Case Study: The Dow Chemical Company achieves $116M in savings over 3 years with WBT Systems' TopClass

The Dow Chemical Company - Customer Case Study

The Dow Chemical Company, a global leader in science and technology with $30B in sales, needed to train 60,000 employees and contractors across six continents on safety, compliance and policies—more than one million hours of required training. Dow required a fast, scalable eLearning solution with easy course creation and translation, integration with PeopleSoft and single sign‑on, and capacity to deliver 5,000–10,000 course completions per week.

WBT Systems’ TopClass was deployed to migrate materials into a learning-object library, create thousands of customized courses, track certifications, and integrate with Dow’s PeopleSoft/NT logins. The move converted over 1M hours of classroom training to web-based learning, cut per-user training costs from $95 to $11, reduced classroom time by 50–60% (saving $21M in year one), delivered roughly $30M annually in ROI, and produced $116M in savings over three years.

The Dow Chemical Company

Jon Walker

HR IT Director