Learning Zone adds award winning Adventus to its suite

Dubai, September 6, 2005: Learning Zone, the leading E-learning and Knowledge Management Company in the Middle East, has acquired exclusive rights to promote and market the award winning Learning Management System â€" ‘Adventus’ across the MENA region. This acquisition will further strengthen Learning Zone’s portfolio of world class E-learning and Knowledge Management products.

Adventus, which is developed by Learning Zone’s Bangalore based partner â€" Metalearn Services, will help meet e-learning needs of companies globally. Adventus is built on three-tier architecture - the database layer, the business layer and the presentation layer - that is highly scalable and flexible with an accelerated learning environment. The system allows total flexibility in learning for the user driven by content and convenience. Adventus can deliver any multilingual content in any form enterprise wide and across learning communities. It is a broad based macro system that integrates all resources and caters to micro learning needs. It can play any electronic course whether web based or not and architecturally extends itself to all other enterprise wide people management software.

“E- learning and online learning were a distant dream for small and medium businesses given the prohibitive cost of software that enable an organization to deliver content over the web for training and learning,â€? says Meera Kaul, Managing Director â€" Learning Zone. “Adventus will help bridge that gap. Adventus LMS is a world-class product available at a fraction of the cost of other global products with complete one-year support and back up with upgrades. Adventus is designed to provide maximum comfort to any user with simple and basic orientation to computers.
Adventus Learning Management System (LMS) is a Learning & Training platform that caters to organizations to achieve their competitive advantage with dynamic efficiency resulting in savings to the tune of almost 50% in time and material,� she adds.

“Adventus is developed and benchmarked against contemporary global market products of top 10 brands in LMS and e-learning worldwide. Adventus is robust and scalable. Being modular Adventus is a framework of flexibilities in global environment. Adventus is supported throughout its life cycle in upgrades and future versions maximizing user convenience.� Meera explains.

Adventus 2.0 Learning Management System allows companies to provide employees, trainers and administrators secure access to relevant information, such as learning content supported by assessment modules, from almost anywhere in the world. In addition, one of its many features is the real time collaboration between students and faculty and access to online query bank. Adventus also allows upload of existing learning material for immediate access for e-training. Adventus provides not only a value added package but also tools to help companies centrally knowledge manage their organizations better and is multilingual.

Learning Zone has over a period of time created strong partner relationships in the region to bring to the region expertise in Content management and learning process management. Learning Zone has secured its position in the market in the past few months by introducing a product based suite to cater to Learning Management needs of the corporate market. With its initiative to develop culturally customized solutions, Learning Zone is forging strong customer relationships with all its clients and provides to them quality, service and commitment.

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About Learning Zone:
Learning Zone is a full-complement solution provider in the domain of Classroom Training Solutions, e-learning, blended learning and Knowledge Management. Learning Zone's principal asset is the capacity for leveraging the world's highest quality of technical as well as subject matter expertise and bringing it into the GCC nations through successful offshore deployment methodologies. At the seeds of the corporate vision for Learning Zone is the keen desire to enhance the quality of services, products and solutions available that cater specifically to the needs of this significant and uniquely defined marketplace. Learning Zone offers end to end solutions in deployment of learning methodologies in the corporate and institutional environment. For further details, please visit www.learningzone.ae

For further details, please contact:
Learning Zone /Ms. Meera Kaul
Tel: + 971 50 8479803
Email: meera@learningzone.ae

OAK Consulting/Ms. Nirmala D’souza
Tel: + 971 50 734 3840
Email: nimi@oakconsulting.biz