MUMBAI, INDIA, June 11, 2014 – Tata Interactive Systems, a global provider of learning solutions, and KnowledgeAdvisors, Inc, a CEB company, signed a teaming agreement to co-market products and services in the North American and Indian region. By combining TIS’ expertise in design, development, consulting & delivery with KnowledgeAdvisors’ extensive learning benchmarks and analytics platform, both entities are uniquely positioned to help organizations optimize the impact of L&D investments on corporate performance.
TIS will distribute the KnowledgeAdvisors product ‘Metrics that Matter®’ as part of a larger learning analytics solutions to clients in India. Metrics that Matter® is an on-demand software and a web-based Human Capital analytics tool that streamlines the data collection and reporting elements of measurement for all human capital processes – recruitment, engagement, talent, performance, learning and leadership. Further, it combines data from multiple enterprise systems (including LMS) with information collected through evaluations and assessments to paint a complete picture of learning and business performance.
Gajanan Kasbekar, a senior vice president at Tata Interactive Systems, said his company has a strong reputation for offering customized learning solutions.
“Our ability to design and deliver quality products consistently is complemented by the maturity of our business processes and systems,” he said. “In this new strategic partnership, we will leverage on our expertise and experience in L&D consulting services.”
He added that his company has extensive experience in the learning consulting space.
“Our consultants advise many organizations on learning strategy, competency analysis, training needs assessment, as well as L&D process design,” he said. “As a founding sponsor for other initiatives like center for talent reporting, TIS has also invested effort & funds in the area of Learning Evaluation and measurement. This alliance with KnowledgeAdvisors takes us to the next level of learning analytics, business impact measurement and eventually help set up governance processes and business offices for clients.”
Jeffrey Berk, a senior vice president of operations at KnowledgeAdvisors, agreed.
“KnowledgeAdvisors helps organizations that utilize learning and development drive business outcomes by applying the analytic rigor they need to achieve their goals,” he said. “Our Metrics that Matter platform allows companies to realize substantial returns on their strategic investments in development and training.”
The partnership with KnowledgeAdvisors’ represents part of TIS’ track record of offering effective learning solutions that enable key organizational initiatives. Further, this interactive knowledge sharing with KnowledgeAdvisors, is expected to accelerate TIS’ pursuit to further advance its offerings in the learning space.
About Tata Interactive Systems
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a part of the US$ 100 billion Tata group, is the world’s leading developer of learning solutions. TIS’s learning solutions are designed to enable organizational initiatives across industry verticals including Education; Government and Defense; Telecommunications and ICT; Pharmaceuticals and Health Care; Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance; Airlines, Transportation, Logistics, and Hospitality; Consumer Package Goods; and Manufacturing, Energy, and Construction.
With a team of over 800 multi-disciplinary specialists, TIS creates 5000+ hours of learning content across 220+ concurrent projects every year. TIS’s solutions have proven their effectiveness at more than 60 Fortune 500 companies, leading educational institutions, and government departments.
