Updating SAP BusinessObjects to the most recent version, 4.3, to allow us to continue to fully support customers until all customers adopt Power BI.

BusinessObjects 4.3 Update

Improvements to the ways administrators can control their learning curriculum.

Learn lesson administration

We've added a brand-new Global Objectives report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to help Perform customers understand how individual objectives align with their organisational goals.

Global Objectives Report

We are planning to make changes to Perform Administration to allow more people to use the administrative and reporting functionality in Perform.  

This extension will focus on giving sub administrators access to certain data without showing all users within the system.  We are also restricting certain core administration functions from these users so they are unable to create new review templates or do branding within the system.  

You can contact the Product Manager :  mike.smithers@kallidus.com

Security model for Perform Administrators

A new skills profile will show learners what skills they need and have to perform in their role, whilst enabling them to take ownership of their own skills gaps; seeing what progress they need to make and discover relevant content. 

We are also exploring how to recommend and surface recommended skills to learners as new skills emerge in your business

There will also be AI supporting you in suggesting which skills might be useful for your profiles

Skills profile - Learner

We're working on the ability to create reports, folders, and views just for you, not for the whole business.

Please share any thoughts you have on this over!

Private reports, folders, and views

In much the same way that Perform administrators can bulk upload objectives, we plan to enable you to upload reviews to groups of individuals.   

Enabling you to target specific reviews at specific groups as an administrator.  Reducing the time it might take managers to assign reviews to their team.  In addition, recurring assignment ensures new joiners get the right review first time.  

Bulk upload of reviews in Perform

Connecting tools to Kallidus Reporting

This is currently in Beta. If you would like this to be turned on for you then please contact the Product Manager, Phill - phill.Lord-David@kallidus.com

Create a skills taxonomy in seconds rather than months! Utilising Ai you can generate a list of relevant skills for your organisation. Later, these skills will then be used to tag content or map skills to individuals to create a personalised skills profile

Ai Generated Skills (In Beta)

Learners will be empowered to track their CPD with a new interface in Learn; reducing the need for manual admin or reports to keep people on track.

Continuous Professional Development

Based on your feedback, we're making a number of enhancements to your reports. Check back here for more info soon!

Improvements to Learning Reports

We've added a brand-new Objectives Summary report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to provide Perform customers a high-level overview of objectives so they can effectively monitor progress across their organisations.

Objectives Summary Report

We're looking at ways we can bring in AI to help you understand your data better. Whether that is categorising response sentiment, trend analysis, or helping you to author and refine reports, we're exploring all the options!

Let us know of any useful suggestions below, and we'll take them into account!

Reporting AI-assisted analysis ✨

Improving the capabilities for our administrators in Perform, allowing them to be more self-reliant and reducing the need to contact support.

We'd love to hear your priorities on this one; please do share over any feedback you have!

Perform Administration

Link content to specific skills development by tagging lessons with skills

This feature is currently in Beta. If you would like this enabled contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Skills tagging (In Beta)

AI SMART objectives - this item is already available to customers.  It helps your managers and users to write better objectives based around the SMART format.  Using AI, it helps to ensure objectives are specific and measurable.

You can request this is switched on by raising a ticket with our help desk.

We are, in the next few months, adding a toggle so you can switch this on for your organisation in a self service way.  

AI SMART objectives

Check out this new feature in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics! 

Report reminders enable you to share links to key reports with your team members via email on a schedule. Reminders serve as a call to action, ensuring reports are being reviewed in a timely manner and that team members are always viewing the latest data. 

Learn more about this upcoming feature in our 

Sharing links to reports via email

Manually import a list of skills you have already identified for your business. This can be used along side the Ai Skills Generation which is currently in Beta. 

These skills will later be used to be able to tag content and map to people to create a skills profile

Manually Import Skills (In Beta)

Analytics can be a powerful ally in delivering a great Learning experience. We're adding support for SCORM 2004 in our new Reporting and Analytics tool, so you can get into the detail of how your users complete your learning.

