Elearnity Knowledge Centre - Corporate learning research and e-learning research - Main document list Date Document ....................................................................... Type Topics Vendors Sectors 03/08/2010 Epic nominated for IVCA communication award ‘Operation Numerika’ – a numeracy skills course delivered on Nintendo DS for new recruits into the British Army - has been nominated in the e-learning category at the 2010 IVCA awards. These highly prestigious awards are recognised as the premier marks of excellence for effective business and public sector communications in video, interactive projects, business television and digital media. Marco Forgione, IVCA’s Chief Executive commented “The sheer number, diversity and quality of entries News Content Epic Defence 03/08/2010 Caspian Learning's Serious Games Challenge Caspian Learning, developer of Thinking Worlds, a commercially available software platform that enables the cost-effective, rapid development of engaging 3D immersive learning simulations and serious games, plans to launch their first Serious Games Challenge at the Game Based Learning Conference on 28th March 2010. The challenge will pit instructional designers of all experience levels against each other in a 30 day Serious Games Challenge to create the most innovative learning simulation usi News Products Simulation Virtual Worlds Caspian Learning 03/04/2010 LV= Re-Engineers Staff Development with Cornerstone OnDemand The largest friendly society in the UK and leading mutual uses Cornerstone OnDemand SaaS-based solution to bolster the learning needs of 4,000 employees across 28 UK offices. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Cornerstone OnDemand Financial Services Insurance 03/04/2010 Kineo wows Hewlett Packard Kineo has just released a case study, highlighting recent work with Hewlett Packard to create a 15-minute learning experience on their Total Customer Experience program. News Content Rapid e-learning Kineo Information Technology 03/04/2010 CiRBA revamps certification with NetDimensions Assessment Engine NetDimensions announced that CiRBA, a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence software, successfully implemented the Enterprise Assessment Platform assessment engine to enhance the certification process for its global business partners. News Assessment LMS Certification NetDimensions Information Technology 03/04/2010 Spanish financial group chooses Giunti Labs Caja Madrid, the fourth largest financial group in Spain, has revolutionised its training systems through the use of an LCMS. News LCMS Giunti Labs Financial Services 03/04/2010 2009 record year for Cornerstone OnDemand Cornerstone OnDemand announced growth and strong performance in 2009 despite the global recession. Its global subscriber base has grown 83 percent in 2009. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management SaaS Cornerstone OnDemand 03/03/2010 New e-induction launched within the Insolvency Service Edvantage group, Managed Learning Service provider with the Insolvency Service, have launched a series of four e-learning modules which replaces the existing induction programme. News Content Managed Service LMS SaaS Edvantage Government 03/02/2010 Raytheon offers Price per Event Raytheon Professional Services announced a technology and services-based Price per Event package to provide European customers cost efficiency and flexibility when fulfilling training administration and records management needs. News Content Managed Service LMS Hosted Raytheon 03/02/2010 Kaplan IT Learning acquires Atlantic Link Kaplan IT Learning announced that it has completed the acquisition of Atlantic Link to add to its existing STT Trainer authoring tool, as well as STT InfoShare, and PerformIT. News Mergers & Aquisition Authoring Tools Content Atlantic Link Kaplan 03/01/2010 ELIG partnership aims to strengthen learning innovation in Europe The European Learning Industry Group and the MENON Network announced they signed a Document of Understanding with the objective of working closely together to foster innovation of European Education and Training. News Partnerships ELIG 03/01/2010 Saffron collaborates with defence consultancy 3SDL Saffron Interactive announced its ongoing e-learning development collaboration with defence consultancy 3SDL including a number of modules together to teach technical military communications techniques. News Partnerships Content Defence 03/01/2010 Access Intelligence acquires Cobent Cobent Limited announced the acquisition of Cobent by compliance SaaS specialists, Access Intelligence PLC. The deal values Cobent at £5.2 million including a mix of shares and £3.0 million in cash. News Mergers & Aquisition Compliance LMS Cobent Group 02/26/2010 Cobent expands into Asia-Pacific Cobent announced the appointment of Wai-Bin Lai as VP of Sales APAC. Prior to joining Cobent, Wai-Bin was the Regional Sales Manager of APAC at Assima PLC. News Appointments LMS Compliance Cobent Group 02/25/2010 Cobent creates dedicated R&D Division Cobent announced the appointment of Damian Clayton-Bull as Product Development Manager, managing the new R&D division to grow their LMS and related compliance training software offerings. News LMS Compliance Appointments Cobent Group 02/25/2010 Saffron Interactive announces Silverlight development team Saffron Interactive announced that it is putting together a Microsoft Silverlight development team for e-learning. News Content Saffron Interactive 02/24/2010 Edvantage group extends Hydro with five year contract Edvantage group has signed a five year contract with Hydro, a global supplier of aluminium and aluminium products, for Learning Gateway Enterprise and support services. News Managed Service LMS SaaS Edvantage Industrial 02/23/2010 Ferring Pharmaceuticals chooses Learn.com Learn.com announced that Ferring Pharmaceuticals has selected their LMS to centralize, deliver, track and manage compliance and product training initiatives. Ferring operates in 45 countries around the world and offers treatments in more than 70 countries. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com Pharmaceutical 02/23/2010 Get easier, get mobile concludes Omniplex Migrating to easier-to-use learning management systems, along with mobile learning are the two hottest topics in the learning technologies world at present, according to research by Omniplex. News LMS Mobile learning Shows/Conferences Omniplex 02/22/2010 Moodlerooms partners to provide Mobile Campus for Smart Phones Moodlerooms has announced a partnership with DubMeNow to integrate joule with the Higher Ed mobile platform. News Open-Source LMS Virtual Learning Environments Moodlerooms Moodle Higher Education 02/22/2010 LINE sustains growth despite recession LINE Communications announced record core sales figures for the period January to December 2009. Core sales results rose by almost 10% on 2008. News Content Financial Announcements LINE Communications 02/22/2010 Kineo recognised with ISO 9001: 2008 award The commitment to quality of Kineo in its e-learning and Moodle work has been recognised with the ISO 9001:2008 award, along with further environmental and CHAS accreditations. News Quality Content Kineo 02/22/2010 Saffron Interactive brings high speed training to Heathrow Express Saffron Interactive announced the development of a sub surface fire awareness e-learning course for Heathrow Express. News Content Saffron Interactive Transport 02/17/2010 Why e-learning projects go wrong - presentation David's slides from the e-learning Network/ALT webinar today. Presentation Content Strategy Best Practice eLearning Network eLearnity 02/17/2010 Edvantage signs managed learning service Edvantage group has signed a three year Managed Learning Service contract with a leading Nordic Financial institution with an initial value of 8.5 MSEK (£750,000). News Managed Service Content SaaS LMS Authoring Tools Edvantage Financial Services 02/16/2010 Lloyds to deliver new computer-based tests globally in 2010 Lloyds insurance market is commencing a new contract with Pearson VUE to deliver a new computer-based version of the Lloyds and London Market Introductory Test worldwide at over 5,000 test centres in 165 countries. News Assessment Pearson Insurance Financial Services 02/15/2010 Aurion Learning to develop new Food Safety e-learning The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health announced that it had appointed Aurion Learning to expand its portfolio of e-learning courses. lnitially Aurion will be working on a new Level 1 Food Safety Awareness e-learning qualification. News Content Aurion Institutes Health 02/15/2010 Saffron launches BlackBerry compliance tool Saffron Interactive announced the launch of Assure, its BlackBerry based compliance tool, including a range of compliance assessments that can be accessed any time, any where. News Assessment Mobile learning Content Saffron Interactive 02/12/2010 Brightwave appointed as public sector preferred supplier for e-learning Brightwave has been selected as an approved supplier for the public sector e-learning framework, Buying Solutions, which aims to improve value for money and efficiencies. News Content BrightWave Government Local Government 02/12/2010 Jaguar Land Rover quality citation for Redware The LMS used by Jaguar Land Rover was recently was Commended in the category of Best Marketing, Sales & Service Quality Improvement Project in the JLR annual Quality Awards. News LMS Awards Redware Cars 02/12/2010 SkillSoft to be acquired by Private Investor Group SkillSoft announced that it has reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition sponsored by Berkshire Partners LLC, Advent International Corporation and Bain Capital Partners, LLC. SkillSoft shareholders will receive $10.80 in cash for each share. The fully diluted equity value of the transaction is approximately $1.1 billion. News Content Mergers & Aquisition SkillSoft 02/11/2010 Use of Edvantage authoring tool soars The Edvantage SaaS-based content authoring tool, CourseBuilder, has produced over 2,000 courses in the last nine months and is the preferred e-learning authoring tool for many organisations including the MoD, Insolvency Service, Electrolux, Volvo and Jotun. News Authoring Tools Content Edvantage 02/10/2010 LINE pioneers mobile solutions for Army training LINE Communications has announced the imminent release of three major mobile learning solutions for the British Army. Two of the projects will be delivered using Apple iTouch. The third project delivers complex procedural training using touchscreen tablets. News Content Mobile learning LINE Communications Defence 02/08/2010 Aurion Learning creates CPD Centre for solicitors Aurion Learning is working with the Law Society of England and Wales to create a new online learning portal. News CPD Portals Aurion Legal 02/05/2010 eLandia chooses learn.com Learn.com announced that eLandia , a leading technology enabler of emerging markets, plans to utilize learning management software to manage human resource functions internally. News LMS SaaS ASP Learn.com Telecommunications 02/05/2010 Cobent appoints VP of Marketing Cobent announced it has appointed Albert Lilly as Vice President of Marketing, reporting to CEO Howard Sears. Prior to joining Cobent, Lilly served as Vice President of Marketing for 360training.com. News Appointments LMS Compliance Cobent Group 02/05/2010 Achievement in training celebrated at the IT Training Awards The Institute of IT Training's Training Awards 2010 were presented in London. News Awards Trainers Training Providers IITT Training 02/04/2010 LINE launches Web 2.0 learning portal LINE announced the launch of its Web 2.0 learning portal bringing together their LMS technology and content management platform to provide the creation of online learning environments that put the learner at the centre of their experience. News Portals Content LMS LINE Communications 02/02/2010 Saba Compensation changes Rewards Management Saba announced the general availability of Saba Compensation, an easy-to-use software solution that drives more informed compensation decision-making by providing a comprehensive view of employee success. News Talent Management LMS Compensation Saba 02/01/2010 SAIC acquires Forterra OLIVE product SAIC announced it has purchased Forterra Systems On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) product line, including all names, trademarks and licenses. News Virtual Worlds Mergers & Aquisition Simulation Forterra Systems SAIC 01/29/2010 Edvantage signs three year managed learning contract Edvantage group has signed a three year Managed Learning Service contract with Jotun, a leading manufacturer of paints, coatings and powder coatings. The new Managed Learning Service contract includes Learning Gateway LMS, CourseBuilder authoring tool, a course catalogue from SkillSoft and a bespoke e-learning course. News Managed Service LMS Authoring Tools Content Edvantage Manufacturing 01/28/2010 Online Health and Safety Training for Schools Three Spires Safety have launched Head-Safe, a new e-learning resource for safety in schools through Cobent LCS. News Content LMS Compliance Cobent Group Schools 01/28/2010 Netherlands Railways goes XML for learning content publishing Xyleme announced that the Netherlands Railways has selected Xyleme LCMS for development and delivery of rolling stock operating manuals and training materials. News LCMS Content Xyleme Transport 01/28/2010 New appointments at Aurion Learning Aurion Learning has appointed key new staff to deal with their expanding work load. Barry Kelly has been appointed as Research Development Manager and Noleen Turner is Aurion's new Marketing Officer. News Content Appointments Aurion 01/28/2010 OutStart announces Participate 2010 OutStart announced the availability of OutStart Participate 2010, including new workspaces, enhanced social networking and additional Web 2.0 and mobile features. News Social Networking Collaboration LCMS Outstart 01/27/2010 Cobent opens new office in the US Cobent announced the opening of its new office in the US to support growing North American operations. News Appointments LMS Compliance Cobent Group 01/27/2010 Elearnity research highlights seismic shift in e-learning authoring Elearnity announced new research and a series of white papers summarising independent analysis of corporate e-learning authoring strategies and tools. News Authoring Tools LCMS Strategy Content Best Practice eLearnity 01/27/2010 Elearnity announces new partnership with Towards Maturity Towards Maturity and Elearnity have created a strategic partnership to combine resources and capabilities to accelerate the transformation of large organisations through more effective application of learning technologies. News Partnerships Resources Best Practice eLearnity Towards Maturity 01/27/2010 Elearnity announces new partnership with Towards Maturity Towards Maturity and Elearnity have created a strategic partnership to combine resources and capabilities to accelerate the transformation of large organisations through more effective application of learning technologies. Press Release Partnerships Resources Best Practice eLearnity Towards Maturity 01/27/2010 Elearnity research highlights seismic shift in e-learning authoring Elearnity announced new research and a series of white papers summarising independent analysis of corporate e-learning authoring strategies and tools. Press Release Authoring Tools Content LCMS Strategy eLearnity 01/27/2010 Research Paper - E-learning Authoring: The Shifting Landscape The world of corporate e-learning content production is changing; companies are looking for faster and cheaper solutions, as well as greater impact in the workplace. The demand for custom e-learning has never been higher, but pressure on corporate budgets has also never been higher. First of a series of three papers, this Elearnity Core Insights paper examines the main drivers shifting the e-learning authoring landscape, and the impact this is having on the strategies and tools being adopted by Report Content Authoring Tools LCMS Strategy eLearnity 01/26/2010 Organisations waste £9.5bn on training, claims study UK organisations could be wasting an estimated £9.5bn on training each year, according to a new study from KnowledgePool which finds that a quarter of all training fails to yield a significant performance improvement. News Training Providers Surveys KnowledgePool 01/25/2010 Mediapharm teams up with Edvantage group for new CPD portal Pharmacy education company Mediapharm has entered into an exclusive partnership with Edvantage group to offer pharmaceutical companies a simple way of delivering training and communications directly to pharmacists through a new online portal, CPD Easy. News SaaS LMS Content CPD Partnerships Edvantage Pharmaceutical Training 01/25/2010 e2train launches one-stop-shop Kallidus OnDemand service e2train has released a new SaaS-based solution centred around its Kallidus 8 learning and performance software. The Kallidus OnDemand service includes content authoring, learning management and performance management through a single access portal. News LMS SaaS Hosted Performance e2train 01/22/2010 Epic alliance with Premier Partnership Epic and Premier Partnership announced a strategic alliance to provide blended solutions to the Government and Public Sector. News Alliances Content Blended Learning ePic Government Public Services 01/20/2010 XOR delivers Safeguarding Children Course for David Lloyd Leisure XOR has developed a Safeguarding Children Course for David Lloyd Leisure aimed at ensuring children and vulnerable people are protected while with team members and volunteers of the company. News Content XOR 01/20/2010 Plateau announces inaugural European user conference Plateau Systems announced that registration is now open for its inaugural Insights Europe 2010 user conference, to be held 26-27 April 2010 at The Majestic Hotel in Barcelona. News Shows/Conferences LMS Talent Management Plateau 01/19/2010 Edvantage group and KnowledgePool partner Edvantage group and KnowledgePool have brought their capabilities together to offer clients a range of blended learning solutions with a combined Managed Learning Service offering. News Partnerships Managed Service Blended Learning Content Edvantage KnowledgePool 01/18/2010 Key appointments for new year at Brightwave Brightwave announced three new appointments to support the expansion in their Brighton and Glasgow offices. Tim Hall joins Brightwave as business development manager and Kate Barker supports Tim as business development executive. Noel McKay joins the Glasgow office as e-learning consultant. News Appointments Content BrightWave 01/15/2010 REDTRAY acquires CareConnect Learning REDTRAY has purchased the business of CareConnect Learning, providers of NVQ provision and Skills for Life qualifications. News Mergers & Aquisition Content Training Providers RedTRAY 01/15/2010 Omniplex appointed sole UK certified Articulate trainer Omniplex has been appointed as the sole certified Articulate training provider in the UK and is offering both open-enrolment and custom, onsite training. News Authoring Tools Omniplex 01/12/2010 Jim Lundy joins Saba as VP of Collaboration Saba announced the appointment of Jim Lundy to the newly created position of Vice President and General Manager of Collaboration. Lundy was previously managing vice president for the Social Software and Collaboration team at Gartner. News Appointments LMS Talent Management Collaboration Saba 01/11/2010 Caspian Learning appoint President of US operations and opens first US office Caspian Learning announced the appointment of John Higgins as President of US Operations today. Prior to joining Caspian Learning, John served as the global Senior Director of Innovation Deployment for Accenture HR & Learning BPO Services. News Appointments Games Virtual Worlds Content Caspian Learning 01/07/2010 Saba Q2 2010 results Saba reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended November 30, 2009, showing total revenues for the quarter of $27.5 million, up 6.4% from the same period of the prior year. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Saba 01/07/2010 LINE and CERTPOINT form strategic partnership LINE Communications has announced a strategic partnership with CERTPOINT Systems and is currently involved in developing a number of bespoke programmes using CERTPOINTVLS Content Creator. News Partnerships Content LMS LCMS Authoring Tools LINE Communications CERTPOINT 01/05/2010 Authoria and Peopleclick combine Private equity firm Bedford Funding announced its $100 million acquisition of Peopleclick, which will be merged with Authoria, an existing Bedford Funding portfolio company. The combination of these two leading independent brands, which will now operate under the Peopleclick Authoria. News Financial Announcements Talent Management Authoria Peopleclick 01/05/2010 Diageo Learning Academy reaches 100 percent WBT Systems announced that adoption of the Diageo Academy has reached 100 percent. A continued focus on usability and a blended learning approach that accommodates all learner styles are believed to play a significant role in the successful adoption. News Portals LMS WBT Systems FMCG Food & Drink 12/23/2009 Jaguar Land Rover agrees strategic advisor role for LINE LINE Communications has concluded an agreement to assist with the development and implementation of Jaguar Land Rover global dealer learning strategy. News Content LMS LINE Communications Redware Mohive Cars 12/23/2009 Cyntergy delivers customer training via EKP NetDimensions announced that Cyntergy has implemented the Enterprise Knowledge Platform LMS to deliver its IT Training and e-learning services to customers. News LMS NetDimensions Information Technology 12/21/2009 Rise in contract positions at the expense of permanent roles Blue Eskim is reporting an increase in the proportion of temporary contract roles versus permanent roles in the UK's learning industry, placing 35% more contractors in 2009 than in 2008. News Appointments Blue Eskimo 12/21/2009 Edvantage group signs strategic agreement with Saba Edvantage has entered in to a strategic partnership with Saba Centra to its customer base to enhance e-learning across formal and informal learning environments. News Partnerships Virtual Classroom Content Edvantage Saba Centra 12/18/2009 Edvantage partners with Ossidian Technologies Edvantage group has entered into a partnership agreement with Ossidian Technologies, a provider of e-learning for the Telecom industry, to provide its clients with telecom related e-learning courses. News Content Partnerships Edvantage Telecommunications 12/17/2009 XOR attains recognised supplier status from Buying Solutions XOR LTD has been awarded recognised supplier status for delivering e-Learning services under Lot 5 of the Buying Solutions Learning & Development and eLearning Solutions framework agreement - the agency set up to help government deliver value for money from its spending. News Content XOR Government Public Services Local Government Defence 12/15/2009 Omniplex expands into North America Omniplex has expanded its operations by opening a North American office, in Montreal, Canada, headed up Susan Morin, Vice President of North American Operations. News Appointments Content LMS Omniplex 12/14/2009 Blackboard and Desire2Learn settle litigation Blackboard and Desire2Learn announced that the companies have reached an agreement to license each others worldwide e-learning patent portfolios and settle all outstanding litigation between them. News LMS Virtual Learning Environments Blackboard Inc. 12/12/2009 Atlantic Link announces new wins Atlantic Link announced multiple new client wins from organisations around the globe. News Authoring Tools Atlantic Link 12/10/2009 BAE Systems overhauls training With OutStart LCMS BAE Systems is taking a new, holistic approach to developing training for its Military Air Solutions customers using OutStart LCMS as the single-source hub for assembling, reusing, managing and deploying learning modules. News LCMS Authoring Tools Content Outstart Defence Aerospace 12/10/2009 Omniplex introduces Cameo to Europe Omniplex has announced a partnership with US-based Yukon Learning and is making Cameo, their solution for learning reinforcement and retention, available in Europe. News Content Partnerships Omniplex Yukon Learning 12/09/2009 SpacedEd delivers adaptive learning to the enterprise Spaced Education announced the Enterprise Version of its ground-breaking method of online learning that uses a simple question and answer format to complement their training strategy, adapting the content based on how the individual performs. News Content Mobile learning Spaced Education 12/08/2009 A & N Media continues to train workforce despite financial challenges Edvantage group announced that A & N Media IT Services had successfully completed the first stage of their new initiative to roll out Microsoft Office training online. News IT Skills Portals Managed Service Edvantage Media 12/07/2009 ALISON launches a new face ALISON launched its new-look website including new social networking features, faster registration, a more intuitive study area and new free tools. News Online Resources ALISON.com 12/07/2009 UK e-learning sector set to grow A report by Learning Light reveals that - despite the current recession - the UK e-learning and learning technology industry is flourishing News Market Content Learning Light 12/02/2009 Learn.com expands US presence Learn.com announced that the company has further expanded its U.S. domestic operations by opening a Silicon Valley office in Redwood Shores, California. News Appointments LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 12/01/2009 Skills Assessments using e-Assessment BTL Group with partners AlphaPlus Consultancy has announced the release of a white paper exploreing the benefits and techniques of computerised skills assessment. News Assessment Skills Management BTL Group 11/30/2009 DSAT e-learning across Defence LINE Communications announced the roll-out of an e-learning programme for UK military personnel across all three services on the Defence Systems Approach to Training. The e-learning course has been deployed on the Defence Learning Portal. News Content LINE Communications Defence 11/27/2009 Elluminate expands Social Learning Network for Education Elluminate announced the continued growth of LearnCentral, the social learning network for education the company sponsors. News Social Networking Informal learning Virtual Classroom Elluminate Higher Education Further Education 11/26/2009 Cobent and Fairway Compliance focus on FSA regulatory requirements Cobent has partnered with financial consulting experts Fairway Compliance to offer training solutions specifically designed to reduce the administrative burden of meeting FSA regulatory requirements. News LMS Compliance Partnerships Cobent Group Financial Services Banking 11/26/2009 Virtual Learning key to cutting training costs eCom Scotland have launched eNetVROOM, Virtual Classrooms which offer an enhanced online learning experience. News Virtual Classroom eCom Scotland 11/25/2009 New CrossKnowledge HR Network CrossKnowledge announced the launch of its new CrossKnowledge HR Network,f a social networking community to enhance dialogue and to promote the sharing of experiences between HR professionals and experts across Europe. News Social Networking Collaboration Learning Communities CrossKnowledge 11/25/2009 Upside Learning and Skill-Pill bring mobile learning to India Upside Learning, in association with Skill-Pill, is offering mobile learning content to deliver expert advice from leading business organizations directly to mobile phones in India. News Mobile learning LMS Content Partnerships Upside Learning Skill-Pill Mobile Learning 11/24/2009 Xyleme extends open formats and standards support. Xyleme announced the latest release of their Xyleme LCMS, extending their commitment to open formats and standards support. News LCMS Xyleme 11/19/2009 SkillSoft reports Q3 2010 results and raises full year targets SkillSoft announced financial results with total revenue of $80.4 million for its third quarter ended October 31, 2009, a 3% decrease from the same period last year. They also now anticipate annual revenues to be in the range of $312.0 million to $314.0 million, higher than the target issued in August. