10 Aug

Corporate Learning Management System Solution

  Hybrid Cloud Softbless is World’s trusted Learning Management System provider. Softbless has over a thousand users in Asia (Indonesia, US, China, Philippines, etc..) and is used by large enterprise enterprises, small business solutions, and even not-for-profits. Experience the Future of Learning Today! Softbless Solutions introduces Softbless Corporate LMS, an advanced Learning Management System for your company. It is an all-in-one and fully integrated e-learning platform that’s feature-packed, user-friendly, and fully customizable cloud-based LMS. No wonder it’s being used by corporations and training companies Worldwide. Our Learning Management System integrates with several HRIS platforms like SAP, Oracle, or Peoplesoft, to keep your data synced across all platforms. When a new employee or a student joins your institution, a new account will be automatically created and he/she will be given access to all onboarding training. Our LMS solution is being offered as an open-source learning management software like Totara LMS to reduce costs whilst providing an advanced e-learning management platform, an innovative and intuitive solution that saves institutions from outdated learning mediums. Here are a few of the many features SoftBless has to offer:

Corporate Learning Management System Features

Easy to Use Platform

It features a user-friendly interface specifically made to engage and motivate trainees, reward top learners, and improve communications across your company. It also features mini-games, badges to make learning fun whilst providing students or trainees with an awesome learning experience.

Social Learning

Learning requires collaboration, discussion, or teamwork. This is why our solution promotes social learning to allow your students, employees, or trainees to gain knowledge by distance learning tools, social networking and collaboration tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, blogs, forums, etc..

Multi-tenant  Platform

This feature allows you to manage your different tenants or departments (vendors, partners, clients) within the same system using a single database. These departments can access their own learning content, which are only visible to themselves.

Streamlined Training Process

Softbless LMS offers effective blended learning that prioritizes on the learning process.

eCommerce Training platform

This allows you to sell your eLearning courses online! Sofbless Corporate LMS Integrates with WordPress, Magento, Paypal, Woo commerce, and more. Just name it, we do it! Our LMS solution also supports Single Sign On, auto-enrollment,  and shopping cart feature – just in case you need them.

Corporate Learning Management System Benefits

LMS software is vital for all institutions to manage all the learning activities and development of their students, trainees, or employees systematically.

Manage and track Learning

LMS automates tasks such as registration, tracking cataloged courses, learners’ data, and learners’ progress. Our LMS solution streamlines all these administrative efforts, which is why it’s easy to ensure all learners are receiving the appropriate training required.

Facilitate learning with an e-learning platform

Our LMS solution provides a highly interactive platform that makes use of a video conferencing technology to simulate a real training environment where all participants interact face-to-face with the trainer by asking queries and discussing just like in a real classroom setup.  We also provide collaboration tools like a WYSIWYG Whiteboard, Screen-sharing, Q&A, Forums, Session Recording, and many more.

Consolidated Information

We maintain all your data in a single, consolidated system. This allows you to easily maintain your training materials and reuse them anytime. You can easily search for training courses, create questionnaires, maintain an assignment database using template, and upload training documents.

Reduce Learning costs

Our LMS can reduce your training costs in so many ways. Less travel, no more hotel accommodation, reduced teaching costs, and many more.

Tracking and Reporting

We allow any institutions to track learners’ performance against their chosen path or career, review their records, and register for additional training or courses. Courses or training can be offered through various media including instructor-based led training, web-based, or webinars

Just like Totara LMS, our online learning platform is feature packed that comes with all the powerful tools needed to help millions of users Worldwide learn online. We offer flexible, cost-effective online learning to students, trainees, and employees. With a low-cost solution, free upgrades, fast deployment capabilities, and enhanced data and network security. No wonder, thousands of organizations, regardless of size or budgetary concerns, from around the World trust us. Don’t just take Softbless' users' word for it; experience it yourself and start your free demo now.
7 Aug

Open Source Private & Hybrid Cloud Solution

Cloud computing is in high demand. In as adoption grows, companies have more and more resources, apps, data residing on various platforms. In this digital era, it's not public vs private. It's the combination of both. It's cloud and conventional IT. By the end of this year alone, 60-70 percent of companies will have a hybrid cloud environment.

So how they would be able to manage across their computing platforms? How can they use their resources accordingly to accomplish their IT tasks? I guess it's time for a private or a hybrid cloud solution. 

Softbless offers 2 forms of open source cloud computing: private cloud and hybrid cloud. Depending on the type of date that you will be working with, you'll want to know them  in terms of the levels of security and, of course, the data management required.

 

Private Cloud

These days, companies rarely deploy all of their applications into the public cloud. Logistically speaking, it is easier to move from your on-premises development environment to a private cloud compared to on-premise servers to a public cloud. 

 
A private cloud can be setup or configured to support any type of application, just like data center currently hosts it. A private cloud is an ideal option if certain features in legacy applications prevent some applications from operating well in the public cloud.
 
Here are some indicators or scenarios that a private cloud environment is best.
  • You are using a shared storage (AWS, RDS, is not HIPAA-compliant) and you need a dedicated infrastructure for compliance.  
  • You need HPFS, a high-performance access to a file system.
  • You have applications that come with predictable usage patterns and offer low storage costs.
  • You have an application that is unstable and heavily trafficked, but your IT team is not familiar with it, and may need to partially rewrite it in the cloud.
  • Your IT Team is not trained or equipped with the knowledge for migrating the application in a cost-effective manner.
A private cloud solution can be implemented in any data centers with a virtualization layer like VMware, though some mid-sized to big companies allow a managed private cloud services providers like Softbless to maintain their servers, data storage, secured network, and application infrastructure.
 

