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HunterStone Announces Strategic Agreement with IntraLearn;
Companies Enable Global Enterprises to Quickly Create and Deploy
e-Learning
Content authors use familiar Microsoft Office
tools for SCORM compliant course creation
Irmo, SC - April 25, 2006 -- HunterStone Inc.,
a leading provider of e-Learning and IT tools for Microsoft environments,
today announced a strategic agreement with IntraLearn Software Corporation
that enables global enterprises running Microsoft Office to quickly
create and deploy e-Learning.
Through the agreement, content creators can now develop learning
objects using familiar Microsoft Office applications and deploy
them in real-time to their extended enterprise of channel partners,
vendors and employees. The Sharable Content Object Reference Model
(SCORM) compliant learning modules can be stored, tagged and accessed
on an as needed basis from the SharePoint content library
and launched and tracked in a rich learning environment via IntraLearns
e-Learning platforms.
Through this strategic agreement, HunterStone increases the
distribution network of THESIS and gives IntraLearn customers the
means to develop media-rich web-based learning modules without the
knowledge of the underlying rules of SCORM, said Neil Richards,
President and CEO, HunterStone. Now any subject matter expert
product manager, sales manager, customer service manager,
or whoever can click on a wizard button on the Microsoft
Office desktop and immediately convert Office documents into SCORM
content that the IntraLearn e-Learning platform can run.
HunterStones THESIS line provides plug-ins to Microsoft
Office and seamlessly converts Microsoft Office and web documents
into standards-based objects with a single mouse click. HunterStones
THESIS, running in conjunction with IntraLearns management
system, provides enterprises worldwide with one e-Learning solution
to create, deliver and measure interactive learning over the Internet
and intranets.
THESIS strategically compliments IntraLearns e-Learning
solutions and turns our customers into subject experts with the
ability to deploy learning in a convenient and timely manner,
said IntraLearn Softwares CEO Jerry Goguen. By removing
the cost barriers associated with most e-Learning programs, IntraLearn,
in conjunction with THESIS, helps enterprises facilitate the exchange
of knowledge among their students, employees, customers, suppliers
and partners.
WestNet Learning www.westnetlearning.com,
a global provider of award winning learning products, is the first
reseller to distribute the complete THESIS and IntraLearn solution.
WestNet provides affordable, flexible, quickly deployed, managed
learning solutions to organizations of all sizes such as, Avaya,
Cisco, 3Com, Branson Schools online, University of Colorado at Denver,
Aanko, and DTI Publishing.
With over 2,500 ready-made off the shelf courses in Sales,
Marketing, HR, Technology, Certification, Project Management and
more, the IntraLearn management system has enabled us to provide
our customers the capability to quickly deploy learning programs
as well as import other 3rd party courses, said Joe Scullion,
president, WestNet Learning. Now combined with THESIS, customers
can easily convert and run their current courses.
Historically, organizations embarking on web based education initiatives
invested in costly proprietary systems or relinquished control and
outsourced e-Learning content development and distribution. With
HunterStones THESIS accessed directly from IntraLearns
learning platforms, content authors regain control of their learning
environment and enterprises dramatically reduce content creation
costs and add value to their organizations e-Learning investment.
About HunterStone Inc.
HunterStone is an innovative provider of eLearning and IT tools
for Microsoft environments. The company designs, implements and
maintains business applications that help organizations increase
productivity and decrease operating costs. In addition to THESIS,
HunterStone develops knowledge management systems and services for
collaboration, migration and conversion within email environments.
HunterStone is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competencies
in ISV and Information Worker proficiencies.
Headquartered in Irmo, South Carolina, privately held HunterStone
has offices at Colchester in the United Kingdom and international
resellers in Europe and Asia. For additional information about HunterStone
and its products, please visit HunterStone.com.
Press Contact:
Danielle Matthews
Pyrus PR
704.353.4693
dmatthews@pyruspr.com
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