Company Name : ePath Learning, Inc.
City : New London
Company URL : www.ePathLearning.com
CEO’s Name : Dudley Molina, President and CEO

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ePath Learning, Inc. Company Profile  

Description of products or services:

ePath Learning, a privately held company, is an industry leader in online learning management solutions company. As an emerging company, it has experienced consistent growth of no less than 12 percent a year over the past six years. With the reliability of a rock solid technology, 99.999% up-time since 2000, and a team of experienced professionals, it has become a learning solutions partner its customers can trust. Its experience and partnerships have led to the development of the only enterprise learning service that provides the three critical components necessary for successful enterprise-wide adoption and utilization of on-demand learning initiatives: an on-demand integrated Learning Management Service (iLMS), client-centric Support & Professional Services, and an industry unique subscription-based Pricing Model.

Its online integrated Learning Management Service (iLMS) is easy to use, fully scalable, and available anytime, anywhere you can access a web browser – even on your mobile device. As a true multi-tenant online service, ePath Learning ASAP eliminates equipment, resource, and deployment costs associated with other software solutions. It combines everything needed to create and deploy an enterprise-wide learning program including an easy-to-use employee training portal and powerful tools for creating, searching, scheduling and conducting, tracking and reporting on training and performance. As a commitment to client success, ePath Learning offers a shared-subscription based model and an industry unique client-centric support program with one-on-one support. ePath Learning also provides course design, development, and conversion services through its award winning Pro Services team.

By applying information technology to the business practice of learning and development, ePath Learning ASAP brings accountability, measurement of comprehension, and enhanced efficiency to a function whose costs average 3% of payroll. Without the need for any IT resources, accessible ubiquitously via an internet browser, ePath Learning ASAP can measure training effectiveness, improve employee productivity, and reduce training costs by up to 50%. This results in enterprise-wide on-demand learning programs that are launched faster, at less cost, with higher adoption rates and a quicker return on investment.

Target customers/markets:

The scalability of ePath Learning’s iLMS, ASAP, allows us to reach a worldwide market of organizations of all sizes. Implementation is as easy for the small doctor’s office as it is for the large Fortune 500 Company. Our technology can be utilized in any industry. Therefore, we primarily target the executive level of an organization where the benefits and cost savings of applying technology to learning management are properly understood as a sound business practice. ePath Learning primarily focuses on mid-market organizations and “greenfield” opportunities where the benefits of a combined authoring and learning management solution can be recognized.

Business partners:

Since its launch in April of 2000, ePath Learning ASAP is a true Web 2.0 service. Our technology partners are the cornerstone of web architecture and include Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Apache, and Savvis.

ePath Learning rounds out its service offering by partnering with off the shelf content providers: MindLeaders, MindEdge, Medsenses, New Haven Consulting Group, and Export Institute.

Competitors  

The learning technology space is highly fragmented, with at least 92 notable players in the market. Often, we compete with Saba, SumTotal, Learn.com, and GeoLearning.

Saba and SumTotal are legacy LMSs requiring software installation on client servers. entailing lengthy installation (months to years), costly software and hardware, and IT staff involvement. In recent years, both companies have bolted on an online component to address customer demands.

Learn.com and GeoLearning offer an LMS with an LCMS as an “add-on” feature with customer server installed and online versions. Due to multiple version offerings by both companies, service and support is expensive, leading to costly upgrades for customers and low service reliability.

ePath Learning ASAP is a single version, online, multitenant application that installs in mere days. It’s fully hosted, there’s no hardware, or IT costs, and has a low-cost of entry. ASAP has 99.999% uptime with live training, customer support and upgrades included in the subscription-price.

Biggest Business Opportunities

During the past year the number of users of our iLMS has grown by 19%. In a down economy, companies scramble to take costs out of the business and do things better, cheaper, and faster. In an up economy companies are training new hires as well as existing employees on how to exploit opportunities and take market share. In both cases our iLMS is the perfect solution in bringing technology based learning into an organization of any size.

Opportunity is in the “greenfield” with mid-market organizations looking to increase the productivity and performance of existing employees without involving costly training programs or capital investments. These are organizations with small or no training teams or subject matter experts looking to build courses easily or exchange information in a consistent manner that can be tracked and assessed. They seek an affordable full service solution to meet their training and development needs.

Business challenges

Today only 18% of all corporate training is delivered via the Web with less than 8% of all companies having any type of training system. Our challenge is to keep our solutions simple within an industry that is prone to uncertainty, yet compete against venture backed companies that sustain losses with the hopes of eventual profitability.

To learn more, please contact:

Donna Lord

ePath Learning, Inc.

860 444-6989 x16

dlord@epathlearning.com
www.ePathLearning.com