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Training is completed 75 percent faster, resulting in an average savings of $4,000 per course Boston, April 12, 2005 - OutStart, the leading provider of systems for learning and knowledge-sharing, today announced that Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union (OCTFCU), the fifth largest credit union in the United States, has selected OutStart Studio to quickly create, manage and deploy training to employees throughout the company. OCTFCU is saving over $200,000 per year on compliance training costs in addition to managing compliance requirements and increasing overall customer satisfaction. Due to the nature of its business, OCTFCU continuously needs to adhere to compliance issues stemming from the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the USA Patriot Act, requiring the credit union to provide related training to its employees. Historically, this was accomplished through a lengthy, manual process that consisted of course development, classroom and employee scheduling, grading tests, collecting evaluation sheets and tracking attendance. To alleviate this time intensive process, OCTFCU chose OutStart Studio to quickly create, manage and deploy e-learning content throughout the company. Since implementing Studio, OCTFCU has been able to reduce training time from an average of four months per course to one month per course. In addition, Studio’s assessment capabilities provide OCTFCU managers insight into employee’s knowledge gaps, allowing OCTFCU to make changes to courses and tests to improve employees learning and performance while keeping them motivated to learn. “Studio enabled us to revamp our curriculum, eliminate administrative inefficiencies and enable time-sensitive learning that improves the way we do business,” said Chris Johnson, the Credit Union’s E-Learning Specialist. “As a result of using Studio, not only have we benefited from a significant cost and time savings, but customer surveys have improved dramatically over the past several months, particularly in the category of employee knowledge. In fact, we have been so pleased with the results, we are also using Studio to create training content for employees in other areas such as new product and service offerings.” OutStart’s portfolio of products and solutions connect people with the training, information, and know-how that they need to perform their jobs more effectively. Organizations have many different needs and channels involved when it comes to capturing and transferring knowledge. For that reason, OutStart has developed industry-defining offerings that leverage and blend the best of both structured training and knowledge-sharing. “As financial institutions increasingly adopt new technologies for mandatory compliance training and competitive advancement, it is vital to streamline the training process in a way that enables employees to quickly and easily progress through job proficiency levels,” said OutStart CEO Massood Zarrabian. “OutStart’s Studio is uniquely suited for mid-market financial services organizations required to maintain a highly trained staff that is productive and knowledgeable.”
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