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 11/18/2009 Edvantage group passes 1 million course completions in 2009 Edvantage group announced their SaaS LMS, Learning Gateway, has passed 1m annual course completions in 2009. Approximately 2.8 million courses have been launched to date in 2009, a growth of 60% from 2008 figures. News LMS SaaS Content Edvantage 11/17/2009 TfL moves learning to Kallidus LMS Transport for London has chosen e2train Kallidus LMS to replace an existing system and extend the reach of their e-learning programmes. The system is currently used by 7,000 TfL employees but is ultimately scheduled to roll out across the whole of the TfL network. News LMS e2train Transport 11/12/2009 New version of TEDS gains Workforce Management TEDS released version 9.1 of its Talent Management Suite including a new module, Workforce Management enabling organizations to define corporate business initiatives and manage the progress toward initiative completion and track hiring for these initiatives. News Talent Management LMS TeDS 11/12/2009 Edvantage celebrates 10 year anniversary Edvantage group is celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2009. It now has 10 offices in five countries and around 100 employees. News Content Edvantage 11/10/2009 Shortlist for IT Training Awards 2010 The Institute of IT Training announced the shortlisted entrants for its IT Training Awards 2010. The awards will take place on Thursday 4th February at The Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London. News Awards IT Skills IITT Training 11/09/2009 NetDimensions technology for e-Assessment NetDimensions will present the Enterprise Assessment Platform as the technology for delivering assessments in the aviation industry at the e-Assessment in Practice Symposium on November 12 at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. News Assessment LMS NetDimensions Aerospace Airlines 11/09/2009 e-Learning needs Tutoring - Tutoring needs competence In cooperation with the Austrian teacher training and the Danube University Krems, common sense eLearning & training consultants GmbH developed a practice-oriented education training program for Online Tutors. News Online Resources E-learning Skills Virtual Classroom Common sense eLearning & training consultants 11/09/2009 Learning Technologies 2010 Conference programme announced Learning Technologies 2010 on 27 and 28 January has announced its conference programme for 2010 with an exciting line up of speakers including keynote addresses from Lord David Puttnam, Josh Bersin and Professor Stephen Heppell. News Shows/Conferences Learning Technologies 11/06/2009 Global Knowledge appoints UK Managing Director Global Knowledge announced the appointment of Allan Pettman as the new UK Managing Director. Pettman was previously the Managing Director of Parity. News Content IT Skills Appointments Global Knowledge 11/06/2009 OfficeArrow uses Learn.com Learn.com announced that OfficeArrow, an online collaborative community developed specifically for administrative professionals, small businesses and entrepreneurs, has partnered with the company to provide on-demand job training to its 224,000+ members. News LMS SaaS Learn.com Business Services 11/02/2009 Learn.com establishes EMEA Headquarters in London Learn.com announced that the company has officially opened its EMEA headquarters in London to address the global demand for its award-winning Learning Management System. The company named Bob Ward, Executive Director of EMEA. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Appointments Learn.com 10/30/2009 BPP strategic LCMS solution with initial contract value of £400k Intellego announced that following a successful pilot, it had been awarded a contract by BPP for the implementation of the Xyleme LCMS. The total value of the first phases of the project will be approximately £400,000. News LCMS Intellego Systems Xyleme Training Financial Services 10/30/2009 Giunti Labs partners with Saffron Interactive Giunti Labs has signed a partner agreement with Saffron Interactive. Under the terms of the agreement, Saffron Interactive will market Giunti Labs' content management solutions. News LCMS Partnerships Content Giunti Labs Saffron Interactive 10/29/2009 Global Knowledge acquires Nexient Learning Global Knowledge announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Nexient Learning Inc., the largest corporate training provider in Canada. News Content IT Skills Mergers & Aquisition Training Providers Global Knowledge Training 10/27/2009 ikonami secures nine new NHS wins ikonami announced that nine NHS Trusts have signed up as new customers of their AT-Learning LMS. News LMS Hosted Ikonami Health Government 10/21/2009 CrossKnowledge announces Dialogues 2.0 CrossKnowledge has harnessed the potential of the web 2.0 to offer new services to its clients. Dialogues 2.0 is a dialogue and online contribution platform which places exchange at the heart of skill development programmes. News Content Collaboration Social Networking CrossKnowledge 10/21/2009 New e-learning provision unlocks people potential at AVEVA Edvantage group has launched a Managed Learning Services e-learning programme for leading engineering software provider, AVEVA News Portals LMS Managed Service Content Edvantage Engineering Information Technology 10/21/2009 Saba Cloud service uses Amazon platform Saba announced Saba People Management Cloud™, an edition of their people management solutions to be delivered on Amazon Web Services (AWS). News LMS Talent Management SaaS Technology Saba 10/20/2009 dominKnow announces LCMS workGroup Edition LCMS technology is now available to more organizations regardless of size with the release of the dominKnow LCMS workGroup Edition. News LCMS dominKnow 10/20/2009 Saba unveils unified people management platform Saba announced Saba 5.5 to help organizations actively manage change by unifying, engaging, and mobilizing their people assets. News LMS Talent Management Saba 10/20/2009 Cisco standardizes on Saba Saba announced that Cisco Systems has selected Saba as its enterprise-wide choice for learning, performance, workforce planning, and succession management for its more than 65,000 employees. News LMS Talent Management Performance Saba Information Technology 10/19/2009 New Learning Portal targets small to medium enterprises MyTrainingExpert.com, a new learning portal run by KnowledgePool, offers small-medium sized companies free training expertise and discounted prices on thousands of courses from the top training providers. News Portals Content Managed Service KnowledgePool Small Business 10/16/2009 NHS on course for e-learning Nearly 40 delegates from the NHS and private organisations heard at a Harrogate conference how the computer-based courses are an effective way to train employees in the wide range of skills classed as Statutory and Mandatory by the NHS. News Content Virtual College Health 10/13/2009 Cobent launches modular-self-service LMS Cobent Limited has announced the launch of LMS Select, a modular self-service LMS which allows organisations to choose from a variety of key features whilst only paying for the features they need. News LMS SaaS Cobent Group 10/09/2009 Epic forms strategic partnership with QA Epic announced it had joined forces with QA to offer blended learning services to government customers. The partnership has already started its first joint project, a major systems training solution for the FCO. News Partnerships Content IT Skills Blended Learning ePic QA-IQ QA Training Training Government 10/07/2009 Learn.com launches Global Edition Learn.com announced the launch of its Global Edition, a learning management platform that manages the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire to retire and supports 24 languages out-of-the-box. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 10/07/2009 Hot Lava Mobile boosts education for 150,000 African students A technology triumvirate consisting of ABJAD, a Jordan-based mobile information publisher; AD-CONNECT, a Nigerian high-tech consultancy; and OutStart Inc., maker of Hot Lava Mobile software, will launch a pilot project to turn the mobile devices carried by 150,000 Ghanaian and Nigerian students into a platform for publishing, delivering and tracking multimedia learning content. News Content Mobile learning LCMS Academia Outstart Higher Education 10/06/2009 Oxford Union e-learning debate continues online September 30th saw the inaugural e-learning debate at the Oxford Union, attended by over 250 learning technology professionals. Epic has set up www.elearningdebate.com where users can read a summary of the arguments, view the highlights and continue voting on the motion. News Shows/Conferences ePic 10/06/2009 Engineering company awards CERTPOINT new global contract CERTPOINT Systems announced that engineering company John Crane has signed a new worldwide contract for its CERTPOINT VLS learning platform. The agreement extends the existing three-year relationship between the two companies. John Crane has 6,600 employees in 53 countries, News LMS LCMS CERTPOINT Engineering 10/06/2009 David Wilson shortlisted for 2009 individual e-learning award Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, was pleased to announce that David Wilson, Elearnity’s founder and Managing Director has been shortlisted for the 2009 E-learning Industry Award for Outstanding Achievement – Individual. David Wilson founded Elearnity in 1996, and is one of the leading authorities on e-learning and learning innovation within Europe. A major commentator on the e-learning industry since its inception, David is a strategic advisor to many major corporate a News Awards eLearnity 10/06/2009 David Wilson shortlisted for 2009 individual e-learning award Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, was pleased to announce today that David Wilson, Elearnity’s founder and Managing Director has been shortlisted for the 2009 E-learning Industry Award for Outstanding Achievement – Individual. David Wilson founded Elearnity in 1996, and is one of the leading authorities on e-learning and learning innovation within Europe. A major commentator on the e-learning industry since its inception, David is a strategic advisor to many major corpo Press Release Awards eLearnity 10/05/2009 The E-learning Debate at the Oxford Union On the 30th September 2009, David took part in the E-learning Debate at the Oxford Union, alongside Professor Diana Laurillard, Marc Rosenberg and others. The motion: “This house believes that the elearning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow”. This event has generated quite a buzz in the e-learning industry. Here are David's thoughts on the debate and its implications. Article Shows/Conferences Strategy eLearnity 09/30/2009 Saba Enterprise 5.5 enhances usability Saba announced Saba Enterprise 5.5; the most extensible, configurable version of their people management platform to date. News Talent Management Human Capital LMS Saba 09/30/2009 REDTRAY acquires First Stop Training REDTRAY has purchased the business of First Stop Training Ltd, an authorised Microsoft training provider and Microsoft Office Specialist Authorised Testing Centre. Terms of the deal are not disclosed. News Mergers & Aquisition Training Providers IT Skills RedTRAY 09/30/2009 LINE pilots flying classrooms for Swiss Re LINE announced the global roll-out of an innovative new programme of sales refresher training developed for client managers at Swiss Re, following successful pilots in Switzerland and Hong Kong. News Content LINE Communications Insurance Financial Services 09/29/2009 XML-based learning solutions on EMC Documentum Xyleme and Flatirons Solutions announced an alliance to offer EMC Documentum services to training organizations. One of the first implementations of this joint collaboration, Informa Plc., is being rolled out to over 100,000 learners worldwide. News LCMS Alliances Integration Xyleme Publishing 09/29/2009 Kineo publishes new Compliance E-Learning Guide Kineo have published a new guide providing practical advice on the design of compliance e-learning including eight principles that will help ensure compliance e-learning is effective and engaging. News Compliance Content Rapid e-learning Kineo 09/28/2009 Giunti Labs wins Banca d'Italia e-learning project Giunti Labs has agreed a framework agreement with Italy's central bank, Banca d'Italia, to establish a catalogue of web based training (WBT) materials which the Bank's staff can access. Under the agreement, Giunti Labs will partner Banca d'Italia in managing the Bank's learning processes. Giunti Labs is providing Banca d'Italia with a catalogue of multimedia content, along with customised content production services. To produce some of the learning content, Giunti Labs is working with leading s News Content LCMS Giunti Labs Financial Services Banking 09/28/2009 Nikon gets the picture with Kineo product knowledge e-learning Kineo and Nikon have published a detailed case study on how they jointly developed an engaging suite of e-learning modules on Nikon's leading range of cameras, and delivered these via an online dealer learning platform using a custom version of Moodle LMS. Nikon, the leading camera manufacturer, have long provided training to a large audience of resellers, traditionally delivered via classroom based training sessions, store visits and product guides. Nikon decided to investigate an alternative News Content Learning environments LMS Extra-enterprise learning Kineo Electrical Retail 09/24/2009 Saba announces Q1 2010 results Saba reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2009. Revenue was $25.8 million, up 2%. GAAP net earnings increased to $1.0 million, from a net loss of $2.2 million for the same period of the prior year. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Saba 09/22/2009 Trainer1 connects to Social Learning Trainer1 announced the latest version of its CSL delivery tool with the ability to link Social Networking learning patterns with formalised learning repositories. News Social Networking Performance Support Trainer1 09/22/2009 The Change Group selects Cobent Cobent announced a contract win to supply The Change Group International Plc with its Learning Compliance Suite to deploy, track, manage and report on training across its global operations.  News LMS Cobent Group Financial Services 09/22/2009 Cornerstone OnDemand launches Career Center Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of the Career Center, a new suite of career management tools designed to help organizations better engage, motivate and retain talented people while also empowering employees to take a more active role in managing their career within a company. News Talent Management LMS SaaS Succession Planning Cornerstone OnDemand 09/21/2009 SUBWAY names SkillSoft Technology Vendor of the Year SkillSoft announced that the SUBWAY restaurant chain has named SkillSoft the Technology Vendor of the Year for 2009. News Content IT Skills Awards SkillSoft Food & Drink 09/20/2009 Intellego expands sales team Intellego announced the appointment of a new Sales Director (John Hammond) and two new Business Development Managers to the sales team. News Appointments Content Intellego Systems 09/19/2009 Announcing Learning Technologies 2010 Learning Technologies 2010, returning for its eleventh year, will be on 27 and 28 January at London Olympia 2. Learning Technologies is also now being co-located with a new Learning and Skills event taking place on the ground floor at Olympia. News Shows/Conferences Learning Technologies 09/18/2009 StepStone software sales accelerate in third quarter StepStone is recording an acceleration in sales of its SaaS offerings in the third quarter of 2009, partly driven by a number of new contracts with large enterprise customers. News Financial Announcements Talent Management SaaS StepStone 09/17/2009 Tata gets vertical in healthcare Tata Interactive Systems announced its first domain-specific learning and consulting solutions for healthcare. Candida Chandorkar has been appointed as Vice President - Global Healthcare Solutions, a move from her earlier position as Vice President - ANZ. News Content Appointments TaTA Interactive Systems Health 09/15/2009 TEDS celebrates 20th Anniversary TEDS celebrated the 20th Anniversary of its founding by Joe Ellis. News LMS Talent Management TEDS 09/15/2009 Giunti Labs opens North American office Giunti Labs has officially opened its newest office in Atlanta. News LCMS Giunti Labs 09/15/2009 Learn.com and Taleo alliance Learn.com announced it has been selected by Taleo as its premier LMS partner. This alliance will integrate with Taleo Development, a new development planning application which is part of the Taleo 10™ talent management solution. News LMS Talent Management Alliances Learn.com Taleo 09/14/2009 Upside Learning releases UpsideLMS Version 4.0 Upside Learning announced the release of version 4.0 of their flagship product UpsideLMS, now available in Professional and Enterprise editions, and with four new modules - Content Authoring, Virtual classroom, Social media and integrated hierarchy based management module to enable the workflow in the system. News LMS Product Announcements Social Networking Authoring Tools Upside Learning 09/14/2009 Saba appoints Chief Marketing Officer Saba announced that it has appointed Andrew Salzman as Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to CEO and Chairman, Bobby Yazdani. Salzman previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at E2open and at Information Resources, and Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Siebel Systems. News Appointments LMS Talent Management Saba 09/09/2009 e2train announces leading learning experts to keynote David Wilson of Elearnity, and Laura Overton of Towards Maturity will be revealing new research and ideas for users of learning technology at Uncovered 2009, e2train's annual user event. News Shows/Conferences LMS Talent Management e2train eLearnity Towards Maturity 09/08/2009 New on-demand learning evaluation service Zeroed-In Technologies introduced Impact Surveyor, a new on-demand service that allows organizations to outsource their learning evaluation, survey and assessment activities. News Measurement Assessment Zeroed-in Technologies 09/08/2009 Bray Leino BroadSkill appoints new Head of Digital Learning Bray Leino BroadSkill has appointed Kerry Pascall in the new role of head of digital learning. Kerry, who has been with the company for 3 years is a former head of e-learning development at BT Retail. News Appointments Content Training Providers BroadSkill Bray Leino BroadSkill 09/04/2009 Learning expert to keynote at Uncovered 2009 Following the announcement that e2train’s annual user event, Uncovered 2009, is to be held at the Celtic Manor Resort on 14 – 16 October, e2train confirms leading learning expert David Wilson will deliver a keynote session at the event.  News Shows/Conferences LMS Social Networking e2train eLearnity 09/03/2009 Plateau launches social learning and collaboration portal Plateau announced the availability of Plateau Talent Gateway, a set of flexible, portable web-based communication, social, and knowledge-sharing tools that customers can utilize to make talent management more accessible and available across the enterprise. News Talent Management LMS Portals Social Networking Plateau 09/03/2009 The eLN becomes Community Interest Company Full members of the eLN have unanimously approved of the transition from an unincorporated association to a community interest company. News Organisation eLearning Network Institutes 08/31/2009 Saba completes share repurchase Saba announced that it has repurchased approximately 4.7% of its outstanding shares of common stock for $4.85m. The repurchased shares have been retired and will resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Saba 08/24/2009 REDTRAY acquires PPi Learning Services REDTRAY has purchased the business of PPi Learning Services Ltd. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. News Mergers & Aquisition Content Training Providers RedTRAY 08/21/2009 ThirdForce launches new self-authoring solution ThirdForce announces the launch of its self-authoring e-learning solution, AIMS Content Manager,helping organisations to create and assess in-house developed online courses. News Authoring Tools Assessment Content ThIrdForce 08/20/2009 Questionmark streamlines selling tests online Professional associations, textbook companies, awarding bodies and other test publishers can streamline individual and bulk sales of online quizzes and tests using a new solution from Questionmark. News Assessment Questionmark 08/20/2009 UpsideLMS to deliver e-learning in Africa Bilyak Consulting, a technology consulting firm and e-learning provider in Africa has selected UpsideLMS to run their e-learning offering for their customers. News LMS Upside Learning 08/20/2009 SkillSoft reports Q2 2010 results and raises earnings targets SkillSoft announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2010 with total revenue of $78.9 million, a 5% decrease over the same period last year. Net income on a US GAAP basis was $17.2 million. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 08/20/2009 e-learning for Healthcare uses CLIX IMC CLIX has been chosen for one of most significant LMS projects in the UK in recent years by the e-Learning for Healthcare team at the Department for Health. News LMS Hosted IMC Health Government 08/20/2009 Atlantic Link becomes Blackboard partner Atlantic Link announced a 3 year partnership with Blackboard. Atlantic Link becomes a Blackboard Premier Partner to bring enhanced content delivery to Blackboard Learn clients worldwide. News Partnerships Content Authoring Tools LMS Learning environments Academia Blackboard Inc. Atlantic Link Higher Education 08/19/2009 Virtual College celebrates 250,000th user of its LMS When Firefighter Sam Wood, of the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, logged on to Enable, the learning management solution from Ilkleys Virtual College, she triggered an alert as the 250,000th registered learner on the system. News LMS Virtual College Further Education 08/19/2009 Atlantic Link announced multiple new client wins Atlantic Link announced multiple new client wins from organisations around the globe. News Content Authoring Tools Atlantic Link 08/18/2009 Pan-government e-learning – a success story Following several high profile cases of personal data loss within government, the Cabinet Office, National School of Government and Epic joined forces last year to create a pan-government e-learning programme, entitled Protecting Information. News Content Portals ePic Government 08/10/2009 Cobent grows in the first half of 2009 Cobent announced growth in the first half year of 2009, despite a difficult global trading environment, with sales for the first half of the year up by almost 30% on the first half of 2008. News Financial Announcements LMS Compliance Cobent Group 08/06/2009 Bray Leino BroadSkill grows despite tough economic times Bray Leino BroadSkill is bucking the market and difficult business climate by reporting 7% growth in the first six months of this year. News Financial Announcements Content Training Providers BroadSkill Bray Leino BroadSkill Training 08/05/2009 Eliesha and Kineo win FCO e-learning contract Eliesha and Kineo announced that they have been selected by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to develop an e-learning course on Crisis Management. News Content Training Providers Kineo Government 08/03/2009 Giunti Labs UK expands its operations Following its expansion within the UK market in 2008 and its continuing growth in revenue, Giunti Labs has appointed Dan Taylor as its Sales Manager in the UK. Taylor came to Giunti Labs from PPi Learning Services Ltd, where he had been client director. News Appointments LCMS Giunti Labs 07/30/2009 Airport group drives Performance Management with Cornerstone OnDemand Cornerstone OnDemand announced that Manchester Airport Group (MAG), the UKs second largest airport operator, is using their SaaS-based talent management solution to support its people strategy. About 2,700 MAG managers and colleagues will have access to the online solution for goal setting, performance reviews and development planning. News Performance Talent Management LMS SaaS Hosted Cornerstone OnDemand Airports Airlines 07/28/2009 Eliesha and Kineo partner to focus on Public Sector Eliesha and Kineo have announced that they have formed a partnership to offer a complete range of learning solutions to public sector organisations in the UK. News Partnerships Content Kineo Government Public Services 07/27/2009 Raptivity Visual enables language interactivity Harbinger Knowledge Products announced the release of Raptivity Visual, a selection of instructionally-sound, primarily visual interaction models that are ideal for users who wish to create interactions in international languages. News Content Authoring Tools Language Harbinger Knowledge Products 07/24/2009 EnlightKS acquires BdM Development EnlightKS announced the acquisition of BdM Development in an undisclosed deal, extends the EnlightKS team to close to 50 and providing an office base in Oxfordshire. News Mergers & Aquisition Content EnlightKS BdM Development 07/23/2009 Blackboard acquires for mobile platform Blackboard announced a major step forward in its efforts to support students mobile lifestyle with the acquisition of Terriblyclever Design, makers of MobilEdu, a suite of iPhone and mobile web applications for education. News Learning environments LMS Mergers & Aquisition Mobile learning Blackboard Inc. 07/22/2009 SumTotal Systems appoints President SumTotal Systems announced that Barbara Stinnett will assume the newly created position of President, responsible for leading the company and all its operations. Stinnett was most recently co-founder and managing partner with Timmaron Capital Advisors and previously held executive positions at Sybase and Hewlett-Packard. News Appointments LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 07/21/2009 Vista Equity Partners acquires SumTotal SumTotal® Systems announced that approximately 99% of SumTotal’s stockholders present at a special meeting approved the proposed transaction with affiliates of Vista Equity Partners, and the transaction has been completed. SumTotal stock will cease to trade on the NASDAQ at market close today and will be delisted. News Mergers & Aquisition LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 07/20/2009 Saba announces Fiscal Year 2009 results Saba reported financial results for its fourth quarter with revenue of $25.6 million compared to $28.2 million in the same quarter last year. Full year revenue for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2009 was $102.8 million compared to $107.8 million in the prior year. GAAP net loss for the year was $2.4 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to a net loss of $3.5 million, or $0.12 per share, for the prior year. