Frequently Asked Questions

Features & Capabilities

What services does AllenComm's Tech Advisory provide?

AllenComm's Tech Advisory offers expert consulting to optimize your learning tech ecosystem, including platform integration, AI-driven learning innovation, personalized learner experiences, tech stack simplification, and actionable recommendations tailored to your organization's needs. Learn more.

How does AllenComm help organizations integrate learning platforms?

AllenComm specializes in integrating platforms such as LMS, LCMS, LXP, HRIS, CRM, ERP, and specialty applications for skills management, gamification, microlearning, and video assessment tools. This eliminates silos, amplifies insight, and creates a unified learning ecosystem. See platform integrations.

What are the key deliverables of AllenComm's Tech Advisory engagement?

AllenComm provides four customized deliverables: a research plan, key findings report, opportunity analysis, and actionable recommendations. These guide organizations from current state assessment to future-ready learning tech ecosystems. See deliverables.

How does AllenComm support AI readiness in learning tech?

AllenComm helps organizations build AI roadmaps by assessing current tech infrastructure, identifying practical AI use cases, and providing phased implementation plans, governance frameworks, and metrics to track impact. Explore AI readiness.

What technical documentation and resources are available?

AllenComm offers maintainable templates and documentation for Storyline courses, downloadable guides like the AI Agent Guide and Buyer's Guide, and structured advisory services with detailed research plans and actionable insights. AI Agent Guide | Buyer's Guide

What types of learning technology does AllenComm work with?

AllenComm works with commercial LMS, LCMS, LXP, authoring systems, HRIS, and custom web services, including AI agents and add-ons for cohort learning, project-based learning, and more. See tech services.

How does AllenComm personalize learning experiences?

AllenComm leverages AI and advanced technologies to create personalized, skills-based learning journeys, adaptive learning, and cross-platform solutions, ensuring impactful and relevant experiences for each learner. Learn more.

What is the process for ecosystem design and optimization?

AllenComm conducts a comprehensive inventory of learning tech, maps typical learning journeys, plans for future technology selection and integration, and delivers a learning ecosystem map, integration guide, and change readiness roadmap. See process.

How does AllenComm measure and report learning effectiveness?

AllenComm enables organizations to define success metrics, accelerate development cycles, and calibrate operations, providing curated analytics and reporting workflows for stakeholders. Learn about measurement.

What are AllenComm's capabilities in learning operations?

AllenComm decreases development timelines, streamlines decision-making, calibrates staffing needs, and maximizes program effectiveness through advisory and technical services. See learning operations.

Use Cases & Benefits

Who can benefit from AllenComm's Tech Advisory services?

Corporate leaders, L&D professionals, sales teams, organizations adopting AI, and new hires across industries such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, software, and travel can benefit from AllenComm's tailored advisory and integration services. Explore industries.

What business impact can customers expect from AllenComm's solutions?

Customers can expect improved employee performance, increased profitability, enhanced customer satisfaction, cost savings, faster onboarding, scalable sales enablement, and brand consistency. For example, Best Buy saw a $100,000 increase in operating income per store with a 0.1% increase in employee engagement. See metrics.

Can you share specific case studies or success stories?

Yes, AllenComm has helped Delta Air Lines enhance engagement and consolidate tech platforms, Freddie Mac streamline integrations for 500,000+ users, and HP personalize learning and prove ROI. See more case studies at AllenComm's portfolio.

What industries are represented in AllenComm's case studies?

AllenComm's case studies cover energy, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software/high-tech, and travel. See portfolio.

How does AllenComm improve employee onboarding and retention?

AllenComm's onboarding programs improve new-hire productivity by 50% and increase retention rates by nearly 60% over three years, using tools like learning portals, gamification, and adaptive learning. Explore onboarding solutions.

What feedback have customers given about ease of use?

Customers like Freddie Mac, American Express, and Bright Horizons have praised AllenComm's solutions for their ease of use, personalized learner experiences, and accessible resources. See Freddie Mac case.

What pain points does AllenComm address for customers?

AllenComm addresses challenges such as fragmented learning ecosystems, uncertainty in technology selection, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, proving ROI, AI readiness, and ineffective onboarding. Learn more.

What core problems does AllenComm solve?

AllenComm solves ineffective learning ecosystems, technology integration uncertainty, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, ROI measurement challenges, AI readiness, and onboarding issues through tailored solutions and advisory services. See solutions.

Support & Implementation

How easy is it to start working with AllenComm?

AllenComm offers a straightforward process: schedule a consultation, engage in discovery conversations, access downloadable guides, and leverage advisory services. The largest in-house L&D design team ensures quick scaling and efficient starts. Schedule a consultation.

