’s product is based on the company’s flagship learning management system, Meridian Global LMS, that delivers, analyzes and manages training via the Internet.
“People buy SaaS products to quickly put in place the infrastructure for delivering training, so it only makes sense that, whenever possible, the training ought to be simple and efficient to obtain, too,” said Roy Haythorn, vice president of sales and marketing for Meridian.
“Our SaaS product can be up and running in days, so we aim to give our customers a wide-ranging library of training courses that they can deliver the moment their systems go live. Our online, training library is all about making it incredibly easy-to-start training.”
The first “wing” of Meridian’s virtual library will contain courses focused on on-the-job safety. The safety training content comes as the result of a reseller agreement signed between Meridian and Pasco, Wash.-based Vivid Learning Systems, which produces Web-based compliance training programs for meeting government regulations.
Vivid will provide Meridian with more than 300 online courses for training to meet requirements mandated by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Additional courses will focus on environmental management, employment law, food safety, heavy machinery, hazardous waste operations, mine safety and electrical work.
“We envision building additional wings on our online library, so it encompasses just about anything our SaaS customers might need in the way of courses for their training programs,” added Haythorn.
“Our research shows that companies of all sizes are gravitating to the SaaS model," said Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, a research firm focused on enterprise learning and talent management. “The creation of a large-scale virtual library of training content for SaaS clients to tap into seems a natural outgrowth of Meridian’s desire to make training simple for its customers.”
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