CourseAvenue teams with iContent to facilitate compliance for Healthcare Professionals

iContent Provides Access to more than 100 Hybrid Healthcare Compliance Courses

Arlington, Va. - 27 August, 2007 –Plateau Systems, a leading provider of talent management software, content and services, today announced a strategic partnership with CourseAvenue, the leader in Learning Content Authoring Systems (LCAS), to make its entire eComply for Healthcare Series available through iContent. iContent, the industry’s only multi-vendor internet solution for procuring, distributing, hosting and managing custom content will enable healthcare professionals and organizations to easily access critical compliance courseware via a centrally hosted platform, simplifying management and distribution. Leveraging CourseAvenue’s Hybrid eLearning Program, iContent provides users more than 100 customizable healthcare courses to address their specific compliance needs.

“The world-class iContent platform allows us to offer industry-acclaimed compliance courses and content to a broad base of healthcare professionals and organizations,” said Joe Gorup, CEO of CourseAvenue. “The dynamic nature and increased regulatory environment affecting the healthcare industry and its professionals require that in addition to keeping up with the latest advances in medicine, organizations be up-to-speed with regards to compliance issues. iContent’s flexible infrastructure combined with CourseAvenue’s leading content and customization capabilities enable us to help organizations meet these needs by providing an unmatched training experience to healthcare professionals throughout North America.”

CourseAvenue's eComply for Healthcare Series, written by the experts at CCH®, a part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, provides healthcare compliance training in a variety of areas including HIPAA, administration, patients' rights, billing, and many others. The courses were developed for a wide range of healthcare departments, ranging from billing departments and compliance officers to medical directors, board leaders, and CEOs. Through this relationship with Plateau, nearly all major U.S. healthcare organizations will be able to access CourseAvenue’s healthcare compliance courses via iContent.

iContent users will be able to tailor eComply content to their specific needs by leveraging CourseAvenue's Hybrid eLearning program. For example, organizations may wish to begin a course with their corporate compliance officer introducing the course, or to insert personalized case studies or contact information at the end of a course. CourseAvenue allows for this flexibility.

“The addition of CourseAvenue’s eComply healthcare compliance content to iContent’s growing base of online assets highlights the investments we are making to ensure that users across various industries have access to critical courses for supporting their business goals,” said Paul Sparta, CEO of Plateau Systems. “With its ability to manage, administer, and host more than 25,000 talent management titles, iContent is the most comprehensive and easiest to use source for talent management content. By continuing to add resources from trusted partners, such as CourseAvenue, Plateau delivers a cost-effective solution that enables organizations to focus on training and results.”

iContent is a next-generation solution for managing and delivering talent management content. Introduced less than a year ago, it provides a single place where customers can locate, store, and deliver thousands of third-party packaged content offerings as well as customer-specific content. iContent speeds the availability and delivery of content while decreasing the overhead costs and frustration associated with managing and storing learning and talent management content. View information about iContent at http://www.icontentportal.com.

CourseAvenue joins a growing list of learning and performance content providers representing a wide range of subject areas -- from business, technical, leadership development to legal, healthcare, workplace and safety compliance -- who are making their training and development content and referenceware available through iContent. Current iContent partners, include: Brightline Compliance, Drug-Free Business Solutions, Element K, getAbstract, Medcom Trainex, MedSenses, Monitor Group, Ninth House, PureSafety, and SkillSoft/Thomson NETg.

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About Plateau
Plateau is a leading provider of talent management software, content and services designed to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.Plateau.com.

 

About CourseAvenue
Since 2002 CourseAvenue has been simplifying the process of creating and distributing eLearning content through a unique online and on-demand platform allowing users to quickly build and publish standards-based eLearning courses. CourseAvenue’s revolutionary eLearning solution allows collaborative, synchronous content development which improves learning and business productivity across an organization, addressing the needs of both global enterprises and small businesses. For more information, visit www.courseavenue.com.

Plateau Systems to deliver Talent Management Software to W. L. Gore & Associates

Gore’s Strategic Investment Reinforces Commitment to Empowering its Global Workforce

Arlington, Va. - 22 August, 2007 –Plateau Systems, a leading provider of talent management software, content and services, today announced that W. L. Gore & Associates has selected Plateau’s talent management solutions to support the development of Gore’s 8,000 Associates worldwide.

Consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by leading publications, Gore will implement Plateau’s Performance and Compensation modules to automate and enhance the company’s performance management and compensation planning processes.