How long does it take to implement AllenComm's solutions?

Implementation timelines depend on project scope and current systems, but most clients see immediate improvements in engagement and reduced administrative complexity once integrations go live. See implementation details.

What support does AllenComm provide during and after implementation?

AllenComm provides ongoing support, including advisory services, stakeholder alignment, and access to technical documentation and guides to ensure successful adoption and continuous improvement. See support options.

What talent and staffing services are available?

AllenComm offers talent and staffing services, providing skilled L&D professionals, learning designers, strategists, developers, and teams with expertise in AI and learning tech for both short-term and strategic initiatives. Explore talent services.

How does AllenComm ensure alignment with organizational goals?

AllenComm's advisory process includes stakeholder interviews, needs analysis, performance mapping, and customized deliverables to ensure solutions align with organizational objectives and desired outcomes. See needs analysis.

Competition & Comparison

How does AllenComm's Tech Advisory differ from traditional L&D vendor partnerships?

AllenComm goes beyond off-the-shelf solutions by offering custom advisory, strategic direction, stakeholder alignment, and actionable recommendations, supporting scale, innovation, and efficiency through technology. See comparison.

Why should a customer choose AllenComm over alternatives?

AllenComm offers tailored solutions, expertise across segments, proven track record, focus on ROI, and innovative technology integration, making it a leader in corporate training and learning tech advisory. See differentiators.

How does AllenComm compare to competitors in terms of technology integration?

AllenComm stands out by integrating AI and advanced technologies, providing personalized learning journeys, analytics, and adaptive learning experiences, and offering roadmaps for future-proofing organizations. See technology integration.

What are AllenComm's competitive advantages for different user segments?

AllenComm provides actionable insights and measurable ROI for corporate leaders, tailored sales enablement for sales teams, advanced tools for L&D professionals, AI integration for tech-driven organizations, and effective onboarding for new hires. See segment advantages.

Technical Requirements

What technical skills and talent profiles does AllenComm offer?

AllenComm provides instructional writers, learning experience designers, instructional media specialists, LMS admins, project managers, subject matter experts, learning strategists, and instructional designers with expertise in AI, learning analytics, and media development. See talent profiles.

What are the requirements for platform and tool selection?

AllenComm analyzes learning needs, shortlists technologies based on functionality, scale, interoperability, and user experience, facilitates demos, and delivers needs assessments, cost analysis, and implementation roadmaps. See platform selection.

How does AllenComm handle vendor negotiation and contract support?

AllenComm leads vendor negotiation and contract support to ensure advantageous licensing and service-level agreements for platform and tool integration. See vendor support.

What is AllenComm's approach to governance and AI compliance?

AllenComm aligns learning with governance requirements and critical organizational priorities, driving results and accelerating AI transformation with compliance-focused advisory. See governance.

Product Information

What is AllenComm's Tech Advisory?

AllenComm's Tech Advisory is a full-service consulting practice that helps organizations optimize their learning tech ecosystem, integrate platforms, drive AI innovation, and deliver personalized learning experiences with measurable results. Learn more.

What makes AllenComm's Tech Advisory unique?

AllenComm's Tech Advisory stands out for its pragmatic, governance-focused approach, realistic roadmaps, and ability to deliver 10x value for large clients through AI-enabled learning tech ecosystems. See uniqueness.

Who are some of AllenComm's customers?

AllenComm has partnered with Delta, Pure Storage, BD, HP, AONL, Panera, Nestlé, Freddie Mac, LEGO, and Kraft Heinz, among others. See customer logos and case studies.

How does AllenComm ensure measurable ROI?

AllenComm provides measurement and evaluation services to link learning initiatives to business outcomes, helping organizations justify L&D investments and demonstrate tangible results. See ROI services.

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Expert Consulting to Optimize Your Learning Tech Ecosystem

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Expect more from your learning tech ecosystem. AllenComm’s advisory practice in learning technology offers a range of consulting services to help learning leaders unlock the scale, potential, and impact of their learning tech stack.

  • Integrate platforms. Eliminate silos. Amplify insight.
  • Turn AI potential into practical AI-driven learning innovation. 
  • Deliver personalized learner experiences—without replacing your tech. 
  • Simplify your stack to cut redundant licensing and do more.   

Optimize Your Tech Stack, Become a Future-Ready Leader

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Deliverables Customized for Your Unique Tech Needs & Goals

AllenComm isn’t just a learning services provider. We’re a full-service advisory partner that wants to help you get the most out of your tech investments. Our specialists, such as eLearning tech consultants and LMS integration experts, will help you will help you break down your organization’s current state vs. your ideal future state — and provide actionable recommendations to get you there with ease. Along the way, we’ll have four completely customized deliverables to get your initiative started on the right foot.

