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Malaysian Reserve
7 days ago
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
NIIT MTS and Sana Announce Strategic Partnership to Establish Center of Excellence for Learning Services
Comprehensive Partnership Framework to Deliver End-to-End Professional Consulting and Learning Technology Services ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — NIIT Learning Systems Limited [NIIT Managed Training Services (NIIT MTS)] (Ticker Symbol: NIITMTS), a global leader in managed learning services has announced a strategic partnership with Sana, an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Sana has been named to the Forbes AI50 and Fast Company's Most Innovative lists. The partnership framework will include the establishment of a dedicated NIIT-Sana Center of Excellence (CoE) that will deliver comprehensive professional services across the entire value chain of Sana Learn, an AI-native learning platform that combines the best of an LMS, LXP, authoring tool, and virtual classroom into one enterprise, AI-first learning environment. The partnership framework encompasses a full spectrum of professional services designed to maximize value from the Sana Learn platform. The collaboration will leverage NIIT MTS' extensive managed learning services and learning technology expertise with Sana's innovative AI-first platform to create integrated services and solutions that drive measurable business outcomes for the world's leading companies. The NIIT-Sana Center of Excellence will offer six core service areas – strategic consulting, implementation services, learning experience design, technical consulting and support, learning administration services, and engineering services. The partnership is positioned for immediate market impact, with both organizations committed to rapid enablement and ensuring that companies that adopt the Sana Learn platform can maximize the benefits of the platform through the comprehensive services, consulting and support that the NIIT-Sana Center of Excellence will provide. Commenting on the partnership, Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst, Founder and CEO, The Josh Bersin Company stated, 'As someone who has worked closely with both NIIT and Sana, we're thrilled to see these innovators come together. By combining NIIT's deep expertise in managed learning services with Sana's groundbreaking AI-powered platform, organizations have an unprecedented opportunity to create agile, personalized, and high-impact learning experiences. This collaboration will help L&D organizations embrace what we call the Revolution in Corporate Learning.' 'This partnership represents a significant step forward in our mission to deliver transformative learning experiences in an AI-first L&D environment,' said Sailesh Lalla, Chief Business Officer at NIIT MTS. 'By combining our proven implementation and managed learning services expertise with Sana's innovative AI technology, we can offer organizations a complete solution that addresses both their immediate needs and long-term learning strategy goals to turbocharge L&D value and business outcomes.' 'L&D is at an inflection point—AI is not just enhancing what's possible, it's fundamentally reshaping it. This partnership with NIIT empowers progressive L&D leaders to reimagine how they drive growth, engagement, and impact. Together, we're unlocking a new era where organizations can harness AI to build more personalized, effective, and inspiring learning experiences than ever before,' added Jon Lexa, President, Sana. About NIIT Learning Systems Limited (NIIT MTS) NIIT MTS is the trusted and award-winning L&D and talent partner for the world's leading companies in over 30 countries. Established in 1981, NIIT MTS offers managed learning and strategic consulting services to solve the most complex challenges in learning, talent, skills, and workforce transformation. With a Net Promoter Score of 9/10 and a 100% renewal rate, NIIT MTS helps leading companies transform and reimagine their learning ecosystems while increasing the business value and impact of learning. For more information, visit: About SanaSana exists to advance how humans access knowledge with AI. Its products are trusted by leading enterprises like Merck, Hinge Health, Electrolux, and Robinhood. Backed by top-tier investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures, and EQT Ventures, Sana has raised over $130 million to date. Visit
Cision Canada
04-06-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Draup Launches Etter: The Agentic AI Platform to Build AI-Ready Teams
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, June 4, 2025 /CNW/ -- Draup, a global leader in enterprise talent intelligence, introduces — a next-gen workflow automation platform empowering HR and talent leaders to drive AI transformation across the enterprise. With AI reshaping work across business functions, enterprises face growing pressure to reimagine roles, evolve skills, and future-proof their talent strategies with human-machine synergies. Etter helps organizations do exactly that, with an automated, collaborative, and explainable platform that enables them to: Understand how AI will reshape tasks, roles, and workloads Quantify potential time-savings, productivity gains, and risks Identify emerging skill needs and adjacent roles for mobility Optimize job descriptions for the AI era Build future-ready teams and transformation roadmaps "AI is reshaping the very foundations of work—starting with workforce skills. For enterprises, the real challenge is determining which aspects of job roles to automate, which to augment, where to upskill, and which technologies to deploy. Etter resolves this ambiguity by delivering actionable clarity through workflow-driven intelligence." — Vijay Swaminathan, CEO, Draup Draup is already trusted by over 270 leading enterprises, including 5 of the Fortune 10 companies to guide critical workforce transformation decisions. Built on Draup's multi-dimensional labor and market data spanning 1.5M+ companies, 850M+ professionals, 12K+ skills, 4M+ career paths and more, Etter delivers unmatched visibility into how AI will impact every stage of the workforce planning lifecycle with granular skill and task-level insights. "Every business leader is trying to understand how AI will transform its workforce, and this means jobs, roles, skills, and systems. Etter from Draup is one of the most advanced, groundbreaking tools I've seen, to help leaders, managers, and HR professionals quickly understand how to redesign jobs to leverage AI. — Josh Bersin, Founder and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company. With a collaborative, human-in-the-loop design, Etter brings clarity and control to one of the most complex transitions enterprises face today. Whether you're planning for AI disruption, redesigning roles, or preparing your teams for the future—Etter is your strategy execution engine. About Draup: Draup is a leading Talent Strategy Platform that delivers multi-dimensional global labor and market data to drive enterprises' Workforce Planning, Recruitment & Transformative Skills Architecture initiatives. Draup supports HR Leaders in optimizing their workforce strategies by helping them address evolving workforce needs, assess global talent & peer group landscape, and design career paths for long-term success. With real-time access to granular data and personalized insights, Draup empowers customers with actionable intelligence & recommendations to strengthen their talent strategies.
