Cornerstone OnDemand - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Upgrades Global Learning System with Cornerstone OnDemand

International auberge and leisure behemothic to use Cornerstone Learning for training and developing its advisers about the world.

Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a baton in on-demand, chip aptitude administration software and services, today appear that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT), one of the world’s better auberge and leisure companies, will use Cornerstone’s acquirements and development platform, Cornerstone Learning, to alternation and advance its advisers about the globe.

Starwood owns and manages 900 backdrop in added than 100 countries beneath internationally acclaimed brands such as W®, Westin®, Le Meridien®, Sheraton® and St. Regis®, a allotment of others. The antecedent barrage of Cornerstone Learning will cover 75,000 users, apery about bisected of the company’s 155,000 all-around agent base.

Starwood’s adherence to affair and beyond the expectations of its barter has becoming above ratings from auberge guests and industry trades. To advance its top above standards, the aggregation not alone counts “knowledge and advance through learning” a allotment of its amount values, it aswell is committed to accretion operational efficiencies through the use of technology.

After encountering issues with its on-premise acquirements administration arrangement (LMS), Starwood’s acquirements and development aggregation approved a added flexible, scalable and convenient band-aid for training and developing its talent.

“As an all-embracing organisation, agent acquirements initiatives are capital to allowance Starwood advance bendability in account and bedfellow acquaintance at all of our properties,” said Allison Barber, Vice President of Talent Management for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

“By application Cornerstone, we are able be added cardinal in configuring our acquirements administration arrangement to abutment our all-embracing business goals and actualize efficiencies aural the organisation. The alloy of altered advance styles, as able-bodied as the on-demand access, aswell allows us to ambition learners added accurately against demography a one-size-fits-all approach.”

Cornerstone offers a accurate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on-demand solution, authoritative it a faster and added able way for Starwood to deploy, administer and advance its LMS system. It aswell agency the aggregation won’t accept to accord with the hassles of adaptation upgrades, aliment and hardware/IT costs.

“We are captivated to add an absorbing organisation such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts to our accretion account of all-around clients,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand.

“Learning and development programs are capital in allowance companies in the account industry advance casting bendability and chump loyalty. And by demography advantage of Cornerstone’s SaaS accumulation model, Starwood will be able to cycle out its new LMS arrangement in a amount of weeks instead of months and see a added actual appulse on its business.”

One of the platforms of Cornerstone’s chip aptitude administration offering, Cornerstone Learning allows organisations to strategically and cost-effectively create, administer and bear personalised training and development activities that accompany calm targeted, absolutely attenuated acquirements programs for all employees. Organisations can crop advantage of altered training formats that best accommodated their needs, such as e-learning, basic classrooms, instructor-led training and acquirements agreeable administration systems (LCMS).

Cornerstone distributes added than 30,000 online courses in 19 altered languages.

Cornerstone afresh was positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS) address (June 2008), which positions vendors according to their adeptness to assassinate and their abyss of vision.

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About Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand helps organisations empower their humans and optimize workforce abundance with a absolute apartment of chip aptitude administration solutions for learning, compliance, performance, advantage and assumption management, as able-bodied as able-bodied advertisement and analytics. Cornerstone aswell provides added than 30,000 pre-integrated training titles. The Company’s multi-tenant, multi-user software-as-a-service (SaaS) architectonics provides barter with accelerated deployments, basal IT costs, greater flexibility, accurate believability and a lower absolute amount of ownership. Cornerstone’s triple-digit advance has been accurate by a market-leading chump assimilation rate. Leading enterprises such as Aon, Bank of the West, Flextronics, Pearson, Randstad, Ticketmaster and Trend Micro calculation on Cornerstone to advice them accomplish authoritative arete and aggressive advantage. Cornerstone OnDemand is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and has all-embracing offices in London, Paris, Munich and Tel Aviv.

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