“We opted for SkillSoft because they demonstrated a clear understanding of our needs and took time to get to know our business,” said Barry Smith, elearning Service Delivery Manager at Atkins. “The pre-sales support that we received was of a very high standard and gave us confidence in their ability to deliver.

“The SkillPort product meets all of our requirements to deliver top quality online training, globally, at a time that fits into our employees’ workloads. Our staff can access the system from the office, on the road or even from home.

“We are confident that we have made a wise choice – we have seen usage rates rocket; we get excellent support; and we can quickly upload new courses to meet the ever changing needs of the business.”

One of the biggest benefits for Atkins is the ability they now have to build their own in-house elearning content using SkillSoft’s Course Customisation Toolkit (CCT). The CCT is proving to be a cost-effective way for the company’s own training experts to respond immediately to the strategic needs of the business by creating company-specific elearning content. This is being used to develop elearning to deal with industry compliance issues and Health & Safety as well as to address the specific needs of a division or even a particular project.

Today Atkins can build a bespoke course from scratch and make it available online within less than five days.

Approximately 160 SkillSoft elearning courses have already been made available to 10,000 UK employees. The early feedback from users is so encouraging that Atkins Global is now looking at adding generic business skills content and rolling the elearning out to Hong Kong, the Middle East and the US.