1. SDMS / eFront Partner in the UK
PARTNER OVERVIEW ON CHOOSING EFRONT
Founded in 1990, SDMS Ltd is a specialist solutions ”There are several criteria about working with
provider (and one of the UK’s leading providers) other companies. The first consideration is: do
for enterprise level personnel, recruitment and they have a product which compliments and
staff development management systems. The extends what you have, and can you contribute to
company’s range of products combine extensive what they’re doing? And the second consideration
and high level functionality with ease of use and is: how easy is it to work with that other company?
scalability – and is unique in addressing all aspects We chose eFront because we could answer yes to
of Staff Development and Personnel Management all of these criteria.”
in the modern Corporate environment.
“With eFront we are able to service small
SDMS Ltd has customers and clients across all organizations that may not have the resources to
sectors in the UK, both public and private, be running a lot of face-to-face training. Their
including Further and Higher Education, Local learning programs are much more cost-effective to
Education Authorities, Charities, Construction, be dealt with through eFront and elearning.”
Social Services, Hospices, Probation Services,
Magistrates Courts, Health Care, Local CHALLENGES
Government, Schools and leading Football Clubs. “We initially began work with eFront looking at
how we could write and import/export between
the systems and how we could begin to offer that
into the marketplace – we have done both. As we
began to present our products with eFront, it
became apparent that our clients were best suited
to having some form of integrated module within
eFront and that’s where we took the ideas and the
20 years of experience writing classroom
management software and developed a module,
which is now the classroom module for eFront and
a new revenue stream for us!”

2. CLIENT SUCCESSES CONCLUSION
“With approximately 100 staff and 30 to 40 “It was very easy to put together a partnership
branches spread across the UK, SDMS’ client relationship, and also to be able to go beyond a
Mobile Money had several issues that needed simple partnership relationship and begin to
addressing. Firstly, with company branches spread explore the idea of developing modules within
all across the UK geographically it was difficult for eFront by us which was important.”
them to provide face-to-face training. Another one
of their main focuses was compliance to standards “eFront answered the four key criteria that came
and regulations. Implementing eFront solved both from conversing with customers. eFront provides a
those issues, and provided an economical platform for students; allows you to write and
alternative to other elearning systems on the develop elearning content within that single
market.” application; allows you to convert traditional
learning materials into elearning courses; and
“The need to train employees and to validate that finally eFront also allows users to use things with
training is critical to the existence of the [Mobile the elearning package that they bought
Money] business. They needed to provide that somewhere else.”
training online and eFront was able to provide an
incredibly good value package.” QUOTES
"We have aspirations to continue to develop and
offer new products on the marketplace – so we’re
focused on ongoing development of modules for
eFront and continued integration of eFront with
our product.” - David Stevens, SDMS Founder and
Managing Director
About us
Epignosis provides top-of-class, affordable elearning solutions. Our main product, eFront, is a modern-age LMS bundled
with rich social & enterprise functionality. A cost-effective way to simplify training, evaluation and tracking procedures
within the organization, eFront has been awarded for excellence in Learning Management Technology for Small-and
Medium-Sized Businesses (Brandon Hall) and Elearning Magazine. Today, eFront is trusted by hundreds of organizations
around the Globe to support their training activities.