Reporting and analytics for SCORM 2004

We've added a brand-new Reviews Summary report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to provide Perform customers a high-level overview of reviews so they can effectively monitor progress across their organisations.

Reviews Summary Report

We're exploring leveraging the power of AI to help you to get reports that meet your needs. We'd love your thoughts on how this would work for you!

AI-assisted report creation✨

May 2024 update - since February, we've launched the all-new Kallidus Reporting & Analytics to about 16% of our customers as early adopters, and will begin adding access to the rest of our customers over the next few months. You'll also see additional ideas on the roadmap relating to further enhancements we're considering for Reporting.

We're reimagining the way you access business-critical data and insights from our products. Expect brand-new reporting tools, powered by Power BI, to monitor and understand your L&D data easily. 

The new Reporting & Analytics hub will: 

Reporting Reimagined

Bulk tag existing content with skills using Ai powered suggestions

Ai bulk tag content

We're considering how best to expand our reporting capabilities to serve more of your HR ecosystem... and we'd love your thoughts! Please reach out and share what you'd like us to connect with.

Cross-product reporting expansion

Data connections enable you to export Power BI datasets to your own SFTP locations on a continuous cadence. Once exported, you can extract, transform, and load the data into your external reporting tools however needed.

Export reporting data to SFTP

This item covers some improvements to the Competency Check functionality in Learn.

Competency Check improvements

We're looking to create a set of 3rd party learning content integrations, enabling you to showcase the content you curate to your organisation without the hassle!

Let us know what providers you would like to see!

3rd party content integrations

Enable personalised learning journeys by allowing learners to create their own playlists. Enabling them to create their own learning plan, save content to come back to at a later date or favourite content they consistently go back to.

Create playlists

Check out these new features in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics!

Saved views allow you to filter a report and save the specific slice of data as a reusable report view - allowing you to focus on data relevant to you and your teams quickly and repeatably.

Shareable Links will allow you to securely share your reports and saved views with ease. 

Learn more about these new features in our 

Saved Views and Shareable Links

We know sometimes customers want to grant people access to specific reports and information (either on a one-to-one basis, or collectively) but without them having access to the full reporting experience.

These people can be employees, and sometimes might be external people who for some reason need access. How can we enable this, while giving a safe and secure way of customers managing that sharing?

Making a report available to more people

Check out this new feature in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics!

If you have a report view you find especially useful or visit frequently, you can now set it as your default view! Once set, the default view will automatically apply when you launch that particular report.

Learn more about this new feature in our 

Set a default report view

We're going to build reports that help to bring Learning and Performance to life across the teams, all in one view.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this; please use the feedback button below to share!

Cross-product reports

We're looking for feedback on the most effective areas to apply optional generative AI to summarize information you or your team members have added to Kallidus products.

Generative AI for summarizing

This piece of functionality uses AI to recommend courses using a clustering algorithm.  In short, it uses similarity features to recommend courses to an individual based on their similarity to someone else who has completed learning that this person has not.

Recommending in this way means people get intelligent and refined recommendations which grow over time.  

AI Course Recommender ✨

If you have a collection of similar report views, you can now organise them into groups for better management and easier navigation. Whether or not you've grouped your views, the views search bar will help you quickly find any view you need.

Group your report views

We're investigating more ways of increasing how often report data refreshes, so you can have even more up-to-date information to carry out your needs!

Improving how often reports refresh

Adding more capabilities to Learn's powerful group rules functionality, allowing our customers to better reflect how they'd assign learning in their organisation.

We've added:

Enhancements to Group Rules

We are working on a new identity and login service that will give our customers modern identity management capabilities. Whether you use Single Sign On, or Kallidus manages your identity and login journey, we're working to make this the best journey possible for you.

This development allows for you to use multiple single sign on (SSO) providers.  It will, in 2024, allow you to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) through the use of authentication apps.   

May 2024 update:  We have received lots of helpful feedback about our new offering.  It is great to hear it is resolving issues for customers.  We are working through your other bits of feedback and starting to work on some improvements to the login flow.

