Solutions for Learning Content Management

While Learning Management Systems (LMS) deal with the management of learning and learners, Learning Content Management Systems are essentially all about the development (or capture), management and deployment of content.

Today, it is increasingly common to see organizations opt to implement LCMS first, or to address the requirement for LMS and LCMS simultaneously. This reflects a growing understanding of the benefits and return on investment associated with LCMS.

According to Bersin & Associates, the key benefits of LCMS technologies include:

• Increased efficiency – Increasing the efficiency of the content development and deployment process and leveraging skilled resources across more and more content programs
• Reusing content – Storing and managing content from a single repository to increase efficiency, content quality, and consistency
• Meeting compliance – Delivering regulatory content online with strict control over content versions and historical account of changes over time
• Reducing training time – Delivering dynamically more personalized content, such as prescriptive learning programs, to provide more relevant and customized training and reduce overall training time
• Delivering learning on demand – Organize content into smaller pieces and enable search and delivery as needed to meet the demand for just-in-time content

Selecting a system is largely a matter of identifying business needs then mapping these to the capabilities of alternative systems. To best meet your business needs, OutStart now offers the two leading enterprise LCMSs: OutStart Evolution LCMS to address the requirements for the blended delivery of learning content, and OutStart ForceTen LCMS to support requirements focused on the online delivery of learning content.