8/3/2019 Cegos Case Study: How SumTotal Helped Cegos Become a Leader in E-learning and Blended Learning Marketplace http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/cegos-case-study-how-sumtotal-helped-cegos-become-a-leader-in-e-learning-and 1/3 www.sumtotalsystems.com Success Profile Working with SumTotal® has enabled Cegos to transform its business model. From a standing start just two years ago, it has already succeeded in migrating 50% of its total training business to an e-learning or blended learning approach.Fast Facts Industry: Education Country: France Users: 200,000+ SumTotal Product: SumTotal Learning The Cegos Group Berkshire RG12 1BW, UK www.cegos.co.uk How SumTotal Helped Cegos Become a Leader in E-learning and Blended Learning Marketplace SElEc■FlExiblE■plFRM■FR■nGinG■e-lERninG■ nd■blEndEd■lERninG■Rll-Founded in 1926, the Cegos Group is Europe’s largest learning and development company, providing customised and ‘off-the-shelf’ training solutions to some of the world’s leading blue-chip, public sector, and SME organisations. With the rapid advance in training technology over recent years and in online solutions in particular, Cegos has recently decided to focus its efforts around blended learning, a flexible approach that combines traditional face-to-face teaching methods with online training techniques. In rolling out this strategy, Cegos has become increasingly conscious of the need to choose a flexible third party platform through which it could provide its entire e-learning and blended learning portfolio. The company is aware that e-learning and blended learning are effectively still in their infancy, that they are likely to undergo major changes over the coming years and that today’s training systems are becoming more process-based, encompassing disparate elements like career development and skills specifications, for example, rather than simply providing training. In such a fluid and fast moving environment, it is essential that Cegos retains its freedom of choice. Cegos also needed to ensure that by passing over responsibility for technology management to the experts, it is able to remain fully focused on its core business of training solutions provision and that the technology behind this remains transparent to customers. lERninG■MnGEMEn■iMplEMEnEd■in■ SFWRE-S--SERVicE■MdEl■ Cegos’ first key decision was to opt for a third party platform rather than a proprietary solution. It did this primarily because it wanted to maintain flexibility and freedom of choice over the long term. However, pursuing this approach would also give Cegos the opportunity to hand over the management of the system to its technology solutions partner and focus its attentions on its core business.
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8/3/2019 Cegos Case Study: How SumTotal Helped Cegos Become a Leader in E-learning and Blended Learning Marketplace
Founded in 1926, the Cegos Group is Europe’s largest learning and development
company, providing customised and ‘off-the-shelf’ training solutions to some of the
world’s leading blue-chip, public sector, and SME organisations.
With the rapid advance in training technology over recent years and in online
solutions in particular, Cegos has recently decided to focus its efforts around
blended learning, a flexible approach that combines traditional face-to-face
teaching methods with online training techniques.
In rolling out this strategy, Cegos has become increasingly conscious of the need
to choose a flexible third party platform through which it could provide its entire
e-learning and blended learning portfolio. The company is aware that e-learningand blended learning are effectively still in their infancy, that they are likely to
undergo major changes over the coming years and that today’s training systems
are becoming more process-based, encompassing disparate elements like career
development and skills specifications, for example, rather than simply providing
training. In such a fluid and fast moving environment, it is essential that Cegos
retains its freedom of choice.
Cegos also needed to ensure that by passing over responsibility for technology
management to the experts, it is able to remain fully focused on its core business
of training solutions provision and that the technology behind this remains
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About Cegos GroupFounded in 1926, the Cegos Group is
Europe’s largest learning and development
company, providing customised and ‘off-
the-shelf’ training solutions to some of the
world’s leading blue-chip, public sector,
and SME organisations. It employs more
than 1,200 staff worldwide and has an
annual turnover of 300 million CHF. In
2007, the Cegos Group trained 200,000
professionals in 50 countries.
Equally the use of the platform has made Cegos a more attractive proposition
for global enterprises with a presence in underdeveloped territories or emerging
markets around the world. And as a result of deploying the SumTotal platform,
Cegos has been able to expand several existing relationships with multinational
customers.
In addition, the fact that the SumTotal solutions are both flexible and functionally
rich has enabled Cegos to implement new functionality as and when requested by
customers. It plans to start deploying SumTotal’s skills specifications management
tool which includes a skill levels certification module shortly.
The use of a SaaS model helps Cegos to make changes to the solution and
implement new modules, for example, quickly and easily – and the ability to host
hundreds of customers on a single platform has resulted in significant savings in
administrative costs.
It is important to note however, that Cegos remains responsible for the functional
administration of the system. A large company that wishes to re-engineer its
training plan in order to implement blended learning can turn to Cegos to analyse
and implement its corresponding functional separation completely transparently
on the SumTotal platform. In addition, Learning Management already has all the
necessary connectors to connect to the HR information and ERP systems that its
customers are using.
This is a significant advantage for large organisations that use these types of
information system. Once Cegos has completed the configuration process, no
more than two people are typically required to manage the back office training,
even in the largest companies. This represents a massive reduction on traditional
cost levels and is achievable because the other services required to operate the
platform are all included in the SaaS subscription.
Cegos has also benefited from SumTotal’s ability to integrate high-quality third-
party solutions into its platform to add value, such as the test authoring tool,Questionmark, which Cegos also uses, and virtual classroom software such as
Interwise, Adobe Connect and Webex.
As Moresco explains, “With the broad spectrum of functionality now supported by
these platforms, we can foresee a situation in the long term where large training
companies like Cegos could partner corporations in all areas relating to skills and