Totara, the story so far & the next chapter

Andy Kirk

Channel Partner Manager, EMEA Totara Learning Solutions

Based on 4 Core Benefits of our Open Source model

Freedom to innovate = flexibility and business agilityIncreased value through significant cost-savingImproved quality through collaboration & opennessMitigating business risk through no lock-in, ability to customise, and greater transparency of value

2011- Our Mission – Transform the market through Enterprise Open Source

Feature set Sales Partners Brand awareness and…Products

3 years of growth

To 2014 - Adoption across all sectors

• Approximately 20% of customers are at 10,000 users or above

• Several above 250,000 • Organisations large and small - UNICEF, Google,

Tesco, Safeway, Sony Europe, British Dental Association, Houses of Parliament, EasyJet

By the numbers

2011: 88 sales

(7 p/m)

2012: 118 sales

(10 p/m)

2013: 215 sales

(18 p/m)

Moodle heritage

An important part of our story

• But not the main message, or relevant to all users• Strengthening our position with other enterprise

LMS vendors• In April alone two Saba Partners joined the Partner

network, more joining

Two themes

Adding polish, refinement, UI improvements

Continuing community engagement, shaped by demand, your input

The Roadmap?

• Undertook feedback process with partners & clients for 2.6

• 11 of top 15 highest rated feature improvements implemented

• Will repeat this process for future releases over next year. Do use the forums or raise your priorities through Kineo

The Roadmap?

More than just new features: widening product range and services:MobileSocialAcademyCloudSeedlings

The bigger picture

Multi-device learning with mobile app

Access selected LMS content

Another good example of collaborative model

Already available through Kineo. Will be distributed for core.

Totara Mobile

An enterprise Social learning platform

A collaborative tool for sharing organisational knowledge

A companion and complement to Totara LMS and formal learning – integrate or stand alone

Totara Social

Mash-up and share create content Social NetworkingCreate online CVs share for different audiencesAsk questions grow knowledge bank Propose ideas Connect without the noise

Totara Social

A certification program for Totara practitioners in:

Administration and Course creation

A complement to partners’ training, this is very much around certification and evidencing knowledge of Totara products. Partners will become certifiers.

Totara’s Open Badges and inherent portability

Enrolment underway now for prep webinarsAcademy@totaralms.com First intake starts in August – get involved!

Totara Seedlings

A beta release of Totara, unsupported/maintained, for evaluation, developers. Not for production

Increased visibility = greater demand for Enterprise version and the quality support only available through partner network

Feature Totara Seedlings (Beta)

Enterprise Service

License Open Source Open Source

Community Innovations

   

Access to Product Source Code

   

Certified Totara Solution Partners

   

Open Source Assurance Program

   

End of Life Support policy

   

Features All features, new features

Stable versions, Enterprise Support

Testing Cycles

Untested Enterprise-level Quality Assurance and Performance testing

Independent Security Testing

   

Web-based support

  24x5 (2hour response)

Product Alerts and Notifications

   

Consolidated Service Updates

   

Security Alerts and Fixes

   

Access to Community Portal / Knowledgebase

   

Training. Access to Totara Academy

   

Sponsored Development

  Available for purchase

Enterprise Edition

Fully featured, tested, stableProduct support and backing

Upgrade pathsSoftware Update Service

Service Patches Error correction Ticketed support Updates New Version Releases Clear, affordable fee