Hybrid Cloud

Most enterprises are going to pursue a hybrid cloud solution this year. It is used for a certain situation where an enterprise architecture is too complex that a hybrid cloud solution — where the private or public infrastructure supports the application — is the right solution.

Hybrid Clouds are being used by large organizations because they want to fully explore the flexibility and scalability of the public and/or private cloud. It is mostly used to tighten the security of their network, for performance monitoring, testing, and for data ingress and egress procedures. By spreading the tasks at hand over a hybrid cloud, you would be able to keep every aspect at your business in the most efficient manner possible. The only drawback here is that you have to monitor all your security platforms and ensure that all of them can communicate with each other. 
Here are some indicators or scenarios that a hybrid cloud environment is best.
  • Your company uses a SaaS application but not secured. Your SaaS provider can set up a private cloud just for your company in their firewall. They also provide you with a VPN for additional security for your network.
  • Your company provides services for various vertical markets. You can use a public cloud to communicate with your clients whilst keeping their data safe within a private cloud.

 

Benefits

  • Reduced / Lower costs –Since it's an open source like OpenStack, you can save up to 60% on public cloud costs, reduce your data center costs by a third, and efficiently use all the needed resources at the right time.
  • Better application performance – It enables administrators to work on private clouds that meet all the application requirements and performance needs. You’d be able to take advantage of all the benefits of the cloud development practices without risking your companies’ data management. Build applications in-house can be done faster than ever as our solution eliminates time lost to provisioning along with the costs involving the public cloud. We also provide developers and operations teams with AWS APIs compatible private clouds that can optimize development and test cycles whilst maintaining information governance and control.
  • Greater organization agility – it helps companies grow their revenue by allowing developers to get the information technology resources that they need in timely manner – no delays or hiccups. Its AWS compatibility is unique which ensures that applications are easily deployed in public, private, or hybrid cloud setup.

Build your private, hybrid or dynamic cloud with open and secure technologies from us. Softbless also provides service implementation, installation, customization, support and training Open Source Private & Hybrid Cloud System. Contact us now.

1 Aug

OpenStack

What is Open Stack

Image Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/what-on-earth-is-openstack-1112804/
OpenStack is an open source cloud-computing platform that allows users to build an "IAAS" Infrastructure as a Service cloud that runs massively on commodity hardware and scales. It controls large pools of cloud computing components all throughout a datacenter, all managed via a dashboard that provides administrators full control while providing users the ability to provision resources via a web interface.
Components of OpenStack
Dashboard codenamed “Horizon” - this object is the "GUI" graphical user interface for OpenStack services that allows you to perform tasks and operations on the cloud.
Object Store codenamed “Swift” - This component provides object storage, allowing you to store and/or retrieve files. It does not mount directories though unlike a fileserver.
Identity codenamed “Keystone” - As its name suggests, this provides authentication and authorization for all the services. It also provides a service catalog of OpenStack services within a particular cloud.
Network codenamed “Neutron” - Also known as “Quantum” in earlier releases, this OpenStack object provides network connectivity between interface devices managed by other OpenStack services (virtual servers) most likely Nova. It is in a form of a service which works by allowing you to create your own network and then attach interface devices to them.
Image codenamed “Glance” - It provides a repository for virtual images. This is where the disk images (mostly commonly used in OpenStack Compute) are sorted out or being cataloged.
Compute codenamed “Nova” - This object allows you to control the OpenStack functions and services independently via a virtual server running on a flexible virtualization layer.
Block Storage codenamed “Cinder” - This persistently block storage to guest Virtual Machines.
Cloud computing has become the ideal platform of choice by big IT companies Worldwide including Google. Why? Number one, it's truly open, two it's free, and lastly the fast pace growth and strong support from various organizations. No wonder it's being dubbed as the "de facto" platform for cloud computing.
The future is bright indeed for Openstack - something very similar from the likes of Linux for PCs and Android for mobile devices.
It is an open-source project that has a lot of features, and with each release (two times a year) more features are added by the users from all over the world. This platform layer offers an (IaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service through a set of services that make use of an (API) application programming interface (API) to facilitate the integration. Depending on your requirements, you can install some or all the services.
To put it simply, OpenStack simplifies your IT needs and operations by moving your core infrastructure equipment onto the cloud. Companies no longer need to buy expensive systems like LMS (moodle), surveillance, or telephony systems. They also don’t need to maintain servers, firewalls, on their premises. OpenStack has all the right tools to perform all these tasks for them on virtualized infrastructure. The result is faster service delivery and, of course, an enhanced user experience. Moreover, it also features an easy to use interface (dashboard) that will allow them to manage computers, network, and storage resources on the cloud in a jiffy. This provides a huge benefit to them, but will likely result to lower requirements for IT staffing.
And since OpenStack is created in the public, at any time users or developers can check the status of the project, review/submit code, create a new feature, and provide valuable feedback into the direction of this popular open source project just like with the Totara LMS.
Softbless is your partner for Openstack implementation in Indonesia. Whether you're looking for more answers, solutions, or would like to have a deep technical discussion about OpenStack, Iaas, or cloud computing, we can help. Contact us now.