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Saba 07/20/2009 VivaKi Nerve Center trains online Learn.com announced that the VivaKi Nerve Center, a core division of french Publicis Groupe, has selected the LearnCenter Platform to deliver online training to their global employees. News LMS SaaS Hosted Learn.com Marketing 07/20/2009 Chelsea Building Society implements e2train's Kallidus Performance Chelsea Building Society, the sixth largest building society in the UK, has implemented the Kallidus Performance Management System to complement its Kallidus LMS solution. The system will be used to record details of core and role-specific competencies and how individuals meet these as well as providing the opportunity for staff to log and review where they are in relation to the company competency matrix. News LMS Performance e2train Banking 07/17/2009 LINE gets immersive LINE Communications announced formal inclusion of full 3D simulations into its service offering, building on its previous partnership with Caspian Learning. News Content Simulation Virtual Worlds LINE Communications Caspian Learning 07/17/2009 News International outsources learning to QA An outsourced learning service implemented by QA for News International has successfully transitioned their Learning & Development to QA, and has created new opportunities for the in-house training team. News Outsourcing Managed Service QA-IQ QA Training Publishing 07/15/2009 Metropolitan Housing Partnership delivers blended learning NetDimensions announced that Metropolitan Housing Partnership (MHP) is implementing the EKP LMS to deliver blended learning programs. MHP will replace expensive classroom-based training with equally effective online training programs. News LMS Blended Learning NetDimensions Housing 07/10/2009 REDTRAY strengthens business development team REDTRAY is strengthening its business development team with the appointment of Phil Horton as a Senior Account Manager. He was previously at Epic where he held the role of Business Development Manager for the past three years. News Appointments Content RedTRAY 07/08/2009 OutStart unveils next generation LCMS OutStart announced the immediate availability of OutStart LCMS 2009, after more than two years in development. OutStart LCMS 2009 offers capabilities to address key functional areas of single-source development, management, maintenance and delivery. News LCMS Product Announcements Outstart 07/08/2009 Epic selected as a supplier to the public sector Epic has been selected by Buying Solutions under the Learning & Development and eLearning Solutions Framework for the Information Technology and Specialist Services lots. Epic will produce bespoke systems training simulations for public sector IT roll outs as well as blended solutions, floor walking, coaching, mentoring, secure content hosting and dedicated training support. News Blended Learning Content IT Skills ePic Government Public Services Local Government 06/29/2009 Atlantic Link announces new functionality Atlantic Link announced a range of new features and functionality with the release of Content Point Version 1.31 including an embedded flash asset library, multi-resolution support, enhanced tracking and support for Arabic. News Product Announcements Authoring Tools Atlantic Link 06/25/2009 Gilkron uses EKP to deliver legal content NetDimensions announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Gilkron Limited whose Novacourses website provides content for legal and other professionals, powered by EKP. News LMS Partnerships NetDimensions Legal 06/24/2009 UniServity announces strategic partnership with Microsoft UniServity announced a strategic partnership with Microsoftto integrate Microsoft Live@edu within UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform. News Partnerships Academia Learning environments LMS Virtual Classroom UniServity Higher Education Local Government 06/24/2009 Learn.com appoints Executive Director of Product Marketing Learn.com announced that David Wilkins, former Senior Director of Product Strategy at Mzinga (formerly KnowledgePlanet) has been named their Executive Director of Product Marketing. News Appointments LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 06/23/2009 SumTotal special meeting to discuss proposed merger SumTotal announced that it has scheduled a special meeting of stockholders in connection with its proposed transaction with affiliates of Vista Equity Partners Fund III, L.P., on July 21, 2009. News Mergers & Aquisition LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 06/19/2009 New release of Saba Publisher Saba announced the latest release of its content creation and publishing tool Saba Publisher 9.0 with new features for rapid content creation and media-rich content for mobile devices, including iPhone and iPod Touch. News Authoring Tools LMS Talent Management Saba 06/18/2009 Galliford Try impressed by LearningGuide's support Galliford Try, a leading construction and house building group, has selected LearningGuide to provide learning and support to new staff across the UK in the use of their business control system. News Performance Support LearningGuide Construction 06/17/2009 Learning and Skills 2010 announced A new event for learning and development professionals is being launched. Learning and Skills 2010 will run alongside Learning Technologies 2010 on 27 and 28 January 2010. News Shows/Conferences Learning and Skills Group 06/17/2009 Edvantage group enhances Community Workspaces Edvantage announced the latest version of its Learning Gateway LMS, featuring enhanced community tools and user group functionality. News Collaboration LMS SaaS Edvantage 06/17/2009 e2train Launches Kallidus 8 e2train announced the launch of Kallidus 8. The new system offers an easy to use iGoogle style web gadget learner interface which will enable learning professionals to integrate formal and informal learning within a single solution. News LMS Product Announcements Performance e2train 06/17/2009 Giunti Labs launches ePortfolio solution Giunti Labs is launching a set of Portfolio and Skills management modules as part of its new learn eXact Enterprise LCMS Suite. The products – currently known as eXact Portfolio – are being unveiled for the first time at the ePortfolio conference in London. News Portfolio LCMS Giunti Labs 06/16/2009 Plateau unveils version 6.1 Plateau Systems announced the version 6.1 of their talent management suite, featuring organizational dashboards, enhanced performance review, and a streamlined user interface. News Talent Management LMS Performance Plateau 06/16/2009 InterContinental Hotels implements Saba globally Saba announced that InterContinental Hotels Group, the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, has implemented Saba Learning as its global LMS. News LMS Talent Management Saba Hospitality 06/15/2009 Edvantage finds its CBVoice Edvantage group announced the launch of its voiceover function for CourseBuilder (content authoring tool), CBVoice, allowing users to automatically generate and add high-quality synthetic voiceover. News Content Authoring Tools Edvantage 06/11/2009 Creative Metier programme drives performance in 100 days Creative Metier has launched its Vivocco100 programme using remote coaching via an online portal to get staff focussed on what they need to deliver through critical company results. News Learning environments Simulation Performance Coaching Creative Metier 06/11/2009 UKS launches Cegos offering in the Middle East UKS and Cegos Group announced the launch of e-Learning solutions by Cegos and Global Learning by Cegos to support the long-term performance and growth of commercial and public sector organisations in the Middle East. News Partnerships Content Blended Learning Universal Knowledge Solutions Cegos Group 06/11/2009 Saba Centra adds one-click distribution and Linux client Saba announced the latest version of Saba Centra 7.6 SP2 with one-click capture and distribution of session materials, increased session interactivity and a new, full-featured Linux client. News Virtual Classroom Saba Centra 06/11/2009 London College of Beauty adopts Blackboard London College of Beauty Therapy has selected Blackboard to deliver its BTEC Beauty Retail Consultant Diploma online to reduce barriers for learners who might not otherwise have the time or opportunity for professional training. News Virtual Classroom LMS Learning environments Blackboard Inc. Further Education 06/09/2009 Capital City Bank adopts Atlantic Link Capital City Bank has made an internal decision to bring their e-learning development in-house using Atlantic Link to save time, money and resources. News Rapid e-learning Authoring Tools Atlantic Link Banking Financial Services 06/09/2009 European Content Production Project uses OutStart LCMS WEBACAD, an e-learning content development company, has chosen the OutStart LCMS to develop, manage, maintain and deliver e-learning content for an online training initiative known in Europe as the Certified European E-Learning Manager program. News LCMS E-learning Skills Outstart Training 06/09/2009 Onlignment to support effective web conferencing Onlignment, a new company formed by Phil Green, Clive Shepherd and Barry Sampson, has been launched to support organisations in the use of web conferencing and other real-time online technologies. News Virtual Classroom Onlignment 06/08/2009 SuccessFactors wins at Siemens AG for 420,000 users SuccessFactors announced that Siemens AG has purchased a global enterprise subscription of virtually all of SuccessFactors modules to link strategy to executed business results with its worldwide corporate talent management vision, for 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 different languages. News Talent Management SaaS SuccessFactors Industrial Electrical 06/08/2009 AchieveGlobal launches single-source global content platform Xyleme announced that AchieveGlobal has implemented Xyleme LCMS for EMC Documentum to deliver personalized, multi-modal learning content to their worldwide audience. News LCMS Training Providers Xyleme AchieveGlobal Training 06/08/2009 OutStart gets Mobile OutStart has extended the reach of its solutions by merging with Hot Lava Software, a company with applications for reaching the world’s estimated 4.1 billion mobile cellular subscribers. The newly combined companies will conduct business as OutStart. News LCMS Mobile learning Mergers & Aquisition Outstart 06/05/2009 LearningGuide adds to National Extension College content LearningGuide Solutions is adding six new National Extension College soft skills titles to its content services library. At the same time this enables the College to add individualized just-in-time training packages to its portfolio. All titles are being created with the LearningGuide Manager authoring tool. News Content Performance Support LearningGuide Further Education 06/02/2009 ILX delivers e-Learning To COLT ILX Group is providing COLT, a European provider of business communications, with training support to enhance core skills. The course roll out involves a combination of four training programmes using online courses hosted on the COLT Learning Management System. News Content Project management ILX Telecommunications 06/01/2009 CMEurope partners with Cobent CMEurope, a specialist provider of recruitment and business consultancy services is expanding its training services through a partnership with Cobent, whose Learning Compliance Suitewas selected to provide clients with a way to manage training processes. News Partnerships LMS Cobent Group Business Services Recruitment 06/01/2009 Learn.com gets Personal Learn.com has launched Learn.com Personal Edition allowing members to achieve a Skill Score ranking reflecting their skill and knowledge for their selected Job Profile. News LMS Talent Management Skills Management Personalisation SaaS Learn.com 05/28/2009 Knowledge Solutions rebrand as EnlightKS Knowledge Solutions announced that it is rebranding as EnlightKS following its acquisition of Enlight AB. News Content IT Skills Mergers & Aquisition Knowledge Solutions Enlight EnlightKS 05/27/2009 Plateau grows for 12th year Plateau Systems announced that the company has again posted a double digit revenue gain for its fiscal 2008, with recurring revenues again comprising more than half of the company’s total revenues. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Performance Plateau 05/27/2009 Harbinger releases Raptivity Presenter Harbinger Knowledge Products announced the release of Raptivity Presenter, a library of rapidly-customizable interaction models, which help the presenter engage the audience through active participation. News Authoring Tools Content Harbinger Knowledge Products 05/27/2009 Two Learning Impact awards for Giunti Labs Giunti Labs has won a Gold and a Best in category award at the IMS Learning Impact Awards. The Gold Award was for building a Dynamic Management Skills Catalogue using its learn eXact learning content management system for the Cegos in France. News Awards LCMS Standards Giunti Labs IMS Global Learning Consortium 05/26/2009 Zeroed-In releases new impact dashboard Zeroed-In Technologies released Impact Dashboard, a unified measurement and reporting platform for learning and HR groups. Impact Dashboard combines CLO Dashboard and LMS Dashboard systems into a single dashboard offering. News Analytics LMS Measurement Zeroed-in Technologies 05/22/2009 Kineo shares free e-learning template for Articulate Kineo announced that it will give away a free version of a customized skin for use with Articulate. News Authoring Tools Rapid e-learning Kineo 05/21/2009 SkillSoft reports Q1 results SkillSoft announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter of fiscal 2010 with total revenue of $76.4 million, a 6% decrease over the same quarter the previous year, with much of the reduction attributable to exchange rate changes. Net income on a GAAP basis was $18.8 million, or $0.19 per basic and diluted share, up from $7.1 million the same quarter the previous year. News Content Financial Announcements SkillSoft 05/21/2009 UKS rolls-out content development training to the Oman Ministry of Education UKS has been chosen by the Oman Ministry of education to deliver training on content development, as part of their strategy to transfer their curricula into digital format. News Content E-learning Skills Universal Knowledge Solutions Government 05/20/2009 LINE gain Buying Solutions recognised public sector supplier status LINE Communications has been awarded recognised supplier on the Buying Solutions (formerly OGC Buying Solutions) Learning & Development and e-learning Solutions framework agreement. News Content LINE Communications Government 05/20/2009 Nissan training for Australian dealerships uses TopClass LMS WBT Systems announced that Nissan Australia is using the TopClass Learning Management System to power its learning initiative for the Nissan network of almost 200 dealers across Australia. News LMS LCMS Extra-enterprise learning WBT Systems Cars 05/18/2009 Meridian Knowledge Solutions Sees Strong Q1 Results Meridian announced stronger than expected Q1 results, helping Meridian and its parent company, Visionary Integration Professionals, to hit revenue of $148.7 million for 2008, an increase of 31.5% over 2007. News Financial Announcements LMS Meridian Knowledge Systems 05/14/2009 Elearnity examines software-as-a-service impact on learning & talent systems Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced its latest research on the impact of Software-as-a-Service on the Learning & Talent Systems market. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the provision of software applications as an Internet service, has become a major force in the business applications market. This Elearnity Core Insights paper explores the growing impact of SaaS on applications for managing and delivering learning and talent processes within a corporate environ Press Release SaaS LMS Talent Management Technology Hosted eLearnity 05/14/2009 Mace Group centralizes training with help from EKP NetDimensions announced that Mace Group, a global consultancy and construction firm, has implemented the EKP LMS to provide development and knowledge opportunities to its employees. News LMS NetDimensions Consultancies Construction 05/14/2009 Research Paper - Software-as-a-Service: Impact on Learning & Talent Systems Evolving from roots in Internet-hosted software applications, from 2000 onwards, Software as a Service (SaaS) has emerged as one of the most significant trends in the business applications market, impacting new and existing providers alike, and increasingly figuring in corporate decisions on a range of business application decisions from Accounting, Customer Relationship Management through to Video Conferencing. The Learning & Talent Systems market has been no exception to the above trend, but Report SaaS Talent Management LMS Learning environments Hosted eLearnity 05/13/2009 Webinar featuring Elearnity research on SaaS-Based Talent Systems A Webinar featuring David Wilson, of Elearnity, will explore the significance of Software-as-a-Service for learning and talent management solutions. The session, sponsored by Cornerstone OnDemand, is scheduled for Thursday, 14th May from 3pm to 4pm GMT.   News SaaS LMS Talent Management Human Capital eLearnity Cornerstone OnDemand 05/12/2009 Saba expands relationship with IBM Saba and IBM announced that they are working together, combining expertise to offer organizations a threefold approach to people management: human capital management services from IBM and enterprise learning solutions from Saba. IBM will also offer a new Learning Accelerator for WebSphere Portal that is based on Saba Learning. News LMS Talent Management Human Capital Partnerships Saba IBM 05/12/2009 IMS consortium sponsors digital learning catalogue The IMS Global Learning Consortium has announced, at its annual Learning Impact conference, that several of its member organisations have committed to funding the development of a shared web catalogue of learning resources. News Content Standards Resources IMS Global Learning Consortium 05/11/2009 ADP partners with Cornerstone ADP Employer Services announced the launch of a comprehensive suite of talent management solutions to the marketplace through its relationship with Cornerstone OnDemand. News Partnerships LMS Talent Management SaaS Cornerstone OnDemand ADP Outsourcing 05/11/2009 Systems Integrator trains customers using Virtual World Technology Ambient Performance announced that the Finmeccanica Company, SELEX Systems Integration, will expand its use of the OLIVE virtual world platform to provide experiential learning solutions for customers. News Content Virtual Worlds Extra-enterprise learning Ambient Performance Forterra Systems Information Technology 05/11/2009 L’Oréal deploys CERTPOINT learning portal CERTPOINT Systems announced that L'Oréal has chosen CERTPOINTVLS to help deliver its new employee learning portal. It will be accessible through its corporate intranet and be deployed to its 60,000+ employees in 58 countries. News LMS Learning environments CERTPOINT FMCG 05/08/2009 Blackboard to acquire ANGEL Learning Blackboard announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held ANGEL Learning for approximately $95 million, net of cash acquired and excluding transaction costs. News Mergers & Aquisition Virtual Classroom Learning environments Blackboard Inc. ANGEL Learning Higher Education 05/05/2009 SkillSoft unveils SkillPort 7.0 LMS SkillSoft announced SkillPort 7.0, the LMS for SkillSoft's e-learning solution, with a complete redesign of the user interface to enhance usability for both end users and administrators, and new configuration options enable organizations to tailor the look and behavior of their system. News LMS SkillSoft 05/02/2009 Atlantic Link and Landmark target U.S. Government Atlantic Link announced that it has entered into an agreement with Landmark ASP Solutions. Landmark will become an Atlantic Link General Services Administration Distributor to promote, market and deliver e-learning applications to U.S. Federal, State and local branches of government. News Authoring Tools Partnerships Atlantic Link Government 04/28/2009 WBT Systems launches TopClass Version 8 WBT Systems announced version 8 of its TopClass e-Learning solution. The release, which is available immediately, delivers important improvements to Classroom Management and eCommerce. The new version also includes a much enhanced user interface. News LCMS LMS WBT Systems 04/27/2009 Kineo appoints Cammy Bean as US VP of Learning Design Kineo announced that Cammy Bean has been appointed as Vice President of Learning Design in the United States. Cammy was previously the lead learning designer at InVision Learning. This is the first in a series of appointments to establish Kineo operations in the US. News Appointments Content Rapid e-learning Kineo 04/27/2009 Gabrielle Gardner to head UK Training Operations for Aquinas Gabrielle Gardner has joined Aquinas as its new Head of UK Training Operations. Most recently Gabrielle was Head of Managed Learning at Epic, focusing on incorporating Managed Services into their client offering. Previously, she was founding partner of Star Consulting. News Trainers Managed Service Aquinas ePic STAR Consulting Training 04/21/2009 Giunti Labs reveals IRMOS Project preliminary results Fabrizio Cardinali, the CEO of Giunti Labs, will reveal the preliminary results of the Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS) Project at the Immersive Education Summit - being held at the London School of Economics in London on 23rd and 24th April. News LCMS Mobile learning Virtual Worlds Shows/Conferences Giunti Labs 04/21/2009 LearningGuide previews new content LearningGuide will present its latest courseware and new release of the LearningGuide Manager authoring tool for performance support solutions at the HRD 2009 exhibition and conference in London. News Performance Support Content LearningGuide 04/20/2009 ICWE and ELIG join forces to lobby for e-learning The Paris-based European Learning Industry Group, and the German agency ICWE, which specialises in organizing events in education, training and ICT, announced that they will work closely together to foster and implement innovative learning technologies. News Partnerships ICWE ELIG Training Associations 04/20/2009 Soldiers skill-up online for Civvy Street Blackboard announced that Westminster Kingsway College has selected Blackboard to deliver training to Army chefs serving with The Royal Logistics Corps in Europe as they prepare for careers in hospitality after the completion of their military service. News Learning environments LMS Blackboard Inc. Defence Further Education 04/20/2009 Edvantage SaaS LMS now available in two versions Edvantage announced that it has expanded its Software-as-a-Service LMS Learning Gateway to include two new versions, Enterprise and Professional.  News LMS SaaS Portals Edvantage 04/17/2009 Epic achieves ISO 14001 environmental standard Epic has achieved the ISO 14001: 2004 Environmental Management Standard, confirming its commitment to long-term environmental protection. The international standard requires procedures for managing environmental aspects of a business, with targets for waste reduction and energy efficiency. News Content ePic 04/15/2009 Kelly Services deploys Cornerstone OnDemand to 659,000 users Cornerstone OnDemand announced that Kelly Services, a provider of workforce management services and human resources solutions, is deploying Cornerstone’s integrated learning and talent management software suite to nearly 659,000 employees worldwide, including temporary professional employees and full-time employees.  News LMS Talent Management SaaS Hosted Cornerstone OnDemand Business Services 04/14/2009 MOD announces a social learning for its overseas service schools Service Children’s Education, an Agency of the MOD, has selected UniServity to provide the cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform, to 40 schools located in Belize, Belgium, Brunei, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Netherlands and Italy. News Collaboration Social Networking UniServity Defence 04/14/2009 Learn.com names new Vice President of Client Success Learn.com announced that Bill D'Amico, former Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at Pathlore Software has been named the companies new Vice President of Client Success, assuming the oversight of the Account Management and Client Support divisions at Learn.com. News Appointments LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 04/14/2009 Edvantage provides Planet Wise with travel safety programmes Edvantage has been awarded the contract to provide travel safety experts, Planet Wise, with four bespoke e-learning modules focussing on UK travel safety, International travel safety, Data security and Car safety. News Content Edvantage Training 04/14/2009 OutStart appoints Vice President of European Sales OutStart has promoted Matthias Schulz to vice president of European Sales, a newly created position. In addition to leading European Sales, Mr. Schulz will continue as the managing director, or Geschäftsführer, of Berlin-based OutStart GmbH. News Appointments LCMS Outstart 04/07/2009 ThirdForce reports progress in 2008 ThirdForce has reported an 18% increase in revenue for the year ending 31st December 2008 despite weakness in the dollar and sterling impacting on returns throughout the year. Group Operating Profit (prior to non-cash adjustments) was €2.0 million for the year. News Financial Announcements Content ThIrdForce 04/06/2009 Vista Equity Partners looks to acquire SumTotal Systems Vista Equity Partners Fund III, L.P. ("Vista") , a private equity firm focused exclusively on equity transactions involving enterprise software businesses and technology-enabled solutions companies, has proposed to acquire SumTotal Systems, Inc. ("SumTotal" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: SUMT) for $3.25 per share in cash in a transaction that values the Company's outstanding equity at approximately $103 million. The proposal represents a 62% premium to the closing market price of SumTotal's Common News Mergers & Aquisition LMS Talent Management Human Capital SumTotal Systems 04/02/2009 SuccessFactors helps Kellogg manage European growth SuccessFactors announced that the European operations of Kellogg Company have implemented Succession Management module for 1,500 senior and middle managers across eight countries. News Performance Talent Management Succession Planning SuccessFactors FMCG 04/01/2009 Atlas Interactive lands world first for oil and gas safety Atlas Interactive will initiate a major contract to deliver new safety training to the offshore industry, the first time a single training provider has been tasked with delivering a solution to the entire UK oil and gas sector. The introduction of Minimum Industry Safety Training (MIST) is estimated to yield a £10 million saving to industry, over alternative methods, over a four year period. News Content Atlas Interactive Petro-Chemical Oil and Gas 03/31/2009 Saba announces Q3 Results Saba reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2009 ended February 28, 2009. Total revenues were $26.1 million compared to $27.4 million in the same quarter last year. OnDemand revenue increased to $5.3 million whilst license revenue of $4.7 million was $1.3 million below the prior year. On a GAAP basis, net earnings increased to $1.3 million, or $0.05 per share. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Human Capital Saba 03/30/2009 Getronics develops new corporate university with Edvantage Edvantage group announced that Getronics, a leading ICT service-provider, is developing a new virtual learning platform to maximise workforce performance and provide employees with the skills and knowledge they need on-demand. The Getronics Virtual University will be developed, delivered and managed using Edvantage group's Managed Learning Services. News Corporate University Content Portals LMS Managed Service Edvantage Information Technology 03/30/2009 LINE on form during difficult times LINE Communications announced record results for its 2008 financial year end with revenues in excess of £7m (an increase of 40% on 2007). News Financial Announcements Content LINE Communications 03/24/2009 Saba Centra customers save money Saba announced that Saba Centra has helped leading organizations like the Internal Revenue Service, Mitel® and CCC Information Services, save millions of dollars and increase learning effectiveness across the enterprise. News Virtual Classroom Saba Centra Government Telecommunications 03/24/2009 Intellego partners for management development Intellego announced a new partnership venture with The Worldwide Centre for Organizational Development to market and distribute their wide range of e-learning programs within the UK and Ireland. News Content Partnerships Leadership Management Development Intellego Systems Training 03/23/2009 Healthcare e-Academy plugs gap in market A new standalone e-learning organisation for the healthcare sector has been launched. The Healthcare e-Academy is delivering clinical and non-clinical online training programmes, with strategic modules covering key topics such as data protection and information governance, infection prevention and control, blended or e-induction training, and statutory and mandatory training. News Content Portals Healthcare e-Academy Virtual College Health 03/17/2009 Irish Health Service gets EKP NetDimensions announced that Aurion Learning will be upgrading the Irish Health Service Executive Online Learning Center by integrating NetDimensions EKP. News LMS NetDimensions Aurion Health Government 03/17/2009 Red Bee Media signs up for e-Learning pilot with Cegos Cegos UK announced that it is to implement an e-learning pilot programme for leading UK content provider, Red Bee Media. Red Bee Media has signed up to a number of e-learning modules from Cegos and the pilot is split into two equal periods with different modules available in each period under the terms of a normal contract. News Content Cegos Group Media 03/16/2009 SkillSoft reports fiscal 2009 results SkillSoft announced financial results for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 and its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. The Company reported total revenue of $80.5 million for its fourth quarter and $328.5 million for the full year, a 17% increase over the previous year. Net income for fiscal 2009 was $50.8 million, or $0.49 per basic share and $0.47 per diluted share. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 03/14/2009 Cornerstone OnDemand secures funding to accelerate growth Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. announced it has secured a new $12,700,000 round of financing led by Meritech Capital Partners. News LMS SaaS Cornerstone OnDemand 03/12/2009 Kineo opens office in Israel Kineo launched its first international office in Israel, expanding its e-learning service offerings to both Hebrew and English speaking organizations in the local market. News Appointments Content Rapid e-learning Kineo 03/11/2009 Intellego delivers online competence training tool Virtual Net, the Kent-based Independent Financial Adviser network, has delivered its latest online competence training programme to its members. The programme, CPDOnline supplied by Intellego Professional Training, (formerly the Professional Development Partnership) a division of the Intellego Group, helps Virtual Net members meet the obligations of the network's training and competency rules and guidance. It also provides an assessment tool, record-keeping and a knowledge base of regularly upda News Competency Management Compliance Intellego Systems 03/10/2009 Pearson and Raytheon announce content partnership Pearson Learning Solutions has formed a partnership with Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) through which Pearson will supply content, content development, and content licensing to Raytheon Professional Services (RPS) for their client training and courses throughout the world. News Alliances Content Content Management Pearson Raytheon 03/10/2009 New leadership team at Information Transfer Roger Mann has stepped down as Managing Partner of Information Transfer and the partners have appointed Owen Rose and Matthew Borg as the new joint leaders of the business. Matt and Owen have more than 20 years combined experience of working in communication and training. Each has been with Information Transfer for more than 8 years. News Appointments Information Transfer 03/09/2009 Saba OnDemand now used by 3 million users Saba OnDemand now serves more than three million users globally. Saba OnDemand continues to demonstrate superior scalability and today counts 15 global deployments with more than 50,000 users, seven of which have more than 100,000 users. News LCMS LMS Saba 03/04/2009 KnowledgePool in Growth Managed learning services company KnowledgePool announced strong financial results after another year of profitable growth through new business wins and the acquisition of BTP. The company reported growth on a turnover of £23m, a 60% increase in revenues over the previous year. News Managed Service Training Providers KnowledgePool 03/03/2009 Cornerstone OnDemand record Fourth Quarter Cornerstone OnDemand announced record performance for 2008, including a strong close to the year in Q4. Despite the economic climate, billings for Q4 2008 were up 90 percent from the previous year, the most profitable quarter in their history. Overall fiscal year 2008 billings were up 62 percent from last year. News LMS Talent Management Financial Announcements Cornerstone OnDemand 03/02/2009 Researcher picks Centra for own Webinars Saba announced that Brandon Hall Research has selected Saba Centra to deliver its public webinars as well as interactive, online analyst workshops. News Virtual Classroom Brandon-Hall Saba Centra Research 02/27/2009 LINE delivers RAF Air Power LINE Communications has developed and delivered the final part of the RAF's Air Power Study Pack. All three parts of the pack are soon to be launched on the Defence Learning Portal. News Content LINE Communications Defence 02/25/2009 NetDimensions enhances user experience NetDimensions announced the release of the EKP 5.6, including dashboard views and integration with an enterprise wiki. News LMS NetDimensions 02/24/2009 Cegos appoints Senior Consultant Cegos UK has appointed John McCann as senior consultant tol oversee the development and quality of training practices in key customers. John was previously senior business development manager at Spearhead Training in Dubai. News Appointments Training Providers Content Blended Learning Cegos Group 02/24/2009 Dixons shares its ROI achievements in implementing Cobent Dixons Store Group International shares its success in implementing the Cobent LCS learning management system having implemented it across the UK business. News LMS Cobent Group Retail 02/24/2009 Free online IT skills? ALISON.com announced they have now made learner group management free for groups of learners wishing to undertake their Web-based IT-skills course ALISON ABC IT. News IT Skills Content ALISON.com 02/23/2009 Danish car distributor adopts TopClass WBT Systems announced that Semler, the Danish importer and distributor of Audi, VW, Skoda and SEAT cars, has reported major improvements around the management, planning and administration of sales and technical training for some 4,500 staff, service partners and dealers in Denmark, since implementing the TopClass LMS. News LMS LCMS WBT Systems Cars 02/20/2009 NetDimensions delivers for ImageRight NetDimensions announced that ImageRight, a leading provider of specialized software solutions and information for the insurance industry, will implement NetDimensions EKP to deliver product training to their clients as a part of their extended enterprise training program. News LMS NetDimensions Insurance Information Technology 02/16/2009 REDTRAY acquires Academy Internet REDTRAY has expanded its e-learning capabilities through a merger with Academy Internet, the custom e-learning division of AI Digital Ltd based in Brighton. Terms of the deal are not disclosed. News Mergers & Aquisition Content RedTRAY Academy Internet 02/13/2009 Giunti Labs appoints UK Sales Director Giunti Labs has appointed JJ van Delsen as its Sales Director in the UK. JJ came to Giunti from Autodesk where he was EMEA channel development director. News Appointments LCMS Giunti Labs 02/12/2009 Giunti Labs partners with Stoas Learning Stoas Learning has become the exclusive supplier of Giunti Labs learn eXact suite of products in the Netherlands. News Partnerships LCMS Giunti Labs STOAS 02/11/2009 London Ambulance Service chooses Raptivity Harbinger Knowledge Products and Productivity4You (its UK partner) announced that London Ambulance Service has chosen Raptivity and Elicitus Interactive eLearning Suite as its platform for creation of training for its staff. News Authoring Tools Content Harbinger Knowledge Products Health Public Services 02/05/2009 Pharma company launches knowledge portal A product knowledge training portal designed by Information Transfer to support the launch of a break-through new drug in the UK was launched in January for the sales team of a global pharmaceutical company. News Portals Content Information Transfer Pharmaceutical 02/04/2009 Orange deploys SuccessFactors to 13,000 Employees in the UK SuccessFactors announced that Orange has deployed SuccessFactors to 13,000 employees in the UK. News Talent Management Performance SuccessFactors Telecommunications 02/02/2009 Banish boring e-Learning - with music CenREL has announced that it will provide free music on all client productions created until 21 June 2009. CenREL claims there are strong data that music can assist learning and help memory, but it seems rarely used in e-Learning. News Content CenREL 01/30/2009 Rapidly developed e-learning ensures compliance at Bupa Health insurer Bupa has delivered a competency assessment e-learning programme in collaboration with Brightwave who designed and delivered almost 20 hours of assessments in fewer than ten days. News Content Assessment BrightWave Health 01/30/2009 Virtual World Classroom to Transform Corporate Training Bray Leino BroadSkill has joined forces Ambient Performance to create a virtual world classroom training offer for the business community. The Virtual Instructor Led Training - similar in some ways to popular public virtual worlds such as Second Life, but created in a closed environment exclusively for use by corporates - replicates a real-world group training experience. News Virtual Worlds Collaboration Ambient Performance BroadSkill 01/29/2009 LMS2.0: Does the LMS have a place in a web 2.0 world? Presentation from Learning Technologies 2009 Conference Does the LMS have a place in a web 2.0 world? David Wilson, Managing Director eLearnity What is the future of LMS in the world of Learning 2.0, where learning is informal and collaborative, and content generated by learners themselves? What core processes would make an LMS valuable in this world? What would you track and report, and why? David Wilson will explore these questions based on Elearnity's corporate research and trends within the Presentation Collaboration LMS Strategy Learning 2.0 eLearnity 01/27/2009 Composica 4.0 gets social Composica have launched a new version of their authoring systems allowing e-Learning authors to collaboratively create highly rich, interactive content. Composica 4.0 now empowers authors to take advantage of social media tools to create a learning community around each course. News Authoring Tools Collaboration Social Networking Composica 01/23/2009 LINE introduces the Mailiens LINE Communications has introduced their new email best practice programme Mailiens, which the company is due to launch in the first quarter of this year. News Content LINE Communications 01/23/2009 LearningGuide launches version 6.0 of EPSS tool LearningGuide Solutions announced the release of version 6.0 of their LearningGuide Manager system which is more user friendly and with an integrated flowchart editor for workflow processes. News Performance Support Content LearningGuide 01/20/2009 Rapid launch of new e-Learning business New business, CenREL - the Centre for Rapid e-Learning, launches into what some see as the most hostile business period for 70 years. But according to CenREL, it is the perfect time to bring its budget priced e-Learning services to organisations where every cost is under scrutiny. News Rapid e-learning Content CenREL 01/20/2009 E-learning partnership heralds safer future for children Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board is taking the lead nationally in helping to make the county a much safer place for its children and young people using e-learning. They are delivering four e-learning modules - Basic Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect, Domestic Abuse, Integrated Working and HENRY, a new programme designed to improve the health of the nation's youngsters and reduce obesity levels in pre-school children. News Content Virtual College Public Services 01/18/2009 Kallidus LMS enables personal learning evidence e2train announced a new version of Kallidus LMS including new features to enable learners to record, store and retrieve their own personal learning evidence and template based assessments. News LMS e2train 01/16/2009 SAS Ground Services take off with ThirdForce e-learning ThirdForce celebrates this month with SAS Ground Services employee, Mireille Broussoux-Rose, winner of the General Security Awareness Training (GSAT) competition. She and her colleagues are completing the training to fully understand aviation security and the part that they can play in contributing to the security of the airport. News Content ThIrdForce Airlines 01/16/2009 Learn.com announces MyProfile module Learn.com announced that the company has released the MyProfile module for LearnCenter, introducing Pull Learning Technology. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 01/13/2009 Volvo Construction gets the blend WBT Systems announced that Volvo Construction Equipments worldwide dealer sales and service staff have reported an increase in sales and technical competencies after incorporating online learning into its training initiatives. The course content and system implementation was carried out by WBT partner, Outsmart in Scandinavia. News Blended Learning Content LCMS LMS WBT Systems Outsmart Construction Manufacturing 01/13/2009 Xyleme plugs LCMS into Documentum Xyleme announced that it has integrated its Xyleme LCMS with the EMC Documentum platform. This combined solution eliminates the need for a stand-alone LCMS by providing learning content management as a native application on top of an enterprise content management platform. News LCMS Integration Xyleme 01/09/2009 Tenant training goes mobile InLiving, a tenant training package delivered as an interactive mobile phone game to young people having to deal with the realities and responsibilities of living independently for the first time is to be rolled out following the success of a pilot project. News Content Virtual College Creative North Housing Public Services 01/08/2009 Urquhart Partnership launches elearning modules The Urquhart Partnership has recently launched the first in a series of elearning modules. News Content Urquhart Partnership 01/08/2009 Saba announces Q2 2009 Results Saba reported financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2009 ended November 30, 2008. Total revenues were $25.8 million compared to $26.7 million in the same quarter last year. OnDemand revenue increased to $5.3 million from $4.5 million, and license revenue decreased to $3.0 million from $5.7 million in the same quarter last year. On a GAAP basis, net loss improved to $355,000, or $0.01 per share. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Saba 01/08/2009 Learn.com announces successful 2008 fiscal year Learn.com announced that the company turned in another record year in revenue, with its best ever fourth quarter and best sales booking month in December with 50% annual growth. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management SaaS Learn.com 01/06/2009 Composica partners with AccessPlanIt Composica announced a new partnership with AccessPlanIt to offer Composica 4.0 in the United Kingdom. News Authoring Tools LMS Composica AccessPlanIt 01/06/2009 Atlantic Link awarded federal supplier designation Atlantic Link, Inc, has been awarded the General Services Administration contract to provide key e-learning technologies and solutions through the various departments in the United States Federal Government. News Rapid e-learning Authoring Tools Atlantic Link Government 12/19/2008 Knowledge Solutions and Enlight Unveil New Management Structure Knowledge Solutions announced a new management structure after the recent acquisition of Enlight , a provider of certification management, knowledge assurance and ECDL/ICDL solutions. Erik Hult, former CEO of Enlight, becomes Chief Operating Officer of Knowledge Solutions Europe. Tim Cooper, previously Sales Director for Knowledge Solutions, becomes Chief Operating Officer for Knowledge Solutions UK. News Appointments Mergers & Aquisition Content IT Skills Knowledge Solutions Enlight 12/11/2008 EPSS specialist introduces performance suite datango announced the launch of the datango performance suite 2009. News Performance Support datango 12/11/2008 Canadian Air Force deploys OutStart LCMS OutStart plans to implement its LCMS as part of a global project to help the Canadian Air Force transform its training operations. News LCMS Outstart Defence 12/09/2008 Saba appoints Bill Slater as Chief Financial Officer Saba announced that it has appointed Bill Slater as its new Chief Financial Officer reporting to Bobby Yazdani. Prior to joining Saba, Slater served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Symmetricom, a provider of precise time and frequency technology. News Appointments LMS Talent Management Saba 12/04/2008 Caspian Learning develop Search and Seizure educational game Caspian Learning announced it has signed a contract with the Defence College of Policing and Guarding to develop a 3D simulation to assist in training. The simulation aims to broaden the learning experience for trainee police and will help students to learn about entry, search and seizure procedures. News Games Caspian Learning Defence 12/01/2008 SkillSoft bundles to target challenging times SkillSoft announced the release of two new learning solution packages designed to help organizations manage the challenges resulting from the current economic climate. The Career Transitions bundle provides resources for employees who are part of a layoff or workforce reduction. The Business Performance in a Challenging Economy bundle is tailored to managers and executives who are leading organizations through this period of intense change and uncertainty. News Content SkillSoft 11/26/2008 Historic contest for eLearning Network committee places For the first time in the 21-year history of the eLearning Network, there has been competition for places on the committee, with 19 candidates standing for the 12 available places. News Appointments eLearning Network Institutes Associations 11/24/2008 Intuition wins award for innovation in mobile learning Intuition announced it won an award for its work in delivering mobile learning for BlackBerry smartphones at the 2008 BlackBerry® EMEA Alliance Summit. News Content Mobile learning Intuition 11/24/2008 SkillSoft reports positive Q3 resuts SkillSoft reported total revenue of $83.1 million for its third quarter ended October 31 2008, an 11% increase over the third quarter last year. On a US GAAP basis, net income was $12.0 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the third quarter, compared to $5.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2008. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 11/19/2008 Cegos unveils e-learning Cegos UK unveiled e-learning solutions by Cegos, 150 online training modules available for the UK, with a further 100 modules coming online during 2009. News Content Cegos Group 11/19/2008 LINE appoints Lead Consultant LINE Communications has appointed Steve Barden as Lead Consultant responsible for their UK Consulting Practice. News Content Appointments LINE Communications 11/18/2008 Brainvisa to resell KESDEE content KESDEE and Brainvisa have entered into a strategic partnership where Brainvisa will market the KESDEE e-learning solutions as a value added content reseller to the global market. News Partnerships Content Brainvisa KESDEE 11/17/2008 GeoLearning innovates for Extended Enterprise Training GeoLearning has introduced innovative functionality in the latest release of its GeoMaestro 5 Series learning management system for organizations that offer Extended Enterprise Training (training to external audiences such as partners, customers and channels). News LMS SaaS Extra-enterprise learning GeoLearning 11/17/2008 Fast Forward to a career in Health eOrigen has delivered a new e-learning programme designed to inform and attract potential new entrants by supporting them at the job application and interview stages. News Content eOrigen.com Health 11/14/2008 Lectora 9 boosts Rapid eLearning Trivantis announced the release of Lectora® Version 9 with a flash and games library, and the ability to publish iPhones. News Authoring Tools Trivantis 11/10/2008 Saba announces Hewlett-Packard relationship Saba Software announced a reseller partnership with the Hewlett-Packard Education Services group. News LMS Talent Management Human Capital Partnerships HP Saba 11/07/2008 LINE toolkit enhances service LINE Communications continued to expand its portfolio of software tools that enable fast development and distribution of blended and e-learning, with new localisation and review tools, as well as a CPD tool developed in conjuction with Capita. News Authoring Tools Language CPD LINE Communications 11/03/2008 SilkRoad acquires VTN Technologies SilkRoad Technology has acquired VTN Technologies , known for the Ole online learning environment. Financial terms were not disclosed. The VTN acquisition follows closing a $54 million round of equity financing in May 2008.  News Mergers & Aquisition LMS Talent Management SilkRoad VTN Technologies 10/31/2008 New members for The Charity Learning Consortium The Charity Learning Consortium, a membership organisation dedicated to providing cost effective eLearning into the charity and voluntary sectors, announced the addition of four new members. News Content Alliances Charities 10/30/2008 Starwood switches to Cornerstone OnDemand Cornerstone OnDemand announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide will use Cornerstone Learning to train and develop its employees around the globe. The initial launch of Cornerstone Learning will include 75,000 users, representing nearly half of the 155,000 global employee base. News LMS Talent Management Cornerstone OnDemand Hospitality 10/30/2008 Buckle up at Easyjet EasyJet has partnered with Epic to develop their Buckle up! induction programme for all Cabin Crew new entrants. News Content Blended Learning ePic Airlines 10/30/2008 IKEA picks Giunti Labs as a preferred supplier Giunti Labs has been chosen as one of the limited number of official providers for e-learning content production services for the next two years to IKEA. News LCMS Content Giunti Labs FMCG 10/29/2008 Classic Residence by Hyatt adopts Learn.com Learn.com announced that Classic Residence by Hyatt has launched a new company-wide online university using LearnCenter for onboarding, tracking all learning events, custom content development and deployment, certifications, skill gap analysis, competencies, learning plans, and evaluation tools. News LMS SaaS Learn.com Hospitality 10/28/2008 SumTotal reports Third Quarter 2008 results SumTotal Systems announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Total revenue was $29.1 million on a GAAP basis compared to $29.3 million in the third quarter 2007. GAAP net loss was $0.9 million, or $0.03 per share on a basic and diluted basis. For the fourth quarter 2008, SumTotal estimates its revenue on both a will be between $30.0 million and $32.0 million. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 10/28/2008 Focus Solutions partners with Cobent Focus Solution Group is making it easier for customers to automate their training programmes, through an exclusive partnership with Cobent. Focus is branding the Cobent Learning Compliance Suite to create, deploy, track and manage training and integrating it with Focus 360 ̊ as part of meeting FSA Training and Competence standards News Partnerships LMS Cobent Group Focus Solutions Financial Services 10/24/2008 ikonami announces partnership with MedSenses ikonami announced a partnership with MedSenses to offer specialised web based clinical content, in addition to existing management, technology and leadership titles. News Partnerships Content Ikonami MedSenses Health 10/21/2008 Saba unveils Social Networking platform Saba unveiled its enterprise social networking platform, Saba Socialcombining person profile and competency framework with real-time collaboration and social networking tools to capture knowledge and connect people with expertise. News LMS Talent Management Collaboration Social Networking Saba 10/21/2008 HealthELearning.net gets eCommerce HealthELearning.net is now e-commerce enabled. Anyone can register on the portal and get direct access to a wide variety of e-learning courses, simply by using a debit or credit card, so learners can start new courses almost immediately. News Portals Content Course-Source Health 10/20/2008 Atlantic Link gets external investment Atlantic Link has announced a significant investment deal with equity firm Catapult which has acquired 14% of the business. The investment will enable the company to further expand its new US-based operations. News Rapid e-learning Authoring Tools Financial Announcements Atlantic Link 10/20/2008 SumTotal gets new CEO SumTotal Systems announced that its board of directors has named Arun Chandra, 47, as the new chief executive officer effective November 1, 2008 following the retirement of Don Fowler. News LMS Talent Management Appointments SumTotal Systems 10/16/2008 Halogen enhances eLMS Halogen Software announced version 9.0 of their performance-based learning management system, Halogen eLMS, which integrates organizational learning activities with employee performance appraisals, succession planning and other key talent management functions. News LMS Product Announcements Talent Management Halogen Software 10/15/2008 Saba enhances core talent suite Saba announced the latest release of its unified people management platform, Saba Enterprise 5.4 SP3, which includes internal recruiting capabilities, a new module -- Saba Workforce Planning -- and enhancements to the Saba Content Integration Framework, as well as new collaboration and organizational charting capabilities. News LMS Talent Management Human Capital Product Announcements Saba 10/15/2008 SkillSoft offers OLSA to Talent Management vendors SkillSoft announced it will make its Open Learning Services Architecture framework available to talent management vendors, providing vendors with a tool to integrate their offerings with SkillSoft web services-based e-learning systems. News Content Talent Management Integration SkillSoft 10/15/2008 Click 4 Compliance uses EKP NetDimensions announces that online ethics & compliance training company, Click 4 Compliance LLC, has launched its new and improved hosting services utilizing NetDimensions EKP. News LMS Hosted Compliance Content NetDimensions 10/10/2008 Saba releases new version of Centra Saba announces the latest version of its web conferencing and collaboration solution, Saba Centra 7.6 SP1. The latest release makes it easy to access, capture, and share information anytime with RSS feeds and one-click knowledge capture, and furthers real-time learning with enhanced evaluation and learning event administration News Product Announcements Virtual Classroom Saba 10/10/2008 Saba announces Q1 2009 results Saba reported financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2009 ended August 31, 2008. Total GAAP revenues were $25.3 million compared to $25.5 million last year. OnDemand revenue increased to $4.9 million and license revenue was $3.0 million in the quarter. On a GAAP basis, net loss was $2.2 million, or $0.08 per share. News Financial Announcements 10/09/2008 Meridian partners with SkillSoft Meridian Knowledge Solutions has entered into a non-exclusive relationship with SkillSoft that boosts the online library to more than 15,000 e-learning courses. News 10/07/2008 Home loan company chooses Cornerstone The leading UK provider of outsourced third party mortgage administration services has chosen Cornerstone Learning for 2,250 users. News LMS Talent Management SaaS Hosted Cornerstone OnDemand Financial Services Business Services 10/05/2008 Rapid growth for Kineo Kineo announced that it than doubled its revenues in the year ending 30 September 2008. News Financial Announcements Content Rapid e-learning Kineo 10/02/2008 International Federation of Air Line Pilots chooses EKP NetDimensions announced that the IFALPA has chosen NetDimensions EKP as the technology for its new eLearning initiative. EKP will be used to manage pre-requisite courses for those nominated to attend IFALPA Training Courses, and educational and training materials for IFALPA members. News LMS Content NetDimensions Airlines Associations 09/30/2008 US Department of Education expands contract with GeoLearning GeoLearning announced that the U.S. Department of Education has extended its learning services contract with the company by two years. News LMS Hosted SaaS LCMS Analytics GeoLearning Government 09/30/2008 Luminosity courses are now available on your phone CM Group announced a mobile publication option for their Luminosity rapid eLearning course creation and management platform. News Authoring Tools Mobile learning Rapid e-learning CM Group 09/30/2008 Atlantic Link, expands presence in US Market Atlantic Link, is driving further expansion into the US market with the employment of 4 new key staff. These appointments will allow Atlantic Limk to better serve the US market. News Content Rapid e-learning Atlantic Link 09/30/2008 Saba helps Mitel Networks accelerate merger integration Mitel has leveraged Saba Learning to help accelerate a significant merger integration and support global learning following its acquisition of Inter-Tel. News LMS Human Capital Saba Telecommunications 09/25/2008 Edvantage Group acquires Futuremedia Learning Futuremedia announced that it has agreed to accept the acquisition bid on its e-learning division (FM Learning) by Edvantage Group. Andrea Miles, Managing Director, Futuremedia Learning has been named Managing Director, Edvantage group UK. News Content Mergers & Aquisition Edvantage Group Futuremedia 09/22/2008 Giunti Labs CEO joins IMS Global Learning Consortium Board Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs, and co-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of IMS Global Learning Consortium. IMS GLC is a global, non-profit, member organisation that encourages and enables the growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors worldwide. News LCMS Giunti Labs 09/22/2008 QA-IQ Group aquires Xpertise Group QA-IQ Group has today announced that its offer to acquire Xpertise Group PLC has been declared wholly unconditional. As two of the leading companies in the delivery of training to technology departments, the combination of the strengths, experience and knowledge of the organisations will provide significant benefit for existing customers and new opportunities for future development. News QA-IQ Training 09/22/2008 Kineo delivers new blended programme for BP Kineo and BP have partnered to create a comprehensive and engaging blended learning programme for global safety and operations training. The programme, Operating Essentials, driven out of the Health, Safety and Operations team was designed to bring a consistent way for Operations and Maintenance Leaders to manage their part of the operations, wherever they were located in BP’s global business. News Blended Learning Rapid e-learning Kineo Petro-Chemical 09/20/2008 CM Group announces integration between Luminosity and SharePoint CM Group announces another major new component to complement the Luminosity rapid eLearning course creation and management platform. Using the SharePoint Connector, courses from the Luminosity Content Server (LCS) course catalogue can be hosted within a company's existing SharePoint site News Content Content Management CM Group 09/18/2008 GeoLearning awarded $11.6 Million contract by FEMA GeoLearning announced that the US Federal Emergency Management Agency has selected the GeoMaestro LMS to deliver and manage training regarding rules, policies and procedures. The platform and professional services contract will total $11.6 million over the next five years. News LMS Hosted SaaS GeoLearning Government 09/16/2008 Cegos appoints e-learning business development manager Cegos UK has appointed Barry Woolven to the newly created role of e-learning business development manager. He joins Cegos from Giunti Labs UK where he was sales manager prior to holding business development and account management positions at SkillSoft UK and MTI Technology. News Appointments Content Blended Learning Cegos Group 09/16/2008 LINE develops Disability Smart LINE Communications announced the launch of Disability Smart, an e-learning course developed to support business advisors and enterprise agencies as part of an initiative run by Leonard Cheshire Disability called Enabled 4 Enterprise. News Content LINE Communications Charities 09/16/2008 Edvantage develops management and leadership capabilities Edvantage group announced that they have been selected by Opera Software, developers of the Opera Web Browser, to help the company develop company-wide competence, creativity, culture and communications. News Content Management Development Portals Edvantage Information Technology 09/15/2008 Reducing the environmental impact of waste Futuremedia Learning announced the launch of an online learning programme designed to help waste-producing companies meet regulatory requirements and minimise the effect of the waste they produce on the environment. Produced on behalf of the Waste Facilities Audit Association the 40-minute learning programme is for companies of all sizes. News Content Futuremedia Public Services 09/09/2008 E.learning age 2008 awards shortlist announced The shortlist for the E-Learning Awards 2008 has just been announced with well over 50 organisations shortlisted in 13 categories. News Awards Content LMS e.learning age 09/09/2008 Survey highlights 39% failure in search Boost eLearning announced results of a new survey indicating 39 percent of all Google searches fail, leading to more than 40 hours – or one week – of lost productivity per user per year. News Content Search Boost eLearning 09/09/2008 eglue and Tata Interactive Systems partnership eglue and Tata Interactive Systems have signed a worldwide partnership agreement under which TIS will promote and distribute the eglue InterAct suite and also provide professional services around the product. News Partnerships Content Authoring Tools TaTA Interactive Systems eglue 09/04/2008 Connected talent management processes critical to long-term success Industry analyst David Wilson and executives from Barclays and Allied Irish Bank (AIB) shared insight into key trends and best practices for integrated talent management at Cornerstone OnDemand EMEA user group conference in London.  News Talent Management LMS Hosted ASP Cornerstone OnDemand eLearnity Financial Services Banking 09/04/2008 Trainer1 expands into US Trainer1 is developing its US-based operations with the appointment of former Procter & Gamble (P&G) executive, David Ringo, as chief operations officer (COO) and Richard Lopasky as senior executive of sales in the new Trainer1 (USA) Inc. News Appointments Content Authoring Tools Trainer1 09/03/2008 Norwich Union helps customers improve health and safety Norwich Union Risk Services is helping its customers improve the standard of health and safety in the workplace with a new online training portal using Cobent Learning Compliance Suite to create, sell and deploy easy-to-use online training for health and safety related topics to insurance brokers and insured business customers. News Portals LMS Compliance Content Cobent Group Insurance 09/01/2008 Echelon appoints Alistair Morrison as CEO Echelon Learning has appointedAlistair Morrison as its CEO. David Hill, who has headed up Echelon Learning since its inception in 1986, becomes Chairman, while retaining the role of Services Director to support key clients. Jenny Hill continues to lead the company’s consultancy division. News Appointments Resources Content echelon Learning 08/28/2008 Hertz learning services contract for ACS The Hertz Corporation has selected ACS to provide learning process outsourcing services to meet human resource transformational objectives globally. News Outsourcing ACS Cars Business Services 08/26/2008 Salary.com acquires InfoBasis Salary.com announced that it has acquired InfoBasis Limited for approximately $5 million.  The acquisition is expected to be neutral to Salary.com non-GAAP net income during fiscal 2009 and add approximately $1.6 to $2.0 million to fiscal year 2009 revenues. News Mergers & Aquisition InfoBasis Salary.com 08/22/2008 SkillSoft reports second quarter results SkillSoft announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter of fiscal 2009 reporting total revenue for the quarter of $83.3 million,a 17% increase over the same quarter last year. Total deferred revenue at July 31, 2008 was approximately $166.6 million, compared to approximately $143.7 million at the same time last year. On a US US GAAP basis, net income was $12.9 million, or $0.12 per diluted share. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 08/22/2008 Trainer1 becomes Trivantis regional partner Trainer1 has been promoted in its relationship with publishing technologies and services producer, Trivantis, from reseller to regional partner. News Alliances Content LMS Authoring Tools Trainer1 Trivantis 08/20/2008 Ashridge launches talent management programme Ashridge Business School has launched a programme that helps managers to plan and implement talent management systems within an organisation. News Talent Management Ashridge Business Schools 08/19/2008 LINE emphasises the informal LINE Communications has conducted a survey of HR professionals that sites unstructured learning interventions as a crucial element for inspiring the curiosity to learn in their work force. News Informal learning Content LINE Communications 08/19/2008 NetDimensions release EKP LMS 5.5 NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems announces the release of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) 5.5. This version has enhanced capabilities for managing catalogues, version control of courses and controlling virtual classrooms. News LMS NetDimensions 08/18/2008 Knowledge Solutions announces mulitple client wins Knowledge Solutions has announced key client wins with major organisations spanning logistics, the NHS, and manufacturing sectors. News Content Blended Learning Knowledge Solutions Industrial Transport Health 08/15/2008 Futuremedia Learning gets Climate Wise Futuremedia Learning announced that it has won the contract to provide an environmental training package on Corporate Social Responsibility for a leading financial services company, a member of ClimateWise. News Content Futuremedia Insurance 08/15/2008 ThirdForce contract with Accor Hotels ThirdForce announced to contract to provide e-learning based materials to 4,500 staff in Accor Hotels in UK and Ireland. Employees will further their expertise in Food Safety, Heath and Safety and the Disability Discrimination Act. News Content ThIrdForce Hospitality 08/14/2008 BTL assessment tools ranked No. 1 in recent study The University of Manchester UKCDR project team (UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Exams) found that BTL e-Assessment solutions came out on top in their independent study analysing current e-Assessment tools. The study was conducted to determine which tools could potentially form part of an e-Assessment solution that would be sophisticated enough to support in house and national examinations. News Assessment BTL Higher Education 08/12/2008 Brainvisa announces services for rapid Mobile Learning Brainvisa unveiled its capabilities in mLearning including rapid eLearning authoring systems, custom mobile-based portals and custom content for Mobile phones. The new basket of mLearning services by Brainvisa aims at overcoming the challenges faced by corporate organizations and academic institutions in providing on-the-fly learning. News Mobile learning Rapid e-learning Brainvisa 08/10/2008 UKS joins the European Learning Industry Group UKS has become an affiliate member of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), an open consortium of leading providers in the field of innovative knowledge and learning solutions for the 21st century. UKS will be playing an active role in all ELIG’s international and regional initiatives and activities. News Vendors Universal Knowledge Solutions 08/07/2008 Virgin Atlantic receives aviation medicine Futuremedia Learning announced the successful launch of an online course in Aviation Medicine that it has created for Virgin Atlantic to train newly recruited cabin crew. News Content LMS Futuremedia Airlines 08/07/2008 Outstart links SellingEdge.com to Salesforce.com OutStart,has received Force.com AppExchange certification from salesforce.com for its OutStart SellingEdge.com product. The certification gives users access to SellingEdge.com through a tightly integrated connection in Salesforce CRM. News LCMS LMS Outstart 08/07/2008 QA-IQ appoints Director of Professional Best Practice QA-IQ has appointed its first Director of Professional Best Practice to lead and develop a new business unit. Jeff Payne, previously Head of the Service Management Practice at QA-IQ, will broaden his focus from August 2008 to include the Project and Programme Management and Business Analysis and Systems Development Practices. News Appointments QA-IQ Training 08/06/2008 PHM launches Blackberry performance support tool Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone, and the London based consultancy PHM has developed ‘Activ8’ – an application that communicates with, supports and motivates sales teams. Activ8 is designed to help these teams generate increased sales. News Mobile learning Performance Support PHM 08/05/2008 Experian and Caspian Learning launch finance 3D Game Creditability, powered by Caspian Learning’s Thinking World’s technology, is aimed at children and young adults and provides a unique way for them to learn about managing their finances. Creditability allows players to engage with a range of online characters and to learn in an interactive 3D environment. It takes players on a journey through four separate environments where they learn, through a range of challenges, about different financial scenarios. News Games Simulation Caspian Learning Financial Services 07/31/2008 Oracle buys Global Knowledge Software Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire Global Knowledge Software LLC (GKS), a division of Global Knowledge, Inc. News Mergers & Aquisition Content IT Skills Global Knowledge Oracle Information Technology 07/31/2008 Department for Work and Pensions deploys InfoBasis ESM The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has deployed the InfoBasis capability management platform as part of its drive to improve organisational capability. The DWP is using InfoBasis ESM for the present to manage the competencies of over 1,000 personnel. News Competency Management InfoBasis Government 07/30/2008 Virgin Atlantic targets back injury Virgin Atlantic has commissioned Brightwave to develop a Manual Handling e-learning programme for all staff to provide awareness on the causes of back injury in the workplace. News Content BrightWave Airlines 07/30/2008 Informa Selects Xyleme LCMS Xyleme announced that Informa plc has selected Xyleme LCMS for single source content development and multi-channel publishing of training content in several of its performance improvement companies. The recently completed proof-of-concept phase saw successful integration with Documentum eRoom and digital asset management technologies. News LCMS Content Xyleme Publishing 07/30/2008 SumTotal announces second quarter results for 2008 umTotal® Systems today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. On a GAAP basis total revenue for the second quarter 2008 increased to $31.9 million from $30.2 million in the second quarter 2007. Net loss was $1.0 million, or $0.03 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to a net loss of $1.5 million, or $0.05 per share in the second quarter 2007. Non-GAAP revenue for the second quarter 2008 increased to $32.0 million from $30.5 million in the second News Financial Announcements SumTotal Systems 07/30/2008 Kineo delivers over 30 hours of rapid e-learning for HSBC HSBC partnering with Kineo delivered over 30 hours of e-learning delivered in just two months, as a new case study explains. HSBC needed to accelerate e-learning development to meet the goals of the new onboarding programme. HSBC was highly experienced with traditional e-learning models, but the challenge was that a more traditional e-learning development approach would mean that the roll out of training would not meet the launch date requirements of the new programme. News Content Rapid e-learning Kineo Banking 07/29/2008 RapideL-i to now include offline authoring RapideL-i, online rapid eLearning tool developed by Brainvisa has recently added a new feature to enable offline authoring of courseware.In a bid to combine the advantages of offline and online authoring, Brainvisa recently added an MS Excel converter to the online rapid eLearning tool- RapideL-i. This new feature allows users to simply select the list of interactivities or templates required for a course from a given MS Excel sheet News Content Rapid e-learning Brainvisa 07/29/2008 LINE's Learning Design Academy opens its doors LINE Communications, launches the Learning Design Academy, a programme to develop the innovative Learning Designers of the future.Recent company growth has meant the need to develop a Learning Design faculty that can continue to deliver innovative and effective solutions. The programme has taken a year to develop, and it combines a carefully defined development and training plans with on-the-job mentoring and assessment. News Content E-learning Skills LINE Communications 07/28/2008 OnPoint licenses core Impatica Technologies for mobile content delivery OnPoint Digital, Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Impatica, Inc. The agreement grants OnPoint an exclusive license to use Impatica's proprietary technology to help convert standard Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into mobile-ready content for immediate playback on leading smartphones. The Impatica-designed technology set acquired under this Agreement has already been integrated into OnPoint's new CellCast Mobile Widget™ offering which supports content delivery and News Mobile learning Impatica 07/24/2008 Trainer1 expands its portfolio Trainer1 has expanded its portfolio of technology delivered learning products with the addition of distributing Platte Canyon Multimedia products in the UK. News Authoring Tools Content Trainer1 07/23/2008 Cegos launches new blended learning solution Cegos UK announced the launch of its new blended learning solution, Global Learning by Cegos®. In addition, Cegos has also launched e-learning solutions by Cegos® - a catalogue of over 250 online training modules, many of which will be included in its blended learning solutions or provided as standalone learning tools. The entire blended programme can be deployed internationally, is available in seven different languages, and can be tailored to a specific organisation. News Blended Learning Content Cegos Group 07/23/2008 Imparta and O2 win European Retail Solutions Award Communications company O2 and its training partner Imparta have picked up the prize for 'Best Use of Technology for Employee Training or Communication' at the 2008 European Retail Solutions Awards. Using the Retail computer-simulation, staff can first build their knowledge via animated tutorials, then apply the knowledge by interacting with 'virtual' customers in training modules replicating typical in-store scenarios News Awards Blended Learning Simulation Imparta Retail 07/22/2008 OutStart and Eedo to merge OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations. The merged company, conducting business as OutStart, immediately becomes the largest vendor of learning content management systems (LCMS). The combined company has more than 300 customers with close to 40 percent of its business coming from international clients. News Mergers & Aquisition LCMS LMS Outstart eedo Knowledgeware 07/21/2008 InfoBasis adds test functionality InfoBasis has expanded its competency management platform, InfoBasis ESI v 5.0, by adding question-based testing. Users can now sit a short test of their knowledge and skills, and use the results to verify skills levels selected during self-assessment. News Skills Management Competency Management Assessment InfoBasis 07/17/2008 REDTRAY wins Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists Award Kerry Watts, lead nurse for medicines management at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, collected a Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT Award. The winning e-learning package, developed by REDTRAY, delivers mandatory medicines management training. News Content Awards RedTRAY Health 07/15/2008 RapideL-i converts PowerPoint RapideL-i has recently introduced an MS Power Point converter allowing users to import static Powerpoint presentations into RapideL-i and convert the presentation into a SCORM complaint eLearning course. News Authoring Tools Brainvisa 07/14/2008 Giunti Labs eases content migration issues HarvestRoad Hive from Giunti Labs is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to save both time and manpower as they make information more readily available to users. News LCMS Repositories Giunti Labs Higher Education 07/12/2008 Kineo launches Open Source services company Kineo announced the launch of a new open source services company Kineo Open Source offering popular open source solutions for website development, customer relationship management and learning including SugarCRM, Moodle and Joomla. News Open-Source Technology LMS Kineo Moodle 07/10/2008 Intuition expanding in Asia-Pacific Intuition has expanded its Asia-Pacific operations with the opening of a new office in Sydney, Australia. News Content Mobile learning Intuition Financial Services 07/09/2008 CM Group launches new rapid development tool - Luminosity Luminosity is a new web-based rapid development eLearning platform. It enables the author to work either online or offline and to publish the content to users via websites, via a SCORM compliant LMS, to SharePoint or to other intranet sites, or to a mobile device. Once published, the content can be updated and re-published by the author themselves in minutes, a task which has historically been protracted and often costly. News Content Rapid e-learning CM Group 07/07/2008 Edvantage launches new version of Learning Gateway LMS Edvantage group has launched a new version of Learning Gateway, its fully-hosted Learning Management System. Learning Gateway 4.8 improves the learner experience and streamlines the administration process.The entirely new “My Space” feature of Learning Gateway 4.8 gives learners a personalised training map, helping them to access the right resources at the right time News LMS Edvantage 07/02/2008 Edvantage development tool for the Defence Learning Portal BT Global Services has selected the Edvantage CourseBuilder development tool and services for the UK Defence Learning Portal. News Authoring Tools Content BT Edvantage Defence Government 06/30/2008 Performance support helps construction rental business Developing effective training to support a major investment of £14 million in its new Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System led Hewden Stuart, a construction equipmental rental