Reston, Va. – April 27, 2018 – Meridian Knowledge Solutions, a leading cloud-based learning management system (LMS) provider, announces the availability of Meridian LMSTMversion 18.1. In this release, Meridian applies its long-term focus on learning innovative ways for users to organize and oversee their career development paths, increased flexibility and functionality in employee career development for managers, enhanced data privacy and compliance features, and restructured system architecture for easier and more efficient navigation across devices.
“We have many customers who have been looking to move their training programs beyond compliance to focus on upskilling workers for the jobs the company will need in the future. We’ve partnered with them to create a powerful suite of tools to give visibility into the skills and competencies needed for these jobs, and an engaging ‘what’s in it for me’ point of reference for learners. We also heard our customers tell us that they love what we’re doing with gap analysis in Career Development, but they want to use data from an external performance system to drive it. So, we made it happen.”
– Geoff Perry, Chief Product Officer
Meridian Knowledge Solutions
With each release, Meridian reiterates its commitment to learning, providing increasingly complex and in-depth functionality to meet the learning needs of businesses and organizations across the industry spectrum.
Meridian LMS 18.1 release focuses on career development, improved system architecture, and compliance/user privacy
Meridian LMS 18.1 release highlights include:
Career Development:
Given the high cost of a bad hire, quality career development is a huge asset to a business. A new Career Development area allows learners to easily view and manage all aspects of their career development, both for success in their current positions and search for future advancement. The new Career Management area allows managers and administrators to access tools to manage their teams easily. These improvements help complex organizations develop employees, moving beyond compliance training and toward well-considered, long-term, career-focused learning paths.
Import of Rating Data:
Rating data can now be imported from another system, allowing this valuable information to be instantly accessed and leveraged as part of career development planning in the LMS. While most companies conduct some job reviews, many do nothing with their rating data. Often, it sits unused in dusty talent management systems, completely divorced from employee development and training plans. This important data can be easily decoupled from talent management systems and added to the LMS, where it will serve a vital role in career management.
Too often, career management and development are bundled with bulky talent management and acquisition systems. Expanded and efficient career development within Meridian LMS allows customers to dissociate these very different functions.
Enhanced Privacy & Compliance Features:
System owners now have access to new features to support the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), scheduled to take effect on May 25, 2018. These new features give system owners more control over their privacy policy. They require user consent before users store their data, export learning data, and remove users’ data from the system if requested.
Architectural Improvements:
Significant improvements have been made to the underlying system architecture, including creating a new site map. This allows for consistent menus and breadcrumbs across the site and more efficient navigation across devices.
About Meridian Knowledge Solutions:
Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC, is a leading enterprise and web-based learning management software provider. Meridian LMS is leveraged by organizations dedicated to building world-class learning enterprises. With over 7 million users worldwide, Meridian offers a flexible, best-of-breed learning management system that gives organizations and users alike a seamless, integrated experience, all while strengthening the bottom line. Meridian is headquartered in Reston, VA.