Training Tracker Upgrade Now Available for Small Business

April 19, 2010 - PRLog -- Melbourne, Australia – The training administration software market is saturated with highly complex, expensive and difficult to learn systems. Up till now, small businesses and single departments in larger organizations have not been well served. This week, Business Performance P/L answered their call with the release of the new version of their popular Training Tracker software.

Training Tracker Version 2.0 is designed to benefit anyone who needs to track training economically and efficiently. It is well suited to small business owners, training database administrators, training coordinators, project managers and anyone else with a desire to track and report training activity and expenditures.

Releasing the new Training Tracker this week, Managing Director Leslie Allan said, “Small business owners just don’t have the funds to spend thousands of dollars on a sophisticated training database. Nor will they use more than a fraction of the features in these expensive tracking systems. To minimize cost and complexity, we built Training Tracker on the Microsoft Excel base. Most small businesses already use and are familiar with Microsoft Excel. So, our philosophy is to use what business owners and managers are already familiar with. We can help business people avoid the pain of learning a whole new complex and unfamiliar system. With Training Tracker, we can get our customers up and running as quickly as possible.”

Some of the enhancements included in the new version of Training Tracker are a new style interface, improved navigation, more reliable reports, new reports and charts, improved data protection and error handling and help on customizing compliance training reminders and warning notices.

One of the noteworthy improvements is the addition of a data migration wizard. Some customers will have their company and employee data residing in another database, such as their Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The new data migration wizard allows customers to now easily import their company setup data into Training Tracker and to export their data into another workbook. Customers using previous versions of Training Tracker will also find the new wizard hugely beneficial as they can now transfer their existing data into the new version easily and very quickly. Upgrading from a previous version of Training Tracker has just become so much simpler and hassle free.

The click ‘n’ go reports and charts are another noteworthy improvement in the new version. Customers can now select from one of the many preconfigured reports and charts and click a button. The report or chart is then ready for distribution to managers, customers, participants, or anyone else. Allan adds, “And it’s so easy now to copy that training report or chart to another program or document. The database administrator can, for example, copy the Training Tracker expenditure report table and chart with one click and paste them into their Microsoft Word monthly management report.”

The types of reports that Training Tracker is preconfigured to automatically produce include the following:

-training participant activity
-training expenditure by department or training provider
-training hours by department, trainer or training provider
-training status by outcome, results or purchase status
and others

If a report or chart does not suit the customer’s exact needs, they are able to customize the report or chart to their precise requirements. They are even able to produce entirely new reports and charts.

Training Tracker is supplied complete with a comprehensive 51 page User Guide, Quick Start Guide and import template for importing data from other databases. Customers can also download a free trial version of Training Tracker. The trial version allows customers to try out all of the features and functions on a sample company database. Training Tracker and the free trial version are available for download from the Business Performance P/L website at http://www.businessperform.com/training-tracker

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About Business Performance Pty Ltd:
Established in 2003, Business Performance Pty Ltd provides business and management consulting services globally in a range of business areas. From its website, the company also proudly supplies a wide selection of business and management software products designed to make managing organizations easier and more effective. Products featured include tools, templates and guides in the areas of training and employee development, project management, organizational change and career planning. All products can be purchased and downloaded easily from anywhere in the world from the Business Performance Pty Ltd website at http://www.businessperform.com