Expertus Wins Silver Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - May 19, 2011) - Expertus (www.expertus.com), a global provider of software and services that optimize the business impact of learning, today announced that ExpertusONE™ has won a coveted Brandon Hall Silver award for Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training.

Expertus won the award based on its work with a large global energy company. Because full compliance of required employee training was critical to the organization's continued growth and profitability, a complete transformation of its learning technologies and compliance program support was needed, including:

• An upgrade to its LMS architecture and the outsourcing of all SaaS hosting and level 3 support;
• Improvements to the user experience through relevant and intuitive technology, search capabilities and rapid access to knowledge;
• The addition of an analytics reporting tool, offering executives access to a real-time dashboard of performance and compliance data; and
• The establishment of a scalable, easy-to-configure, long-term platform that could keep pace with the company's global learning needs.

Using Expertus' innovative, holistic ExpertusONE™ technology, the entire project was a success. In just six months time, the energy company launched a complete technology solution that improved user adoption of training and reduced costs.

With ExpertusONE, company managers now have unprecedented access to business-critical compliance reporting. In addition, the organization grew productivity and cost-effectiveness in the upgrade, consolidation and outsourcing of its learning management technology. They were able to force consolidation of peripheral LMSs for better compliance control; reduce system downtime for improved content availability; and outsource IT hosting staff to save costs, training and hassles.

"This case study illustrates our ability to drastically change an organization's operations and improve critical functions like compliance training and measurement," said Ramesh Ramani, founder and CEO of Expertus. "We are honored to win this award from the visionary Brandon Hall Group because they have an acute awareness about what technology moves the needle forward."

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm in training and development. The Learning Technology Awards program showcases innovations in the products in the marketplace for creating and managing learning, talent, and performance.

"These excellent tools and systems are the cutting edge of learning technology," said Tom Werner, chief research officer and director of the Awards program. "They really change for the better how people learn in the workplace."

For information on Expertus, please visit www.expertus.com or call Michael Murrell at 1-877-827-8160. Follow Expertus on Twitter (http://twitter.com/expertusone), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ExpertusONE), YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/ExpertusInc) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/expertus).

About Expertus
Expertus is the leading global provider of software and services that optimize the business impact of learning. For more than a decade, the firm's 500+ learning management professionals have defined and implemented plans, processes and technologies that transform training organizations -- creating measurable value for the world's most successful corporations. Clients include ADP, Cisco, ConocoPhillips, EMC, Honeywell and Lockheed Martin. Every day at these and other companies, more than a million employees, customers and business partners are educated as a result of Expertus' innovative business strategies, outsourcing services and technology-rich solutions.

Based in Silicon Valley, Expertus serves its clients from offices in the US, UK and India. For more information, visit www.expertus.com, or call toll-free 1-877-827-8160.

About Brandon Hall Group
Having worked with more than 5,000 clients globally and after 17 years of delivering world-class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research-driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations. Through the recent merger of Brandon Hall Research and AC Growth, Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data, and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales, Marketing, and Executive Management.