eFront Enterprise introduces the Branches concept. Reflect your organizational hierarchy within eFront and cater for the unique requirements of each branch. Branches allow for great flexibility as they may refer to an organizations location, buildings within a location, departments within a building, divisions within departments, groups within divisions and so on.

With eFront Enterprise you can create Skills and assign them to users (either manually or through the learning process). Skills may be sub-divided into any number of skill-categories, facilitating precise descriptions and management while correlating to employees and their role(s).

With eFront Enterprise you can create Job Descriptions, assign them to Branches and associated employees. eFront Enterprise can map a Job Descriptions to specific skills and learning material

eFront Enterprise maintains extended employee information besides the name, surname and email data. This includes information such as, when the employee was hired or if he/she has a driving license.

eFront lessons and courses may be defined to automatically offer new skills when successfully completed. This feature explicitly demonstrates the way an employee's skillset is enhanced through the learning process.

An important feature of eFront Enterprise is the automatic enrolment of employees to training material depending on their job position. Any job position can be associated to lessons and courses. Once employees are registered to a job position, they are automatically assigned the associated lessons and courses. For example, all users with job description "Secretary" may be automatically registered to the "Office" course.

The reports generator offers a flexible environment for building your own reports with the exact information you want.

Evaluations and remarks can be added to employees, which together with the corresponding employees results, are visible to the managerial hierarchy above that level. Therefore, the employer and associated management team is provided with a thorough and complete picture of each employee as defined by their supervisors. Moreover, eFront Enterprise keeps a history log for all employee-related events: from when the employee was added to the system for the first time, to when their job description was changed, or their salary increased or their skillset was enhanced.

eFront Enterprise has been extended so that job placements can be assigned to users. This allows you to simulate your organizational chart with job positions and employees. eFront Enterprise also offers branch functionality, extending on the traditional eFront role hierarchy (administrators, professors, students) to another lever: administrators, branch supervisors, branch employees, trainers). Branch supervisors act as administrators of their branch and can manage the rest of the users within that branch.

All employee (Enterprise edition) or student (Educational edition) related information, i.e. personal information, job descriptions, courses attended, skills management, evaluations etc. can be exported into a compact, printable format.

With eFront Enterprise all employees may exchange files with each other working on the same branch or their supervisors. An access control system is enforced to guarantee employee privacy, while fostering the necessary content dissemination mechanisms to improve knowledge management within the Enterprise.

View the entire organization in a simple and user-friendly way, as set up with branches and job positions.

eFront Enterprise extends the traditional eFront messaging system, to take into account the Enterprise features. eFront users may therefore exchange messages or emails according to the position they bear within the organization, the branch they work in or some particular skill they might have. This allows for an explicit rather than latent communication channel, deep and hierarchically diffused within your organization.

With eFront Enterprise users may be identified and searched according to a number of advanced criteria like: branch, job descriptions, skillsets or any other company-related relevant information maintained in the system. Managers are thus capable to instantly locate and communicate with any eFront user fulfilling all kinds of criteria, e.g. “all eFront users working in branch Athens”, or “all users called Kostas” or those that “posseses a Master’s Degree”.

With Notifications you can create custom communication emails that are triggered on a wide range of events, sending personalized emails to your users in their default language.

eFront Educational and eFront Enterprise now support SCORM 2004 / 4th edition. SCORM 2004 4th edition is the latest and most technologically advanced collection of standards and specifications for web-based eLearning. Based on new standards for API and content object-to-runtime environment communication with many ambiguities of previous versions resolved, has helped create a more robust test suite which helps ensure good interoperability. Combines the ability to specify adaptive sequencing of activities that use the content objects while allowing the sharing and use of information for multiple learning objectives or competencies across content and courses for the same learner within the same LMS. All this gives users a faster and more complete experience and allows providers to set more stringent learning paths that users must comply to.

Move old users and lessons to the Archive without the need to delete them. You can restore a user or lesson at any point back to the main system.

Share folders, clone lessons, copy-properties or restrict usage and participation are a few of the advanced lesson parameterization options

The number of reports has been doubled in this eFront edition. In addition to previous report types you can now find time-constraint reports, events reports, branch reports, participation reports, certificate reports and group reports

Several administrative features allow you to create a secure environment (for example you can restrict the ip addresses that have access to the system). LDAP support and an extensive XML API provide the means to communicate with other systems.

