Meridian LMS Integrations: Seamless Connections to Your Business Tools

Meridian LMS provides flexible integration options with Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) through our HRIS Import Toolkit. This toolkit enables customers to seamlessly pull employee data from systems like Workday, ADP, and Oracle HCM into the LMS, ensuring that user profiles and organizational structures are up-to-date across platforms.

• Employee Data Synchronization: Import new and updated employee information from your HRIS into Meridian LMS to keep user profiles consistent.
• Automated Onboarding: Enroll new hires in mandatory training programs automatically by leveraging imported data from your HRIS.
• One-Way Data Import: The HRIS integration is one-way, ensuring that the LMS always has the latest employee information from your HR system.

Webhook integration offers a solution for organizations needing to update external systems with completion and certification data from Meridian LMS. By setting up webhooks, you can push data such as completed certifications and training records from the LMS to your HRIS or other platforms, facilitating a two-way flow of information.

• Real-Time Data Push: Automatically send completion and certification data to external systems as they occur in the LMS.
• Enhanced HRIS Communication: Utilize webhooks to complement the HRIS Import Toolkit, enabling updates to HR records with completed certifications.
• Custom Integration: Tailor the webhook setup to meet your organization's data-sharing needs.

The Meridian LMS provides flexible options for integrating with CRM systems like Salesforce, which are treated similarly to HRIS platforms. You can create targeted training assignments and streamline training processes for customer-facing roles by importing learner profile data from your CRM.

• Data Import from CRM: To keep user information consistent and up-to-date, import learner profile data from your CRM into Meridian LMS.
• Automated Training Assignments: Utilize imported CRM data to automatically assign product training, compliance courses, and certifications based on role changes or new hires.
• Custom API Integration: Customers can enable launching courses directly from your CRM by custom-developing the appropriate Meridian LMS APIs on the client side.

Meridian LMS enables secure and streamlined access through Single Sign-On (SSO) by supporting standard protocols such as SAML 2.0 and Active Directory. This allows integration with a broad range of identity providers, including Okta and Azure Active Directory, reducing the need for multiple logins while enhancing security.

• Simplified Access and Centralized Authentication: Provide users with one set of credentials for multiple systems, improving the user experience and efficiently managing user access across all connected platforms.
• Enhanced Security: Reduce password fatigue and phishing risks by centralizing authentication.
• Broad Compatibility: Integrate seamlessly with various identity providers through SAML 2.0 and Active Directory protocols, Okta and Azure Active Directory, and Federal Government CAC/PIV.

Monetize your training programs with built-in e-commerce capabilities by integrating with trusted payment processors such as PayPal, CyberSource, Digital River, Authorize.net, and Convergys. Meridian LMS also offers flexibility by supporting integration with specific e-commerce providers required by individual localities, ensuring compliance with regional regulations. This enables you to seamlessly provide courses for purchase to external audiences like customers, partners, and vendors.

• Course Catalog Sales: To broaden your reach, sell courses directly from your LMS. You can also offer price per audience, seasonal, or preferred customer discounts.
• Secure Transactions: Process payments securely and compliantly through trusted gateways.
• Flexible Payment Integration: Support various payment processors mandated by specific states or regions.

Meridian LMS provides a flexible API framework that enables organizations to seamlessly integrate the LMS with other systems, facilitating custom workflows and data exchanges tailored to your specific needs. Customers have utilized our APIs to enhance their training ecosystems:

• Custom Workflows: Integrate Meridian LMS with your existing systems to automate unique processes. Examples include pulling course catalog data to populate external platforms or creating classroom course sections from external utilities.
• Data Synchronization: Synchronize data such as courses, schedules, and user profiles to keep information consistent across platforms. This includes displaying learner profile data on hybrid profile pages hosted in other systems.
• Extensibility: Build new functionalities on top of the LMS to meet specific organizational requirements and enhance the learning experience.

Meridian LMS supports industry-standard learning formats and offers seamless integration with various content providers and authoring tools. This ensures you can leverage your existing content library within the platform without compatibility issues.

• Content Compatibility: Utilize SCORM, xAPI, and AICC standards to ensure smooth operation and tracking of your learning content within the LMS.
• PENS Integration with Authoring Tools: Use PENS (Package Exchange Notification Services) integration to automatically push content created in Content Management Systems (CMS) like dominKnow to Meridian LMS without manual downloads and uploads, streamlining your content deployment process.
• Third-Party Content Integration:
  • Skillsoft Percipio Integration: Seamlessly incorporate content from Skillsoft Percipio, expanding your training offerings with a vast library of courses.
  • OpenSesame Integration: Access a wide range of courses from OpenSesame to enhance your learners' experience.
  • BizLibrary Content Import: We can easily import their course files as AICC packages during implementation.
  • LinkedIn Learning: Allows learners to seamlessly access LinkedIn’s extensive course library directly within Meridian LMS—streamlining learning, tracking, and skill development in one unified experience.

Meridian LMS offers robust analytics and reporting capabilities to support data-driven decision-making within your organization. While direct integration with business intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau is not currently available, Meridian LMS allows for automated data exports that can be scheduled and customized. This enables you to import LMS data into your preferred analytics platforms for advanced reporting and visualization.

Additionally, Meridian LMS features a built-in Learning Record Store (LRS) that captures xAPI statements generated by your learning content. The LRS can integrate with external LRSs through statement forwarding, allowing you to create rules to send all or specific xAPI statements to external systems as needed.

• Automated Data Exports: Schedule and automate data exports to seamlessly transfer LMS data into external analytics tools for further analysis.
• Learning Record Store (LRS) with Statement Forwarding: Capture xAPI statements within Meridian's LRS and integrate with external LRSs by forwarding selected statements based on your defined rules.
• Standard and Customizable Reports: Meridian LMS allows you to generate detailed reports to gain insights into learner progress, course completions, and training effectiveness. For specific data requirements, you can use preconfigured standard reports or an SQL-based report writer.

Meridian LMS integrates with leading virtual meeting platforms, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, WebEx, and GoToMeeting. This focused integration ensures that your virtual training sessions are efficiently managed and delivered, enhancing the administrative process and the learner experience.

• Automatic Meeting Creation: When you schedule a virtual training event within Meridian LMS, the corresponding meeting is automatically created in your chosen virtual meeting platform. This streamlines the setup process, saving time and reducing the possibility of errors from manual entry.
• Attendance Data Retrieval: After the virtual session concludes, attendance data is automatically retrieved from the meeting provider and transmitted to  Meridian LMS. This feature allows for accurate tracking of learner participation and simplifies compliance reporting.
• Centralized Event Management: Manage all aspects of your virtual training sessions directly within Meridian LMS—from scheduling and invitations to tracking and reporting—providing a cohesive and efficient training management solution.