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
IBM Replaces Hundreds With AI As HR, L&D Leaders Rethink Roles
Putting the pieces together with AI. IBM has replaced hundreds of workers with AI, and now reports that 94% of routine human resources (HR) tasks are handled by artificial intelligence. However, IBM CEO Arvin Krishna says that AI has allowed the company to expand, not shrink. 'Because AI gives you more investment to put into other areas,' he tells the Wall Street Journal. The company's CTO, Ji-eun Lee, says that the company saw a 'productivity improvement' of over $3.5 billion in the last two years across 70 business units, due to AI. For HR pros, and learning and development (L&D) leaders, this shift towards automation has caused a rethinking of roles - not just a reduction in force. What does it mean to be a leader in HR, as the future of work integrates even further with AI? Nickle Lamoureux, Chief Human Resources Officer at IBM, tells Josh Bersin that AI agents write performance reviews, create development plans and coach managers and senior leaders on multiple performance-based decisions. Bersin, an industry pundit and consultant in HR, forecasts a 20-30% reduction in headcount (per employee) in human resources due to AI advancements, including learning and development, training, and other key functions. Jamie Aitken, VP of HR Transformation at software company Betterworks, calls for a rethinking of what HR really means. "This is the moment to elevate HR from a collection of administrative tasks to a strategic, data-powered driver of business success." A structured, process-oriented approach (with AI as a foundation) is what Aitken advocates. "HR is uniquely positioned to decode what people need to grow, stay, and succeed. That's the power of a systemic approach: better retention, stronger performance, and a culture ready to innovate and adapt.' 'Some tasks will be easily handled by AI,' according to Rasmus Holst, CEO of Zensai, a learning and development software platform company based in Denmark. 'Working alongside AI is the new normal. But bringing on an AI agent is not necessarily a 'senior hire'. The setup and orchestration of AI agents, assigning tasks, and monitoring performance - these things will be guided by humans for a long time to come." Aaron Levie agrees - and he's even more bullish on the power of AI. Levie, the CEO of Box, shared his viewpoint on the Masters of Scale podcast with Bob Saphian. He talks about what AI does best - and how companies can maximize the role of AI agents. Regarding the rise in capabilities of programs like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, he shares, 'The deep research moment of this paradigm is much longer answers in terms of the amount of content you get, takes about five or 10 minutes of kind of thinking time for these AI models, and they're going across the entire up-to-date corpus of the world, which is the internet, to go get the answer.' He emphasizes that AI's role in the enterprise is to augment human capabilities, not replace them. AI agents, he says, will be focused on the tasks that require significant human effort (like deep research and analysis, or responding to basic boilerplate HR questions). The future of work belongs to those who can interact effectively with these AI agents, across all parts of the organization. 'When you have more trivial tasks handled by agents, you need the best people making decisions for you," Holst shares, as he reflects on how humans and AI can work together. "Recruiting and retention becomes even more important, mapping skills between what agents do and what humans do,' he says. 'Our stance is that making humans better is what AI does best,' according to Zensai's Chief Business Officer, Robin Daniels. He shares that the company is focused on Human Success, a rising new initiative among HR pros that focuses on data-driven results and goals. Daniels describes the movement towards Human Success as an 'individual journey to become the best you can be every day, fueled by growth, joy and fulfillment," with technology (metrics) at its foundation. Empower the individual and you empower the organization, according to Daniels. Fostering human success is the prime directive for AI. For HR directors and leaders, understanding how to integrate artificial intelligence is an exercise in collaboration. For HR leaders today, real-time listening, taking action on feedback, and gathering a statistically significant picture around corporate culture is vital to engagement - and strategic relevance. For HR leaders and L&D pros, looking to have a more important seat at the table, the outsourcing of basic functions to AI is evidence of a powerful shift in the future of work. 'Instead of getting stuck in a cycle of fear, HR leaders should view this as a clarion call to rethink the purpose and structure of their organizations," Betterwork's Aitken says. In the age of AI, everyone's role is shifting - and HR leaders are rethinking how collaboration can shape the future of work.
