Connecting VR Training Simulators to an SAP-Backed LMS

Context

Several of our enterprise training simulators had to report into the client’s learning management system (LMS). In these projects the LMS sat behind SAP, so a trainee’s identity, authorisation and results all had to cross the SAP boundary. The SAP side belonged to the client’s own SAP team.

My role

I owned the integration as a product: the requirements, the acceptance criteria and the delivery, and I worked directly with the client’s SAP team to agree who owns what.

What I did

• Defined what the simulator needs from the enterprise system: employee authorisation on entry and passing the results of each training session back.
• Had my team build a custom backend between the simulators and the LMS to handle authorisation and result delivery.
• Coordinated with the client’s SAP team, who owned the SAP side, so that responsibilities and interfaces were clear before development started.

Result

• Training sessions in VR simulators were tied to real employees and their results reached the client’s LMS.
• Integration treated as part of the product from the start, not as a late add-on — a pattern I now apply to every enterprise project.