Case Study: Deutsche Bahn achieves global, multi-tenant online training success with Totara

Totara-powered DB Lernwelt Sets Guinness World Record for online training

Deutsche Bahn needed a common learning platform for more than 300,000 employees across many business units and countries, while keeping learning areas administratively separated and compliant with strict data protection rules. The company chose Totara Learn to power its DB Lernwelt initiative, supported by MM Learning Solutions, to handle online, in-person, mandatory, and multilingual training needs.

Totara delivered a flexible, multi-tenant solution with custom plugins and integrations for single sign-on, user data imports, and completion tracking. The result was major adoption and scale: by 2023, DB Lernwelt had over 290,000 registered users, more than 185,000 active users, and more than 700,000 successful course completions in 2022. It also helped Deutsche Bahn set a Guinness World Record, with 3,400 participants completing an online diversity and inclusion webinar in 24 hours.

Deutsche Bahn

Christian Dorn

Head of Production