Upside Learning Recognized as Solid Performer in the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning
Upside Learning Listed in Training Industry Inc.’s Content Development Watch List for the Third Time in Succession
Upside Learning proudly announced that, it has been recognised by Training Industry Inc., a global leader in identifying information, insight and tools needed to effectively manage the business of learning, in its 2016 Content Development Companies Watch List.
The 2016 Content Development Companies Watch List recognises companies from all over the globe that provide content development services, and aims to help buyers of training services evaluate learning portal providers.
Being a third consecutive year honouree highlights Upside Learning’s commitment to creating innovative and effective content solutions that deliver the performance and business outcomes.
“The 2016 Content Development Watch List companies continue to impress us with the quality of their programs and their focus on engagement and sustainment strategies,” said Ken Taylor, president, Training Industry, Inc. “The demand for custom training content continues to grow, and these companies are some of the best up-and-coming companies in this space.”
Adding to this Doug Harward, CEO, Training Industry, Inc., said that “Finding the right content development partner for your organisation is a critical component in developing the most effective training. The organisations selected for this year’s Content Development Watch List can enable your organisation to improve the impact of your training initiatives.”
The companies in the list are selected based on the following criteria:
Industry visibility, innovation and impact
Capability to develop and deliver multiple types of content
Upside Learning Forges Ahead as a Core Challenger in Fosway’s 9-Grid for Bespoke Learning Solutions
Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions, announced today, that it has been named as a ‘Core challenger’ in Fosway’s 9-Grid for bespoke solutions and providers in the UK/European market, a step to the fore from its previous year listing as potential challenger.
Upside Learning is now considered a core challenger, with lower TCO and reasonable presence in the bespoke learning solutions market. This market positioning greatly owes to its wide range of learning solutions that include, Custom eLearning, Custom mLearning, FRED, Rapid Learning, Translation and Localisation, Multi-device Testing Lab and Consulting services.
Over the years Upside Learning, an organisation with its operation base in India, has increased its global reach by acting as a great outsourcing partner to many renowned companies. Its comparatively low cost, custom development and robust project management approach has been appreciated in many instances by its clients.
About the Fosway 9-Grid
The Fosway Group 9-Grid report for bespoke learning solutions is a multi-dimensional model that can be used to understand the relative position of solutions and providers in the UK/European market. It allows you to compare different solutions based on their Performance, Potential, Market Presence, Total Cost of Ownership and Future Trajectories across the market.
Upside Learning Featured in Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List for the Second Consecutive Year
With the aim of continually monitoring the training marketplace, each year TrainingIndustry.com keeps a close eye on providers of training services and technologies announces its Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List unfailingly. Last week it released the list of leading training outsourcing companies for 2016, and Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technologies, has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company for the second consecutive year.
Though Training Industry usually recognises eight companies each year, the 2016 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List includes twelve companies from across the globe that provides outsourced learning services. The companies in the list are selected after extensive research, including thorough analysis of their capabilities, experience, expertise, and filtered based on the following criteria:
Innovative service offerings
Ability to provide services on a global basis
Unique and proven approach to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions
Quality of client served
Upside Learning has been in the learning outsourcing business for over 12 years now, and has constantly delivered additional value to its clients in the form of Custom eLearning Solutions and delivered best value, through its multi award-winning, SaaS Learning Management System, UpsideLMS.
Upside Learning is well-known for its end to end custom eLearning projects that start from determining the clients’ learning needs to development of custom eLearning, multi-device/responsive eLearning, rapid eLearning, assistance in different types of makeovers to the existing eLearning solutions to hosting on LMSs, that makes it a unique outsourcing partner.
The Training Industry’s 2016 Training Outsourcing Watch List is available for viewing here –
‘Engaging eLearning’ to be Upside Learning’s focus at the Learning@Work 2015 Summit
Australia’s largest gathering for L&D community – Learning@ Work Summit 2015, to be held on 27th and 28th October at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney, will witness Upside Learning’s focus on creating multi-device eLearning that is truly engaging.
Amit Garg, Director of Custom Learning Solutions & Co-founder of Upside Learning, will be presenting a session titled ‘Creating Engaging eLearning in a Multi-device World‘. Leveraging Upside Learning’s 11+ years of experience in developing engaging eLearning, Amit will discuss the key challenges that organisations typically face while developing eLearning and share tips on creating engaging eLearning for today’s multi-device world.
At its stand # 40, Upside Learning will showcase its innovative multi-device learning solutions namely:
UpsideLMS, its best value, responsive Learning Management System, which now comes at an all inclusive low flat fee with unlimited users!
Custom eLearning solutions for desktops and laptops, and Custom mLearning solutions for mobile devices including courses created using its proprietary Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED) for multi-device delivery.
The summit provides a unique opportunity for L&D enthusiasts to interact with international visionaries and thought leaders. Attendees can stop by stand#40, where the Upside Learning team will answer questions related to the session or any other learning requirements. Interested individuals can also pre-book a meeting by sending an email, specifying the preferred date and time, to apac.sales@upsidelearning.com.
Amit Garg Analyses Brandon Hall’s Latest Report on eLearning Outsourcing in an Upcoming Webinar
As per the recently released Brandon Hall report on eLearning Outsourcing, today, for most organisations outsourcing their content development, cost is no longer the prime factor for driving their eLearning outsourcing requirements. On the contrary, other factors including quality, value and innovation have gained importance.