company, to work with LearningGuide to train its 1500 users. News Performance Support LearningGuide Construction 06/30/2008 LINE still expanding LINE Communications announced the expansion of its Sheffield operation. News Appointments Content LINE Communications 06/30/2008 Xyleme unveils LCMS 3.2 Xyleme announced the release of Xyleme LCMS 3.2 including enhanced collaboration for course design and development, greater ease-of-use for SMEs, and improved performance and security to meet enterprise-level requirements. News LCMS Product Announcements Xyleme 06/27/2008 Institute of IT Training award for Innovation The Institute of IT Training announced the launch of a new category at the IT Training Awards 2009; The Innovation in Training Services Award will celebrate the most effective implementation of the latest developments in learning technology and techniques in the IT Training industry. News Awards IT Skills IITT Institutes 06/25/2008 Edvantage enhances CourseBuilder Edvantage group announces the release of CourseBuilder 5.2, its interactive learning content development tool featuring new CourseBuilder Media Components. The new Flash components are integrated into the CourseBuilder architecture, enabling non-programmers to create high-level interactivity within e-learning programmes. CourseBuilder Media Components can also be customised, edited and re-used, offering a high degree of flexibilitywhile keeping development time to a minimum. News Content Rapid e-learning Edvantage 06/25/2008 BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development BTL Group has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of educational consultants, to launch a 2-day e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course, to be held on 24th and 25th September 2008 at the BTL headquarters in Shipley. News Assessment E-learning Skills BTL AlphaPlus 06/25/2008 Elearnity provides guide to Managing Rapid e-learning Elearnity announced its latest research on the different approaches and considerations to managing Rapid e-learning. Press Release Rapid e-learning Content Strategy Authoring Tools LCMS eLearnity 06/25/2008 Research Paper - Managing Rapid E-learning Rapid e-learning is being used by many large organisations including BP, Ufi, Virgin Media, M&S, HSBC Cable and Wireless and many more. But, why has it been adopted and how has it been used? In order to help you to review the importance Rapid e-learning for your organisation, Elearnity have created a suite of independent white papers that consider the high-level implications of Rapid e-learning. In this second Elearnity white paper, we explore the fundamentals of managing rapid e-learning. We r Report Rapid e-learning Content Strategy Authoring Tools LCMS eLearnity 06/24/2008 Kineo guide on marketing e-Learning Kineo have issued a free new guide on how to market and launch e-learning. News Acceptance Content Kineo 06/20/2008 SkillSoft extends Russian catalogue Further reinforcing its global reach, SkillSoft has negotiated a new partnership agreement in Russia with Noviy Disk, following on from its recent deal with Ambow in China. News Content Language SkillSoft 06/19/2008 IMC AG acquires Dynamic Media IMC has taken over Dynamic Media eLearning GmbH, eLearning specialists based in Graz/Austria. The new IMC subsidiary will operate under the name of IMC Information Multimedia Communication GmbH, and be managed by the founder, Wolfgang Raback. The 25 members of staff will continue to be employed in the IMC Group, bringing the total number of employees to 175. News Mergers & Aquisition LMS Authoring Tools IMC 06/19/2008 Redtray delivers mental health e-learning for NHS Working with Redtray seven NHS Trusts across the South East of England have developed new e-learning programmes based on the specific needs of mental health care. Three separate e-learning courses are now available: Managing Risk, Delivering CPA (Care Programme Approach) and Delivering Equality. The topics are aimed at all relevant Mental Health staff across the trusts (with a total of 16,000 potential users) and will give learners the opportunity to acquire knowledge and enhance skills within a News Blended Learning Content RedTRAY Health 06/19/2008 InfoBasis announces alliance with Salary.com InfoBasis, announced their collaboration with Salary.com. Salary.com offers offers access to one of the largest libraries of off-the-shelf, job-specific competency models whilst InfoBasis will provide a range of competency management software solutions designed to help the entire spectrum of the employee lifecycle from strategic workforce asset planning and resource deployment to learning management and delivery. News Alliances Competency Management InfoBasis Salary.com 06/19/2008 HealthELearning.net and Video Arts add humour Course-Source has just released twenty-two new Video Arts self-study interactive courses to its expanding online catalogue for the Health Sector via its HealthELearning.net website. This also means Video Arts courses are now available to the Health Sector online, rather than only on DVD. News Content Portals Course-Source Video Arts Health 06/19/2008 Training survey shows UK leads on innovation Corporate UK is leading the way in training practices, according to a pan-European survey Cegos Group. The survey found that UK organisations are training more staff and have embraced innovative practices - including e-learning, blended learning and mobile learning - to a greater extent than their European counterparts. News Surveys Training Providers Blended Learning Content Cegos Group 06/18/2008 Glasgow selects Brightwave Learning Suite Glasgow City Council has selected Brightwave to customise and implement a suite of e-learning tools as part of its new People Strategy commitment to Developing and Learning. News Authoring Tools Content BrightWave Local Government 06/18/2008 e2train seeks satisfaction e2train announced the results of its annual customer survey highlighting strong customer satisfaction scores from timely service and support. News LMS Performance e2train 06/17/2008 SkillSoft gets court approval of share capital reduction SkillSoft announced that it has received an Order of the High Court of Ireland pursuant to Section 74 of the Companies Act 1963 confirming the reduction of the share capital of SkillSoft PLC by the cancellation of the sum of $684,750,000 from its share premium account. News Financial Announcements Content Portals SkillSoft 06/16/2008 Cornerstone OnDemand Spring innovations Cornerstone OnDemand announced the availability of its Spring 2008 release, designed to help organizations of all sizes engage their workforce with strategic talent pooling, evolve their talent strategy with new certification functionality to drive up compliance rates, and empower organizations with self-service tools for talent data management. News LMS Talent Management ASP Hosted Cornerstone OnDemand 06/16/2008 Intellego acquisition of Zenosis Intellego announced the recent acquisition of Zenosis, a publisher of compliance and regulatory affairs e-learning courseware for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry. Zenosis' training courses cover subject areas that are compulsory for those working in the pharmaceutical industry such as good clinical practice and regulatory affairs. News Mergers & Aquisition Content LMS Portals Intellego Systems 06/16/2008 KnowledgePool appoints Learning Consultancy Director KnowledgePool has appointed Al Bird to the newly-created role of Learning Consultancy Director. Al joins from Accenture, where he spent over 11 years, latterly as Business Development Director of Accenture Learning. Mark Swain has also been appointed as an Account Director responsible for building new client relationships in financial services, retail, the public sector, FMCG and business services. News Appointments Managed Service Training Providers Content KnowledgePool 06/13/2008 Epic acquired by private investor Huveaux announced that it has sold its e-Learning subsidiary Epic Group plc to a private investor, Andrew Brode, for £4.75m in cash. Jonathan Satchell who was appointed by Huveaux plc as Epic's MD in December 2007 will continue as Epic's CEO. News Mergers & Aquisition Content ePic Huveaux 06/12/2008 Application Lynx completes implementation of Oracle Human Capital Mgmt at Bradford and Bingley Application Lynx announces the successful implementation of the Oracle Human Capital Management solution, at Bradford & Bingley.The project involved the implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management HR Self Service, Learning Management, and Daily Business Intelligence functions. The project includes Oracle Learning Management - also part of the Oracle E-Business Suite - that went live in just 38 days. News Human Capital LMS Oracle Banking 06/12/2008 QA-IQ appoints new CEO QA-IQ has broadened its management team by appointing a new Chief Executive to lead the company and develop future opportunities for growth. William Macpherson joined QA-IQ on 9 June 2008. John Kauffman, previously Managing Director, will remain on the Board of QA-IQ Group as a Non-Executive Director. News Appointments IT Skills Training Providers QA-IQ QA Training Training 06/12/2008 Harbinger Knowledge Products announces new release of Elicitus authoring tool Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced the release of Version 7.0 of Elicitus, its rapid eLearning authoring tool. The highlights of this release is an embedded sound recorder as well as more options for global settings, enhanced score tracking mechanisms and support for more media formats. News Authoring Tools Harbinger Knowledge Products 06/11/2008 Plateau Systems appoints SVP of Marketing Plateau Systems announced that technology industry and marketing veteran Jeff Kristick has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Marketing. News Appointments LMS Performance Talent Management Plateau 06/11/2008 Bank gets mobile to prevent compliance failures A £6.3m fine for misconduct in its handling of share trades in two firms, has prompted a major UK financial services institution to use mobile performance support delivered to PDAs and BlackBerrys to provide regulatory and compliance-based information as well as key learning points related to data protection. The mobile delivery system is supplied by Giunti Labs, the content is being authored and by Eukleia Training Limited; and learners' test results are being sent and monitored in the learning News Mobile learning Content LMS ASP Giunti Labs Eukleia Training Cornerstone OnDemand Financial Services Banking 06/10/2008 Composica launches a French version Composica announced a new partnership with X-PERTeam to offer a fully localized version of Composica Enterprise in France. News Authoring Tools Composica X-PERTeam 06/10/2008 HeidelbergCement selects Cornerstone OnDemand HeidelbergCement has selected Cornerstone OnDemand to support the organisation's e-learning compliance training initiatives to a workforce of over 68,000 employees across 50 countries. In addition, HeidelbergCement was looking for a platform that could support future talent management initiatives such as performance management and succession planning. News LMS Talent Management Hosted ASP Performance Cornerstone OnDemand Industrial 06/10/2008 InfoBasis signs 3-year capability management contract with Ministry of Justice InfoBasis announced that it has signed a 3-year contract with the UK Ministry of Justice for the use of InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Manager. The Ministry will pilot the capability management platform across its eDelivery Group as part of a toolkit to develop the professionalism of staff under the Cabinet Office sponsored Government IT Profession. News Skills Management Competency Management IT Skills InfoBasis Government 06/06/2008 Kineo rapidly delivers at Cable&Wireless Kineo and Cable&Wireless have partnered to create a smart approach to Rapid E-learning that has delivered results to the business at speed. The approach has been described in a joint case study. News Rapid e-learning Kineo Telecommunications 06/05/2008 IMC releases LECTURNITY 3.0 IMC has released an updated version (3.0) of its interactive rapid authoring tool LECTURNITY, including a simplified one click publisher process for publishing content in various formats. News Authoring Tools Content Rapid e-learning IMC 06/03/2008 Knowledge Infusion announces Managed Talent Services Knowledge Infusion announced Knowledge Infusion Managed Talent Services, a portfolio of transformational offerings serving global 1000 companies, public sector organizations, and HR technology and service providers. Service include programme management, business process design and callibration, deployment excellence and configuration services. News Talent Management Managed Service Knowledge Infusion 06/03/2008 SkillSoft joins forces with Chinese e-Learning provider Skillsoft announced that Chinese e-learning technologies and education resources provider Ambow Education Group has signed a multi-million dollar agreement spanning several years with SkillSoft Asia Pacific (SkillSoft) as its exclusive distributor to the Chinese enterprise and government market. News Content Partnerships SkillSoft Ambow Education Group 06/02/2008 Edvantage announces Managed Learning Services Edvantage group announced the launch of Managed Learning Services to provide organisations with a flexible range of options using a team of experts to support and co-ordinate their training needs. These include learning and consulting, technology, content selection and content development services. News Managed Service Portals Content Edvantage 05/29/2008 Intuition and Merrill Lynch recognized for mobile learning Intuition announced that it was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Wireless Leadership Awardsfor its work with Merrill Lynch for its GoLearn project. The GoLearn project delivers mandated learning to BlackBerry smartphone users through an application developed by Intuition. This project enables employees to access learning materials during naturally occurring down time, such as, the daily commute or while travelling on business. News Awards Mobile learning Content Intuition Financial Services Banking 05/28/2008 Rapid e-learning - Collaborative Research Outline Rapid e-learning is one of the most significant developments in e-learning over the past few years. The adoption of this approach has grown phenomenally. Where projects once took months to deliver, they now take a matter of weeks, days or even hours. The costs are almost half that of traditional e-training, but at what price does that come to the learner? For all the hype, what is the reality of rapid e-learning in large corporates? Even for those already using Rapid e-learning, there are some News Rapid e-learning Content Authoring Tools Strategy eLearnity 05/27/2008 Volkswagen and Giunti win award Giunti Labs has won a Platinum Learning Impact Award for its learn eXact learning content management system for its application with Volkswagen Group Italia. During 2006, 18 training courses were deployed across different brands and training sectors in the Volkswagen Group Italia. Based on the positive results and the feedback, learn eXact has now been fully integrated in the dealer portal. News Awards LCMS Giunti Labs Cars 05/23/2008 SkillSoft reports Q1 2009 results SkillSoft announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter of fiscal 2009 with total revenue of $81.6 million, a 43% increase over the $57.1 million reported last year. The increased revenue was primarily attributable to the NETg acquisition which closed in May 2007. On a US GAAP basis, the net income was $7.1 million, or $0.06 per diluted share compared with $7.5 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, for the previous year. News Content Financial Announcements Portals SkillSoft 05/23/2008 Epic at the Museum The Natural History Museum has commissioned Epic to produce bespoke e-learning for their Health and Safety and Fire Safety training to be rolled out to new starters within their first few weeks of employment. News Content ePic Museums 05/22/2008 Futuremedia Learning wins Network Rail contract Futuremedia Learning announced that it has been awarded a contract with Network Rail to produce an e-learning program on competition law. News Content Futuremedia Training 05/21/2008 Hawker Pacific Lands on SumTotal to Manage Job and Career Alignment SumTotal Systems announced that Hawker Pacific Aerospace, a leading independent landing gear overhaul and repair organization is using ResultsOnDemand to help increase employee engagement and improve organizational productivity and revenue. News LMS Hosted ASP SumTotal Systems Aerospace Engineering 05/21/2008 New Retail E-cademy launched Edvantage group announced a new initiative in conjunction with Upskill People to package Retail E-learning with a Learning Management System. Retailers can provide off the shelf or customised e-learning through a corporately branded Learning Management System to their workforce, wherever they are based, regardless of shift patterns. News Content Portals Edvantage Retail 05/20/2008 Rail fares e-learning for ATOC The Association of Train Operating Companies and Ptarmigan Transport Solutions have selected Brightwave to design and deliver a new, national, e-learning programme for ticket office retail staff to communicate the simplicity of a new ticketing system for rail fares. News Content BrightWave Transport 05/20/2008 Nottinghamshire targets Identity Theft Walkgrove has given Nottinghamshire County Council free access to its Identity Theft e-learning programme, which enables staff to understand the many ways information can be stolen and how to prevent them. The course, will be made available to 10,000 council employees via the internet and on CD-ROM. News Content Walkgrove Local Government 05/20/2008 Elearnity lifts the lid on Rapid e-learning 20 May 2008, Cirencester, UK. Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced a comprehensive programme of research and white papers into Rapid e-learning, one of the most significant e-learning trends of recent years. With its focus on producing e-learning content in days or weeks rather than months, Rapid e-learning is a highly attractive proposition for corporate e-learning teams. It’s having a real impact on corporate e-learning and the e-learning suppliers. But Ra Press Release Rapid e-learning Content Authoring Tools LCMS Strategy eLearnity 05/20/2008 Rapid e-learning - Core Insights paper Based on its research into Rapid e-learning in leading corporates, Elearnity has produced a suite of free ‘Insight Papers’ to set out much needed structure to the Rapid e-learning debate; a debate that has historically been dominated by a focus on tools and the “good enough” nature of the content produced. The papers provide a high level analysis into what makes “Rapid e-learning” truly rapid and provides the models that put it into a clearer perspective. “The purpose of the research pap Report Rapid e-learning Content Strategy Authoring Tools LCMS eLearnity 05/20/2008 Rapid e-learning - Executive ViewPoint Fast route to the top, or a road to nowhere? With so much hype and scepticism around Rapid e-learning, what’s the reality? What should your approach be? Is Rapid worth your investment, should it be part of your journey? What will it mean to you, your team and your learning organisation? This document is an overview of Rapid e-learning targeted at senior management. To help you assess Rapid e-learning in more depth for your organisation, Elearnity have created a suite of white papers. They init Report Rapid e-learning Content eLearnity 05/19/2008 Induction programme chooses NetDimensions and Active Mind Solutions NetDimensions together with their affiliate partner Active Mind Solutions, has been selected by the Artemis Childrens Workforce Induction Project, supported by six local authority areas in the West Midlands: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Sandwell, Dudley, Herefordshire and Warwickshire. News LMS NetDimensions Active Mind Solutions Local Government Public Services 05/19/2008 Speed Learning changes every hour Happy Computers has introduced an innovative new way to learn. On a Speed Learning day every student chooses a different subject to learn every hour and creates their own course. With 14 different options every hour, there are over 750,000 different possible combinations. News Trainers IT Skills Happy Computers 05/14/2008 Kineo appoints Creative Director Kineo announced that Sharon Spencer has been appointed as its new Creative Director. Sharon is joining from her role as Head of Art Direction at Epic. News Appointments Content Rapid e-learning Kineo 05/14/2008 Edvantage group announces record results Edvantage group announced that its full-year results for 2007 were £7.89 million and operating margin of 6.7 percent. Year-on-year, the company experienced 48 percent increase in revenues, the 9th year of double-digit revenue growth. Operating profit was £0.54 million, an increase of 225 percent from 2006. News Financial Announcements Content Portals Edvantage 05/14/2008 Cornerstone OnDemand offers 24x7 support and full localisation Cornerstone OnDemand’s talent management suite is now available in 13 languages. It has also announced the availability of 24x7 support as part of its continued global expansion News LMS Talent Management Cornerstone OnDemand 05/13/2008 Trainer1 launches e-learning courses Trainer1 has added four entry level one-day training courses to its portfolio of e-learning and instructional design related courses. News E-learning Skills Trainer1 05/12/2008 Engineering institute upgrades CPD platform The Institution of Engineering and Technology has upgraded its professional development platform, Career Manager based on InfoBasis ESI, to give members greater control over their professional advancement. News Skills Management Competency Management InfoBasis Institutes Engineering 05/10/2008 Intelligo acquires Professional Development Partnership Intellego announces the acquisition of 'The Professional Development Partnership Limited (PDPL), a training company specialising in learning and development within the Retail Financial Services sector. The acquisition of PDPL will expand Intellego's resources, its content provision and skills mix, allowing the company to offer a wider range of services and generate more added value to both existing and potential customers News Mergers & Aquisition Intellego Systems 05/05/2008 Adobe Connect goes Pro Adobe Systems announced a new version of Adobe Acrobat Connect™ Pro including new functionality for online communication and collaboration. New features include options for archiving and editing recorded online meetings, new presence capabilities, and compliance and usage reporting tools, as well as break-out rooms and rapid authoring of video-based content. News Virtual Classroom Content Adobe 05/01/2008 OutStart announces Q1 profitability OutStart closed its first quarter on March 31 by posting another three months of healthy profitability and positive cash flow. The recent quarter marks the eighth consecutive time the company has recorded such results. News Financial Announcements LCMS Knowledge Management Outstart 05/01/2008 Expansion at Exscien Exscien has acquired the services of Dave Sharrock to enhance further its core capabilities in e-learning development, Competence Framework development and Training Needs Analysis. He has taken over the project management and development of an e-learning programme for the MoD. News Appointments Content Exscien Defence 04/30/2008 SkillSoft adds Live Learning to SkillPort SkillSoft announced the launch of Live Learning on the SkillPort Platform, with a schedule of live online classes taught by instructors in high-demand certification areas such as Project Management, Cisco, Microsoft and CompTIA. News LMS Content Portals Hosted ASP IT Skills SkillSoft Training 04/29/2008 SumTotal reports Q1 2008 results SumTotal Systems announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Total revenue on a GAAP basis was $36.0 million, an increase of 24% from 2007. GAAP net income was $1.5 million, or $0.05 per share on a diluted basis, compared to a net loss of $1.8 million in the first quarter 2007. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 04/29/2008 Cornerstone hits one million active subscribers Cornerstone OnDemand announced that it has surpassed one million active subscribers who are using its suite in 141 countries around the world. Cornerstone recently announced the availability of 24x7 global support which accompanies localisation into 13 languages and support for currency conversion. News LMS Talent Management Hosted ASP Cornerstone OnDemand 04/29/2008 Brainvisa extends capabilities of RapideL-i RapideL-i, has been updated to include a host of a library of 50 Flash based and 50 HTML based templates. The new library of templates enables users to change the look of a learning screen by allowing them to create custom backgrounds or wallpapers. The blank template allows users to add free flowing text, copy images and layout the page as they like News Rapid e-learning Brainvisa 04/29/2008 IMC launches CLIX 8 LMS IMC, has released a considerably improved version of its learning management system CLIX.Learners benefit from clearer navigation whilst administrators benefit from additional settings that accelerate and simplify business processes News LMS IMC 04/28/2008 Brightwave selected for Unilever Open Innovation e-learning Brightwave has been commissioned by Unilever to create two new e-learning programmes for its global research and development employees focusing on Open Innovation and Awareness. News Content BrightWave FMCG 04/28/2008 Kineo into larger space Kineo announced that to provide a platform for its substantial growth, the company is moving into new head office premises in Brighton. News Content Rapid e-learning Appointments Financial Announcements Kineo 04/28/2008 LINE expands further LINE Communications announced that in addition to the opening of its Zurich office, the company has grown its staff by 20% since January 2008. News Content Financial Announcements Appointments LINE Communications 04/23/2008 BTL provides AAT with e-Assessment solution BTL Group announced that they will be assisting the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) with a three-year project to move from traditional paper based exams to On-Screen delivery. News Assessment BTL Accounting 04/23/2008 Course-Source appoints new Director of Sales and Marketing Course-Source have appointed Paul Higgins to the new role of Director of Sales and Marketing. He has worked previously with Wimba UK, Blackboard Inc., and Serco Group Plc. News Content Portals Course-Source 04/22/2008 Futuremedia Learning strengthens team Futuremedia Learning announced that it has strengthened its e-learning team with key new appointments. Craig Jarvis, previously with KnowledgePool and Reed, has joined in the capacity of Business Development Director. John Helmer has been retained to guide marketing strategy. Dorian Rogers and Andy Costello have joined from Epic. News Appointments Content Futuremedia 04/22/2008 Cornerstone eyes extended enterprise Cornerstone OnDemand announced growing demand for and enhancements to Cornerstone Extended Enterprise.  