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Our Proven Track Record, Your Success

To truly be successful, tech advisory must be more than just words or hearsay—it requires realistic, step-by-step actions that make a difference in achieving the results you need to see. Our track record of consulting with other partners to optimize their tech stack has given us new perspectives and insights into the unique challenges faced by various industries across the globe. While we can’t highlight our whole portfolio here, we’ve picked out a few examples that show our dedication to bringing these optimized tech ecosystems to life.

ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT: Delta Air Lines needed to better support cohort programs and collaboration, while tracking performance in meaningful ways. Our recommendations not only enhanced engagement and measurement, but also consolidated tech platforms to save money and allow for additional flexibility & scale for future initiatives.

EASE OF USE: Financial education is more important than ever—and requires a different approach for non-employees and the general public. We recommended a personalized learner experience for 500,000+ users that utilizes a simple, localized LMS, enhanced admin functionality, and custom integrations to better support these learners.

GREATER INTEGRATION: Having centralized, streamlined tech access is critical for cross-team coordination. In collaboration with HPE, we recommended data lake, SSO, and integrations with other platforms to personalize learning, gather metrics to prove ROI, and facilitate the hosting of live events for an enhanced overall experience.

Learning Tech Advisory for Scalable, Integrated Ecosystems

Most learning technology teams face an exciting but daunting challenge—how to keep pace with innovation while providing an environment that learning organizations and their learners can use. Our learning tech advisory services (with both hybrid & digital learning platform advisory expertise) can help you evaluate the technical needs of your organization, map out the current ecosystem, and recommend the best tools and integrations to suit your requirements.

Enterprise Tech Needs Analysis

The purpose of an enterprise tech needs analysis is to evaluate the learning technology infrastructure of the organization and to identify critical gaps that limit the distribution, efficacy, or reporting of learning programs. This assessment leads clients in making future-ready technology decisions.

Process

  • Conduct stakeholder interviews and gather needs related to the limits and opportunities of learning technology in the organization
  • Create a learning tech capabilities matrix that lists the features and functions supporting organizational needs
  • Analyze existing platforms used to collect, store, and share learning data, identifying areas where data may be missing or where systems may lack integration

Outcomes

  • Deliver a learning tech needs and objective report that summarizes findings and outlines the organization’s current challenges and prioritized needs
  • Present a learning tech gap analysis that highlights missing functionality not represented in the tech capabilities matrix
  • Lay out a tech recommendations roadmap that categorizes recommendations based on urgency, available resources, and potential impact, serving as a step-by-step guide to achieving the desired outcomes

Ecosystem Design

Ecosystem mapping and design entails the creation of a comprehensive blueprint for an optimized learning tech environment that considers the organization’s goals, audience profile, existing technologies, etc. It results in a roadmap for creating a seamless and future-ready learning ecosystem.

Process

  • Conduct an inventory of all learning tech used across the organization, detailing how the tools integrate and function together while also revealing redundancies, siloed functionality, etc. 
  • Map out the typical learning journeys of different learner segments and the required technologies to support these journeys
  • Plan for future technology selection and integration, considering emerging trends (such as AI), accepted practices, and demand for new functionality

Outcomes

  • Design a learning ecosystem map that lays out the current and future technology ecosystem for the organization, including recommended tools, their functionalities, and key integrations
  • Deliver a guide for learning journey tech integration to support each stage of the many learning journeys that will be supported by the ecosystem
  • Lay out an implementation and change readiness roadmap that outlines the steps to ensure user adoption and to maximize the impact of the new learning ecosystem

Platform & Tool Selection

To recommend the best learning technology for your ecosystem, an AllenComm learning tech advisory can analyze your specific needs and available resources to select platforms, applications, and Web services that integrate with your existing ecosystem.

Process

  • Compare learning needs to available tools within the learning infrastructure to find areas where new tools (or training on legacy tools) may be needed 
  • Shortlist recommended technologies based on needs and established decision criteria, such as functionality, scale, interoperability, and user experience
  • Facilitate demos and proof-of-concept testing by working with shortlisted vendors to develop sample projects for hands-on evaluation

Outcomes

  • Deliver a platform or tool needs assessment detailing the functionality required as well as the desired technical specifications
  • Lay out a cost analysis and implementation roadmap to outline the key steps for integrating the chosen platform and tools into the learning ecosystem (data migration, user training, ongoing support, etc.)
  • Lead the vendor negotiation and contract support to ensure an advantageous licensing and service-level agreement

Learning Tech Advisory FAQ

Meet With a Learning Expert

We’d love to connect with you to learn more about your needs and goals! Request a consultation with one of our learning domain experts so we can better understand your situation, discuss how our tech advisory services can personally help you, or offer guidance on other avenues to help you succeed. This initial consultation is free for qualifying organizations and comes with a “no hassle, no obligation” guarantee if you decide not to take the next step with us.

