What is e-Ncourage? 
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Ncourage manages the training related details of an organisation, while reducing paper work considerably. This system does not do away with the organisation's training process - rather - it automates the existing process and at the same time creates an historical database that tracks training-events, course registration details, and training costs.
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Ncourage can be used by the training administrators to create courses and schedule sessions. Course and Session related information will be immediately available on the intranet. It enables each employee to initiate a training request and have it flow electronically to the approver. The superior can also enroll his subordinate directly. On approval, the employees will receive a confirmation of their registration for a session of the course.
e-
Ncourage maintains a self-administering catalog of training courses, course registration capabilities, resource scheduling, trainer details and reporting capabilities. It can be modified according to the needs of the organisation, to meet its own special requirements.
Philosophy
The Philosophy followed by e-
Ncourage is that like most organisational processes, the Training Management process is a generic process that is implemented, after tweaking it to cater to certain organisational nuances.
We have translated the same paradigm into the Software world, wherein the base process and generic procedure is implemented as a set of
integrable components. These components can be picked and chosen by our customers along with suggested customizations such that at the end of these activities, e-
Ncourage evolves into a totally flexible solution.
The advantage of such an approach is two-fold:
- You do not have to change the way you work for the solution, the solution changes the way it works for you. This is the difference between any "off-the-shelf" product and e-Ncourage.
- The lead-time avoided in case of our product as compared to any totally customized product is tremendous. This explains why one ought to prefer e-Ncourage to any fully customizable vendor offering.
Integration and Customization
From our experience, due to the nature of IT systems and policies in various organisations, there exists a need for integration with various legacy systems, in order to avoid duplication of data and effort. This activity is taken up as part of a separate Enterprise-wide Application Integration (EAI) task, after discussions with the functional and IT personnel in the organisation.
The customization possibilities are endless
We therefore usually suggest a meeting for a detailed understanding of the client's requirements, and based on that, work on customizations which provide our client with a fully customized software experience, without the time lag associated with it.
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Features
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Benefits
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for the organisation
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Budget tracking and variance for training program based on various criteria
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It helps the organisation to track various costs associated with Training program
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All training information is stored in a central database
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It disseminates the information pertaining to various training courses/sessions to employees, in a smooth manner
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Maintains Trainer Details
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for the HR department
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Ability to add/edit training locations
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It helps to reduce the dependence on paperwork and the time associated with conveying any change of schedule/location
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Rescheduling of sessions possible
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Course enrolment summary available
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The time wasted due to following up subscriptions/ cancellation/ modification of the training modules etc. is reduced
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Facility to send reminders for courses via auto generated e-mails
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for the employees
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Ability to view Training Calendar
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The employees can see which are the most suitable courses, suitable timings etc. for him/her. This helps him/her to make better decisions on which training sessions to attend
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Availability of waiting list for those not accommodated for a session, integrated course request lists and validated prerequisites
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