NetDimensions' Latest EKP Release Takes Next Step Toward Compliance in Healthcare
NetDimensions announced today the release of version 6.3 of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP), the company's award-winning learning management system.
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange AIM: NETD), a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, announced today the release of version 6.3 of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP), the company's award-winning learning management system.
EKP 6.3 includes functionality that will help organizations in the pharmaceutical industry ensure their compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, Part 11, more commonly known as 21 CFR Part 11.
This latest EKP release also includes new features such as a user-configurable EKP homepage, enhanced appraisal functionality, and support for Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro.
“EKP 6.3 reflects the NetDimensions way of doing things,” says Al Bejcek, Senior Manager for Product Marketing at NetDimensions. “Its features are a collaborative result of our Engineering team’s product research and development efforts, actual client requirements, and a conscious drive towards integration with emerging technology products,” he adds.
21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
EKP 6.3 signals NetDimensions’ entry into the 21 CFR Part 11 compliance domain.
“21 CFR Part 11 involves U.S. FDA requirements with regard to electronic signatures and audit reports in the highly regulated healthcare, pharmaceutical and medical device industries," explains Bejcek.
"We’re enabling companies to use the powerful features of EKP to streamline their compliance process so they can get 21 CFR Part 11 certification. Considering NetDimensions’ strong focus in regulatory compliance and certification, such as what we do for the aviation sector in several countries, this was a logical ‘next step’ for us."
Learn, Assess, Personalize
NetDimensions EKP 6.3 release also adds a number of new features to the company’s flagship LMS, including:
- Appraisal System Enhancements - NetDimensions worked with two clients separately on their very different requirements for their performance appraisal systems, and incorporated the best features of these customization projects to come up with the new extensive and user-friendly appraisal functionality in EKP 6.3.
- Personalize Your Homepage - EKP administrators can now more easily configure user and user-group homepages using drag-and-drop controls with a library of widgets (News, Enrolled Learning Modules, Calendar, etc.).
- New Ways to Take a Course - Keeping an eye on emerging technologies in the market, NetDimensions has integrated Adobe Connect Pro sessions with EKP, enabling a client in the public sector to forward session-related data back to EKP, and the recording and automatic archiving of webinars.
- Exam Module Updates - Enhancements to question and exam schedule management in EKP give administrators and users more control and information about exams. These updates also apply to NetDimensions standalone exam delivery system, the Enterprise Assessment Platform (EAP).
A Stronger Family of Products
In line with these recent product developments, NetDimensions redesigned the company’s product logos to capture the evolution of its suite of performance, knowledge and learning management solutions: the EKP LMS, the mobile EKP (mEKP) portable LMS, the EAP assessment engine, and the Enterprise Content Platform (ECP) single-source content authoring and publishing tool.
“Work on the redesign of our logos has been going on for some time now. We wanted to present fresh, new logos of our products that will reflect a ‘suite’ packaging, which would clearly show that they belong to an integrated family of products that support each other,” says Robert Torio, NetDimensions' Marketing Manager.
The new EKP logo comes out with EKP 6.3, while the rest will be rolled out by January 2011.