We are also working on a self service upgrade page to make upgrading easier and more in your control.  This is being tested throughout April with a view to getting this available in May/June.    

Please share any thoughts or ideas with us as we build out this capability!

Suite-wide Identity and Login

Learners can share their created Playlists with others, enabling easy knowledge sharing across your organisation.

Please do get in contact if you are interested in learning more about Playlists. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Share playlists

Improving how we can enable Learn to deliver repeat/refresher training for customers. Making improvements to the user experience in the learner and manager views.

Accreditation/refresher improvements

Adding integrations to different learning tools, such as LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Viva Learning, to improve how Learning integrates into your ecosystem. 

We've recently delivered a search integration to LinkedIn Learning (read more 

) and an integration for Microsoft Viva Learning (currently in Beta, read more 

Are there other integrations you'd be excited to see? Pop in a suggestion to let us know!

Learn Integrations: LinkedIn and MS Viva

We want our customers to say “I can share the data that I can see with others”. We'll help them with this by allowing their administrators to share their view of data with other people, allowing for a more complete view of data.

Sharing reporting data with other people

Improving our feature-set to make Learn a next-generation learning environment, supporting social and collaborative learning.

We have now delivered the following:


You can read on up on the features in Zendesk. 




Please share any other thoughts you have on this topic!

Sharing knowledge

Assess peoples skills and set what skill level is needed for specific roles whilst giving people clear targets of what skills to work on. Central teams will be able to identify skill gaps and define the required level needed for core skills vs additional skills people wish to develop

This feature is still in the research stages. Please do get in contact if you are interested in helping shape our skills roadmap, take part in any research or user testing early protypes. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Skill levels

Support longer and more complex learning journeys such as onboarding, leadership programmes or apprenticeships. Showing learners a clear path of learning to complete; including sections, pre-requisites and longer term linking to skills development

Learning Pathways

Get Ai recommended content to add you your playlists and all new playlists suggested to you based on your interests and learning activity.

Please do get in contact if you are interested in taking part in any research or user testing early protypes. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Ai Recommended Playlists

Administrators can create and edit data entries when they need to make amendments.

We have now completed this tranche of work and we welcome your feedback on it.  We have made it possible to fully edit objectives as an administrator.

We have also made it possible for you to close reviews which remain open and also re-open reviews which are fully signed off if needed.

Please do leave us feedback on this.  You can contact the Product Manager :  mike.smithers@kallidus.com 

Perform - Administrators can create/edit entries

We're hard at work to bring new absence management and planned time off (PTO) capability to our Sapling HR solution.

This new re-work will make many improvements on the existing behaviours, as well as adding new functionality that is essential to managing people in dynamic organisations!

As part of the updates to the PTO module we are introducing Working Patterns.

A Working Pattern allows you to capture an employees expected working day(s) and number of hours they work each day in the morning and/or afternoon. There is also support for multi-week Working Patterns.

Working Patterns will bring several benefits to PTO:

Absence Management for Sapling HR

Further improvements to our user generated content functionality.

We have completed two pieces of work on this recently:

Your feedback is encouraged.  Please do let us know.  Thanks

User generated content - further improvements

Based on your feedback, we've added the ability to turn off automatic generation of Closed Captions for video content in Learn.

We've also added the capability to use 'review mode' with Learn video content.

You can read more about this change 

Video enhancements for Learn

We've seen great adoption of our new Course Promotion tool, and had some really useful feedback. Based on what you've shared, we are adding a number of new features... first up is the ability to target the promoted course to specific groups.

Course Promotion improvements

We are making a small improvement to the group rules in Learn which should give greater flexibility for customers to create pathways for learning.  

You can assign lessons to users who do not pass a lesson with 100%, by adding them to a specific group.

For example:
"Lee completes their Fire Safety training, but scores 80%. While 80% is a 'Pass', Lee is also enrolled onto a 'Fire Safety extra learning' course so they can have additional learning in this area."

