Refreshing eLearning…

eFront

15 key differences between

eFront Enterprise & eFront Educational

1. A whole new different look for enhanced organizational functionalities

eFront Enterprise™ extends the original eFront Educational™interface by providing user-friendly functionalities for the efficient monitoring and meaningful management of the enterprise’s (organization’s) employees.

eFront Enterprise eFront Educational

Image 1: Main Administrator menu

2. Increased Human Resource Management information

A useful Human Capital Development System should be able to maintain appropriate employee information besides name, surname and email data, as is the case with educational eFront.

eFront Enterprise eFront Educational

Image 2: eFront user information3. Efficient organization management with branches

eFront Enterprise™ introduces the concept of the branch, as a means to handle (represent) the enterprise organization. Besides the standard way to represent the structure of the enterprise (organization) in terms of hierarchy or rank, the branch allows for flexibility as it may refer to a building, to any department located within this building, to any division within a department or to a group within a division. Moreover the notion (concept) of the parent branch allows for creating associations with existing structures in the organizational chart (hierarchy).

Image 3: Branches information

4. Assignment of job descriptions to eFront users

The eFront Enterprise™ edition provides means for creating job descriptions. Afterwards you can assign employees to job descriptions and assign lessons and courses to them through their job description.

Image 4: Job description definition5. Assignment of different organizational roles to eFront users

Educational eFront has been extended so that organizational roles may be assigned to users. The approach simulates the enterprise’s personnel hierarchy, by defining branch supervisors and employees. This extends the traditional role hierarchy of educational eFront (administrators – professors – students) to a second level: administrators – branch supervisors and branch employees. Branch supervisors bear increased management rights over their colleagues.

Image 5: Job description and role assignment

6. Assignment of skills to eFront users

eFront Enterprise™ allows for the definition of skills and for their assignment to the system’s users. Skills may be sub-divided into any number of skill-categories, thus farther facilitating their precise description and their meaningful management and correlation with the employee and his/her role(s).

Image 6: Skill monitoring for skill “Work Experience”7. Organization chart feature

Viewing the entire organization and personnel hierarchy as defined by the branch definitions and the job description assignments in a simple and user-friendly way provides an outstanding method to monitor the entire company in just a glimpse.

.

Image 7: Organization chart

8. Extended searching for eFront users

eFront Enterprise™ users may be identified and searched according to a number of criteria like: branch, job descriptions, skillsets or any other company-related relevant information maintained in the system. Managers are thus capable to instantly locate and communicate with any eFront user fulfilling all kinds of criteria, e.g. “all eFront users working in branch Athens”, or “all users called Kostas” or those ones that “posses a Master’s Degree”.

Image 8: Results found for employees of a specific branch (and all of its sub-branches)

9. Skills correlation with the educational process

eFront lessons and courses may be defined to automatically offer new skills whenever their attendee’s complete them. This feature explicitly demonstrates the way an employee’s skillset is improvingly enhancing through the educational process and underlines the importance of eFront as an essential LMS for any organization.

Image 9: Correlating skills to a lesson

10. Job description correlation with the educational process

A most important feature of eFront Enterprise™ is the automatic assignment - registration of employees to educational - training material: lessons, courses according to the job descriptions they are assigned.

The created job descriptions may be related to appropriate educational - training content. By assigning employees to a job description, they are assigned with lessons and / or courses suitable to their job description. Therefore, all users with job description “Secretary” may be automatically registered to the “Office” lesson, which is evidently associated with their role in the company.

Image 10: Correlating job descriptions to lessons11. Employees – eFront users evaluations

Supervisors are allowed (if this may be the enterprises’ policy) to set evaluations for the employees of their branches. These evaluations and the corresponding employee results may be visible to any one above these employees in the company’s managerial hierarchy. Thus the management is provided with a thorough and complete picture (description) of each employee - eFront user, as defined by his or her supervisors.

12. Employee history record

eFront Enterprise™ keeps a history record of all employee related events: since the employee – eFront user entered the system for the first time, to when his/her job description was changed, or his/her salary was increased or his/her skillset was improvingly enhanced. In this way, the employees’ managers can monitor easily and without waste of time each employee’s record and identify perspectives, needs or opportunities for his/her further improvement and development within the company.

Image 11: Employee evaluations and history13. Employee forms

All employee related information, i.e. personal information, job descriptions, courses attended, skills management, evaluations etc. can be exported into pdf format or printed on paper, allowing the information dissemination outside the eFront framework.

Image 12: Employee form14. File Manager

eFront Enterprise™ allows employees to exchange files with each other by providing common folder management features. An access control system is enforced to guarantee employee privacy, while fostering the necessary evaluation and report dissemination mechanisms to improve knowledge management within the company.

Image 13: File manager interface

15. Increased communication features

eFront Enterprise™ extends the traditional user-friendly educational eFront messaging system, so that all the above described organizational features are taken into account. eFront users may therefore exchange messages or emails according to the position they bear within the organization, the branch they work in or some particular skill they might have. These possibilities, allow for an explicit rather than a latent communication channel, deep and organizationally diffused within the company.

Image 14: eFront Enterprise™ messaging system下载本文