In a knowledge economy, the key to creating a sustainable, competitive advantage is to couple effective knowledge transfer and efficient learning techniques with corporate strategy and business objectives. The SAP Enterprise Learning environment meets those needs. Our comprehensive learning environment integrates business processes, content development, and the delivery of learning linked to employee performance.

SAP Enterprise Learning is an enterprise solution that integrates functionality for back-office ERP with functionality for both learning management systems (LMS) and learning content management systems (LCMS) – in a single offering. It provides a comprehensive, blended learning environment for all of your organization's training needs. SAP Enterprise Learning supports traditional classroom training, virtual learning events, Web-based training, and computer-based training, as well as collaboration features.

The SAP Enterprise Learning environment contains the following components:

• Learning portal, the Web-based learner's personalized learning environment
• Instructor portal, where instructors can manage the participations and activities of their courses
• Learning management system (LMS) to control learning processes and manage the course offering
• Authoring environment to support the creation of tests and structuring of eLearning content
• Virtual learning tool powered by Adobe Connect to conduct virtual learning events
• Content management system (CMS) to store and manage learning content
• Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration features ensuring that your people can share best practices throughout the organization.

SAP Enterprise Learning provides tight integration with your SAP ERP implementation – offering back-office functionality for competency management, along with comprehensive assessment functionality for performance management. SAP Enterprise Learning also features strong analytical capabilities, including support for ad hoc reporting.

With SAP Enterprise Learning, you'll benefit from a complete learning environment that drives consistent and accurate information throughout your organization. As a result, you can increase productivity, reduce downtime, improve employee satisfaction, and enhance the quality of your products and services. You can leverage a comprehensive learning approach to deliver knowledge to all stakeholders – and tailor learning paths to individual educational needs and learning styles.

As part of SAP Enterprise Learning, SAP is partnering with leading content providers to ensure the availability of the best e-learning content. Content partners include:

• SkillSoft
• Convergys
• Englishtown
• RWD Technologies

SAP's virtual learning partner is Adobe Connect Professional.

SAP's assessment authoring tool partner is Questionmark.

SAP Learning Solution was identified as a winner of the eLearning Guild Research 2007 Gold Award in e-learning, For more information on this report, visit elearningguild.com.