Anlon 4.0 Selected as eLearning Foundation for Independent Insurance Agents of America.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001

Anlon's Industry-leading Learning Content Management

System to Make On-line Continuing Education 

Available to Over 300,000 Agents Nationwide

Anlon Systems, the leader in Learning Content Management Systems that directly impact financial performance, today announced that Anlon 4.0, the latest version of the company's industry-leading, enterprise-class Learning Content Management System (LCMS), has been selected as the foundation platform for eLearning by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), the nation's largest independent agent association. With the advanced Anlon solution, IIAA, via its federation of 51 state associations, will supply over 300,000 of its independent agents and their employees with online continuing education and professional development needs mandated by state governments.

"Our organization reviewed a wide variety of providers as we sought a powerful eLearning platform to support the online continuing education and professional development needs of our 300,000 members," said Debra Perkins, executive vice president of the Independent Insurance Agents of America. "In Anlon 4.0, we found exceptional system functionality and the flexibility to align the solution to our unique business practices in time frames that no other vendor could approximate."

Each year, state regulations dictate that independent agents and their employees each receive between twelve and sixteen hours of continuing education in order to remain licensed. With the Anlon 4.0 system, IIAA will make available to its state associations the ability to provide this ongoing education over the Internet, reducing a significant annual cost burden and loss of productivity. IIAA expects approximately 50 courses to be available nationwide by October 2001, and that roughly 30,000 of their members will participate in the first year, with significant growth thereafter.

"We are very pleased to work with IIAA, one of the most prominent professional associations in the world, as they transform the way their members access continuing education," said Gary J. Feracota, President and CEO of Anlon. "Anlon is more than up to the challenge of IIAA's rigorous requirements for eLearning functionality and rapid deployment time frames."

About Anlon

Anlon Systems, Inc. is the industry leader in the market for Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS). The company's flagship software product, Anlon 4.0, enables companies to accelerate business performance and reduce operational costs through the rapid, flexible and effective delivery of proprietary knowledge to employees, partners and customers. Unlike other eLearning solutions that lack connection to business results, Anlon delivers learning that directly impacts the bottom line.

Over thirty of the world's most effective learning organizations use Anlon's eLearning software, including the Mayo Clinic, Independent Insurance Agents of America, American Medical Systems, and the Minnesota State College and University System. Based in Minnesota, the company can be found on the web at www.Anlon.com.

Anlon is a trademark of Anlon Systems, Inc. All other product or company names are the properties of their respective owners.