SyberWorks Training Center Review - why 4.1 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Sep 20, 2022

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What is SyberWorks Training Center?

Syberworks Training Center (SBC) offers a learning & content management system. The software allows the management & tracking of different types of training as well as a testing & assessment tool for delivery and performance.

Syberworks was founded in 1995 with the objective of providing cost effective learning solutions that can measurably improve training effectiveness. The company’s goal is to deliver products that can be easily customized to a client’s requirements and include performance based learning in a single integrated product.

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Who is it best for?

STC addresses many sectors that include training centers, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, government and technology. The solution is scalable for any size of training requirement in a company, and is available as both an on premise as well as a cloud based hosted solution

The solution addresses learners by delivering personalized online learning courses focused on the student’s needs. This ensures that knowledge retention is greatly enhanced and that the learning and improvement cycle is a continuous process. In addition learners can understand how the courses and knowledge they are learning directly relate to the skills they need to help them advance their careers.

For course developers STC provides tools that allow easy development of learning content and courses for online delivery through the use of a number of standard templates available in the system. In addition STC is designed to help these developers quickly deploy the training course content so that learners can make use of it as soon as it is published.

Finally Training Managers can access detailed information about learners’ content interaction and monitor assessments and surveys, as well as analyze a number of detailed reports. This helps in the decision making process so that management can decide how best to improve skills and productivity of employees. Customers for STC included Bausch & Lomb, Fairchild Semiconductor, John Deere and the US Navy Recruiting Command.

Main features and functionalities

STC helps to improve training services so that companies can realize a quick Return on Investment (ROI) on the product. This is achieved by providing just-in-time training and on demand knowledge for learning systems, as well as allowing learners the ability to choose from instructor led courses, online training as well as distance learning options. There are also inbuilt assessment tools to monitor progress & performance and decide on routes for improvement.

There are online discussion groups for social collaboration and to learn from other students, as well as a learning help desk to assist students with queries or knowledge transfer that is not fully covered by the training options available. Additionally courses can be easily revised to incorporate the latest knowledge, information and trends, as well as be quickly deployed so that students gain the benefit of current and not dated learning content.

STC has an online survey tool to garner information from students on learning courses & content to improve training delivery, as well as ecommerce integration to allow for online payment for courses if required. There is also a Competency Management module to match learning options with employee skills improvements for better alignment with job requirements.

The product allows for class scheduling which includes staffing & resource materials, as well as support for large training rollout programs which might be organization wide. Online training & Web conferencing is supported as well as Mobile learning through smart phones & tablets. Finally the product can be customized to meet different client’s requirements and this can be done by SyberWorks at an additional price.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $7,500 per license. ITQlick pricing score is 5.2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for SyberWorks Training Center. You can also find here pricing information from SyberWorks Training Center's website.

Pros

• STC is offered as both an on premise and cloud based solution
• Social Collaboration features are offered in STC
• Mobile access of the application via smart phone & tablet is available in the product
• STC offers a free trial of the software
• There is a competency management module to match job skills with the correct learning requirements

Cons

• STC does not provide advanced Business Intelligence & Analytics tools
• Customization of the product is provided by STC and cannot be done from the user side
• STC does not offer modular or version based options and comes only as a full featured product
• Integration to third party software is not fully supported by STC
• The product does not support multiple languages for training instruction

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of SyberWorks Training Center vs alternative software solutions.

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