Say hello 👋 to NOA Evolve; a service for managing courses and continuing education
Over the past six months, we have been working hard to develop a brand new service, NOA Evolve.
NOA Evolve is designed to help you who are responsible for courses and skills development in your company, and is particularly valuable if you are an auditor, accountant or work in an industry where continuing education is required to maintain authorizations.
We know that this is time-consuming work, and it is basically the employee's responsibility to ensure that the license is valid at all times.
NOA Evolve gives your company an overview and control of your employees' status and progression in their continuing education, thus ensuring that they meet the FSA's continuing education requirements and are qualified to do their job at all times. NOA Evolve simplifies, streamlines and ensures quality at every stage.Â
Developed in collaboration with RSM Norway
It all started when we received an inquiry from Ragnar Pettersen at RSM Norway, where they were looking for a system that could handle everything related to the administration of continuing education for their employees.
The company employs over 300 auditors, accountants and lawyers, who are required to take continuing education in order to maintain their authorizations. Ragnar dedicated about 20% of his working hours as responsible for courses and continuing education in the company, in addition to being an auditor and partner in the company, and after many years with a lot of manual work and time-consuming tasks, they looked around for a supplier who could help them get a better overview and control.
These were tasks they needed to streamline:
A course catalog for internal courses in the company
Online registration for employees directly from the course catalog
Digital registration of participation at the start and end of the course (previously done manually after logging in to Teams)
Automate the issuance of course certificates
Ability to retrieve reports and an overview of the individual's status of completed and remaining hours in various subject areas against the requirements of the FSA.
RSM Norway had been in contact with several companies, but it was only after talking to NOA AS that the pieces fell into place. Based on NOA's attendance registration system, RSM entered into a collaboration with NOA to further develop a new service for companies in the same situation.
When asked how the collaboration has worked for Ragnar, he replies: "Absolutely fine".
What saves Ragnar and RSM the most time is the simplification of the course certificates. "It used to take a lot of time to create and store the course certificates, but with Evolve's autogeneration, it has become super ingenious"
And the most important value Evolve adds to RSM Norway is control. An overview and assurance that all employees are on track and have completed courses by the deadline in accordance with the continuing education requirements of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway. If they have not made satisfactory progress, I can send them a reminder.
I haven't had a proper overview of my time accounts until now, because we now also have an overview of courses taken externally. It goes without saying that Evolve saves time - Ragnar estimates that he can reduce his time use by as much as 80% compared to his previous routines.
We thank RSM Norway for the collaboration and look forward to developing the service further.
The service is designed to meet the needs of auditors, accountants and lawyers - but the system is flexible and can be used by multiple industries.
You can read more about Evolve here
or contact Hege directly (general manager of NOA) if you want to test the service.
Email: hege@noticeofattendance.com
Ragnar Pettersen, course and competence manager at RSM Norway, is very pleased with the delivery and for having received the system they wanted.
Kenneth Grande, CEO of Moonde and partner in NOA, has developed Evolve in close collaboration with Ragnar at RSM Norway. "It has been a very smooth experience working with RSM in the development of Evolve. The collaboration has been characterized by good communication, clear objectives, and very good user stories during the project. We at Moonde/NOA are definitely looking forward to further cooperation and further development of Evolve".