HCM & LMS Ecosystem
Connect your talent systems around the employee
Bring skills, aspirations, learning and internal opportunities into a more connected, personalised experience—without replacing your systems of record.
Virkware acts as a talent activation layer across the organisation’s existing HCM and learning environment, connecting selected resources with marketplace opportunities.
A connected opportunities landscape
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Core records and transactions remain in the systems designed to manage them.
Virkware’s ecosystem role
Add connection and personalisation without unnecessary replacement
Virkware is not a replacement HCM or LMS. It helps employees navigate a wider opportunities landscape by connecting resources held in existing systems with experiences enabled through the Internal Talent Marketplace.
“One place” means one connected access experience for the employee. It does not mean that every record, transaction or workflow moves into Virkware.
Clear system boundary: HCM remains authoritative for employee and organisational records. The learning environment continues to manage course delivery and completion.
One opportunities landscape
Make development and opportunity easier to navigate
Employees often encounter learning, jobs, mentoring, projects and career information in different places. Virkware helps connect those resources around what the employee may need next.
Learning
Surface relevant courses in the context of skills and aspirations, while delivery remains in the learning environment.
Internal roles
Present relevant vacancies and pathways, then return employees to the established application workflow.
Career Pathways
Create personalised vertical, lateral and aspiration-led directions within the approved career framework.
Internal Gigs
Host short-term opportunities from publication through staffing, completion and feedback.
Mentoring
Support discovery, requests, acceptance, scheduled sessions, private notes and programme feedback.
Communities
Support networks, peer learning and recurring participation around relevant interests and aspirations.
Keep core records where they belong
Three roles, connected around the employee journey
Systems of record
Retain authoritative employee data, organisation structure, learning delivery and recruitment workflows.
Virkware activation layer
Use approved profile context to connect skills and aspirations with pathways, gigs, mentors, learning and roles.
Employee experience
Give people a personalised route to discover opportunities and move into the appropriate workflow when they act.
Use approved connections to reduce friction
Let information support the employee journey
The precise fields, frequency and direction of each connection depend on customer configuration and the available systems.
Profile context: approved identity, role and organisation data can establish the employee’s starting point.
Learning: relevant courses and permitted completion information can connect development with pathways and applied opportunities.
Internal roles: vacancies can appear in recommendations before the employee moves into the established application process.
Multi-entity organisations: deployments can support subsidiaries using different HCM environments, subject to identity, permission and data-boundary design.
Clear answers
HCM & LMS ecosystem FAQs
Does Virkware replace our HCM or LMS?+
No. Virkware complements existing systems by connecting selected data, learning and roles with marketplace experiences such as pathways, gigs and mentoring.
Where do employees complete learning?+
Learning remains in the organisation’s learning environment. Virkware can surface relevant courses and direct employees to that experience.
Where do employees apply for internal roles?+
Virkware can recommend roles sourced from the HCM, then redirect employees to the established application workflow.
Can Virkware work across subsidiaries using different HCMs?+
Yes, subject to an implementation design covering identity, permissions, privacy, data boundaries and available connections.
Your People. Your Potential.
Make more of the talent resources you already have.
Connect existing systems with a personalised employee experience for development, contribution and movement.