You can find out more about this improvement in our Help portal:   

Add learners to groups using lesson score

Improving our feature-set to make Learn a next-generation learning environment, supporting social and collaborative learning.

We've added user-generated content to allow your users to share their knowledge. We have also made sure the tools for Administrators to effectively control and moderate  are in place.

We have started with videos (MP4 and .Mov format).  These can be videos that are pre-recorded or you can record directly from a phone.  

You can choose who you wish to make this available to.  You could choose all your users or narrow it down to a more focussed group of Subject Matter Experts. 

If accepted through moderation, all UGC videos will create courses and lessons which are made available to a specific catalogue.  These can be moved around like any other course/lesson within the system.  

 
We'd love your thoughts on this one, so please share your views!

User-generated content in Learn

Enabling administrators to promote a course on your Home page.  This will show the promoted course to all users enabling them to click through to it. You will be able to customise the title and description to suit your use case. 

As an administrator you will be able to promote a course of your choice to your organisation.    

Course promotion in Learn

We've added the ability to assign objectives using rules and groups, and allowing automatic assignment for new users.

This means that you could, for example, assign an objective to the Sales group of 'Make £9.6m in FY 2024'.  This objective would be assigned to all people currently in the sales team and also anyone joining the sales team until the objective due date is met.

You can read all about this change 

Objectives automation

Add capabilities for our users to control whether somebody successfully watches a video based on the %age they have watched.

Our administrator video experience allows you to:

You can read more widely about our video lesson solution here:  

Set a percent to pass in Video

A number of improvements to the course upload capability in Learn, to improve performance and stability, and make it easier for administrators to load new content.

March 2024:  We are delighted to add in the ability for you to upload content without the need to create a new course.  We are sure this is a welcome improvement!

This workstream is concluded.  We really welcome your feedback on it.  

Content upload improvements in Learn

Adding support for the latest version of Google Analytics for customers on Learn, Perform, and Recruit.

Google Analytics upgrade

We are working on a number of enhancements for Sapling's profiles. These updates will allow users to:

Profile Enhancements for Sapling HR

We are giving customers more control over calendar visibility, allowing them to choose what events all of their employees can see.

*Ability to add holidays into calendar feeds

*Ability to show pending time off requests in Calendar

*Ability to filter calendar feeds by location, department, or employment status groups

Calendar Enhancements for Sapling HR

A number of enhancements for Recruit to improve performance and stability. Updates made across the Back Office for Recruiters to improve page load times.

Recruit performance enhancements

Connect to other parts of your HR Ecosystem

Customers can connect Learn data to other applications

Customers can surface Learn content in other applications

Customers can create Learn results from other applications

Learn API Gateway

For some time customers have fed back that the timings of batch emails (emails sent by the overnight processes) are frustrating. This item is to find a fix for that.

More control over notifications

We are currently researching what reporting requirements you have for reporting on skills, skill levels or skill gaps in your organisation.

If you would like to be involved and help shape this please contact our Product Manager, Phill - Phill.lord-david@kallidus.com 

Skills reporting

We are currently researching how skills within Learn can extend out to Perform.  We are interested how you might discuss skills within a conversation or review, how you might want your people to progress skills and how you might want to see the attainment of skills linked to business outcomes?

If you do wish to discuss please contact mike.smithers@kallidus.com.  Thanks

Skills - incorporating these into Perform

We will be starting the work to integrate skills into Perform in Spring 2025.  

We are looking at how users progress skills, how managers support their people, how your teams discuss skills and how you link skill attainment to overall company success.  

We welcome your ideas on this.  Please get in touch with mike.smithers@kallidus.com

Skills - incorporating into Perform

Two new Kallidus Off the Shelf microlearning courses that support employee personal growth and managerial expertise. Released in January 2025.

Off the Shelf course release: Assertiveness at Work/Assertiveness for Managers

Our roadmap highlights the themes we're working on. Each card you see could have one or more individual features released to help solve that theme.