Skillsoft Technology & Developer Solutions

Overview
August 2019

Michael Glintzer
Director Services – IT & Digital Transformation
michael.glintzer@skillsoft.com
+44 7818 570 934

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Our Approach to Learning Design

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Using Data Software

Development;
1.796.618 Tech & Society; 9.698
Cloud; 1.747.423

• Emerging Tech;
156.892
Data; 3.186.665
Security;
DevOps;
• 4.989.048
1.928.046

• Programming;
4.658.076 Network/Opsys;
6.354.672
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Productivity; 281.936

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85% of our content is within these key areas

• Security • ML • Java Spring

• Cloud • Blockchain • Big Data
• AI • Java • AWS
• Agile • DevOps • Testing
• Python • SQL • Azure
• SecOps • Google Cloud • Analytics

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Skillsoft’s Technology & Developer Package

Content Services
• Courses & Videos • Customer Success Manager
• Books (Including some audiobooks) • Professional Services
• Practice Labs (Coding, certification, infrastructure) • Value Engineering
• Mentoring • Integration Teams
• Assessments and TestPreps
• Bootcamps
Platforms
Content Partnerships • Percipio Content Engagement Platform
• ITPRO.TV • Skillsofts exclusive browser extension
• Looneycorn • Skillsoft Windows Plug-in
• Security Innovation (Q3) • Percipio Mobile (iOS & android) with offline
• WintellectNOW storage & voice search
• Practice-IT • (SumTotal LMS)
• MIT xPRO

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Programming | Data
AI/ML | DevOps | Security
Emerging Technology
3000+ Courses | 45,000+ Videos | 10,000+ books
100+ Certifications

• More than 12,700 courses used in first three years

• Saved $1.5 million by eliminating offsite ILT
Brandon Hall Group • Won 2016 Nucleus Research Technology ROI Award with
a 526% ROI
Technology Excellence Award
• 94% participation rate
• 97% report it is an effective way to learn
• All participants report can now work on Python projects

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Coverage for 100+ Certifications

Learners trained with skillsoft have a 92% classroom test pass rate!

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Content Partnerships in Tech & Dev FY20

• Wintellect is live. 500+ unique courses.

• Security Innovation is expected for end of Q3. Courses and Scenario Labs. 85+ hours.
• Woz-U is scheduled for Q4. 500+ courses (4hours+ each) around Security. Data. Sdev.
• Content from PackT and MIT XPro (emerging tech) has been extended.
• Looneycorn (59 courses) & ITProTv (331 courses) is in percipio already available.
• We are looking to partner with a certification-type organization to bring credibility (legally
defensible) to our own certifications and layer into our Journeys. “skillsoft certification”
Others Potential partners: CompTIA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, MIT

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Content Partnerships
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Open platforms allow us to integrate with world-class content from other providers.
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Custom Content Integration in percipio
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Skillsoft Live Bootcamps

Move from practitioner to expert

Deliver Live Learning: Four to five live A Personalized Experience mimics the Stay Current with live sessions, ensuring
sessions are offered in a week and last anywhere personalized classroom experience in a virtual learners are always getting information from
from two to four hours per session. environment. instructors teaching the latest technology in the
field.

SOURCE: post-bootcamp survey sentiment analysis

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Skillsoft Live Bootcamps

Take advantage of the wisdom of industry experts and practitioners

through scheduled live classes and replay classes.

Work through the latest technology

and chat with mentors and peers.

Courses include:
• Student Guides
• Class Notes
• Hands-on Labs
• Pre-Tests, Post-Tests and
Assessments
• Mentoring
• Supplementary encore
courses
• Other supporting materials

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We believe that everyone should aspire to

further their professional skills, organizational
contributions and career.
Promotional Video

Skillsoft Aspire learning journeys provide a sequenced set of learning assets that
methodically progresses on prescribed tasks, functions, and activities needed to
develop and apply new skills.

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What’s Different?
• All new content aware of each other
• 60-80 hours of content. DA->DS 90+
• Credentials / badging throughout
• Based on Roles that are in demand
• SoftSkills, P&C and other resources.

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App Developer to Blockchain Engineer

+517%
increase in global demand for
Blockchain Engineers*
**https://hired.com/page/state-of-software-
engineers/hottest-jobs-software-engineering/#demand-
growth-for-engineering-roles
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Sequenced Instruction

Multimodal Learning Tools

Hands on Practice

Capstone Projects

Credentials
40+ 4 17
hours of content. Practice Labs additional
Relevant Business &
culminate in a journeys available
Leadership Skills
Capstone Project. after completion.
Live Bootcamps available also!

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Coming next….. Aspire Mobile

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Final Exam, Capstone

Badges and Progress Tracking

Instructor Bios on the Journey Dashboard page

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NEW Aspire Roadmap – Estimated Release

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Future (Percipio) State/s of Aspire to Explore

Feature Version
Test/Practice mode V1 Ability to toggle between practice mode and test mode. Practice you can
progress all the way through each track and view all the content. Test
mode you must pass each assessment and practice lab to unlock the
next track.

