Acorn PLMS: Rustici Dispatch case study

Acorn PLMS is a performance and learning management system designed for teams to be able to evaluate their learners on the competencies that matter most to the organization. Learners can then embark on personalized training pathways to improve their performance and grow in their careers.

Acorn’s goal is to connect the concepts of employee performance and learning. This connection shows learners how to be successful in their role and how they can impact the overall organization.

The challenge

While the Acorn PLMS team was looking for ways to best suit their customers’ needs, one challenge kept coming up: Learners don’t want to have to log into yet another system or portal to take training. Acorn’s customers are creating content they’re passionate about, but they needed to solve this challenge in order to reach larger audiences, ensure higher learner completion rates and sell content with their portals and separate LMSs.

The solution

Along with many of their customers, the Acorn team were already familiar with Rustici Software’s products, so it seemed like a natural fit to see if Rustici had a solution. By implementing Rustici Dispatch into their PLMS, Acorn allows their customers to keep and maintain their content and courseware in the Acorn platform but then share out access to different client LMSs. All without having to scatter their content throughout multiple systems.

The benefits

Overcoming multiple portals
Rustici Dispatch allows Acorn’s customers to distribute content to their customers’ LMSs and systems, solving the problem of learners not wanting to log into another platform.

Helping their customers grow
With Rustici Dispatch, Acorn’s content creation customers are now able to easily and quickly share their content out to their customers’ LMSs, increasing their market reach.

Protecting intellectual property
Content creators are passionate about the courses they create and want to maintain control over their IP. With Dispatch’s help, Acorn’s customers can share access to their content without having to hand over entire course files, all while monetizing their courses.

Maintaining and controlling content and updates
When edits and revisions need to happen, Acorn’s customers can make those changes and know that their customers always have access to the latest materials.

Viewing course analytics
By using Rustici Dispatch, Acorn’s interface allows clients to see their course analytics across all locations by tenant. This even aggregates across courses in different standards including xAPI.

The results

Some Acorn PLMS highlights include:

• 47,000 proxy file deliveries across 14,000 users since integrating Rustici Dispatch.
• 275 pieces of content delivered to 20 unique clients.
• Went to market with Dispatch functionality in less than 3 months.
• Acorn PLMS is trusted by hundreds of teams with over 1,000,000+ learners.
• Delighting customers by showing insights into universal content usage.
• Best in Class 2024 award from Craig Weiss.