Boston, September 29, 2003 – OutStart, provider of the only proven, content-centric software product family for learning, announced today that OutStart Evolution, the leading application for creating, managing and delivering learning and training content, has won a Gold Excellence in E-Learning Award in the category of Innovative Technology. In 2002, OutStart’s SoftSim, the industry’s most robust and easy to use software simulation offering, was acknowledged with a Gold Excellence in E-Learning Award in the same category, making this the second year in a row OutStart has been awarded this prestigious honor.
The Excellence in E-Learning Awards are presented by brandon-hall.com, one of the e-learning industry’s leading research and consulting firms. Now in its seventh year (formerly the Brandon Hall of Fame Awards), the awards program showcases exceptional work in the e-learning industry by providing feedback and benchmarking to entrants in an overall effort to help advance the e-learning industry. Judges with expertise in instructional design, online learning and the implementation of e-learning, evaluated the entries.
“Our dramatic growth, the caliber of our global client base, and now the validation that a Gold Excellence in E-learning Award gives to our ‘author once, store once, deliver many’ approach to learning development and delivery, punctuates our rapid rise to industry leadership,” said Massood Zarrabian, CEO of OutStart. “We are honored to receive this award two years in a row and view it as a credit to our product development team, and our corporate strategy to drive business value by meeting the diverse learning and training needs of our customers.”
Evolution is the industry’s most effective application to develop, manage, assemble and deliver personalized learning content natively to multiple channels, including the Web, CDs, training guides, classroom presentations and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Evolution enables organizations to capture unique business know-how wherever it resides, store it as reusable learning content in a central repository, and deliver individualized learning and training through multiple channels. Anyone can contribute content, and learners can easily access the right learning content to perform their jobs better, exactly when, where and how they need it.
“The winning entries have done a terrific job this year. The innovation and desire to excel that is demonstrated in these programs gives us all something to celebrate,” said Brandon Hall, Ph.D., of brandon-hall.com and chairman of the Excellence in E-Learning Awards program. “These ground-breaking efforts and best practices benefit the industry as a whole.”
OutStart was recognized during an Awards ceremony and dinner held on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 in Los Angeles, Calif., as part of the Online Learning 2003 Conference & Expo, held September 23-25. The full list of winners can be found at www.brandon-hall.com.
About OutStart
OutStart provides a proven, integrated product family for companies seeking to increase individual and organizational performance. Only OutStart offers complete learning applications that meet all of the diverse learning and training needs of large and small companies and any size team. OutStart’s content-centric learning applications enable an organization to transform its unique business knowledge into practical learning assets and deliver those assets to the right person, the right way, at the right time, to drive a sustainable competitive advantage. They also include the functionality needed to manage all administration around learning and training processes.
OutStart helps companies realize improvements in sales force and services productivity, call center efficiencies, customer and partner education and technology adoption. OutStart is headquartered in Boston and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dublin, Lake Mary, Fla., London, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.outstart.com
About brandon-hall.com
The Excellence in E-Learning Awards program is chaired by one of the leading authorities on e-learning, Brandon Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall is the CEO of brandon-hall.com and author of the groundbreaking Web-Based Training Cookbook. Since 1992, brandon-hall.com has been providing independent expert advice in the form of published reports and consultations on the tools and best practices of e-learning. Dr. Hall participates regularly as a featured speaker at the Online Learning Conference & Expo. He earned his doctorate in educational psychology and has served on the faculty of San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Studies Program. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Inc, and many other publications.
