KiwiRail is New Zealand’s national railroad operator and one of the largest transport employers in New Zealand, with over 4,200 permanent staff and more than 6,500 contractors. The company transports over 33% of New Zealand’s export goods. Their employees are split over five distinct business units: KiwiRail Freight, Interislander, KiwiRail Passenger, KiwiRail Infrastructure & Engineering, and KiwiRail Corporate.

KiwiRail requires a single learning management system (LMS) for the five business units and over 5,000 users to replace their ageing and inflexible systems, which don’t communicate with each other.

As well as the requirement to consolidate a myriad of functions into one platform, the system also needs to ensure critical safety business processes and skill competencies, and that compliance with strict legislation is met. All this must be achieved while reducing administration efforts and costs and improving data quality and availability.