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Hyperwave's eLearning Suite Provides Integrated Third Component to Its Corporate-wide Knowledge Management Offerings

eLearning Suite Reduces Time, Cost Of Training Enterprise Staff at Multiple Locations

April 23, 2001

Hyperwave Information Management, Inc. today introduced its eLearning Suite (eLS), an integrated corporate e-learning offering that enables companies with multiple locations to reduce the time and cost required to train staff.

Fully integrated with Hyperwave's award-winning knowledge management and portal offerings, eLS enables the delivery of integrated learning and knowledge management directly to the workplace through intranets, extranets and the Internet.

"Integrating knowledge management and e-learning functionality provides far more compelling value to users than separate stand-alone systems," said David Yockelson, senior vice president of Meta Group.

The new offering provides a complete interactive learning environment in which trainees can access a comprehensive range of material and reference sources to meet their own individual requirements. eLS enables easy access to training information through its virtual training center, where individual functional rooms provide trainees with access to specific types of information.

"It's clear that true organizational learning is not merely Web-based training," said Tim Kounadis, Hyperwave's vice president of marketing for North America. "E-learning, knowledge management and collaborative portals belong together. By delivering an e-learning component to complement our knowledge management platform and portal, we provide a comprehensive approach that handles the entire spectrum of corporate learning. First by providing a way to package existing knowledge assets and deploy them in an e-learning framework, and second by providing a platform for standard e-learning content distribution and use."

The Hyperwave eLearning Suite eliminates the lack of interactivity that is the Achilles heel of many e-learning systems. Communication between teachers, tutors and trainees is maximized through the inclusion of various channels such as a bulletin board, an e-mail messaging system and a discussion forum where students can exchange questions, answers and comments simultaneously.

A key feature of eLS is its use of Active Documents, which allow trainees to attach questions that are then answered by tutors or teachers. Over time, a collection of questions and answers is produced for every document. Course participants may also place personal or public comments in documents using electronic notes.

eLS contains a background library with more in-depth information from internal and external sources such as the Internet to provide a means of finding out more about the course content and to answer unanswered questions. A search engine (browser) provides rapid access in the search for key words or in full text of more than 200 document formats.

A fully automatic link management feature ensures that all links are maintained in the event of individual course modules being added, shifted or deleted. The system supports different learning materials ranging from existing CBT courses to text and presentation documents to images as well as audio and video files.

As part of the eLS introduction, the company also announced two key partnerships that strengthen the offering. Imprint Systems is providing an Interactive Multimedia Collaboration Platform that offers multiple peer-to-peer streams containing full-duplex voice, video and data content that supports virtually any collaborative interaction. Knowledge Transfer International (KTI) is providing rich custom content for eLS and complementing that with its consulting expertise in corporate knowledge management and learning implementations.

According to Jon Salva, president of Imprint Systems, Inc., "We are very excited about our partnership with Hyperwave and its comprehensive knowledge management offering. By providing human interaction in the e-learning environment, Imprint Systems brings the traditional real-world classroom environment to the virtual world, extending video and audio as an underlying part of a collaborative session. Our Collaboration Platform delivers true collaboration capabilities by integrating multimedia applications with interactive functionality."

"We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Hyperwave," said Shir Nir, partner and executive director of Knowledge Transfer International. "Leveraging KTI's experience and expertise in providing competitive advantage and business value solutions in the learning and knowledge management arenas with Hyperwave's enabling technologies is a win-win situation for all of our respective clients."

eLS is fully integrated with the Hyperwave Information Server (HIS) and Hyperwave eKnowledge Portal (HIP) offerings to provide customers with a complete knowledge management solution. HIS delivers a powerful platform for developing intranet and extranet knowledge-sharing applications. It provides such unique features as bi-directional link integrity, granular security, document/content management, collaborative tools, an open API, and universal access from browsers and desktops. HIP is an out-of-the-box corporate portal solution. Built on the HIS infrastructure, it offers both aggregation and collaboration. HIP give users easy access to internal and external resources, including unstructured, structured and groupware content on one or many servers.

By delivering all three on a common and open infrastructure, customers can rapidly provide solutions to their constituents. They can quickly realize the benefits of this integration including the empowerment and retention of key personnel; increased awareness of corporate knowledge assets; and a focused mechanism that enables users to access information specific to an organizational function and contribute and collaborate with key communities.

Hyperwave eLS supports multiple languages. It runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and supports the Oracle 8 database. The new offering is available immediately.

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