Potential LMS vendors in the legal verticle

• TutorEnterprise (from TutorPro)
• UniversitySite (from Profiscience)
• viEval (from viDesktop)

Although all of these products have their own set of pro’s and con’s, we found that UniversitySite offered the greatest flexibility in terms of SharePoint and enterprise search integration, as well as modular webparts which can be placed anywhere in a SharePoint environment and will offer up any piece of LMS content. We also liked the way that their architecture was similar to SharePoint 2010 in that they control their content using audiences. I understand that TutorPro will be following a similar model in a new release and may have a lot more potential in the SharePoint space.

New features in UniversitySite 2012:

• A simpler and more attractive interface
• Enhanced Learning Plan functionality
• The all-new Manager Dashboard, which gives managers the ability to:
  •  Monitor employee learning histories
  •  Monitor, create, and assign learning plans to their subordinates
  •  Implement training approval policies
• Upgrades to the SCORM engine for eLearning
• Support for Internet Explorer 9
• Experimental support for Chrome, Safari , and Firefox browsers

About Profisciencē Partners

Profisciencē Partners is a premier provider of software solutions for learning and performance management. Our products include UniversitySite, the Learning Management System designed for law firms; the SharePoint Learning kit for UniversitySite; and SkillSite, our legal-specific Assessment Management System.

Profisciencē Partners delivers a framework for implementing learning management by providing best-in-class tools and expertise needed by law firms to meet today’s changing and increasingly demanding organizational requirements for workforce improvement. These tools increase the value of learning for law firms by helping them to leverage their available resources, improve organizational performance, and meet their bottom line objectives.

For more information about UniversitySite 2012 , contact:

Michael Barshinger
CEO
Profisciencē Partners
michael.barshinger@profiscience.com

Designed exclusively for law firms, our assessments focus on the unique skill sets particular to the legal environment instead of testing on features that legal users are unlikely to ever be required to employ. Like our Word assessments, our Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 assessments require users to complete tasks corresponding to specific core competencies identified as baseline skills required for legal document production.

SkillSite is the only assessment product in the legal market that integrates with the LMS to provide personalized learning plans. By design, SkillSite does the job of aggregating data collected from assessment and then feeds this data into the LMS so employees can quickly access their results and complete prescribed training, enabling them to focus immediately on learning and acquiring new skills.

About Profisciencē Partners

Profisciencē Partners is a premier provider of software solutions for learning and performance management. Our products include UniversitySite, the Learning Management System designed for law firms; the SharePoint Learning Kit for UniversitySite; and SkillSite, our legal-specific Assessment Management System.

Profisciencē Partners delivers a framework for implementing learning management by providing best-in-class tools and expertise needed by law firms to meet today’s changing and increasingly demanding organizational requirements for workforce improvement. These tools increase the value of learning for law firms by helping them to leverage their available resources, improve organizational performance, and meet their bottom line objectives.

For more information about our assessment tools and SkillSite, or to schedule a demo, contact:

Claudia O’Neill
Senior Consultant
Profisciencē Partners
claudia.oneill@profiscience.com 
(469) 248-5267

The judge’s panel has reviewed all nominations and we’ve been ranked in the top three, which means our organization is on the Shortlist to win the award.

Profisciencé Partners has been nominated for its work in implementing SkillSite at Akin Gump, an Assessment Management System designed to assess, score, and track results for measuring baseline document formatting skills. Akin Gump was able to utilize their Office upgrade to assess the legal document production skills of its secretaries and produce individualized, prescriptive learning plans that increased proficiency of employees by 30% following completion of their learning plans. Additionally, implementing UniversitySite, Profisciencé Partners’ learning management system, enabled Akin Gump to quickly and efficiently roll out a Windows 7 and Office 2007 upgrade with minimal administrative management for more than 1,660 users across 8 U.S. offices in just 4 weeks, achieving 85% attorney participation and 100% staff participation in training through the use of more than 60 targeted learning plans in UniversitySite that incorporated eLearning modules.

As a premier provider of software solutions for learning and performance management, Profisciencē Partners is so pleased to be considered for this award as we continue to serve our clients with exceptional dedication and our commitment to help organizations achieve strategic business results.

Sessions this year are designed to address the conference theme “Rev-Elation” to help attendees cultivate strategies for success in their own organizations, including topics that are also focused on how law firms must adapt to thrive over the next decade. For more conference information, visit www.iltanet.org.

We invite you to attend the ILTA 2011 State of the Art Technology Demo Track:

Presenter: Michael Barshinger, CEO and President
Topic: UniversitySite & SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK)
Location: Demo 08
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 3:30 pm ET

We also invite you to schedule a product demo with us on Tuesday, August 23. We have reserved a demo room all day and welcome the opportunity to show you UniversitySite (LMS), SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), and SkillSite (Assessment Management System).

Location: Demo room  – Belle Meade D
To schedule a demo contact: Claudia.ONeill@Profiscience.com

You are invited to attend, and specific meeting locations and registration details can be found by visiting ILTA’s web site at www.iltanet.org/MainMenuCategory/Meetings.

