Business Package for Learning (SAP ERP) 1.0

Overview

Learning is a central component of every company. Knowledge transfer within companies is needed at an ever-increasing pace. The SAP Learning Solution offers a comprehensive Web-based solution that is cost effective and efficient, to optimally satisfy all your employees' learning needs. It provides employees with a Learning Portal where they can flexibly assemble and complete their very own training programs at any time and in any place. The Learning Portal is the employee's individual, personalized learning environment.

The rapidly changing, dynamic technological developments of the present are making the traditional cycle of schooling-training-career-retirement a thing of the past. Lifelong learning is a challenge that learners, employees, and employers are equally faced with. The growing demand for training and education is accompanied by rising costs for the company. Traditional classroom training ties up time and resources, takes employees away from their day-to-day tasks, and drives up expenses.

This situation calls for new technologies and new strategies. Internet and intranet provide the solutions. The employee's PC at work or at home becomes a personal training center. This is where the threads of individual training and education come together, independent of time and place, flexible and adaptable on demand. With a simple mouse click you access the Learning Portal where all course offerings are managed and every kind of computer-based learning, knowledge transfer and communication is supported.

You can use the SAP Learning Solution to meet multiple needs:

  • To supplement the existing training offering in your corporate curriculum

  • It can help to cut the cost of training by providing more learners with easier access to training measures.

  • Consultants on the road can use e-learning to improve efficiency and know-how. Field personnel can access real-time training without needing to be physically present, and learners seeking to improve their own skills can conveniently access the corporate training offering from their own homes.

At the focal point of the SAP Learning Solution are learners, authors or instructional designers, and training administrators. The chief components of the solution are:

  • Learning Portal

    The learner accesses the SAP Learning Portal from a PC. The Learning Portal is the interactive hub of the learner's individual training activities.

  • Learning Management System (LMS)

    This system controls the individual learning process and uses didactic strategies to guide learners through the course, according to their personal learning style and progress. Data on learning progress, achieved learning objectives, and test results is stored.

  • Authoring Environment

    Course authors can benefit from the templates in the modern authoring environment to create or change course content quickly, efficiently, and tailored to the needs of specific groups of persons. They can reuse existing course content and integrate interactive elements such as simulations or tests. Metadata appended to learning objects provides more detailed information about them and their components. One of the advantages of this is that it enables the learning-specific assignment of a learning object within the course structure:

    • Example

    • Overview

    • As a prerequisite for another learning object

      This makes it possible to dynamically adapt training courses consisting of a set of learning objects to suit different learning situations. You can flexibly adapt the same course to meet the needs of a learner who requires only a brief overview of a topic and those of a learner who wants to invest more time to acquire a more thorough knowledge of the subject.

      The training administrator has direct access to content stored in the Authoring Environment when planning and creating the course catalog.

      External authoring tools can be integrated seamlessly.

  • Content Management System (CMS)

    All learning content is stored and administered in the Content Management System. Some of the functions offered include:

    • Status and version management for learning objects

    • Push and pull mechanisms

    • Workflow support

    • Intelligent search functions according to didactic or content-related criteria

      In addition to its own Content Management System, the SAP Learning Solution offers a Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) interface, which enables the use of WebDAV-compatible storage.

Business Benefits

The SAP Learning Solution offers you the following business benefits:

  • Reduced costs

    • You can reach more target groups with your training and education programs.

    • You can save on travel costs and reduce absent times.

    • You can create and manage modular learning objects.

    • You can reuse learning objects.

  • Increased sales

    • Directly: you make learning a business segment in its own right.

    • Indirectly: you can increase effectiveness since content is available online and can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

  • You increase the value-added component and the motivation of your employees.

    • You align learning objectives to corporate strategies and can monitor their effectiveness using tests.

    • You increase the market value of your employees.

    • You provide learning content that is tailored to the employee's role.

Supported Roles

  • Learner

    Users of the Learning Portal. The learner encompasses the user roles employee and course participant .

  • Training administrator

  • Author

Availability and System Prerequisites

The SAP Learning Solution has its own price model. You purchase one SAP Learning Solution User per user.

Delivery of the Business Package SAP Learning Solution is planned for the fourth quarter of 2005.

The business package is available in the languages of the SAP Learning Solution .

You require the following platforms and SAP solutions for the SAP Learning Solution :

  • SAP ERP 2005 powered by SAP NetWeaver

  • The business package in the languages of the SAP Learning Solution .

The SAP Learning Solution contains all of the functions of Training Management and most of the functions of Personnel Development .