News LMS Talent Management ASP SaaS Hosted Extra-enterprise learning Cornerstone OnDemand 04/21/2008 Futuremedia Learning learning portal for Bupa Futuremedia Learning has launched Performance Zone, a personalised learning environment, for Bupa. News Portals Content Futuremedia Health 04/21/2008 NetDimensions joint venture in Bermuda NetDimensions announced that it had entered into a 50:50 joint venture agreement dated 31 March 2008 with Azeus Systems to develop, sell and provide maintenance services for LMS into Bermuda. News Partnerships Financial Announcements LMS LCMS NetDimensions 04/21/2008 Cadbury Schweppes deploys SuccessFactors SuccessFactors announced that Cadbury Schweppes has deployed its Performance Management and Goal Management solutions to 11,000 of its employees, across business units throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, in 10 languages. News Performance Talent Management Hosted ASP SuccessFactors FMCG 04/16/2008 CERTPOINT releases VLS 6.0 CERTPOINT released the latest version of its learning management software suite, VLS Suite 6.0 including new capabilities such as enhanced e-Commerce, Collaboration and Informal Learning, Performance Management, Ad hoc Reporting, and new Data Import and Export Utilities. News LMS E-learning Suites CERTPOINT 04/16/2008 Richardson launches NanoSalesBooks Richardson has launched new sales training support tool, NanoSalesBooks, a series of engaging, 15-minute audio podcasts that focus on essential sales topics and can be listened to on most portable audio players, online, or downloaded to a computer. News Sales Training Content Mobile learning PODCasts Richardson 04/14/2008 Gold for LINE LINE Communications has won a European award for one of its bespoke communications programmes. At a ceremony held in London, LINE collected the International Video and Communication Association gold award for Internal Interactive Media for its Feel the difference programme developed for Ford of Europe. News Content Awards LINE Communications Cars 04/10/2008 Cummins Powers the exchange of Knowledge Cummins Power Generation has purchased OutStart TrainingEdge.com software to deliver on-demand training. News LCMS Knowledge Management Outstart Energy 04/08/2008 Zeroed-In LMS Dashboard Zeroed-In Technologies released its latest offering, LMS Dashboard that uses graphics and drill down technology and aggregates data from one or more learning databases to give learning managers and stakeholders the current status of programs and projects. News LMS Measurement Evaluation ROI Zeroed-in Technologies 04/08/2008 SkillSoft to repurchase shares SkillSoft announced that its shareholders have authorized the repurchase of up to 10 million ordinary shares (represented by American Depositary Shares). Under Irish law, the share repurchase authorization expires on October 7, 2009. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 04/07/2008 SQA signs e-Assessment contract with BTL BTL Group announced that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has selected BTL to provide an enterprise wide e-assessment development and delivery system. The initial 2 year contract is for the BTL Surpass Suite and hosting, training, support and project management services. News Assessment Schools 04/06/2008 UKS partners with Plateau in Middle East UK announced its partnership with Plateau Systems, to provide learning and workforce performance solutions to the commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East. UKS will provide its customers with the Plateau Talent Management software to automate and enhance their organizations performance management and compensation planning processes News LCMS LMS Plateau Universal Knowledge Solutions 04/02/2008 Plateau announces positive results Plateau Systems announced that the company posted a revenue gain of 58% for its fiscal 2007, with recurring revenues comprising nearly half of the company’s total revenues. News Financial Announcements LMS Performance Talent Management Plateau 04/02/2008 SkillSoft announces Learning Portlets SkillSoft announced SkillSoft Learning Portlets, a series of pre-built, standards-based components that enable customers to easily embed SkillSoft learning assets and functionality within their enterprise portals. News Portals Integration Standards SkillSoft 03/31/2008 Towards Maturity comes of age Towards Maturity, the e-skills UK project aimed at helping organisations improve the impact of learning technologies at work, has now come of age. Having successfully exceeded the objectives set at its inception, Towards Maturity is now moving on to an exciting new phase of its development. Originally funded by the LSC to understand how employers are making use of learning technologies, the project currently supports a community of over 1000 organisations with research, case studies and contrib News Organisation e-skills UK Towards Maturity Government 03/26/2008 Eedo builds in 21 CFR Part 11 to Support Life Sciences Eedo Knowledgeware announced that ForceTen™ provides built in technical controls for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 11. News LCMS Standards eedo Knowledgeware Health Life Sciences 03/26/2008 Redtray expands management team As part of its growth strategy, REDTRAY, has appointed two e-Learning Development Managers Paul Rogers has over 20 year's commercial e-Learning experience with international clients delivering high value performance solutions.Andy Allport is a specialist in e-Learning development and training needs analysis. He was a founder Director of blended learning providers Walkgrove. News Appointments RedTRAY 03/25/2008 Information Transfer to develop e-learning for Hamptons International Property Consultant, Hamptons International has commissioned Information Transfer to write an e-learning course on lone working to complement their classroom training. The course explains personal safety issues and introduces the firm's policy and procedures for staff who need to work alone. News Content Information Transfer Property 03/18/2008 Tata creates simulation for CLOs and Senior Learning Professionals Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) and Caterpillar University's former President, Dave Vance, have collaborated to design and create a simulation - TOPSIM® - Learning Manager - for decision makers in the learning function of an organization. The simulation allows participants to run their organisation's learning function like a business, making strategic and tactical decisions, affecting the organisation's training and learning strategies as well as their deployment News Content TaTA Interactive Systems 03/17/2008 NetDimensions announced 2007 results NetDimensions announced its results for the year ended 31 December 2007 with revenue up 23% to $4.34 million. News Financial Announcements LMS LCMS NetDimensions 03/17/2008 KnowledgePool acquires BTP In a move to consolidate its position as the UK market leader in managed learning, KnowledgePool has acquired Business Training Partnership (BTP). BTP is a vendor independent learning outsourcing specialist. Established in 1998, it provides managed training services, helping client organisations to organise and manage their training. Based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, it helps clients save money on around 4,000 training courses from over 120 suppliers News Mergers & Aquisition KnowledgePool 03/17/2008 The College Network selects ForceTen The College Network, Inc. (TCN) selects Eedo's ForceTen™ learning content management system (LCMS) for the development and delivery of its e-learning services. The LCMS works with TCN's partner universities' online degree and professional certificate programs. Many of these programs focus in the healthcare, nursing, and executive leadership fields, among others News LCMS eedo Knowledgeware 03/14/2008 Cobent appoints new non-executive director Cobent, a leading provider of solutions for training and compliance-led process management across the entire range of international blue-chip companies, fast-growth start-ups, and public sector organisations, has appointed David Priseman as a non-executive director.Priseman who, for the last six years, has been running Hexagon Associates, a consultancy offering finance and related advisory services to small and medium sized enterprises in all sectors, was previously a private banking specialist. News Appointments Cobent Group 03/14/2008 Skillsoft announces 2007 results SkillSoft PLC announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and its fiscal 2008 year ended January 31, 2008. Fourth quarter revenue was at $77.5 million (34% increase) and annual revenue was at $281.2 million (25% increase). Annual net income was $60 million. The company expects the next years revenue to be in the range of $328 to $336 million. News Financial Announcements SkillSoft 03/13/2008 SkillSoft announces SAP integration SkillSoft announced that it is providing learning-services-based integration with the SAP Enterprise Learning environment. News Content Integration SkillSoft SAP 03/13/2008 CLIX rolled out at German public broadcaster IMC announced that their CLIX LMS was successfully rolled out for further education at WDR, a public broadcasting institution for the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. News LMS IMC Public Services Broadcasting 03/13/2008 Giunti Labs finalises its acquisition of HarvestRoad assets Giunti Labs has finalised its acquisition of the Australian HarvestRoad brand as well as its HarvestRoad Hive digital repository, TCMS Technical Content Management System and related Intellectual Property Rights and worldwide installations. News LCMS Mergers & Aquisition Repositories Giunti Labs HarvestRoad 03/11/2008 Cornerstone OnDemand announces new release Cornerstone OnDemand, announced the availability of its Winter 2008 release - MyTeam. MyTeam gives every manager a streamlined and highly graphical view into their employees' learning and talent management activities, including development activities, daily action items, performance assessments, goals and objectives, succession plans, and analytics News LMS Cornerstone OnDemand 03/10/2008 Serious Game helps bankers detect fake currency Tata Interactive Systems has developed a game-based learning programme to spot counterfeit notes at a leading Indian bank. News Content Games TaTA Interactive Systems Financial Services Banking 03/10/2008 Questionmark unveils Results Management Questionmark announced the release of its new Results Management System, an application that enables psychometricians and assessment administrators to analyze and edit results before they are finalized and shared with stakeholders. The RMS provides integrated item and test statistics, enabling a complete view of how a test is performing. News Assessment Questionmark 03/08/2008 ikonami builds partner channels ikonami launched an open door channel partner programme to enable its ongoing expansion plans, aiming to develop enterprise HCM architectures - a coherent framework of HR, payroll, LMS, eLearning and authoring tools with bespoke integration for specific industries. News Partnerships LMS Talent Management Human Capital Ikonami 03/06/2008 Cornerstone OnDemand announces 2007 results Cornerstone OnDemand had record revenues for the quarter and 2007. Achievements included 353 per cent year-on-year growth from 2006 in the number of subscribers of their learning and talent management suite, as well as the renewal of 97 per cent of the company’s client base News LMS Cornerstone OnDemand 02/27/2008 EUROCONTROL selects Eedo Eedo announced that EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, selected Eedo ForceTen™ LCMS for the development and delivery of e-learning services for Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic Management staff for its 41 European member states. News LCMS eedo Knowledgeware Airlines Transport 02/26/2008 Canon Academy to be supported by Plateau Plateau Systems, announced that Canon USA , will deploy Plateau’s hosted and on-demand Talent Management and iContent solutions. The new LMS will help Canon USA better identify training requirements, track completion, and tie training program objectives directly to its business goals for 10,000 employees across Canon’s 30 sales and support offices. News LMS Plateau 02/25/2008 LMS will mean greater efficiency, says NHS Trust The Oldham Primary Care Trust, responsible for providing and overseeing community based health services to 227,000 people in the borough of Oldham are investing in a new learning management system. News LMS Ikonami Health 02/25/2008 GeoLearning secures $31 Million investment GeoLearning announced that it has secured a growth equity investment of $31 million from Fidelity Ventures. The funds, which represent the first institutional investment for GeoLearning, will be utilized to accelerate sales and marketing efforts, continue to build its international presence and channel partner network, and potential acquisitions. News LMS Hosted ASP Financial Announcements GeoLearning 02/25/2008 Rethinking Evaluation - From 2008 Learning Technology Conference Rethinking evaluation: its value and limits in learning David Wilson, Managing DirectorElearnity While the learning and development profession seems obsessed with evaluating learning interventions and trying to calculate the ROI of courses, business colleagues often see this as an irrelevance. In this provocative presentation, David Wilson invites the audience to turn its pre-conceptions about evaluation on their head. Illustrated with examples and research, he will challenge many of the basic Presentation Evaluation ROI Value Impact Measurement eLearnity 02/21/2008 Bosch and Siemens introduces CLIX for training service engineers The Customer Service Department of BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH has opted for CLIX® by way of a corporate-wide Learning Management System to train its service engineers. By 2010 there should be 20 branches all over the world using the learning platform. News LMS Content IMC Electrical 02/20/2008 Malaysia Airlines selects Plateau Plateau Systems announced that Malaysia Airlines has selected Plateau's web-based talent management solutions to support compliance training, reporting, and performance management across its global workforce. Malaysia Airlines joins a growing list of award-winning airlines such as Northwest Airlines and Singapore Airlines that use Plateau to support a wide-range of employee, partner, and contractor talent management initiatives. “Plateau’s proven experience and understanding of our industry a News LMS Talent Management Plateau Airlines 02/19/2008 Bupa deploys Learn.com in Latin America Learn.com announced that Bupa has selected the LearnCenter platform to deliver product training to its employees and agents within the LATAM region. News LMS ASP Learn.com Health 02/18/2008 LINE Communications announces 2007 results LINE Communications announced record results for its 2007 financial year end. With top line revenues exceeding the 2006 revenues by 30%, 2007 crowns a three-year growth period which has seen high levels of planned, sustainable growth and profitability for the company. News Financial Announcements LINE Communications 02/18/2008 Giunti Labs expands senior management team Giunti Labs has expanded its senior management team by appointing Andrea Gentili as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer with responsibility for global sales, marketing and business development activities. Paolo Sicca has also been appointed as its Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for managing and optimising all product and service delivery processes.  News Appointments Giunti Labs 02/15/2008 Endsleigh Insurance seleects NetDimensions Endsleigh Insurance Services has chosen NetDimensions EKP as its LMS. Endsleigh will initially use EKP to both manage course information, such as user records, course details and running reports, and roll out regular assessments to both new and existing staff. News LMS NetDimensions Insurance Financial Services 02/14/2008 Tata Interactive Systems expands UK Team Tata Interactive Systems has appointed of Jayne DSilva as an account director in the North East of England. Jayne was previously with REDTRAY and SkillSoft. News Appointments Content TaTA Interactive Systems 02/14/2008 Giunti Labs opens Nordic Office Giunti Labs has opened an office in Lund, Sweden covering the Nordic countries giving them a direct presence in Italy, Germany, Sweden, the UK and the USA. News LCMS LMS Appointments Giunti Labs 02/13/2008 Line Communications wins IITT Award LINE won the Institute of IT Training gold award for e-Learning Project of the Year with two Cultural Awareness training programmes for the British Ministry of Defence, elements of their pre-deployment training prior to active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. News Content Awards LINE Communications Defence 02/13/2008 Caspian Learning giveaway to schools Caspian Learning announced it is offering students and teachers free downloads of Thinking Worlds™ version 2. Their aim is to remove as many barriers to learning as possible and encourage mass engagement with serious games. News Games Content Academia Caspian Learning Schools 02/11/2008 Content Partners sought for NHS eLearning Portal As a part of the recent shake-up in the NHS learning and development space, ikonami is sourcing quality content for the NHS to run on their AT-learning portal. News Content Portals LMS Ikonami Health Government 02/07/2008 Torbay opts for e-learning for Integrated Working Programme Torbay Childrens Services has commissioned Tata Interactive Systems to develop an eLearning course in Integrated Working. The modular programme develops understanding of how to work together more effectively in order to improve outcomes for children and young people. News Content TaTA Interactive Systems Public Services Local Government 02/05/2008 SumTotal announces 2007 results SumTotal, announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2007.On a GAAP basis, total revenue for the full year 2007 was $121.9 million, an increase of 15% from $106 million in 2006. GAAP net loss was $7.7 million, or $0.25 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to a net loss of $12.0 million, or $0.47 per share on a basic and diluted basis, for the 2006. Total revenue for the fourth quarter 2007 was $33.3 million, an increase of 12% from the fourth quarter 2006. G News LMS SumTotal Systems 02/01/2008 Cobent and Pennant partner to extend offering Cobent and Pennant Information Services Ltd have entered into an agreement which will help Cobent expand its reach. Under the agreement, Pennant will be able to incorporate Cobent’s Learning Compliance Suite (LCS) as part of an end-to-end solution for its customers and Cobent will get access to Pennant’s content creation services to enhance its proposition to customers News Content LMS Cobent Group 01/31/2008 Honda Europe deploys learning infrastucture CERTPOINT has signed a deal with Honda Motor Europe to improve business efficiency with the introduction of a comprehensive knowledge sharing and learning programme designed to create brand ambassadors. Training is delivered on job title, responsibility and local regional requirements. News LCMS LMS CERTPOINT Cars 01/31/2008 Infobasis releases compliance module InfoBasis today announces the availability of a compliance module to complement the InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Infrastructure (InfoBasis ESI) platform News Competency Management InfoBasis 01/30/2008 New version of EKP LMS from NetDimensions NetDimensions, announces the release of Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) 5.0. This new version has support for SCORM 2004 accessibility improvements, new Resource Management upgrades, as well as, resource booking and scheduling. News LMS NetDimensions 01/29/2008 eLearning Network unveils new look and new membership structure The eLearning Network (eLN), the UK's foremost professional association of users and developers of all forms of elearning has unveiled a brand new look, along with news of a new membership structure this January. News Professional development eLearning Network 01/29/2008 OutStart announces 2007 results OutStart's 2007 results demonstrate the company was profitable for the second consecutive year, achieved more than $2 million in earnings, and reported healthy positive cash flow in its fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2007 News LCMS LMS Outstart 01/29/2008 DWP selects Eedo ForceTen LCMS Eedo Knowledgeware announced that the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) is standardising on ForceTen, Eedo’s learning content management system (LCMS) News LCMS eedo Knowledgeware 01/28/2008 Cornerstone OnDemand debuts at Learning Technologies Cornerstone OnDemand, the provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, makes its debut at the Learning Technologies exhibition. News LMS Cornerstone OnDemand 01/28/2008 Global Learning Alliance selects E-lianz LMS Global Learning Alliance has selected the E-lianz learning management system, from TTA International, to use in the management of international learning outsourcing and learning analytics projects News LMS Global Learning Alliance 01/28/2008 Intelligo launches new version of Composica Enterprise Composica, announces the release of version 3.2 of its flagship product, Composica Enterprise News Rapid e-learning Intellego Systems 01/26/2008 Giunti Labs and Cegos announce global partnership Giunti Labs, is partnering with Cegos. Under the terms of this strategic partnership, Cegos will promote Giunti Labs' learn eXact LCMS suite of products as its first choice content production tool. Giunti Labs will promote the Cegos course catalogue alongside its own bespoke content production services. News Alliances Giunti Labs 01/23/2008 CERTPOINT previews VLS 6.0 CERTPOINT previewed VLS 6.0. With an anticipated release date within the first Quarter of 2008, VLS 6.0 provides new capabilities such as e-Commerce Enhancements, Collaboration and Informal Learning, Performance Tracking and Talent Management, Ad hoc Reporting, and new Data Import and Export Utilities. News LCMS LMS CERTPOINT 01/22/2008 TEDS announces new version of Talent Management Suite TEDS announced the general release version 8.5 of their Talent Management Solutions Suite, with stronger Succession Management capability and a more robust Job Vision product. News Talent Management LMS TEDS 01/21/2008 Brightwave expands project management team Brightwave has expanded the size of its project management team as a result of new and existing client contracts, adding two Project Managers, Faye Crowther (ex-Fuel) and Jane Moore (ex-Epic), who are both based at the Brighton office. News Content Appointments BrightWave 01/18/2008 US Bank cuts content costs with LCMS BBB&T, an American bank, cut costs and improved the success of training programs using the ForceTen LCMS from Eedo. Since using ForceTen, BB&T has moved 55 courses online. Employees are finishing their courses sooner and delinquency rates have declined by 70 percent. News Content LCMS eedo Knowledgeware Banking Financial Services 01/18/2008 Aberdeen City Council makes staff training easy Cobent is helping Aberdeen City Council make training and development easier using the Cobent Learning Compliance Suite to convert specific classroom training into e-learning courses. The aim is to cut training costs, reducing the need for classroom trainers and training facilities, and the need to take staff away from their jobs for an extended period. News Content LMS Compliance Cobent Group Local Government 01/18/2008 Computeach selects Kallidus LMS Computeach, the IT training company, chooses Kallidus Learning Management System from e2train. News LMS e2train Information Technology 01/16/2008 IMC wins Fire Service College LMS tender IMC beat off competition from a number of established players in the UK to win the Fire Service College tender for the implementation of a new Managed Learning System. The 24 initial contract includes their CLIX LMS and LECTURNITY rapid authoring tool. News LMS Fire Services 01/15/2008 SumTotal announces preliminary Q4 2007 results SumTotal announced preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2007. SumTotal expects revenue on a GAAP basis to be in the range of $33.0 to $33.4 million compared to its guidance of between $27.8 and $29.8 million. Net loss is expected to be in the range of $2.7 to $2.4 million or $0.08 to $0.07 per share. News LMS SumTotal Systems 01/15/2008 SkillSoft introduces Professional Foundations KnowledgeCenter Skillsoft, today announced the availability of its Professional Foundations KnowledgeCenter. The Professional Foundations KnowledgeCenter -- which joins SkillSoft's library of nineteen pre-packaged, user-friendly KnowledgeCenters that provide learners instant access to trusted, targeted content News Portals SkillSoft 01/14/2008 Louis Vuitton chooses NetDimensions EKP NetDimensions announced that leading fashion luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton has chosen NetDimensions EKP as the platform for their e-Learning system. News LMS NetDimensions 01/14/2008 Cobent publishes 2007 results Cobent announced results up 50% from the previous year and denied rumours of a potential flotation. News LMS Cobent Group 01/13/2008 Kineo opens Sheffield office as part of e-learning growth plan Kineo, announced today the opening of their first regional office in Sheffield, UK, as part of their growth plans. Highly experienced e-learning professional Wendy Weller-Davies has been appointed as Project Director in Sheffield. News Rapid e-learning Kineo 01/08/2008 LINE Communications appoints lead consultant LINE Communications has appointed former BBC executive Gareth Jones as Lead Consultant. Gareth will be responsible for helping clients deliver business-focused results on their learning strategies. News Appointments Content LINE Communications 01/08/2008 Housing Assocation adopts Balance Learning Birmingham-based Mercian Housing Association is rolling out an online customer service course from Balance Learning across the organisation after a pilot group of 50 staff achieved a knowledge improvement rate of 92%. News Blended Learning Content Balance Learning Public Services 01/08/2008 KnowledgePool reports a year of strong results, accolades and expansion Managed learning services company KnowledgePool today announced strong financial results. The company - which manages learning for major clients such as British Airways, Lloyds TSB and Merrill Lynch - achieved an operating profit on a turnover of £14.2m, a 90% increase in revenues. News Outsourcing KnowledgePool 01/07/2008 LearnCenter named as best LMS for 2007 by readers of Elearning! magazine Learn.com, announced today that the readers of Elearning! Magazine have selected the LearnCenter platform as the Best LMS for 2007. Learn.com beat out two of its closest competitors SabaSoftware (NASDAQ: SABA), and SumTotalTM Systems (Nasdaq: SUMT) News Awards Learn.com 01/07/2008 Tata Interactive