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4th March 2010
One of Spain's largest financial groups entrusts its learning
content management to Giunti Labs
Caja Madrid - established for some 300 years and currently Spain's
fourth largest financial group - has revolutionised its training
systems through the use of a learning content management system (LCMS)
augmented by a learning management system. The new system - supplied
by Giunti Labs, the leading learning and mobile content management
solution provider - is intended to improve both the efficiency and
cost effectiveness of Caja Madrid's staff training activities.
High levels of employee productivity and efficiency are crucial to
Caja Madrid's continued success and growth. This is the main reason
why Giunti Labs' learn eXact LCMS represents the most suitable
solution for the organisation's training contents production and
management.
The project - known as ‘Aula Virtual de Caja Madrid' - aims to
exploit, and profit from, Caja Madrid's as well as its partners' and
collaborators' knowledge. All this is possible through a special
system for learning materials development and delivery which is
aligned to market rhythm and requirements.
This brand new ‘Aula Virtual' supports a web-based content
development method that can be used by internal and external subject
matter experts as well as by learning object (LO) providers. Since
LOs are then managed on the same LCMS and labelled with the same
metadata schema, the whole process becomes more efficient from both
content reuse and update points of view.
"The learn eXact LCMS solution allows Caja Madrid to organise -
according to industry standards - all its learning content into one
single content management system and digital repository," explained
Giunti Labs' CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali.
"Most importantly, the legacy content of a huge number of
instructor-led courses is being transferred into the system and
tagged with a SCORM-based metadata and taxonomies framework. The
same framework is also applied to all e-learning content.
"To ensure the efficient reuse and quality of the content, all third
party content producers use learn eXact for their content production
and management," he said.
In February 2009, Caja Madrid adopted the SCORM 2004 standard for
all its learning materials and recently began insisting that all
those providing its learning materials did so with Giunti Labs'
SCORM 2004 conformant eXact Packager software.
In April 2009, Giunti Labs' eXact Lobster Digital Repository was
installed in Caja Madrid and content providers started generating
content connected to Giunti Labs' eXact Lobster at Caja Madrid. In
the first months of 2010, Caja Madrid's employees have begun using
the resulting learning content.
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About Caja Madrid
Caja Madrid is Spain's fourth largest financial group. It offers a
complete range of banking products and services to meet its 7
million retail, business and private customers' needs. Its customer
base comprises families, small and medium sized companies, big
corporations and private and public institutions.
With more than 15,000 employees and an extensive network of more
than 2,000 offices all over Spain, Caja Madrid can also boast of an
advanced subsidiary system comprising a series of external networks.
One of the most important of these is the MAPFRE network system
that, in addition to its brokers and delegates, also provides more
than 600 Caja Madrid dealers inside MAPFRE offices.
Caja Madrid also benefits from its foreign branches in Lisbon, Miami
and Vienna and has a strong presence in other countries including
the US, Mexico, Cuba, China and Morocco.
Caja Madrid is also a leader in social action in terms of the amount
of resources applied. For more than three centuries it has been
working hard, from both a social and cultural point of view, to
address social issues and provide assistance in cultural,
educational and environmental sectors.
About Giunti Labs
Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry.
In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with
others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years
Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions,
through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but
also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs.
Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector.
Giunti Labs, which has its global headquarters in Italy and offices in
London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US),
provides a wide range of services, in response to any content,
learning and knowledge management need, covering:
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Content production
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Research and
development
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Technological
solutions for content, learning & knowledge management
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Architectural and
technological solutions for mobile & wireless
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Training and
consulting
Giunti Labs provides
the learn eXact® suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile
learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable
with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions
in the market including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT,
Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.
Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international
standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the
organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards:
co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most
of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning
specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC,
IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).
Further information from:
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
