Vision LMS

What Vision LMS is

Vision LMS is a learning management system for business organizations, built by the learning and training solutions division of Ness, an Israeli IT services company. The product page, written in Hebrew, presents it as "LMS Vision" with the line פתרון לניהול למידה ארגונית ("a solution for managing organizational learning") and the tag "מבית Ness" ("from Ness"). It describes Vision as an advanced, innovative learning management platform that brings together every learning process relevant to an employee, while giving the training manager easy, simple control of the organization's whole learning setup. The page is clear about who it is not for: the solution is meant for business organizations, not for private individuals, and it names teachers, students and freelancers as examples.

Ness itself is a large company. Its About page says it was founded in 2000, has worked with organizations on their digital growth for 25 years, describes itself as one of the largest employers in the Israeli economy with 6,500 technology professionals, and says it is part of the Hilan group, which the page describes as a publicly traded group. In the Hebrew original the group is "הנסחרת בבורסה לניירות ערך בתל אביב" (traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange). Its office is at Infinity Park in Ra'anana. The LMS is one product of one division, in a company whose main business is SAP and Microsoft solutions, cloud, cyber security, software development, testing, outsourcing and support centers.

What the platform does

The Vision page sums up the case for the product in nine short headings:

• a digital platform, usable from any device, anywhere, at any time;
• management of the organization's learning processes in one place;
• end-to-end organization, storage and management of organizational knowledge;
• management of communication between learners;
• an intuitive, easy-to-use system;
• the ability to reflect the organizational structure;
• collaborative learning;
• assessment tools;
• a cost that pays off.

Access is open to both the training manager and the learner, from any device and location, "all in one place", and the page says the system offers an innovative user experience designed to prompt action. For an L&D team, the headings that matter most are the ones about structure and knowledge. Training can be organized around the company's own structure rather than a flat list of users, and the platform doubles as a repository for organizational knowledge, so it is meant to hold the material people look things up in as well as the courses they are assigned. Assessment tools cover the measurement side, and the communication and collaborative learning features let learners work with each other rather than only through the training department.

On deployment, the page says the solution is offered as a cloud (SaaS) environment as well, giving each organization dedicated, separate access to the system with strict information security and the capacity to handle heavy load. It credits the product to the knowledge, expertise and many years of experience of the Ness learning and training division, and says the system is in use in dozens of organizations of every size, partly because of its attractive cost.

The training division behind it

Vision is the software piece of a division that mostly sells training work, and the division's page describes the services around it. That matters to a buyer, because the same team can build content for the platform and run training on it:

• Implementing information systems and work processes. Diagnosis of the organization and its processes, training design, learning kits and training materials, delivery, support for managers and employees and change management, with nationwide coverage by dozens of professional implementers. The division cites hundreds of success stories rolling out PC systems, Office, ERP, CRM, billing and custom-built systems.
• Hybrid learning mixes. Combinations of classroom teaching, workshops and implementation work alongside e-learning, matched to the organization's culture and the different employee profiles and generations in it.
• Digital Learning HUB. A full e-learning offer built around the client's content: e-learning modules, videos, HTML5, mobile and gamification, a method for fitting e-learning into the training plan, everything from specification to the finished solution, and change management advice to get people using it.
• Managed training services. Ongoing training services for organizations that want Ness to set up, run and develop their learning function over time, or short-term help for focused projects. The division promises management tools that let clients measure the quality of the service at any point.
• SAP and Microsoft rollouts. For SAP projects the division combines SAP's ASAP methodology with two of its own, TOC (Transparency Organizational Change) and TMM (Training Modules Method). For Microsoft rollouts such as Office 365 it uses a four-part model: self-study with digital tools, learning supported by a tutor or implementer, classroom training and phone support.
• Consulting and skills workshops. Advice and personal support for training managers, workshops on personal and interpersonal skills run by organizational consultants and group facilitators, and training professionals on demand (project managers, training developers, instructors and implementers).

The page's "why us" section claims hundreds of success stories across sectors and company sizes, hundreds of learning and training experts working across platforms and technologies, and proven methods for running learning and training as a managed service. Among the rankings on Ness's About page is first place as the leading training and implementation company in Israel.

Pricing and contact

The site publishes no prices. The Vision page ends with a contact form that asks for the organization and the person's role, and the only commercial point it makes is cost: one of the nine headings is a cost that pays off, and the page links the system's spread across dozens of organizations to its attractive price.

Who it suits

Vision LMS suits an Israeli business that wants an LMS and a local partner to go with it: someone to build the courses, train the trainers, roll out new systems and, if needed, run the training function as a service. Companies already working with Ness on SAP, Microsoft or other IT projects are an obvious fit, since the same division handles end-user training for those rollouts. The platform's emphasis on organizational structure and knowledge management also fits companies that want one place for both assigned training and reference material.

It is not for individual teachers, students or freelancers, as the page itself says. The product page is short, so a team comparing detailed features or technical standards will get most of its answers in a conversation with Ness rather than from the website.