Systems named on IITT awards shortlist A game, developed for ICICI Bank in India by the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has been shortlisted for an award in the 'E-learning Project of the Year' category at the forthcoming Institute of IT Training (IITT) Awards. News Awards Tata Interactive Systems 01/07/2008 Kineo appoints Nick Reed as Operations Director Kineo announced that Nick Reed has been appointed as Kineo’s new Director of Operations. Nick is currently Head of Capita’s Blended Learning development team, and takes up his new role at Kineo at the start of February 2008 News Appointments Kineo 12/27/2007 Giunti to acquire HarvestRoad assets Giunti Labs announced that is has agreed to discuss the purchase of HarvestRoad Intellectual Property Rights IPR and brand name. The agreement provides exclusive rights to Giunti Labs and is subject to the result of due diligence, and shareholder approval. The transaction is expected to be completed within March 2008. News Mergers & Aquisition LCMS Technology Giunti Labs HarvestRoad 12/20/2007 Tata Interactive Systems wins Readers Digest Award for corporate social responsibility Global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), received the Readers' Digest Pegasus CSR Gold Award, in the category 'Contribution to Society - Imparting Education', at a presentation ceremony held at the Taj Land's End Hotel, in Mumbai, on 12th December. News Awards TaTA Interactive Systems 12/17/2007 Trainer1 supplies Lectora 2008 The Lectora authoring tool, from Trivantis, has just been updated - to Lectora 2008 - and Trainer1, is among the first in the UK to offer this new version. News Rapid e-learning Trainer1 12/14/2007 MyKnowledgeMap supports Moodle for community e-learning Learning technology provider MyKnowledgeMap has integrated new modular e-portfolio Multi-Port into the Moodle course management system (CMS) in anticipation of its increased uptake by the educational sector. News LMS MyKnowledgeMap 12/13/2007 digital publishing launches CLT Plug&Learn digital publishing launches CLT Plug&Learn. This innovation is the smallest ever mobile interactive language course; CLT Plug&Learn saves all course content on a USB flash drive which can be used at any computer. News Language digital publishing 12/12/2007 Knowledge Solutions gains controlling share in Enlight Knowledge Solutions, currently the largest single shareholder in Enlight, has extended its stake to 51% - a controlling share. Enlight (First North; ENLI B) is the market leader in European and International Computer Driving Licence tests (ECDL/ICDL) and Certification Management. News Financial Announcements Knowledge Solutions 12/12/2007 Conference programme for Learning Technologies 2008 announced Learning Technologies, Europe's largest organisational learning and performance improvement technology event, will take place on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 January 2008 at London Olympia. The two-day exhibition and conference, now in its ninth year, has established itself as a must-attend event for learning and development professionals needing to keep ahead in this fast-changing secto News Shows/Conferences 12/12/2007 Epic suppport Army recruitment training Major Peter Handibode, currently a Staff Officer attached to Headquarters Recruiting Group, part of the British Army's Recruiting & Training Division, will be informing delegates at the Learning Technologies 2008 Conference of how the Army School of Recruiting (ASR) has recently developed and delivered blended content to great success - with the help of Epic. News Content ePic Public Services 12/06/2007 The eLearning Network announces new Chairman The eLearning Network announced it has appointed Clive Shepherd as its new chairman and Neil Lasher as deputy chair. News Shows/Conferences eLearning Network 12/06/2007 Intellego announces 3 year partnership with Rightmove Intellego has partnered with Rightmove Plc to provide an e-learning-based industry training portal that meets the regulatory and operational training needs of the retail and commercial estate agency marketplace. They will develop and host nine foundation courses in key agency subjects for delivery to staff at over 15,000 estate agency and letting agency branches in the UK. News Portals Intellego Systems 12/06/2007 Epic e-learning programme for social care workforce Epic are working with The Social Care Institute for Excellence to develop an e-learning programme on inter-professional working skills. The suite of 10 learning objects that make up the e-learning programme are designed to support social care training and education. News Vendors ePic Social Services 12/06/2007 Flagship deploys InfoBasis Flagship Training Ltd deployed the InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Infrastructure platform to align the skills its employees with corporate objectives and assign training to bridge any skills gaps. News Competency Management Skills Management InfoBasis Defence 12/06/2007 Tata imports retail training back to India Training in the booming Indian retail sector was given a boost this week as Tata Interactive Systems signed an agreement with Skillsmart Retail to offer a retail training scheme. The three-year collaboration will see the creation of an India-based Retail Academy run by Tata using content approved by Skillsmart Retail, the UK Sector Skills Council for Retail.   News Content Partnerships Academies TaTA Interactive Systems Retail 12/05/2007 UKS partners with Assima UKS announced a partnership with ASSIMA to provide their Middle East customers with solutions and change management services to support the adoption of large enterprise applications. UKS will provide access to ASSIMAs eLearning tools and applications, including software simulation and software cloning technology. News Partnerships Technology Adoption Universal Knowledge Solutions ASSIMA 12/03/2007 eLN makes 20 The eLearning Network (eLN) celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with the cutting of a cake at its Annual General Meeting. News Shows/Conferences eLearning Network 11/28/2007 LCMS drives German language and culture worldwide Eedo Knowledgeware announced that the Goethe-Institut has chosen ForceTen as its main production platform for e-learning-based language training. ForceTen was selected to create and manage content, as well as promote blended learning. News LCMS Content Language Blended Learning eedo Knowledgeware Public Services 11/28/2007 Dynamic delivery for Eedo Eedo announced that 85 per cent of their customers practice dynamic content delivery. News LCMS Content eedo Knowledgeware 11/28/2007 NetDimensions awarded ISO/IEC 27001 Certification NetDimensions has been awarded ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its information security procedures for protecting customer confidential information. News LMS Hosted Standards Technology NetDimensions 11/28/2007 Learning Pool and Epic target the Modern Councillor Learning Pool in partnership with Epic has developed a new e-learning service, called Modern Councillor, designed specifically for elected Members. New content is added each month, with advice from a steering group of representatives from 20 local authorities and a range of organisations, including the IDeA. News Content Portals Online Resources Learning Pool ePic Local Government 11/28/2007 MyKnowledgeMap wins contract for Centre for Excellence in Leadership MyKnowledgeMap has been awarded the contract to develop an online toolkit for the Centre for Excellence in Leadership. The MyKnowledgeMap toolkit will deliver leadership learning materials for the adult and community Learning sector as well as independent specialist colleges catering for special needs and severe disabilities not provided for in mainstream colleges. News Portals Content Management Development MyKnowledgeMap Adult Education 11/27/2007 Matchett Group acquired Wilmington Group announced the acquisition of a majority stake in The Matchett Group. Alastair Matchett will retain a significant equity interest in Matchett as he leads its development within Wilmington's CLT Group subsidiary. 80% of Matchett was aquired for £5.7m in cash and repayment of existing debt of £3.9m, plus a further consideration dependent on profits. News Mergers & Aquisition Training Providers LMS The Matchett Group Training 11/27/2007 New partners for iContent Plateau System announced the expansion of its iContent solution adding specialized content from five new partners: getAbstract, KESDEE, LearnWright, Quality Food Training, and WeComply. News Content LMS Hosted Talent Management Partnerships Plateau getAbstract KESDEE LearnWright Quality Food Training WeComply 11/26/2007 American Management Association gets ResultsOnDemand SumTotal Systems has signed a contract with American Management Association for ResultsOnDemand. AMA now takes learning beyond the classroom by providing online prep materials, custom online content, assessments, eLearning courses and virtual sessions. News LMS Talent Management Hosted ASP SumTotal Systems Institutes 11/26/2007 Brainvisa launches web-based rapid authoring Brainvisa announced the launch of their new web-based rapid eLearning tool- RapideL-i, an internet-based, rapid eLearning content authoring platform which allows a server based collaborative development. News Content Authoring Tools Brainvisa 11/26/2007 Epic announces new MD Epic announced that Jonathan Satchell has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Epic with effect from 26 November. Jonathan was CEO and owner of EBC from 1997 to 2006, when he sold the business to Futuremedia. News Appointments Content ePic 11/26/2007 SkillSoft reports Q3 results SkillSoft announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter of fiscal 2008. The Company reported total revenue of $75.1 million, a 32 % increase over the same quarter the previous year. The increase was primarily attributable to the NETg acquisition. Net income on a GAAP basis was $6.0 million, or $0.06 per diluted share. News Financial Announcements Content SkillSoft 11/25/2007 UKS and Giunti showcase localized learn eXact Suite UKS in cooperation with its technology partner Giunti Labs will be showcasing a localized version of Giunti Labs learn eXact Suite at Online Educa News Language LCMS LMS Authoring Tools Shows/Conferences Universal Knowledge Solutions Giunti Labs 11/25/2007 Learning Technologies 2008 Conference programme Learning Technologies has announced its conference programme and the opening of the on line booking office for the upcoming conference on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 January 2008. News Shows/Conferences 11/23/2007 InfoBasis supports performance management InfoBasis announced support for performance management within the InfoBasis ESI platform. The additional functionality enables ongoing cycles of employee objective setting and appraisal. News Performance Skills Management Competency Management InfoBasis 11/21/2007 LINE helps Ford feel the difference LINE Communications announced that it has delivered a media-rich interactive e-learning programme to Ford to communicate their new brand strategy to 20,000 internal European staff. News Content Language LINE Communications Cars 11/20/2007 Epic works with DWP The Department for Work and Pensions is trying to reduce Housing Benefit error using an e-learning tool developed by Epic for local authority staff who deliver this benefit. News Content ePic Government 11/20/2007 Supermemo.NET open learning service from Poland SuperMemo World announced SuperMemo.NET, an open e-learning service from Poland based on the SuperMemo method of learning. News Content Portals Supermemo World 11/20/2007 Bringing together Web 2.0 technologies and accessibility OLAT, an open source LMS from the University of Zurich will release 6.0 in early 2008, including improved workflows and support for visually impaired users. News LMS Accessibility Open-Source University of Zurich Higher Education 11/19/2007 Sony Ericsson deploys Eedo Eedo Knowledgeware announced that Sony Ericsson is using ForceTen to develop and disseminate learning content to thousands of employees, customers, call centers and repair centers worldwide.  News LCMS Extra-enterprise learning eedo Knowledgeware Technology Telecommunications 11/19/2007 Intellego acquires Copia Intellego announced the acquisition of e-learning business Copia. Alistair Marshall, the Managing  Director and majority  shareholder of  Copia, will be joining the Intellego executive team. In the six months to 30 September 2007 Copia generated sales of £204,842 and made a net profit before tax of £23,581. News Mergers & Aquisition Content Intellego Systems Copia 11/13/2007 IT training company launches rapid e-learning service IT training company PPI Learning Services launches its rapid e-learning offering - PPI Transform - for a limited period. News Content Rapid e-learning IT Skills PPI Learning Services 11/13/2007 Tata Interactive Systems expands in Germany Tata Interactive Systems has opened a new office in Koln, Germany. News Content Appointments TaTA Interactive Systems 11/13/2007 iContent scores for innovation award Plateau Systems announced that e.learning age magazine selected iContent as the most innovative new product in e-learning at its third annual E-learning Awards. News Awards Content LMS ASP Hosted Plateau e.learning age 11/08/2007 Questionmark supports SAP Learning Environment Questionmark announced its Questionmark Perception assessment management system now supports the SAP Enterprise Learning environment. Questionmark assessments can be assigned to learners individually or in groups. Learners can launch assessments without separate log in, and results are automatically entered into the SAP solution. News Assessment Integration LMS ERP Questionmark SAP 11/07/2007 BDO Dunwoody Canada uses Learn.com Learn.com announced that BDO Dunwoody LLP, Canada sixth largest accounting and advisory firm launched its LearnCenter platform-based virtual university to employees throughout Canada. News Portals LMS ASP Hosted Corporate University Learn.com Accounting 11/07/2007 Kineo provides free rapid e-learning course on e-learning design Kineo has collaborated with Clive Shepherd and InVision learning to create a short course on rapid e-learning design. The course was showcased at the Devlearn conference in San Jose. News Rapid e-learning Content Kineo 11/06/2007 Tata sets up operations in the Netherlands Tata Interactive Systems is expanding its presence in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries by opening a sales office in the Netherlands to service the learning market in Northern Europe. News Appointments Content TaTA Interactive Systems 10/31/2007 Avanzo and Ethernalia sign a collaboration agreement Avanzo and Ethernalia have signed a collaboration agreement for the jointly development of courses and contents on Technological Security. News Content Partnerships IT Skills 10/30/2007 SumTotal reports Q3 results SumTotal Systems announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. On a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) basis, total revenue for the third quarter of 2007 was $29.3 million, an increase of 9% from $27.0 million reported in the third quarter of 2006. GAAP net loss was $2.0 million, or $0.06 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to a net loss of $2.7 million, or $0.11 per share on a basic and diluted basis in the same quarter of 2006. Subsc News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Human Capital SumTotal Systems 10/30/2007 Epic blend at NHS Trust Epic and Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust have been working together to create a blended solution for their course in Positive Behavioural Support. The course is for support workers who provide care for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. News Content Blended Learning ePic Health 10/30/2007 Eedo announces Dashboard Proving the strategic value of learning and knowledge programs just got easier with the latest product from Eedo Knowledgeware. Eedo Dashboard enables learning and HR managers to effectively monitor, measure and report on key indicators to show their impact on performance and corporate outcomes News LCMS Analytics Measurement ROI Impact eedo Knowledgeware 10/30/2007 Trainer1 to resell Toolbook Trainer1 has signed a partnership agreement with SumTotal Systems to offer the ToolBook e-learning authoring tool in the UK. SumTotal Systems has also appointed Trainer1 as a Toolbook 'Authorised Training Centre'. In addition, Trainer1 will be opening a European User Forum for Toolbook users as well as providing 'first line' technical support for UK users of SumTotal Systems' products. Neil Lasher of Trainer1 commented: “Becoming vendor neutral has been a planned move for some time but it has News Authoring Tools Partnerships Trainer1 SumTotal Systems 10/29/2007 LINE Communications appoints Director of Consulting Ian Leader, a 5-year veteran of LINE Communications has been appointed as the companys first Director of Consulting. In his new role, Ian will direct all worldwide consultancy activities from LINEs continental European office in Zürich, Switzerland. News Appointments LINE Communications 10/29/2007 Trainer1 becomes the first UK Epiplex500 reseller Trainer1 has signed a partnership deal to become the first UK re-seller for the software simulation tool, Epiplex500, from Epiance Inc. News Simulation Authoring Tools Trainer1 10/29/2007 Chinese instant messaging company adopts SumTotal SumTotal Systems announced that Tencent, a China-based Internet and telecom value-added service provider, will use their talent management software to transform e-learning capabilities for 3,000 employees. News LMS Talent Management Authoring Tools SumTotal Systems Telecommunications Information Technology 10/25/2007 Learning Technologies 2008 announced Learning Technologies, now in its ninth year, returns on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 January 2008, at London Olympia. • Exhibition and conference covering organisational learning and performance improvement technology • Europe's most important event for learning and development professionals • 120 exhibitors • Over 40 free seminars, sessions and workshops • Two-day thought-leadership conference with 40 speakers • More than 3,000 visitors and 300 conference delegates • Visitor regi News Shows/Conferences 10/24/2007 Compliance update for Cobent Cobent has updated two of the modules in its Learning Compliance Suite, which is designed to make enterprise wide learning easier to manage and control. These two modules cover on-the-job training and e-commerce. News LMS Compliance Cobent Group 10/24/2007 learn eXact is SCORM 2004 certified Giunti Labs announced that the new version of its learning eXact LCMS meets the SCORM 2004 final edition specification. News LCMS Standards Giunti Labs 10/23/2007 SkillSoft introduces additional KnowledgeCenters SkillSoft announced the availability of the KnowledgeCenter Editor and the expansion of its KnowledgeCenter Portals offering. News Portals SkillSoft 10/23/2007 E-learning infrastructure for South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Trainer1 has won the contract to supply The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with its e-learning infrastructure which includes authoring tools and a learning management system. News Authoring Tools LMS Trainer1 Health 10/23/2007 Tata talks EPSS Tata Interactive Systems claims that electronic performance support systems (EPSS) have already delivered several millions of dollars in savings for TIS clients. News Performance Support Content TaTA Interactive Systems 10/22/2007 Cornerstone OnDemand enhances Global Operations Cornerstone OnDemand announced the availability of 24x7 support as part of its continued global expansion. In addition, the Company announced the availability of its on-demand talent management suite in 13 languages. News LMS Talent Management Human Capital Support ASP Cornerstone OnDemand 10/22/2007 Plateau introduces scheduling solution Plateau Systems announced Plateau Schedule Builder™, enabling customers to build efficient training schedules based on training demands and available resources, simplifying the allocation and scheduling of assets to support organizations complex talent management needs. News LMS Performance Talent Management Plateau 10/22/2007 Intellego to resell Halogen Talent Suite Intellego announced that it has entered into a pan-European reseller partnership with Halogen Software, an Employee Performance and Talent Management HR software company. Intellego also announced that it has made its first sale of the Halogen product to the Irish subsidiary of a leading world wine and spirits groups. News Talent Management Performance Intellego Systems 10/22/2007 Cobent expands its team Cobent has expanded its team with the addition of four senior appointments. Jordan Ambrose joins as Sales Director from ILX Group, Phil Clare as head of development, Denise Harvey as project and implementation manager, and Alistair Morrison as non-executive director. News Appointments LMS Knowledge Management Cobent Group 10/22/2007 Bytes and REDTRAY in £2m agreement Software services company Bytes Technology Group has signed a 3-year agreement with REDTRAY. The deal has an estimated revenue value of £2m which will be generated from e-learning content development, Learning and Knowledge Management and associated consultancy. News Partnerships Content Blended Learning LMS RedTRAY Information Technology 10/19/2007 OutStart reports strong Q3 results OutStart announced it achieved its seventh consecutive quarter of strong operating profits and a positive cash flow. Additionally, revenues from new customers were up 50 percent over the same period last year. News Financial Announcements LCMS Knowledge Management Outstart 10/18/2007 Netdimensions and Atlantic Link partnership NetDimensions announced the establishment of an Affiliate Agreement with Atlantic Link. Under the terms of the agreement, Atlantic Link will promote NetDimensions EKP products to clients who lack an LMS or a portal for hosting content. News Authoring Tools LMS Partnerships NetDimensions Atlantic Link 10/17/2007 Cornerstone OnDemand grows significantly Cornerstone OnDemand announced a record quarter, sales increased 89% over the prior year and 128% over the prior quarter. During the quarter, Cornerstone also closed two of the largest deals to date, one in the U.S. and the other in Europe, representing over new 200,000 users. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Human Capital Cornerstone OnDemand 10/17/2007 HM Treasury short-listed for e-Learning Award A blended learning programme on Financial Management for the HM Treasury developed by REDTRAY has been short-listed for an e-Learning Award. News Content Blended Learning Awards RedTRAY Government 10/17/2007 Plateau expands in Asia Pacific Plateau Systems announced a new Asia-Pacific headquarters office located in Sydney, Australia to support the growing demand for talent management solutions throughout the region. News Appointments LMS Talent Management Performance Partnerships Plateau 10/16/2007 Swiss Re selects Plateau Plateau Systems announced that Swiss Re has deployed Plateau Learning to define and develop its training courses and assess job function competencies across its global operations. News LMS Talent Management Performance Plateau Insurance Financial Services 10/15/2007 Bosch selects Mohive Europes number one white goods manufacturer, BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH is to adopt the Mohive eLearning Publishing System. The procurement decision comes after an extensive research and assessment process within BSH Customer Service Division. News Authoring Tools LCMS Mohive FMCG 10/14/2007 Cable & Wireless partners with Kineo for rapid e-learning Cable & Wireless has chosen Kineo to partner with its internal team to create a new model for e-learning delivery – one that could provide rapid response, high quality and cost-effectiveness. News Rapid e-learning Content Kineo Telecommunications 10/12/2007 USA Rugby renews its partnership with Learn.com Learn.com announced that USA Rugby, the national governing body for American Rugby, with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, has renewed its partnership with the company. News LMS Hosted ASP Learn.com Leisure 10/12/2007 Creative Metier goes 24x7 Creative Metier, the providers of the v-interactive online personal development tool, have launched their Navigator Service providing users with access to a 24/7 email and telephone support service. News Coaching Assessment Support Creative Metier 10/11/2007 SumTotal Systems puts Performance on-demand SumTotal Systems has launched ResultsOnDemand(TM) -- Performance, SumTotals SaaS model for analyzing performance over the Internet. News Performance ASP On-demand learning LMS Talent Management SumTotal Systems 10/11/2007 Plateau expands iContent functionality Plateau Systems enhancements to its iContent solution. In addition to increased content management and entitlement security capabilities, the company announced Course Preview which allows users to view a snippet of content before purchase, iContent Flex Card, a debit card for purchasing content, and Custom Course Upload. News Content LMS Hosted Plateau 10/11/2007 New Cornerstone offices in EMEA Cornerstone OnDemand announced the opening of offices in London, Paris, Munich and Tel Aviv as part of its ongoing global expansion. Cornerstone is continuing to hire customer care, consulting services, account management and sales personnel throughout EMEA. News Appointments LMS Talent Management Human Capital ASP Hosted Cornerstone OnDemand 10/10/2007 BTL releases SecureAssess BTL Group launched SecureAssess, their next generation e-Assessment delivery platform. Part of the Surpass suite of development and delivery products, SecureAssess aims to be a step change in technology and expectations around the delivery of onscreen assessments. News Assessment BTL Group 10/09/2007 OutStart announces Participate v2007 OutStart announced v2007 of OutStart Participate. Bringing together Web 2.0 technologies, v2007 enables workers to move to a more collaborative, community-based environment that delivers relevant, accurate knowledge without requiring employees to step out of their every day job functions. News Knowledge Management Collaboration LCMS Outstart 10/05/2007 Insurer switches to custom e-learning Beazley Group has outsourced the development and tracking of their anti-money laundering and fraud course to Knowledge Solutions, moving from an off-the-shelf elearning package to custom developed content. News Content Knowledge Solutions Insurance Financial Services 10/04/2007 Saba announces Q1 2008 results Saba Software reported financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2008 ended August 31, 2007. Total GAAP revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 2008 were $25.5 million, a 10% increase compared to the same quarter last year.  License revenue decreased 24% and OnDemand revenue grew 25%.  Net loss was $2.4 million, or a loss of $0.08 per share. News Financial Announcements LMS Talent Management Human Capital Saba