$835,500 ROI from completing courses

Medidata Solutions was pivoting toward an AI-powered future and needed its workforce to keep pace. The challenge wasn’t access to learning. It was making learning impossible to miss. Medidata embedded O’Reilly into every touchpoint of the employee experience.

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Challenges and solutions

The challenge

  • Learning as a foundation Make learning a foundational element of the employee experience, not an optional add-on
  • AI literacy for strategy Build AI literacy to support the company’s strategic pivot toward an AI-centric future
  • Engagement without mandates Sustain engagement and platform usage beyond the initial launch period without top-down mandates

The O’Reilly solution

  • Day-one platform access Embedded O’Reilly into new hire onboarding, ensuring every employee starts with platform access
  • Company-wide AI literacy Direct collaboration with the O’Reilly team to drive company-wide AI literacy
  • Peer learning in Slack Dedicated O’Reilly Slack channel for peer-to-peer learning and content sharing

Results

Here’s how investing in learning translated into measurable business results.

  • 70% increase in active users in one year, from 844 to 1,461
  • $835K ROI in skills gained and applied through 184 course completions

Takeaway

Medidata didn’t leave learning to chance

By embedding O’Reilly into every stage of the employee experience, it turned a learning platform into a strategic capability engine—and built the AI-ready workforce its future demands.

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