“W.L. Gore & Associates is recognized throughout the world for its pioneering approach to corporate culture, one that values cooperation and innovation, and rewards Associates based on their contributions,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “By implementing Plateau’s integrated talent management solutions, Gore is reinforcing its commitment to recognizing those contributions.”

The Plateau Performance module will primarily help advance individual Associate development, linking strategic organizational goals with job-relevant training, where appropriate. In addition, a robust set of interfaces, combining contribution data and advocate feedback, will permit more comprehensive and timely appraisal rankings.

The Plateau Compensation module will speed effective decision-making by consolidating compensation and salary planning data. This solution will enable Gore to integrate its compensation programs in one place. The company can also ensure that its compensation packages are competitive with other companies in each region and market.

“We invest a significant effort in finding and developing Associate potential,” said James L. Roe, who leads Gore’s Human Resources Information Systems. “In a culture where innovation is so integral to success, these tools will help us to continue to foster Associate growth and satisfaction, while delivering fair, competitive, and timely rewards.”

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About Plateau
Plateau is a leading provider of talent management software, content and services designed to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.Plateau.com.

 

About W.L. Gore & Associates

Perhaps best known for its consumer products like GORE-TEX® fabric and ELIXIR® guitar strings, W. L. Gore & Associates is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. With more than $2 billion in sales, the company is headquartered in Newark, Delaware, and employs approximately 8000 associates at 45 facilities throughout the world. Gore is one of only four companies included in every selection of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” since the list began in 1984. For more information, please visit www.gore.com.

Department of Homeland Security's Emergency Responders use Plateau for Critical E-Learning Initiatives

Plateau’s Leading Talent Management Solution Powers NFAOnline;
Provides Training to Emergency Responders at United States Fire Administration

Arlington, Va. - 14 August, 2007 –Plateau Systems, a leading provider of talent management software, content and services, today announced that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) United States Fire Administration (USFA) is now running Plateau’s talent management solution to support its National Fire Academy (NFA) training efforts for fire and emergency responders. Powered by Plateau’s learning management system (LMS), the NFA’s Web-based online training system, NFAOnline, (www.nfaonline.dhs.gov) maximizes the training and education experience for external users, while extending collaboration and information-sharing throughout the fire and emergency services community.

Through its courses and programs, the NFA works to enhance the ability of fire and emergency services and allied professionals to deal more effectively with fire and all hazard emergencies. Plateau Learning’s closed-loop process enables the NFA to fill performance and development gaps with targeted learning activities, and provides centralized training delivery and tracking for an increasing number of online courses, including “Incident Management ICS 100 and ICS 200,” “Emergency Response to Terrorism” and “EMS Operations at Multi-Casualty Incidents.” With Plateau, NFA can extend its distance learning initiatives beyond the walls of the NFA campus and expand its curriculum to include digital information and materials, thereby increasing training opportunities for users.

NFAOnline provides an easy-to-use, one-stop Web site where fire and emergency services personnel and the general public can access free training and education programs to complete at their own pace. The primary effort of NFAOnline is to make training and materials available for the fire service, particularly those preparing to attend resident courses in Emmitsburg, Maryland. By hosting distance learning courses through NFAOnline, Plateau Learning provides NFA the opportunity to train students anywhere, and at any time. With Plateau’s robust LMS, NFA can track student completions and assign course content to targeted learning groups.

By implementing Plateau, USFA is supporting DHS’ strategic plan for a common LMS platform across the Department. DHS previously deployed Plateau Learning to deliver and track training for the Department’s internal audience (DHS’ employees), and now USFA is using the fully hosted solution to train its external audience (fire and emergency responder personnel). Plateau provides DHS with a “one-stop shop” with a common look and feel for training the entire “Preparedness” community.

“NFA’s extensive training programs are critical for reducing the effects of fire and hazard emergencies,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “As a blended learning tool, NFAOnline effectively compliments and augments the Academy’s popular resident course line-up and expands the Academy’s independent study web-based distance learning courses. By supporting the Academy’s traditional resident and distance learning training courses, Plateau is extending NFA’s training programs and improving the delivery of state and local fire and emergency services across the nation.”

As an entity of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the mission of the USFA is to reduce the costs in human lives and to avert the economic losses incurred as a result of fires and related emergencies. Through leadership, advocacy, coordination, and support, USFA serves the nation independently, coordinating its efforts with other Federal agencies and in partnership with fire protection and emergency service communities; and, with a commitment to excellence, USFA provides public education, training, technology, and data initiatives in this vital area of public safety.

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About Plateau

Plateau is a leading provider of talent management software, content and services designed to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.Plateau.com.