ILTA Roadshow – Topic Description
SharePoint: A Social Network for Learning
With SharePoint 2010 being deployed in law firms at a record pace, My Sites are all the rage for their enterprise social networking capabilities. But did you know that there is also a new school of thought on intranets from a learning and development perspective? As intranets are re-examined in preparation for SharePoint 2010, it’s looking more and more like SharePoint will be the learning portal, if not the learning center of the future. In this session we will examine how law firms are already making use of SharePoint for learning and development, the role of enterprise social networking in learning management, and the future of SharePoint as a social network for learning.  Michael Barshinger, founder and CEO of Profisciencé Partners, will be presenting this topic and Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Officer for Profisciencé Partners, will join him in this thought provoking discussion. 

ILTA Roadshow – Schedule of Cities/Dates
Atlanta                4/6/2011
Miami                   4/7/2011

Cleveland            4/12/2011
Pittsburgh           4/13/2011

Seattle                5/3/2011
Vancouver          5/4/2011
Calgary               5/5/2011

Toronto              5/24/2011
New York            5/25/2011
Boston                5/26/2011

Los Angeles        6/15/2011
San Francisco     6/16/2011
Sacramento        6/17/2011

Philadelphia        7/6/2011
DC                      7/7/2011
Richmond            7/8/2011

Chicago              7/26/2011
Milwaukee          7/27/2011
Minneapolis        7/28/2011

If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you.  Non-members are always welcome at ILTA events, and there is no cost to attend, so there is much to be gained!

For more information, please contact Claudia O’Neill at Claudia.ONeill@Profiscience.com.

ListMaker enables UniversitySite courses, events, and learning resources to be accessed from a SharePoint search and enables UniversitySite events to be displayed on SharePoint’s native Calendar web part, including the ability to overlay UniversitySite’s classes on existing Calendars.

Enhancements:

1. Pagination for all web parts
2. Ability to remove prefix and number in web parts
3. A new My Recent Activity customizable web part that will display an individual’s recent activity
4. Page viewer web parts auto-size eliminating the need for a scrollbar

The SharePoint Learning Kit now includes the following web parts:

Page Viewer Web Parts - The page viewer web parts are designed to provide a view of important UniversitySite Learning Center pages in SharePoint. Web parts in this category include:

• Calendar Page
• Catalog Page
• Learning Plans Page
• My Feedback Page
• My Learning Plans Page
• My Progress Report Page
• Recent Learning Activity Page
• Recent Learning Opportunities Page

Customizable Web Parts - These web parts are part of our infinitely customizable collection of web parts. Web parts in this category include:

• Recent Activity
• My Recent Activity
• To Do List
• Training Courses
• Training Events
• Training Resources

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new version of UniversitySite with numerous enhancements.  We are grateful for the feedback from our clients that enables us to enhance UniversitySite.  As a way of saying thank you we have included the names of those who played a role in these enhancements.

Download Release Notes

Significant Changes

1. eLearning – Ability to create presets for eLearning settings and apply them to content
2. eLearning – SCORM engine has been updated to the latest version on www.scorm.com at the time of development
3. eLearning – Ability to bulk upload Course content for eLearning and Instructor-led courses
4. Events – Ability to copy remote extensions with events making repeat scheduling of the same course easier (Marti Phillips, Richard Lobel, Ken Manford, Drew Nishioka, John Attinger)
5. Time zones – Time zones are associated with locations and can be automatically applied to users based on their location

Learning Center Enhancements

1. Calendar Admin – option to hide course prefix and number for events on the Learning Center calendar (System Configuration, Other; Heather Justus, Marti Phillips, Norman Aguon)
2. Home Page – Home page now includes course search
3. Meeting requests – Updated meeting requests now say “Updated” in the subject (Evelyn Amundson)
4. My To Do List – Ability to play or drop incomplete eLearning with a single click
5. Welcome Page – Ability to choose a “Preferred Office Location” that can be different than your defined location from your User Profile and will be used in the calendar and when wish listing courses (Thom Pullen)
6. Welcome Page – Privacy Settings are now easier to view and set
7. Welcome Page – Ability for users to adjust privacy settings for activity feeds in advance of rolling them out
8. Wish list – Confirmation message now indicates wish list success (Thom Pullen)

UniversitySite 2010 leverages positive peer pressure, competitiveness, and the strength of interpersonal employee relationships to create a more dynamic and personal learning experience.  The SLK enables learning activities and opportunities in UniversitySite—such as Learning Plans, Course Catalogs, Training Events, To Do Lists, and Training Resources—to be distributed throughout SharePoint to increase organizational learning by pushing learning materials to Intranet pages that users frequently visit, increasing their exposure.

“Several years ago, Profisciencē Partners began researching the impact that social networking and interpersonal business relationships have on self-initiated organizational learning,” says Michael Barshinger, CEO of Profisciencē Partners. “UniversitySite  promotes increased transparency associated with learning activities, and the SLK offers a much more integrated user experience.”

About Profisciencē Partners

Profisciencē Partners is a premier provider of software solutions for learning and performance management. Their product offerings include UniversitySite (Learning Management), SharePoint Learning Kit, SkillSite (Assessment), and SupportSite (Service Management).  These best-in-class tools increase the value of learning for law firms by helping them to leverage their available resources, improve organizational performance, and meet their bottom line objectives.

For more information about the SharePoint Learning Kit, contact:
 
Claudia O’Neill
Marketing Coordinator
Profisciencē Partners
claudia.oneill@profiscience.com
(469) 248-5267