2S Systems Learning Private Limited

Staying ahead of the competition requires an extraordinary workforce. Stellar performance requires first-class training. And superior training demands the right technology.

It’s not just about employing the latest eGadget for distributing courses—it’s about building the optimal training experience for your learners based on how and where they learn.

Assessment that yields technology that works

Aptara helps companies evaluate, redesign, and optimize their learning technology ecosystem through automation, process reengineering, and deploying the appropriate technology for their performance goals.

Our experts assess your entire learning technology infrastructure, including your learning management systems (LMS), human resources information systems (HRIS), and any systems used to manage and evaluate knowledge and performance.

We examine their administration and maintenance requirements, their reporting capabilities, and their usability, integration, and ROI. Then we retool current systems or recommend new ones better suited to your learning goals. And if there’s no off-the-shelf solution that meets your business requirements, we can adapt an open source option.

The right experts, the right solutions

Aptara employs specialists in systems integration, infrastructure, eMigration, Cloud integration, analytics, andmobile technologies. Together, they develop and carry out action plans that turn traditional training approaches into agile, multichannel learning courseware for any learner population.

With a 20-plus-year legacy of technology thought leadership, we help our clients navigate today’s changing technology landscape. The result is the right innovation to meet your performance goals and improve your bottom line—faster.

Mobile learning, or mLearning, has been widely adopted to meet the needs of employees on the go. Smartphones, tablets, and eReaders deliver training and knowledge bases when and where your learners want it.

But it’s not enough to create great-looking eLearning courses. They must produce the desired performance results. This necessitates course material that’s engaging and accessible—and meets the expectations of today’s mobile workforce.

Learning + eMigration = mSolution?

Aptara builds, develops, and delivers mobile training applications in all shapes and sizes for Apple, Android, and Amazon platforms. Simple apps that render an eBook course. Cross-platform applications with interactive functionality. And enterprise-wide applications that manage all of your online and offline courseware; deliver it in a controlled-access environment; and track, manage, and report on learner activities.

Whatever your starting point—Word documents, PowerPoint slides, Flash videos, or PDFs—our instructional designers will determine what content best lends itself to a mobile environment. Content technologists then migrate it to the appropriate digital format, or develop a custom mLearning app designed to meet your performance goals.

Practical, inviting, and future-proof

We employ standard, future-proof content formats like HTML5 and EPUB3 so that we can create a course onceand then package it for endless mobile portability while supporting legacy browsers and offering enhanced interactive user experiences.

Aptara aligns mobile solutions with your business and IT goals while offering learners optimum accessibility, convenience, and engagement—a trifecta that leads to increased end-user engagement and improved learning outcomes.

The ABCs of LMS

ILT. VCT. WBT. CBT. CMS. eLearning. mLearning. These learning approaches and technologies are more than just acronyms: they are critical to achieving your organization’s performance goals.

Aptara finds and integrates the learning management system (LMS) that best addresses all of your organization’s training approaches, content, and technologies. If there is no appropriate off-the-shelf solution, Aptara can design, develop, deploy, and manage a custom-built open source LMS for your specific needs.

ABC to XYZ

With an LMS comes the maintenance, support, and administration of it—no small task. Handling these administrative services often means staffing up before a large-scale training project and right-sizing afterward.

Our Learning Administration practice provides end-to-end integrated learning administrative services (LAS) that leave nothing to chance. Aptara’s exhaustive offerings include:

• Registration and scheduling
• Reporting functions like managing evaluations and user performance surveys
• Software customization for courseware organization and administration
• Courseware loading, testing, and management
• Classroom facilitation (physical and virtual)
• Train-the-trainer courses
• Accreditation management
• 24/7 phone and online tech support

In short, Aptara provides all pre- and post-delivery support for learner management, administration, and evaluation.

CEO, CFO, CLO

C-level executives don’t merely want to save money on learning strategy; they want enterprise-wide learning that improves productivity and shows up on the bottom line.

Aptara’s LMS support and administration services are the most efficient and cost-effective way to track, manage, and deliver tactical learning and support services. With Aptara’s underlying support infrastructure, your learning strategy will deliver quality, quantifiable results.

Aptara’s Learning & Performance practice services are available on an as-needed, project-by-project basis so that you can expand your organization’s learning capabilities without expanding your staff.

Our professional services model is designed to fit any organization’s needs, budget, and corporate culture. And our top-tier consultants guarantee the consistency of our service provision and the standardization of training materials and delivery.

