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EDT Learning Teams With Docent to Broaden Client Access to Online Solutions
- Company to Integrate Docent as Its Learning Management System -
LOS ANGELES, December 11, 2000 - EDT Learning, a premier designer and developer of online solution sets designed to boost individual and organization-wide performance, today announced that it has teamed with Docent, Inc., a leading provider of e-learning and knowledge exchange technology, to strengthen its ability to track and evaluate the effectiveness of its programs and respond to shifting client needs.
EDT Learning will integrate Docent™ Enterprise software as the primary course development and learning management system for its online courses. With this integration, EDT Learning customers can track student performance both at the course and curriculum levels. Docent customers will now be able to integrate EDT Learning's entire slate of online courses, allowing them to view, launch, and evaluate specific EDT Learning courses.
Docent was chosen by EDT Learning engineers because they expect Docent to provide EDT Learning with a superior technology platform that will allow the company to better track how learners are performing in EDT Learning's online courses.
"We are excited about providing our customers with the ability to include EDT Learning's courses into their overall learning program," said Kathleen Gogan, Docent vice president of marketing. "Docent's focus is to help corporations and content providers deliver and exchange learning, ideas, and information. With EDT Learning, we are gaining access to a top-tier provider of online solutions that we can offer to our customers, while enabling EDT Learning to measure the impact of its efforts."
About EDT Learning
EDT Learning designs and develops online solution sets that help individuals perform and organizations excel. For companies looking to boost employees' productivity and efficiency, EDT Learning provides easy-to-implement, cost-effective solutions targeted at specific business needs. For companies looking to drive change deep within their organizations, EDT Learning provides implementation components that complement the strategic planning expertise of EDT Learning's top-tier consultancy partners, which include Andersen and the Strategos Institute.
More than 800,000 employees in leading organizations worldwide have benefited from EDT Learning solutions, and the company has earned more than 50 industry awards. Key corporate clients include Toyota, Lexus, United Airlines, and Cisco. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and has business development offices in Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Boston. Find out more about EDT Learning at www.edtlearning.com.
About Docent, Inc.
Docent, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCNT) provides e-learning infrastructure products and services that enable the exchange of knowledge among large enterprises, educational content providers and professional communities. Docent™ Enterprise, an Internet-based software platform for knowledge exchange, goes beyond the delivery of learning content online to bring organizations together into an electronic marketplace. In addition to being recognized for standing out among the competition by PC Week, it was named "Best Integrated Online Learning System" by brandon-hall.com and was among several products recognized by Call Center Solutions Magazine as "1999 Product(s) of the Year." Docent is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. For more information about Docent, visit www.docent.com or call (650) 934-9500.
This press release contains forward-looking statements including statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. They are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance or events. They are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions and goals and objectives, and are subject to uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Often such statements can be identified by their use of words such as will, intends, expects, plans, believes anticipates, expects, and estimates. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, whether Docent Enterprise will be successfully integrated into EDT Learning's e-learning courses, and whether the integration of Docent Enterprise into EDT Learning's e-learning courses will strengthen EDT Learning's ability to track and evaluate the effectiveness of its programs and respond to their shifting client needs. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information known to Docent, Inc. as of the date of this press release, and Docent, Inc. assumes no (and expressly disclaims any) obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future results and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by this statement. Docent's September 29, 2000 prospectus lists several risk factors facing Docent. Factors which could contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the ability of Docent Enterprise to be successfully integrated into EDT Learning's e-learning courses, and whether EDT Learning's customers wish to use EDT Learning's e-learning courses with the Docent Enterprise integration.
Media Contact:
Lori Escalante
EDT Learning
310-305-4290
lori.escalante@edtlearning.com
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