Special Report: User Productivity Kit

According to a 2007 research report by Bersin and Associates, corporate learning has seen budget increases of seven percent. Total training spending grew more than US$4 billion in 2006. Clearly, companies are seeing the results of helping employees use enterprise applications more effectively.

With Oracle User Productivity Kits, companies can create business procedures and self-paced learning materials to reflect specific business practices and application environments. Oracle UPK supports applications from other vendors, so it can improve IT training arcoss the enterprise, while reducing costs and improving ROI from all enterprise software investments.

England's top-rated Homerton University Hospital implemented UPK and cut training headcount by 75 percent and increased user satisfaction—while cutting the number of calls to the IT by three quarters. The Hospital saw100 percent return on investment in six months. “Oracle User Productivity Kit provides us with a universal learning platform for all Oracle-based process flows and helps improve user competence and productivity,” says Tom Alden, Homerton's Assistant Director of Finance and Oracle Program Manager.

Read on to learn how UPK can impact your organization:

Podcast: Integrating Global Knowledge Software and the Future of UPK
SVP Sonny Singh explains why Oracle purchased Global Knowledge Software, how an SAP solution fits into an Oracle strategy, and what that means for the future of Oracle User Productivity Kit.

White Paper: Introduction to Oracle Tutor and UPK (pdf)
With Oracle Tutor and UPK, your employees can be Productive Day One of go-live. Tutor and UPK are complementary end user documentation tools that you can start using right now to achieve the goal of productivity.

Oracle Buys Global Knowledge Software
"Our customers are looking for a consistent, cost effective training solution across the enterprise to speed software adoption by end-users," said Ed Abbo, Senior Vice President of Oracle Application Development. "With this acquisition, customers will have access to a single technology for end-user training and process documentation that spans applications across their enterprise."

Solbourne and Oracle Simplify Employee Training with UPK
Oracle UPK enables companies to create business procedures and self-paced learning materials to reflect specific business practices and application environments, as well as easily create and deploy custom content. To further facilitate the training development process, Solbourne's UPK Accelerator leverages a large documented business process library for Oracle E-Business Suite applications that facilitates the rapid development of UPK content.

UPK Forum
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