Professional services, start to finish

We give you access to all of Aptara’s cross-functional teams of certified experts at every step of the human capital management lifecycle: strategy, content development, technology, deployment, administrative support, management, and evaluation.

Each Aptara learning partnership is aligned with our client’s business goals to yield impactful results and the highest levels of employee satisfaction. As your expert partner, our team crafts a targeted training strategy, executes it, and demonstrates measurable results.

Your expert partner

Whether you choose to work with our professional services model, our managed services, or a combination thereof, Aptara’s flexible service models deliver innovative solutions that transform learning goals into achievable results.

Your company has shifting and seasonal learning needs. But your in-house learning and development staff isn’t large enough to meet peak learning demands—or adaptable enough to provide the variable skill sets necessary.

Aptara’s Learning Content & Technology teams can increase your capacity to develop and deliver training quickly and affordably.

Flexible capacity, short- or long term

Our managed teams of learning experts are assembled specifically for each client. Our flexible service delivery model is tailored to your budget and the project’s scope, and backed by the resources to scale up or down rapidly.

Whatever combination of services you require, our subject matter experts are available on demand. We assemble the right team for a single long-term project, many shorter projects over the long term, or an open-ended engagement.

Aptara helps you take the variability out of expense planning and efficient operational usage.

Efficient staffing, extensive capabilities, affordable delivery

Strategic learning analysis. Content development. Content migration. Mobile app development. Learning management systems (LMS) integration. Learning administration services (LAS).

Do you need a large pool of resources dedicated to a single service? Aptara has the resources to assemble the right subject matter experts quickly and then transfer that function from your payroll to ours. We nimbly accommodate the ebbs and flows of your workload.

Need a fuller set of services? Aptara offers you the entirety of our experts and development teams, combined as needed to get the whole job done right, whatever its duration.

And of course, our professional services model is available for more targeted, shorter-term projects.

Not just a vendor, a partner

Aptara begins all managed service partnerships by developing an engagement strategy. For consistency, the partnership is managed holistically by a single project manager for its entirety. And for transparency, our project managers maintain regularly scheduled open communication with our clients.

Indeed, the members of an Aptara Learning Content & Technology team become a seamless extension of your own operations—right down to their email addresses and the employee orientations they receive. Our learning professionals get to know you, your business profile, your learning priorities, and your preferences.

So you can keep your own learning organization lean while providing a full range of quality services—without the costs associated with rediscovery.

Finding experts with the knowledge you need is costly. Finding them fast may seem impossible.

Aptara places veteran learning experts with our clients on a flexible, project-by-project basis, allowing organizations to expand their teams’ skills and knowledge without the expense of adding permanent headcount.

Our experts are available for as little as a day or for as long as a year—or more—to support any and all phases of a learning project’s life cycle. We match our subject matter experts’ industry knowledge and practical experience to each specific project, so you don’t have to invest in a consultant’s learning curve.

Three-stage vetting process

Aptara consultants undergo formal training. The Aptara Certified Consultant (ACC) program is an onboarding process that ensures the fluid integration of our consultants into your workplace, and the highest levels of customer service standards, ethics, and innovation in every engagement.

Each candidate is interviewed before being accepted into Aptara’s consulting network. After a thorough review of our client’s requirements, each candidate is interviewed twice more: first by an Aptara senior project manager and then by the client, who makes the ultimate hiring decision.

Global resource base. On-demand availability.

We will send you the profiles of our top candidates within 3 days of a request. Our worldwide network of certified consultants includes:

• Learning strategists
• Subject matter experts
• Instructional content designers
• Project managers
• Classroom and virtual facilitators
• Graphic designers
• Instructional developers
• Organizational development specialists
• Change management consultants
• Learning management system (LMS) consultants (administrators and functional, technical, and strategy specialists)
• Technical writers
• Editors

Productive. Scalable. Functional. Cost-effective. That’s how our clients describe Aptara’s training solutions. Our clients’ learners call them timely, engaging, accessible, and relevant.

The same training approach does not fit every corporate culture or match every business objective.

Do your learners require a self-paced “click-and-launch” tutorial? A learning portal that links to social media apps? A full-on interactive, collaborative virtual world?

Optimized content, optimal context

Aptara takes the time to learn your business objectives, performance goals, subject matter, and learner populations. We then tailor our suggestions for both the content and the distribution media. Our custom courses are engaging, results driven, and able to serve a wide range of training and assessment needs.

