Absorb training & e-learning

Absorb training is an Australian unicorn in Environmental Safey training and been in the industry since 1996.

Challenge

Environmental training is a combination of classroom and onsite training which brings a variety of problems to the table. With the evolution of online training aka e-learning. Absorb was using a legacy course booking system called Cvent, who is global. But has failed to offer a system to environmental training industry and has come up with a lot of limitations. The system wasn’t offering integrations to the third parties such Student management systems and this was costing Absorb close to 500,000 dollars in admin costs due to high volume of applications they get.

Solution

They need a system with less limitations and they couldn’t find a Saas product that can customise their requirement of course booking and e-learning. Kolossus digital with the power of open source technology has built a bespoke system using design thinking and lean methodology that brings their Booking system, E-learning and their 3rd party Student management system (Axcelerate) into 1 unified solution which talks to each other with an execution of Single Sign-on. This system is built on a powerful Amazon Web Services (AWS) Architecture which allows the system to scale with no limitations what so ever.

Results

This system has yielded Absorb learning to slash 70% in administration costs and resulted them increase their capacity and also grew their e-learning practice. It also reduced the errors that were created while adding the data to their third-party student management software which increased their client reputation.