Case Studies
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McLeod Health
GreenLight Case StudyMcLeod attended a local HR conference and saw a demonstration of GreenLight, SilkRoad’s learning management system (LMS). After seeing the demo, they decided to investigate further and looked at other LMS solution providers. McLeod felt GreenLight was best suited for their needs; they were especially impressed with the full range of solutions offered with SilkRoad’s Life Suite and the synergistic capabilities between GreenLight and WingSpan, SilkRoad's performance management solution. Additionally, because McLeod Health employs a large number of Hispanic employees; they required a solution that could translate their courses into Spanish, a task currently being done manually by a respiratory therapist. McLeod Health was thrilled when they realized GreenLight could perform these translations for them. McLeod Health decided to give GreenLight the "green light" and proceeded with implementation.
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TPC Group
WingSpan case studyTPC Group is the leader in providing highly specialized lines of chemical products to major chemical and petroleum-based companies worldwide. As North America’s largest producer of finished butadiene and the largest producer of butene-1, companies around the globe rely on the company as their dependable supplier for hydrocarbon processing and other specialty chemicals. The company is the sole producer of chemical grade diisobutylene in North America and the second largest active merchant producer of high purity isobutylene in North America.
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VMS
GreenLight Case StudyBeing in a highly regulated industry, VMS needed to move away from a manual process to a one-stop automated program to manage compliance and track training and complex policies. SilkRoad's learning management software, GreenLight has allowed them to develop individual training plans for employees, track courses completed and provide compliance reports to their clients, all in a paperless environment.
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Manpower
RedCarpet Case StudyManpower needed a solution to help them automate and streamline their I-9/E-Verify process and maintain compliance with government regulations. SilkRoad's RedCarpet provided this as well as other benefits such as saving time in the orientation process.
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Elkay Manufacturing
OpenHire Case StudyFor Elkay, SilkRoad technology's solution, OpenHire, allowed the company to keep its career portal fresh and gave them the ability to update the portal as needed.
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Boys and Girls Clubs of America
WingSpan Case StudyThe Boys & Girls Clubs of America had a performance review process that was unwieldy, dreaded and time consuming. They needed a solution that would fit their organizations size and limited budget without compromising functionality.
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GenProbe
GreenLight Case StudyPrior to adding the learning management system to manage the learning process, Gen- Probe had more than 50 employees who devoted a portion of their time to help track and manage the company's training records. With the launch of the LMS, these people have turned their attention to more critical tasks, and Gen-Probe now has only one LMS administrator.
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McLeod Health
OpenHire & RedCarpet Case StudyFor OpenHire, the winning feature was its configurability. With RedCarpet, the overall strength of the product would allow the company to streamline onboarding.
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Sirva
WingSpan Case StudyWingSpan provided "...the best system ever!" WingSpan is saving SIRVA time by providing a faster and more efficient goals and evaluation process for both employees and managers. In addition, the solution has given SIRVA a way to centrally manage employee performance across the globe.
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McAfee
RedCarpet Case StudyPrior to RedCarpet, McAfee's onboarding process began by sending a binder out to each new employee. The binders included new hire paperwork, forms, and reference materials. Each binder was shipped via FedEx to the employee. When asked how they would have handled this process for 1000 employees, Gillette said, "It would not have been an impossible task. Sending out the binders would not have been a problem because we could outsource that. The problem would have been on the data management side when everything came back in."
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Lifestyle Family Fitness
WingSpan Case StudySilkRoad technology's employee performance management solution, WingSpan, facilitated an increased level of communication between Lifestyle Family Fitness' employees and managers, as well as improved employee participation in their appraisal process.
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Sanford
OpenHire Case StudyOpenHire provided Sanford with a customized career portal which gives them the ability to make changes to that portal as they see the need. Additionally the OpenHire solution provides improved communication between Sanford employees as well as between Sanford and their candidates.
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Lifestyle Family Fitness
SilkRoad Life Suite Case StudyThrough SilkRoad's Life Suite, Lifestyle Family Fitness was able to better engage employees throughout their life cycle at the company, providing a consistent company branded experience across numerous locations. SilkRoad's Life Suite of products has allowed management to better communicate with team members about their career plans at the company and alert them when an open position might be a good fit. Lifestyle has also used the Life Suite solutions to create a personal portal for every employee that shares information related to the corporate mission and messaging, helping to consolidate unique branch identities and cultures into one consistent brand.
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International Paper
GreenLight Case StudyWith GreenLight, Silkroad's learning management system,International Paper has saved time in course creation and made it easier for developers throughout the organization to find source material for courses, as they are needed.
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Ion
WingSpan Case StudyThe main goal for ION was to become "a single, co-operatively operating company despite the vastly different international regions and countries we work in," said Newsome. As part of their efforts to better assimilate offices in disparate regions, the company began to search for a Web-based performance management tool capable of meeting their demands.
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Stewart Enterprises
Eprise Case StudyWith Eprise, Stewart Enterprises would be able to create a unique website for each of their 175 businesses. Stewart was able to leverage SilkRoad's partnership with Onramp, a brand consultancy dedicated to accelerating differentiation and uniqueness, to design the look and feel of the websites. This partnership allowed for a complete end-to-end solution that not only addressed the technical side of the project, but the strategic and branding side as well.
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Ion
RedCarpet Case Study"ION already had a suite of discreet HR products. What we didn't want to do is bring on another product that would be disconnected from our existing systems." Further, the solution had to be hosted as none of the HR products are supported internally. "A web portal was critical," emphasizes Newsome, "but it had to be secure too since confidential information would be transacted in the application."
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BKD
WingSpan Case StudyA task force determined that BKD needed to implement a coaching program that would provide performance coaches for all staff. In addition, they wanted the technology to be user-friendly. "Our previous system was not technology-based, it was paper-based," says Hultz. "We wanted to automate and streamline the process." To make the new coaching system work, they needed a powerful technology tool that could manage and consolidate all the feedback, yet be easy to implement.
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netIQ
OpenHire Case StudyNetIQ's recruiting director identified numerous challenges that highlighted NetIQ's need to have an enterprise recruiting application. Recruiters felt that administrative processing was getting in the way of doing what they do best. They faced a massive influx of candidate resumes daily from several sources, ranging from emails, referrals, agencies, online job boards to NetIQ's corporate career Web site and intranet. They were spending tremendous amounts of time on administrative work - qualifying candidates, processing resumes from clogged inboxes, communicating with hiring managers, and organizing data. While vital to candidate processing, these tasks overshadowed higher level activities such as strategic planning, attracting talent, and promoting NetIQ.
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Horizon Healthcare
Eprise Case StudyHorizon was faced with developing an easy-to-use content management system for its employee portal that would serve as the centralized location for employee and corporate information for the company's 4,600 employees.