Aptara’s content development methodologies are based on instructional systems design (ISD) theories and techniques that are carefully selected for your learning requirements.

Multiple channels, multiple formats

Mobile and adaptive learning are now fundamental to anytime/anywhere learning. Our learning specialists rely on the cutting-edge design techniques specific to your industry to develop training content for multiple channels.

And we support cross-media training needs through:

• Converting instructor-led training (ILT) and virtual classroom training (VCT) to multichannel formats
• Interactive eBooks, job aids, and student/instructor guides
• Mobile technologies and social learning
• Companion websites and knowledge portals
• Online technical documentation
• Mobile apps

We can even create virtual interactive worlds that put your professionals in front of a customer, inside a machine, in a laboratory, or through an application, in just a few clicks.

20 years, 30 languages, and the Fortune 500

If you’re a global organization, the ability to adapt training materials to different cultures and different languages is essential. Aptara’s content translation and localization specialists offer dual-directional translation and voice-over recordings in more than 30 languages.

For more than 20 years, Aptara’s learning and development specialists have designed, developed, and delivered tens of thousands of hours of customized learning content for the employees, customers, and business partners of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Aptara helps you decide what’s right for your company—then designs and creates it for you. Our innovative learning content development yields improved, measurable outcomes; substantial cost savings; and the ability to develop and deliver training more quickly.

You’ve spent long hours—and a lot of money—on course development over the years. But with a busy, mobile, and perhaps even global workforce, classroom-based training is no longer cost-effective or desirable. Plus, the training materials are cumbersome to update and distribute.

eMigration is the gradual transformation of learning content from classroom- and paper-based formats to online, interactive, accessible worldwide, and reusable digital media. Through eMigration, you can automate the conversion of materials designed for classroom-based training to self-paced, web-based products that are accessible 365 days a year.

Another benefit is that digital content can be easily repurposed.

Right content, right learners, right devices

Instructor-led training (ILT) and virtual instructor-led training (VILT) make sense for many clients; computer-based training (CBT) and web-based training (WBT), for others. Our eMigration solutions make it easy (and cost-effective) to distribute, update, and reuse learning content—and to repurpose it for delivery in any format, including mobile.

Aptara ensures that your content suits your learners—and your delivery systems suit your content. And all of our mLearning solutions are accessible via knowledge portals, wikis, and electronic performance support systems (EPSS), as well as handheld devices—be it an Apple or Android tablet or smartphone.

The benefits of eMigration are enviable: compelling cost-efficiencies, reduced deployment times, scalability, reusability, and 24/7 access. The resulting learning environment will be demonstrably effective, eminently convenient, less expensive, and highly competitive.

A clear strategy with detailed plans is key to any successful initiative. The spiraling rate of technological and workforce change makes such a strategy essential in today’s learning industry.

The interaction of social learning, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technology, adaptive learning, global learning, and multi-generational learning add unprecedented complexity to improving performance.

Capitalizing on these modern challenges requires new strategies. The same training models and technologies are simply no longer effective.

Analyze.

New strategies begin with analysis.

Applying a methodology honed over more than two decades of consulting, Aptara investigates your entire learning ecosystem holistically, while simultaneously considering your business requirements, corporate goals, and the ROI you expect.

Plan.

What approach is best for your learners’ ages, skill levels, and locations? Instructor-led training, eLearning, or virtual learning? Mobile learning, social learning, or collaborative learning? Or a blended approach?

Our learning strategists answer those questions.

They possess more than just methodology, technology, and content development savvy; they bring a deep knowledge of industry best practices based on years of crafting successful strategic plans for Fortune 500 learning organizations.

Their recommendations are supported by detailed, realistic phased action plans with clear milestones and deliverables, arming you with a road map for foundationally transforming learning outcomes, measurably and affordably.

Deploy.

From the optimal delivery approach, technique, and technologies to content development methodologies and multichannel delivery, every element of our strategic plan will be mapped to an overall instructional blueprint for its deployment.

Aptara’s strategic instructional consulting addresses every aspect of your learning organization, from the materials to the training techniques to the method of delivery to the learning management system (LMS)supporting it. No element of your learning ecosystem is overlooked.

Multiple mechanisms, measurable results

The right content. The right delivery method. The right technology. The right strategy.

Collaborating with Aptara’s expert learning strategists yields a comprehensive plan for transformational improvements with measurable, positive ROIs. The outcome is an effective, integral, and agile learning operation prepared to stay ahead of the inevitable new challenges in this dynamic information distribution environment.