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Protect your company from fraud

Protecting your company from fraud

Fraud can be costly for your organization, so it is important to educate your employees on what constitutes fraud and what red flags they should look out for. In 2018, fraud cost companies more than $7 billion in total losses with a median of $133,000 in losses per case. For 22% of cases fraud caused… Read more »

Think about Leadership

5 ways for leaders to spend more time thinking

What’s the leader’s role? There’s no doubt that the further a person crawls up the corporate ladder, they should be spending more time thinking and less time doing. It’s a very important mindset to understand that thinking is not doing nothing. It might not seem like you’re busy but it’s an essential part of a leader’s role. We… Read more »

Ransomware

What is ransomware?

Well, if some recent, devastating cyber attacks are any indication, it may be today’s phishing vector of choice. Just a few weeks ago, the city of Baltimore was hit by a massive ransomware attack from a virus called “Robbinhood.” The hackers demanded $76,000 from the city as ransom for the data they stole—in keeping with… Read more »

2019 OpenSesame User Conference Highlights

Highlights from 2019 OpenSesame User Conference

OpenSesame hosted more than 200 customers, course publishers and LMS companies at its annual user conference 11-12 September in Portland, Oregon.  This year’s conference centered on themes surrounding future skilling and developing leaders for a 21st century workforce, leveraging learning technology advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, maximizing elearning utilization, finding training budgets and… Read more »

OpenSesame and Appinium

OpenSesame Announces Partnership with Appinium to Deliver Curated eLearning on the Salesforce App Cloud

Enterprises can now deploy curated elearning content within Salesforce to maximize employee engagement and training impact PORTLAND, OR – 30 September 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, has announced a partnership with Appinium, a leading provider of content distribution and tracking solutions on the Salesforce App Cloud, to deliver its curated 20,000+ elearning courses on… Read more »

OpenSesame 2019 Learning Excellence Awards

OpenSesame announces 2019 Learning Excellence Awards winners at annual user conference

Nine companies recognized for learning and development innovation, creativity and success  Portland, OR (17 September 2019) – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the winners of the first annual OpenSesame Learning Excellence Awards during their user conference last week in Portland, Oregon.  The Learning Excellence Awards program recognizes OpenSesame customers that leverage learning technology, creativity, innovation… Read more »

2019 user conference

OpenSesame User Conference brings together the enterprise learning ecosystem

More than 200 OpenSesame customers, course publishers and LMS companies gathered at the sold-out user conference in Portland, Oregon  Portland, OR (12 September 2019) – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, hosted more than 200 customers, course publishers and LMS companies at its annual user conference 11-12 September in Portland, Oregon.  This year’s conference featured a keynote… Read more »

Mehdi Tounsi, Senior Regional Director Europe

OpenSesame Expands Internationally with Opening of New Office in London

eLearning Leader Appoints Industry Veteran to Head European Expansion Portland, Oregon — 5 September 2019 — OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, today announced the opening of a new office in London to strengthen the company’s partnerships and customer support in Europe. The company also appointed industry veteran Mehdi Tounsi as Senior Regional Director Europe to lead… Read more »

Bigger Brains partner press release

OpenSesame Announces Expanded Partnership with Bigger Brains to Bolster Productivity Elearning Course Library

Global 2000 enterprises can now leverage elearning content as interactive and engaging as in-person classroom training Portland, OR – 30 August 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Bigger Brains to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to broaden its curated library of business skills and software training courses. As enterprise organizations shift… Read more »

SAP SuccessFactors in Las Vegas

OpenSesame Sponsors SAP SuccessConnect® 2019 Event in Las Vegas

Portland, Oregon — 2019 27 August — OpenSesame, the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, announced today that the company is a Silver level sponsor at SAP’s annual SuccessConnect® conference – the premier event for human resources (HR) professionals, set to take place September 16-18 at the ARIA Resort &… Read more »

Business team brainstorming

How to Choose A New Business Strategy

So you want to come up with a new strategy.  Maybe things are OK but you think they could be better – or perhaps things aren’t so good and you want to turn that around.  Maybe you sense your industry changing and want to stay ahead of the curve. There are a million reasons you… Read more »

What is Human Capital Management (HCM) and how does training fit in to HCM?

How training is integral to achieving all of your organization’s HR goals and human capital management (HCM) system

Your people will always be your biggest investment, your best asset, and the fundamental driver of your organization’s success. With training supporting every area of your human capital management system, you can give your employees the best tools they need to perform better, faster, and more efficiently within your organization.  First, what is Human Capital… Read more »

Predictive maintenance in manufacturing using IoT

The emergence of predictive maintenance in manufacturing

Predictive maintenance – simpler than you think.  Predictive maintenance, an emerging trend in the manufacturing industry, is helping companies cut down on machine downtime and pinpoint solutions to repairs. By utilizing data collection through the IoT (Internet of Things), companies decide which metrics they want the machine to report on. From there, they can gather… Read more »