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With over 250 different and distinct products to deliver online learning which system best suits your needs?
There are service avalaiable to help you. Here is a free one but it is limitied to 37 products. There are commercial services as well for example see http://www.brandon-hall.com/ the problem with these services you need to know what you are looking for and what is the most important issues (deal breakers).
The LMS products range from free to very expensive enterprise orientated and which one suits you is a very difficult and potentially expense choice. Here is a link to Seven steps in choosing an LMS.
An important thing to remember is some of the LMS systems lock you into their structure and changing products at a latter date can be difficult, but if you are happy there this is not an issue. One way to help with furture migration is to take the time to create your elearning material in portable sections, this can be done by creating word documents, videos and SCORMs.
SCORMs are portable learning objects that most good LMS support, they can be created with many different tools and usually create much more proffesional looking delivery and link back to your LMS for grading and progression purposses.
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