Unlocking B2B Learning Data: How Yet Analytics Supports Interconnection and Accessibility for XR and LMS Providers
In today’s enterprise training landscape, interoperability and a scalable data strategy are make-or-break factors for product success.
Whether you're delivering immersive XR training experiences or managing complex learning requirements through an LMS, the ability to design, implement, and operationalize xAPI is no longer a “nice to have” – it’s a competitive advantage.
At Yet Analytics, we specialize in helping platform providers bring robust xAPI capabilities to life. For our B2B customers, we go farther than just providing documentation. We provide B2B retainers structured to support both strategic advisory and technical team augmentation – and offerings modeled to support what you need to do.
To illustrate what we mean, here are a couple use cases that should resonate. As you read through, note that we’ve been getting an over abundance of calls for integration and instrumentation of xAPI in both XR and enterprise LMS use cases. This partly has to do with new expectations for learning activity data that are rolling out across the DoD and Federal government. In some ways, this has been a long time coming. But in the wake of new approaches to acquisition and new expectations for data access, it is becoming clear that if you can’t offer xAPI, you probably should just forfeit any attempt at getting government business in the learning domain.
XR Training Platforms: Data from the Edge
XR training platforms are rapidly evolving – but many struggle with fragmented data pipelines and limited reporting. We work directly with XR product teams to embed xAPI and deliver analytics that actually support performance outcomes. This generally involves both the instrumentation of platforms to produce xAPI data and the design of xAPI Profiles to model the data produced against the metrics needed to support assessment, readiness objectives, and mission planning.
Use Case: XR & Mobile Learning
A transportation company was using XR training to complement mobile-first micro-training. They saw the interconnected relevance of the two streams of data and wanted to leverage them together. This involved not just instrumenting each application to produce xAPI – it involved ensuring that identity management was handled in a consistent manner across apps and it involved making tradeoffs between the volume of data that was potentially accessible from the XR application and the requisite needs that business systems – in this case a reporting system – would have.
Short story: having solved the id management problem, we crafted an xAPI Profile for each platform – sharing concepts between them, but treating patterns separately. Then we implemented a filtering system so that the prepared and structured data from each application could easily be identified for use by the business reporting system. The result was real-time reporting based on activity occurring across two different types of learning platform. And the customer was able to demonstrate – through data – the value of the investment that their clients would be making in XR.
Use Case: Healthcare Simulation in Unity
A healthcare simulation platform built in Unity needed a scalable framework for behavioral analytics across multiple deployment sites. Our team worked alongside theirs to define xAPI Profiles, implement real-time data capture, and build the infrastructure for aggregated insights. In this use case, we implemented our open source xAPI Publisher for Unity – providing a structured but endlessly customizable means of instrumenting the synthetic activities that occur within XR environments.
Short story: By implementing the xAPI Publisher, we didn’t just solve the immediate challenge – rather, we provided the software and framework necessary for the customer to develop new XR tracking capabilities for any future Unity-based scenario.
Powering Next-Gen LMS Functionality
LMS providers are increasingly being asked to deliver open data interoperability and cross-platform insight. We help LMS teams extend their product capabilities by embedding xAPI and connecting learning ecosystems.
Use Case: Moodle LMS
We supported ADL in their use of Moodle as an xAPI provider within the learning technology ecosystem that they are building in support of the Enterprise Digital Learning Modernization program by engineering significant updates to the platform’s xAPI plugin. Now, user interactions of a much higher fidelity (down to the individual question level on quiz interactions, for example) are trackable as xAPI data statements. This allows instructors to track granular learning behavior outside of course completion data.
Short story: In the same way that we reimagined what Moodle’s xAPI capabilities could be, we have the requisite experience to reimagine the xAPI capabilities of any learning management system. And given the low level of detail and data access prevalent in the majority of LMSs, the exemplar of Moodle’s new capabilities is both a model and a challenge.
With so many enterprises having long standing concerns about LMS functionality – let alone relevance within modern learning programs – will those LMSs that provide data accessibility (and the benefits of plug-and-play integration with business systems without the need for 3rd party apps) be the ones who succeed in this new generation of learning technologies and instructional approaches? We think so.
Why It Matters
Your platform doesn’t just need to work – it needs to communicate, integrate, and scale. At Yet Analytics, we bridge the gap between data strategy and real-world engineering so that your team can focus on building, shipping, and growing. Our B2B partners benefit from our experience and access our knowledge (and lessons learned) through our advisory and team augmentation programs.
Interested in learning how we can support your product team? Let’s talk.