TechValidate Research on OpenSesame

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1,255 Customers Surveyed

10,433 Data Points Collected

321 Published TechFacts

48 Published Charts

50 Published Case Studies



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OpenSesame Case Study

Global 500 pharmaceuticals company saves time, money with OpenSesame

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 pharmaceuticals company is based on a November 2016 survey of OpenSesame customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“OpenSesame saves me time finding and administering courses for my learners.”

“OpenSesame saves my company money in delivering and administering training courses for our learners.”

“The shift to OpenSesame has helped us financially. The OpenSesame Plus bundle is a lower cost for us than the licensed content we were purchasing from a different course supplier.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select OpenSesame:

  • Major organizational learning and development challenges:
    • Meeting the needs of a diverse workforce (multi-generational, multi-lingual)
    • Offering mobile, on the go training
    • Building a learning culture at their company
    • Managing the consistency of training across multiple locations
    • Demonstrating the ROI of training to leadership
    • Building future leaders
    • Serving the needs of different job functions (sales, marketing, leadership)

Use Case

Learning and development profile:

  • Uses the following learning management system (LMS):
    • SAP Success Factors
  • Main categories / courses used from OpenSesame:
    • Leadership and business skill
    • Technology (Microsoft Office, Google/G Suite Applications)

Results

  • Has seen the following benefits since using OpenSesame:
    • Gained access to a broad spectrum of training courses their company needed
    • Lowered training costs
  • Rates the following OpenSesame features compared to other companies delivering course content:
    • Breadth and quality of courses: superior
    • Affordability: best in class
    • Customer service: superior
    • Ease of administering courses: superior
    • Integration with their LMS: superior

OpenSesame Customer Fact

A local government improved their ability to administrator and deploy elearning after using the OpenSesame integration with their Infor LMS.

OpenSesame Customer Research

Customers saw major improvements when switching to OpenSesame from Skillsoft

Compared to previously used elearning vendor, how much improvement have you seen in the following metrics since using OpenSesame?

Greatly increased Somewhat increased Remained the same Somewhat decreased Greatly decreased

Utilization rates
Completion rates
Satisfaction ratings

OpenSesame Case Study

Johnstone Supply creates integrated training program with OpenSesame and BlueVolt LMS

Introduction

This case study of Johnstone Supply is based on a July 2017 survey of OpenSesame customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“OpenSesame is convenient with its seamless integration to our LMS (BlueVolt) and thousands of course options that are easy to manage. The course update communication gives us the confidence that we are getting the most recent version of the course available without having to manage it on our own as we often do with other vendors. Anything that saves us time is priceless to us!”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select OpenSesame:

  • Faced the following challenges when providing online training to learners at their company:
    • Seeing a return on training or higher performance after training
    • Working with multiple vendors
  • Offered 101-500 training courses to their learners prior to using OpenSesame.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with OpenSesame:

  • Able to offer over 20,000 training courses to their learners after purchasing OpenSesame.
  • Created over 30 new training tracks or programs after using OpenSesame.

OpenSesame Customer Research

Why did you start looking for a new compliance training solution?

Why did you start looking for a new compliance training solution?

Cost prohibitive to send employees to training (on-site or off-site)
31%
Elearning courses took a long time to create in-house
36%
Elearning courses were outdated
27%
Elearning courses were not offered in needed formats or styles
15%
Elearning courses were not offered in the languages needed
9%
Low completion or utilization rates
7%

OpenSesame Customer Testimonial

With OpenSesame we saved time and money.

We were also able to:

  • Rapidly expand our catalog for subscribers, increasing subscriber value
  • Offer requested courses that we could not develop with our pool of SMEs
  • Experiment inexpensively and learn about what our learners would be interested in

Kristina Gumbulevich, Director of Learning Solutions, HAI Group



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About OpenSesame

Leading organizations depend on OpenSesame to train millions of employees. An entirely new and better way—easier, more economical, with less risk—to access the best on-­demand training. With thousands of business, safety, technology, and compliance courses, OpenSesame helps train organizations of any size.

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