Skill gap tests identify a lack of skills and propose lessons and courses that will provide the user with the missing skills. The skill gap analysis comprises the core of the entire functionality, by aligning the users required skill-set according their job position and their results on the particular skill gap test. eFront acknowledges that a user possesses a skill when they get the associated test question correct. The analysis then maps the missing skill set to the skills offered by courses and lessons. The outcome is that users are automatically enrolled on the lessons and courses that offer the missing skills.

Commercial eFront editions include an integrated payment gateway via Paypal. The payment infrastructure also includes support for balances, vouchers and season discounts.

The new eFront comes with a rich set of social tools that facilitate the communication and social learning process together with an easy-to-use Facebook integration plugin.

eFront has integrated support for surveys. You create surveys in a similar way you create tests by assembling questions. A survey can be completed without having to enter eFront (through an external interface). Extensive reports on results assure that you can understand easily the produced feedback.

eFront helps you track the user progress and issue certificates upon the successful completion of a lesson or a course. The certification can be parameterized according to your needs.

Hassle free web-based updating integrated to the system

Administrators can customize the details required when all or a group of users register, to contain more more information fields. For example you can add a custom field about the sex of the new user or the country of origin.

User management is done by the administrator. It involves the management of users, the assignment of lessons/courses to users and the creation of new types of users. eFront supports three basic types of users: Student (Trainee), Professor (Trainer) and Administrator. A user must have a basic default role but can have different roles per lesson/branch. This allows for example, a user to be student for one lesson and professor for another. Apart from these three basic roles, eFront allows for the creation of custom user types to provide the access permissions required. For example, you can create a "guest" role, that cannot post messages to forums or view lesson content.

Course management is done by the administrator. It involves the management of lessons, the logical organisation of lessons into categories according to topic and the bundling of several lessons into a course. It also involves the assignments of users to lessons and courses.

eFront informs and guides users as they progress through the content, advising of their current position inside a lesson and what needs to be done to complete it.

eFront includes several communication tools. The list includes calendar, chat, personal messages, forum, file sharing and collaborative content building.

eFront includes an easy to use WYSISWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) content editor. You can use it to add a plethora of media, in a variety of formats, to your content including images, videos, audio, java applets and mathematical types in a visual way. For more experienced users, there is a way to fully format the content using html. Content can be organized into an unlimited number of nested levels called “units”(which act as chapters) and can be further organized into sub-units as required.

Glossary descriptions entered are automatically organized into tabs in alphabetical order. Also, they can be merged with the content so that when users hover over the term in the content, the description entered pops up for the end user.

eFront includes an advanced file manager that allows you to upload, preview, share, zip, rename and delete files. You can also organize files to directories. Multiple files can be uploaded at once as zipped files - eFront will unzip them automatically. All files that are uploaded to the special Digital Library folder are shared and can be downloaded from every lesson user.

eFront is provided with a wide range of reports covering most aspects of information on the platform e.g. system access, generic system characteristics, users progress within a lesson/course, event reports, participation reports and many more. If the report you want is not there, you can use the custom report generator to include the information you require and generate the report accordingly.

eFront has an advanced internal test builder that supports several types of tests and a wide range of question types. All questions are stored to a central pool and can be used indifferent tests within a lesson. Each question can be assigned a level of difficulty, expected time to complete, weight. When creating a test, you can give eFront some basic parameters which will select the questions you want included in the test automatically. Tests can be repeated by users and a random set of questions included each time.

eFront can be fully parameterized according to your needs. As examples, you can re-arrange the main page components via simple drag-and-drop, you can select the active components for your lesson, or you can change the visual theme of your installation.

eFront is a SCORM 1.2 compliant and certified platform. You can import SCORM packages or export the content you created into SCORM format and use it in any other SCORM compliant platform.

The search functionality is always available. You can effectively search inside lesson content, personal messages or forum messages.

You can create projects with deadlines and assign them to users. The user must upload a file as their answer to the project and the tutor can access it and give the user a score.

eFront has already been translated into 40+ languages but if required, adding a new language is easy!

eFront uses current web technologies to ensure an excellent user-experience. A small list of technologies or standards we follow include AJAX, LDAP, UNICODE, SCORM, n-tier-architecture, MODULAR extensions, CSS and strict DTD.

The administrator can control any aspect of the system through an easy to use interface. New modules support allows him to extend the functionality of the system

You can control who should see what and in what order. This way you can guide the users using certain learning paths.

Modules allow you to extend the basic system functionality as needed. Modules are installed and activated through the administrator interface.