Plateau aligns with Verizon Business to Deliver Best-of-Breed Software-as-a-Service Talent Management Solutions

Expanded Agreement Supports Increased Demand for Plateau's On-Demand Talent Management Solutions, Managed Services and iContent Offering; Company's EVP of Global Operations to Participate in Executive Roundtable at SaaScon 2007

Arlington, VA. – 17 April, 2007 –This week at the saascon conference in Silicon Valley, Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational skills and talent, announced an expanded relationship with Verizon Business. Under the agreement, Verizon Business will provide increased bandwidth, scalable and reliable hosting, and global content distribution to support the growing demand for Plateau's on-demand talent management applications and icontent offering, the industry's most comprehensive solution for procuring, distributing, hosting, and managing custom and third-party talent management content.

"With Verizon Business IP Application Hosting, Plateau is meeting the increased customer demand for its Distance Learning, Blended Learning as well as it's on-demand Business Edition offerings and managed services offerings for icontent," said Chris Gesell, director of IT Solutions product marketing for Verizon Business. "As more organizations move toward saas models, similar to what Plateau has pioneered in the Talent Management market, we expect to see an increase in bandwidth, hosting and storage needs from our customers."

Content integration and administration remain two of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Icontent cost-effectively addresses these challenges by integrating packaged and custom content and hosting and deploying it to users globally over a secure and scalable content distribution network. Providing a single place to locate, store and deliver thousands of packaged content offerings from leading providers as well as custom content, icontent allows organizations to accelerate the availability and delivery of content to end users and saves them time and money by reducing the costs associated with administering and storing content. Verizon Business IP Application Hosting services are part of Plateau's strategy to meet growing global demands for its hosting and managed services offerings, which support icontent. Underpinned by Verizon Business and powered by Akamai's Web Application Accelerator solution, icontent's scalable and reliable content distribution network (CDN) ensures optimal application performance for distributed end users across an organization.

"Plateau's hosted and managed services offerings are driving triple-digit demand for increased bandwidth. With Verizon Business supporting this critical need, we are able to expand into new markets, grow our business offerings and maintain our position as the leading provider of saas offerings in the Talent Management space," said Shelly Heiden, EVP Global Operations at Plateau. "Over the past year, we have seen a marked increase in customers selecting saas subscription models for their content and talent management solutions. With the rapid growth in the icontent customer base, Plateau remains committed to investing in delivering the industry's most scalable, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution for simplifying and expediting content procurement, deployment and management."

Validating the company as a best-of-breed provider of saas-enabled Talent Management services and solutions, Ms. Heiden will join executives from Verizon Business and Akamai on April 17 and 18 in hosting an executive roundtable titled "Powering High-Performance saas Solutions for Your Business." During these interactive sessions, moderated by Jeff Kaplan, managing director of thinkstrategies, participants will discuss the benefits and challenges of delivering applications via saas. Plateau's icontent solution will be highlighted to demonstrate the value of building a solution on a saas infrastructure powered by world-class providers like Verizon Business and Akamai Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.saascon.com/live/48/.

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About Plateau

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent 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.

Plateau Systems, the Plateau Systems logo, Plateau Performance, and Plateau are the property of Plateau Systems Ltd. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.

Plateau Recognized as Customer Satisfaction and Market Share Leader

ELearning Guild Honors Plateau with Three Gold Awards in Inaugural 360-Degree LMS Report

Arlington, VA. – 04 April, 2007 –Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent, today announced that customers have rated the company a leader in customer satisfaction and market share in the eLearning Guild’s recently released 360-Degree Learning Management Systems (LMS) report.  The report covers 135 LMS vendors and recognized Plateau with three Gold Awards as part of the eLearning Guild Member Choice Awards.  Plateau received awards in the categories of overall customer satisfaction for large corporate LMS’, overall customer satisfaction for small and medium corporate LMS’, and market share for large corporate LMS’.

The eLearning Guild is a member-driven Community of Practice where e-Learning design, development, and management professionals can focus on their own professional development, enhance their peer network, and identify resources for ensuring that their organizations' e-Learning projects are successful.  The eLearning Guild Members Choice Awards are based on the 360-degree report that surveys member participants’ views on which LMS tools they use.  Overall vendor satisfaction awards were determined by asking members to rate products on a 1-10 scale in four categories: Would Use Vendor Again, Vendor Responsiveness, Learning/Implementation Curve and Cost/Benefit.

“The eLearning Guild awards, coupled with the recent Bersin & Associates research in which Plateau is rated a customer satisfaction leader, validates our continued commitment to and proven track record of making customers successful,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “We are honored that the members of the eLearning Guild have recognized Plateau for delivering innovative LMS solutions that are further differentiated and complemented by our world-class customer service and support.  We will continue to invest considerable time and money in innovating and delivering solutions that make our customers successful in developing and managing their talent.”

Customers, media and industry analysts consistently recognize Plateau for its industry leadership and unparalled commitment to customer loyalty and success.  Most recently, the company was named the Overall Satisfaction Leader for Global Enterprises in the Bersin & Associates 2007 LMS Customer Satisfaction Study.  In 2006, Plateau was positioned in the Leader’s Quadrant in the Gartner 2006 e-Learning Suites Magic Quadrant report, based on the company’s vision and ability to execute. Plateau was also voted the overall winner of the “Industry’s First Integrated Performance & Learning Management Shootout” at the 2006 HR Technology Conference and Exposition last October.

By tapping into the expertise of more than 23,800 members, Guild Research leverages the depth, breadth, and spirit of The eLearning Guild to produce the new gold standard in e-Learning research.

Guild Research is a team effort led by the Guild's director of research and emerging technologies, Steve Wexler. Each 360o Report is made possible by the collective efforts of dozens of key industry leaders. These awards will recognize top tools and products in terms of Market Share and Satisfaction as determined by Guild members worldwide.  The full report is available at http://www.elearningguild.com/

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About Plateau

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent 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.

Plateau Systems, the Plateau Systems logo, Plateau Performance, and Plateau are the property of Plateau Systems Ltd. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.