Company Profile: a provider of comprehensive e-learning content and technology products for business and IT professionals within the Global 2000; annual revenues approximately $750 million

Alva Solution: One of the largest e-learning companies in the world has been outsourcing its course development to Alva for more than four years. Alva has created more than 100 commercial off-the-shelf courses for this company in content areas including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), project management, sales, and financial services. Alva adheres to rigid standards in instructional design and quality assurance for each of these courses, and we author the courses in the client's proprietary authoring tool.

Electronic Funds Transfer Company

Company Profile: an organization that processes more than $12 billion in funds annually and has more than 6,000 employees

Alva Solution: The electronic funds transfer company found that it was inefficient to pull executives out of their day-to-day activities to receive training on specific processes and aspects of the company. This client turned to Alva to develop eight hours of interactive online training. We delivered the courseware with a customized Flash-based version of our LMS (learning management system) and a series of customized reports.

State Government Agency

Agency Profile: a state agency with a $280 million annual budget

Alva Solution: Needing to train employees in the health-care industry throughout the state, this agency asked Alva to develop e-learning with pre- and postassessments. After performing a front-end analysis, Alva created the courseware and went on to design a registration system—a version of our LMS—that automates the agency's hand-written course registration processes. Alva is expanding this LMS to encompass instructor-led and Web-based training registration and management throughout the agency and its partnering agencies.

Manufacturing Company

Company Profile: a company that employs more than 8,000 employees, has sales in excess of $2 billion annually, and has 43 manufacturing facilities around the world

Alva Solution: After performing a front-end analysis, Alva contracted with this company to build two high-level, customized online courses. The courses were first deployed in Alva's LMS and then integrated into the company's enterprise-wide LMS. The company also took advantage of Alva's e-learning consulting services: We provided the company with an assessment of the best commercial off-the-shelf courses that would meet the company's needs.

Telecommunications Company

Company Profile: a company with a market cap rate in excess of $2 billion and more than 4,000 employees that operates one of the largest communications and Internet operations in the world

Alva Solution: When representatives from this company's training department met with Alva, they had an urgent need to train their sales and sales engineering staff on new products that the company had recently rolled out. Within five weeks, Alva met with the company's subject matter experts, pulled together the necessary information, and took care of all aspects of designing the first course. Impressed with the quality of work and the timeline for this project, the company began outsourcing more and more instructor-led training development to Alva.

U.S. Federal Agency

Organization Profile: an agency of the U.S. federal government with more than a $15 billion budget, 14 primary centers and facilities, and more than 18,000 employees

Alva Solution: This agency needed to assess the skill sets of its program and project managers agency-wide. To address the client's needs, Alva created a number of assessment tools, customized on-demand reports, and software for individual development plans. All of the technologies integrate with Alva's learning management system and e-learning software.