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Tech Advisory

Engaging a learning tech advisor can provide an objective, insightful assessment of an organization’s specific needs for learning technology. A learning tech expert can not only recommend the best next-gen tools, but they can consult on the optimal integration of those platforms and applications within your learning tech ecosystem. The result expands the possibilities for digital and hybrid learning while ensuring that meaningful data is shared across key platforms (LMS, LCMS, HRIS, etc.)

Case Study

Freddie Mac

As part of an ongoing partnership with Freddie Mac, the AllenComm tech advisory team supports the company’s mission to provide financial skills to consumers by better equipping their organization for financial education. We have helped them to streamline integrations and sign-on protocols. Additionally, our learning tech advisors are helping them to be future-ready, anticipating the changes necessary to introduce AI into their learning tech ecosystem.

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Brandon Hall Group

“Across the spectrum of integration needs, including advanced analytics and learning tech stack analysis and strategy, AllenComm is uniquely positioned to help… AllenComm is a services company with technology, not the other way around.”

Matt Pittman

Principal HCM Analyst, Brandon Hall Group

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Create a roadmap to introduce AI into your current tech stack based on practical use cases that boost learning outcomes and drive innovation

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Bring harmony to your learning tech ecosystem with enhanced interoperability and gain valuable insight with comprehensive data collection and analysis 

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Create cohesive, highly personalized, and impactful learning journeys that leverage the full power of your legacy platforms and emerging tech

reduce costs

Review redundant platforms in your legacy tech stack to find opportunities to streamline learning ops and reduce costly per-user licensing

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actionable insights

We bring every deliverable together into a comprehensive, personalized plan of action—an Actionable Insights report—that’s fully refined and ready to execute once buy in is secured.

The Actionable Insights report…

  • Outlines practical options to bridge the gap between your current and ideal future state
  • Assesses and scores those options based on your goals and decision-making criteria
  • Offers clear, prioritized recommendations for next steps
  • Maps out a high-level implementation plan based on these recommendations

We know securing buy in is easier said than done. With over 40 years of advisory tech experience, we’re here to help! As part of our partnership, we can present the report to the core analysis team and any decision-makers you’d like to include. This session is designed to answer questions and build momentum around your vision.

Following the presentation, we’ll incorporate final feedback into the report to reflect all decisions made—ensuring you’re equipped with an actionable, aligned path forward.

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opportunity analysis

Our third major deliverable, the Opportunity Analysis, builds on the previous phase by clearly outlining the opportunities ahead. This includes:

  • A detailed comparison between the Key Findings report and the original goals defined in the Research Plan
  • A visual representation of your current learning platforms and technologies
  • A proposed future-state model that illustrates an ideal configuration of your learning tech ecosystem
  • A gap analysis showing the differences between where you are now and where you want to be
  • An evaluation of your organization’s change readiness, knowledge limitations, and potential risks

We aim to be a true partner—not just a vendor—throughout this journey. That’s why maintaining alignment on deliverables and next steps is essential. As we refine your vision for the future, we’ll document any updates needed for the next phase before moving into formal recommendations.

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Key Findings

Once the initial analysis is complete and the Research Plan has your approval, we’ll begin reviewing the materials you’ve shared and meet with your team to address any outstanding questions. 



Following that, we’ll deliver a Key Findings report that includes:

  • Organized findings based on discussions and data gathered so far (including highlights of the analysis and platform reports)
  • A full appendix of raw responses (captured via AI) for transparency
  • An additional appendix that logs all data sources referenced so far

The Key Findings report helps ensure everyone is aligned on what comes next and is aware of any remaining gaps due to unavailable data or stakeholders. You’ll have a chance to review and approve this report before we move into the gap and opportunity analysis phase.

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research plan

Your success is our success! That’s why we begin every advisory tech engagement with a thorough discovery of your priorities and timelines. We’ll coordinate a kickoff session with a dedicated analysis group, including your key stakeholders and the AllenComm Advisory team.

During this session, we’ll collaborate to conduct qualitative and quantitative assessments that clarify:

  • Your ideal goals and outcomes
  • Who will be involved (including other teams, leaders, and stakeholders)
  • The core questions we’ll explore in future tech advisory sessions
  • Existing data and reports from relevant platforms or tools that can inform our analysis
  • Assignments to individuals who will provide access to resources and by when
  • Action items and timelines for the next steps in the advisory process

The result of step one? A unique Research Plan tailored to your situation, which you can review and approve before we move forward.

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