I’m thrilled to announce that registration is now open for Skilljar Connect 2019, which we will be hosting on November 4th and 5th here in Seattle, Washington!

I’m thrilled to announce that the new and improved Admin Dashboard is now live and available to all Skilljar customers. Our goal is to provide you with functionality and an experience that makes it easy to implement and manage your training portal, and our updates are true to that mission.

At Skilljar Connect 2018, we received overwhelmingly positive feedback about how helpful and empowering it was to meet and network with other Skilljar users and members of the Customer Education community. While we are looking forward to meeting again in-person at Skilljar Connect 2019 (November 4th and 5th in Seattle), we also wanted to create an online forum where we could keep the dialogue going throughout the year.

We are thrilled to share that Skilljar has been awarded Best Corporate Extended Enterprise Learning System by industry expert John Leh of Talented Learning.

Skilljar, the leading Customer Training Platform for enterprises, today announced that it has won a Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Award for the fourth consecutive year. Skilljar was awarded silver in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for External Training category.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skilljar, the leading Customer Training Platform for enterprises, recently wrapped up its inaugural customer conference, Skilljar Connect 2018. Over 150 executives from more than 40 companies came together to share best practices and deep insights about customer and partner training. The companies represented at Connect 2018 included Autodesk, Avalara, Cisco, MapR, Zuora, Zendesk, and more.

When customer education teams design programs to successfully onboard, engage, and retain customers, they have three types of training to choose from: self-paced, online training; live, instructor-led training (in-person or virtual); or a blend of both self-paced and instructor-led training.

Seattle, WA - Skilljar, the leading customer training platform, today announced the launch of its app that extends Zendesk, Inc.’s cloud-based customer service platform. The integration enables mutual customers to seamlessly access Skilljar training activity next to support tickets on their Zendesk dashboard. Agents using the Zendesk interface can then provide more informed responses and target content recommendations, based on prior customer training activity in Skilljar.

*This post originally appeared on LinkedIn on 3/14/18 

By: Rajeev Batra

The defining mantra for businesses today is customer experience. While, products and services need to be easy to understand and intuitive to use, great training is key to making customers successful and lifelong advocates. One only needs to look at Apple and its Genius Bars in how seriously it takes educating its customers despite the intuitive and easy to use nature of its products. The need to continuously equip customers with the knowledge to use products and services is even more acute in the B2B world, where complexity is higher and often more is at stake for both the buyer and seller. In the modern service economy products are increasingly sold as a subscription, where delivering a superior customer experience is a constant, requiring that users know how to use a product cold. 

Today we announced our $16.4 million Series A funding from new investors Mayfield and Shasta Ventures, with participation from our existing investor Trilogy Equity Partners. As part of the financing, we’re excited to welcome Rajeev Batra from Mayfield and Doug Pepper from Shasta to the Skilljar board.