Based on this report, Amit Garg, a well known name in eLearning industry and Director and Co-founder of Upside Learning, will be presenting a webinar on 27th & 28th of July. Titled ‘The Buyer-Provide Partnership – The Key to High-Quality Custom Content‘, the webinar will explore the eLearning outsourcing landscape in a new light. In the 1-hour session, Amit will analyse the report thoroughly, turn the data into decision-making tools, enlist the benefits and elucidate them through case studies based on content development work Upside Learning done with hundreds of clients over last decade.
Amit Garg to share insights on ‘Engaging multi-device eLearning’ at the Learning and Skills Group Webinar
Upside Learning kick-starts 2016 with a Learning and Skills Group Webinar, titled ‘Creating Engaging eLearning for the Multi-device World’, to be presented LIVE by Amit Garg on Thursday, February 25, at 10:00 AM London time.
Amit Garg, Upside Learning’s Co-founder & Director-Custom Learning Solutions, is a thought leader in the learning and development sphere with keen interest in mLearning and multi-device learning. A regular on the ‘Top Ten e-learning Movers and Shakers’ list, he consults and helps organisations in taking wiser decisions in their learning and development programmes. Having seen the evolving technology landscape and learner needs, Amit understands the need for learner-centric content that is not just engaging but available on a range of devices (and different combinations of browsers, operating systems, connectivity modes and platforms) too.
Leveraging his 13+ years experience in the learning solutions domain and Upside Learning’s length and breadth of experience and expertise in designing and delivering various custom eLearning, mLearning projects, Amit will share insights on creating engaging multi-device eLearning in the one hour webinar.
Key takeaways:
The multi-device world
Types of multi-device experience
The shift in learning scenario
Steps to creating engaging eLearning
The webinar is free to LSG members and non-members alike, and aims to provide a unique opportunity to interact with Amit and get all queries pertaining to multi-device eLearning design and development answered.
Creating Engaging eLearning for the Multi-device World
Speaker: Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director-Custom Learning Solutions
February 25 | 10:00 AM GMT Attend
Brandon Hall Group releases new report on eLearning Outsourcing
Brandon Hall Group, a preeminent research and analyst firm has released its latest report on eLearning outsourcing today. The report titled- The Buyer-Provider Partnership: The Key to High-Quality Custom Content, is supported by Upside Learning, a leading player in the eLearning outsourcing domain. The report aims to help organisations to build successful client-vendor relationships in eLearning outsourcing.
Authored by David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, the report is based on Brandon Hall Group’s Content Outsourcing Study, which surveyed 206 companies of all sizes, representing approximately 30 different industries from organisations around the globe. It explores the current content outsourcing landscape and identifies the primary factors that drive eLearning outsourcing, the nature of outsourcing and the benefits gained.
The report available for free download, primarily highlights that the buyer- provider relationship has matured from being just a purchase and walk away thing. It points out that, 77% of companies leverage at least some outsourcing for content development and that developing content was seen as a priority or critical to the business by 68% of companies.
The key highlights:
What drives content development outsourcing?
Factors important in provider-buyer partnership
Satisfaction with providers and reasons for replacing them
Brandon Hall Group is a HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performanceareas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, and HR/Workforce Management.
With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organisations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and businessresults.
Upside Learning’s Client Case Studies Now Available as Videos
Keeping pace with the rising consumption of video content and the great potential it offers, Upside Learning has released its first set of 5 video case studies for Custom eLearning and mLearning. Earlier available on the Upside Learning website as text-based PDFs with course screengrabs, these case studies have been infused with new life in their video versions.
The video-based case studies now provide a quick walk-through of the projects, showcasing all the interactive and visual elements used within the course. The use of narrative style voice over provides a personalised touch to the video case studies and adds to the effectiveness.
Upside Learning plans on adding more video case studies over the course of the year.
Upside Learning Celebrates 12 Years of Adding Value to Learning Businesses
Be it offering best value through its multi award-winning, SaaS Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, or adding value to learning businesses with its wide range of Custom eLearning services, Upside Learning has always been on top of its game. A leading provider of learning technology solutions, this world renowned company reaffirms its commitment to add value as it celebrates its 12th anniversary today.
Founded on April 7, 2004, by Amit Garg, Director- Custom Learning Solutions and Amit Gautam, Director- Technology Solutions, with an aim to improve learning through better solutions, Upside Learning has always stuck by its philosophy of ‘adding value to learning businesses’. Bearing testimony to this are the 40+ awards and recognition from Brandon Hall, Training Industry, CLO, APEX, eLearning Age, Deloitte and Red Herring that the company has won is a short span of 12 years.
Upside Learning’s Custom eLearning portfolio has evolved over the years, keeping pace with the changing technologies and user behaviour, and today includes Multi-device/Responsive eLearning, Rapid eLearning, Onsite-ID Services, Translation & Localisation and Multi-device eLearning Testing services. UpsideLMS too has grown into a SaaS Learning Management System that is trusted by 90+ organisations and 750,000+ learners across the world.
In celebration of its 12th anniversary, the company has recently unveiled its corporate website (https://upsidelearning.com) and now has separate websites for Custom eLearning Solutions and UpsideLMS to bring better focus on its services and product respectively.