Unlocking tracks V1 Can be used for those in test mode to unlock the next track or receive
their badge or certificate.

Remedial suggestions V2 ML to determine what the learner is missing in Assessments and PL and
spending an inordinate amount of time on and provide remedial
suggestions and recommendations.

Pre-assessments V2 Pulled from the 100+ set of assessment questions, we offer the learner a
set of pre assessments to determine if they can skip a track or two. We
need to be sticklers with this.

Criterion based certificates V1 An amalgam of PL + Assessments that get you an earned cert.

Customization with a click V2 Let partners add content to their journey … resources or in flow?

Reorder of courses V1 Let use Reorder tracks course not based on alpha order.

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Dive in on Usage Data

skillsoft analytics!

• Data from last two years: 1,010,398 records.

• Can be tailored according to customer request
• Focus to deliver a report quarterly.
• Can help you provide your customer some
insights if appropriate.
• Look at Rate of change going forward.
• Find the signals in a noisy market.

• Coming soon: Security, Data, Cloud, DevOps,

Software Development, Programming,
Network/Opsys, Emerging Tech

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Research Report – The Structure
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Area Color Area Color Area Color

Programming Yellow Productivity Grey Network/Opsys Purple

Data Aqua Cloud Lavender Emerging Tech Bright Blue

Software Development Red Tech&Society Bright Yellow Security Light Green

DevOps Dark Blue

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Customer use case of
skillsoft tech & dev
Sophie CHALLENGE
With 50% of revenues
targeted for cloud by 2022,
Sophie secure continuous delivery
is scaling and this sees
Dev Ops several hybrid environments
and multiple employees
Manager across the technical
enterprise, relying on best
practices from Sophie.
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In the
Workflow
The move to AWS sees
development teams working
closer with Kubernetes
alongside Docker and
ELSA breaks down barriers
for Sophie and others to
seamlessly learn directly
from the PaaS environment.
On the Fly
Sophie adapts SecOps into
the workflow by exploiting
the risks and vulnerabilities
to her teams with real
practice environments. The
SOLUTION labs promote attacker mind-
sets and defensive
developer practices to avoid
watering hole attacks.
On the Road
While travelling between
Toulouse and Milan offices,
Sophie uses the mobile app
and listens to “The Phoenix
Project”. Post listening,
Sophie suspects that there
might be barriers to the
upcoming meeting and
watches expert insights
from Margaret Heffernan.
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Percipio updates FY20

1) Ecosystem (VOD) Entertainment vs Percipio

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 P E R C I P I O R O A D M A P U P D AT E – J U LY 2 0 1 9

• • • Inline coding
• •
skills badging role and content
• • competency authoring
• • • learning paths
• mobile
• •
reinforcement
• bootcamps
• instructor-led
training
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Gamification adaptive
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• admin promoted
• content
• social
• • • Interactivity & learning
practice
deep
personalization
domain management

capability index

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Engage managers in driving team-based learning
(available now)
• Every manager in your organization can actively manage
the learning of their team

• View dashboards, reports and track progress

• Create assignments (selecting any content, assigning a

due date)

• Coming next: New team dashboards

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• Descriptions were
added to the search
results
• Filters were added
and are always
visible
• Expertise filter
makes it easy to find
Beginner,
Intermediate, or
Expert content
• Duration Filter
makes it easy to find
microlearning
content that fits into
busy schedules
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 Offline Play & Voice Search in percipio mobile iOS /
android (available now)

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AI-driven Personalized Inactivity Emails (Q3)
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SUBJECT LINE of the email is personalized to the learner:

[firstname] - You are missing out on free learning from <org
name>

Learner’s Name
Client’s Org
Name
The CONTENT that
appears is personalized
for each learner based on
the INTERESTS that the
learner selected in
Onboarding (just like the
push recommendations on
the homepage)

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 AI-driven personalized recommendations strip (Q4)
Based on users online behaviors and collaborative filtering
Percipio has deep personalization Deep neural net AI engine
based on….

Learners interests
Wave 1

Recent content accessed

Similar user profiles

Day / Time of usage Personalized recommendation strip on

Wave 2

homepage for each user

Learner’s search activity
Learner’s role

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Promote content aligning with your strategies (Q4)
Admin-controlled customization of homepage

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Additional promotional material
Sample videos & Links:

• Full presentation of Tech & Dev Suite

(from Solution Principal Sam Doan)
• Percipio Platform
• ELSA Browser Plugin
• Percipio Mobile & Voice
• Percipio Dashboard
• Percipio Reporting & Analytics
• Aspire future state
• Bootcamps in Action
(from solution principal Chris Sly)
• IBM Watson Cooperation
Install today:

• ELSA Browser Plugin

• Percipio Mobile

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