SDMS / eFront Partner in the UK

PARTNER OVERVIEW Founded in 1990, SDMS Ltd is a specialist solutions provider (and one of the UK’s leading providers) for enterprise level personnel, recruitment and staff development management systems. The company’s range of products combine extensive and high level functionality with ease of use and scalability – and is unique in addressing all aspects of Staff Development and Personnel Management in the modern Corporate environment. SDMS Ltd has customers and clients across all sectors in the UK, both public and private, including Further and Higher Education, Local Education Authorities, Charities, Construction, Social Services, Hospices, Probation Services, Magistrates Courts, Health Care, Local Government, Schools and leading Football Clubs.

ON CHOOSING EFRONT ”There are several criteria about working with other companies. The first consideration is: do they have a product which compliments and extends what you have, and can you contribute to what they’re doing? And the second consideration is: how easy is it to work with that other company? We chose eFront because we could answer yes to all of these criteria.” “With eFront we are able to service small organizations that may not have the resources to be running a lot of face-to-face training. Their learning programs are much more cost-effective to be dealt with through eFront and elearning.” CHALLENGES “We initially began work with eFront looking at how we could write and import/export between the systems and how we could begin to offer that into the marketplace – we have done both. As we began to present our products with eFront, it became apparent that our clients were best suited to having some form of integrated module within eFront and that’s where we took the ideas and the 20 years of experience writing classroom management software and developed a module, which is now the classroom module for eFront and a new revenue stream for us!”

CLIENT SUCCESSES “With approximately 100 staff and 30 to 40 branches spread across the UK, SDMS’ client Mobile Money had several issues that needed addressing. Firstly, with company branches spread all across the UK geographically it was difficult for them to provide face-to-face training. Another one of their main focuses was compliance to standards and regulations. Implementing eFront solved both those issues, and provided an economical alternative to other elearning systems on the market.” “The need to train employees and to validate that training is critical to the existence of the [Mobile Money] business. They needed to provide that training online and eFront was able to provide an incredibly good value package.”

CONCLUSION “It was very easy to put together a partnership relationship, and also to be able to go beyond a simple partnership relationship and begin to explore the idea of developing modules within eFront by us which was important.” “eFront answered the four key criteria that came from conversing with customers. eFront provides a platform for students; allows you to write and develop elearning content within that single application; allows you to convert traditional learning materials into elearning courses; and finally eFront also allows users to use things with the elearning package that they bought somewhere else.”

QUOTES "We have aspirations to continue to develop and offer new products on the marketplace – so we’re focused on ongoing development of modules for eFront and continued integration of eFront with our product.” - David Stevens, SDMS Founder and Managing Director

About us Epignosis provides top-of-class, affordable elearning solutions. Our main product, eFront, is a modern-age LMS bundled with rich social & enterprise functionality. A cost-effective way to simplify training, evaluation and tracking procedures within the organization, eFront has been awarded for excellence in Learning Management Technology for Small-and Medium-Sized Businesses (Brandon Hall) and Elearning Magazine. Today, eFront is trusted by hundreds of organizations around the Globe to support their training activities.