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Expansion

IMC Opens French Office

Saarbrücken (GER)/Paris (FR), February 2011 - IMC has announced the opening of an office in Paris. IMC will be focussing on its learning and talent suite CLIX as a cloud-based SaaS model. This, combined with the POWERTRAINER authoring tool and individual and standardised content services, offers a packet of services that is unique in France. » MORE

Strengthened Position

e2train Acquires Intraventure

Cirencester (UK), February 2011 - e2train, a provider of learning and performance-management systems and services, has announced its acquisition of Intraventure, a provider of succession-planning and talent-and-performance-management software and services. e2train's takeover of Intraventure brings together two of the UK's leading-edge HR and learning software providers. » MORE

Asian Market

dp Expands Global Presence into China

Munich (GER)/Shanghai (CN), February 2011 - digital publishing, a European provider of online language training, has announced the opening of a new office in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai office establishes a permanent presence in Asia and expands digital publishing's global reach. » MORE

Flexible Service

British Gas Services Chooses Content Master

Bristol (UK), February 2011 - British Gas Services - Central Heating Installations, the UK's leading installations and home-services provider, has selected Content Master, part of CM Group, to create and deliver its latest onboarding sales training programme. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Towards more benchmarking

London (UK), February 2011 - (by Bob Little) Towards Maturity, the benchmarking and best practice organisation which aims to improve the impact of learning technologies at work, has launched a new benchmarking service. Called the Head Start Programme, Towards Maturity claims that this 12 month blended support programme will use benchmarking to help users find the most effective implementation path to enable them to improve performance and overcome barriers. » MORE

End-to-End Integration

EssentialSkillz New O-LAS eLearning Suite

Milton Keynes (UK), February 2011 - EssentialSkillz, a global eLearning solutions provider, has launched a new eLearning package called O-LAS. This suite of tools has four modules that can work together or independently. Combined, O-LAS LMS, O-LAS Author, O-LAS Assess, and O-LAS Content create a unique and unrivalled online eLearning system with the power and flexibility of systems many times more expensive. » MORE

Growth

Edvantage Launches Channel Partner Programme

Brighton (UK), February 2011 - In January, the eLearning company Edvantage group formally launched its Channel Partner Programme at Learning Technologies in London. After a very successful 2010, the company is seeking to extend its services within its current markets (UK and Nordics), whilst expanding into additional territories in Europe and the rest of the world. » MORE

Enrolment-Based Pricing

Course-Source Outlines a New Way of Buying eLearning

London (UK), February 2011 - Course-Source has an unconventional but extremely cost- effective approach to providing eLearning materials. It guarantees its customers no initial set-up costs in terms of IT hardware, no software or maintenance overheads, and no costs for installing additional servers on the customers' company intranets. » MORE

At the Forefront

Festo and Corporate Educational Responsibility (CER)

Esslingen (GER), February 2011 - Festo promotes technical skills among young people, supports international training standards, and encourages outstanding technical achievements. It achieves success in these undertakings by means of its Festo Education Fund; involvement in the European (EuroSkills) and international (WorldSkills) vocational-skills championships for Mechatronics and Mobile Robotics; as well as through participation in many international, national, and regional projects. » MORE

NHS Learning Portal

Aurion Learning Wins Deal for Scotland

Belfast (UK), February 2011 - The Belfast-based online-learning company Aurion has been awarded a new contract to develop online learning resources for NHS Education for Scotland (NES). They will be working in partnership with the Scottish Special Health Board to design and build an online learning portal. » MORE