AZU provides a central point of access for both online and classroom-based training and development opportunities to meet the needs of the company's functional areas, including Drug Development, Field Sales, Marketing, and Operations. The AZU portal is also designed to facilitate collaboration between teams by offering information-sharing tools. The system will also reduce development time and costs for training programs, and allow employees to study course material at a self-determined pace. The Meridian KSI Knowledge Centre is an e-learning application used by corporate and government organizations, such as Bank One Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy. The system creates a learning and KM portal that integrates traditional learning with online learning.
Users click on different buildings on the map to reach portal components.
For example, the learning center building leads to online courses, while the library and bookstore contain information resources, such as downloadable software, corporate policies, and so on. Other portal components include a lecture hall for storing and organizing online presentations and collaborative projects and a conference center containing vendor information relevant for portal users. Course materials and online assessments are available to enrolled employees. Employees will receive course evaluations and documentation of accomplished training. AZU will give the company's sales staff instant access to the latest product training materials right from their browsers.