Oracle Learning Management (OLM)

One of the biggest forces that affect the overall success of the business comes from human resources. For many companies, hiring the best minds and the best attitudes is just the preliminary stage of keeping a brilliant workforce. But most the task associated with the human resource department is in constantly upgrading the skills, attitudes and knowledge of the workers about the ins and outs of the business operation.

Many companies spend large amounts of money to send their staff to study. But as the business grows, more expense will be needed as more staff will be hired to the workforce and these people need to be constantly trained and upgraded too.

The Oracle Learning Management (OLM) could be a great help in the learning aspect of workers in the company. Instead of sending the employees to study outside, which may mean added spending, the OLM can help the company with classroom based trainings. The OLM can give workers the learning they need at the time appropriate for them. Because of the application's great flexibility, it can allow managers to automate some key business flows such as order processing and performance appraisals and keep track of the employees learning and development activities.

Oracle Learning Management has been developed to support all levels of education through a single unified learning delivery system. All areas of the business enterprise, from the workforce to applicants, customers to partners, can avail of the education system about the very nature of the business organization

The Oracle Learning Management is web-based so it can be easily accessed anywhere. It offers full management of competencies related to workforce, structured learning paths, educational certifications, and a unified catalog in a central location. Tests and exams can be easily created to monitor the learning progress of the participants.

Because of the unique need for employee to juggle studies and work at the same time, Oracle Learning Management's can allow its participants to manage their own learning progress based on their goals. The learning path could group together specific courses which target to certain community in order to focus training investment on critical jobs. There are a variety of purposes that the learning path can be packaged for such as for role based paths, performance remediation, and career development. The three learning paths supported by OLM are catalog, manager-created, and learner-created.

The OLM easily integrates with Oracle’s talent management applications so that administrators and managers can make learning paths based on performance appraisals and other processes

As they say, time is gold and this is even more applicable to business organizations. Implementing Oracle Learning Management can make companies ensure that all learners optimize their learning time in the least time possible. As part of OLM's "student policy", the application enables managers to restrict enrollment to certain employees who are qualified for a specific course. Requiring prerequisites for course and competency makes sure that those studying will have a minimum mandatory level or expertise before they are admitted to a class. If they don’t, they will be advised to take the prerequisites first.