Azlan Makes Centra's Web Collaboration Platform the Cornerstone of New Live eLearning Service for IT Training in Europe.

Business/Technology Editors

LEXINGTON, Mass. and WOKINGHAM, BERKSHIRE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002--

One of Europe's Largest Independent Network Training Companies

Launches Major Marketing Campaign to Highlight Benefits of Live

eLearning and Collaboration

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the leading provider of business software solutions for eLearning and real-time collaboration, today announced that Azlan, one of Europe's largest independent IT training companies, has made Centra the basis of a new live eLearning service. Using the capabilities of Centra for interactive, real-time learning over the Web, Azlan can now offer customers more choices and flexibility in their learning programs - creating a fully blended program that combines Centra-powered eLearning, traditional instructor-led classes, and online self-study courses. Prior to the kick-off of a three-month marketing campaign to highlight the benefits of this new, expanded solution, Azlan has already added live online courses on products from Cisco Systems and Microsoft(R) to its portfolio.

"Azlan undertook an extremely detailed review of the eLearning marketplace prior to selecting a live virtual classroom platform," commented Freddie Jones, Managing Director of Azlan Limited. "Finding the right technology was key to the success of our initiative. The selection of Centra was based on a number of factors, including product flexibility, reliability, and interactivity. We also felt that Centra was well positioned to support Azlan's growth in the future with its pan-European scalability."

Through Azlan's Live e-Learning initiative, customers and partners now have the choice of instructor-led training conveniently delivered straight to any desktop PC. This provides students with enormous scheduling flexibility, and the ability to dramatically accelerate their learning experience without investing time and money in training-related travel costs. The online classroom replicates the interaction and dynamics of the physical classroom, creating an engaging learning experience.

Azlan Launches Marketing Campaign for Live e-Learning in Europe

In an unprecedented show of support and commitment to its new Live e-Learning initiative, Azlan has launched a series of marketing and public relations events in Europe, scheduled to run through March 2002, that are dedicated to educating customers on the power of Live eLearning. "Our marketing campaign focuses on the flexibility of Azlan Live e-Learning, by demonstrating how the methodology can be adapted to deliver even the most unusual training course," said Richard Leigh, Azlan's Group Director of Training. "One of our key objectives has been to change our customers' attitudes towards online training and to demonstrate how much the technology has improved since they first experienced it a few years ago."

Azlan plans to introduce new vendor-authorized Live eLearning courses every month, and is working with a number of large organizations to help them utilize real-time, online learning for application training. Azlan is also considering expanding their use of Centra to help with both internal training and channel partner updates, where short, half-hour sessions could be delivered easily online to keep people up-to-date on the latest technology developments, a valuable asset to their prime market.

Scaleable Software Solution for eLearning and Business Collaboration

Used by more than 775 companies, government agencies, and universities worldwide, Centra's scaleable software solutions are based on CentraOne(TM), a comprehensive, thin-client Web collaboration platform. Leveraging the core capabilities of CentraOne, Centra offers a suite of compatible, real-time Web collaboration products, content creation tools, and knowledge delivery systems that can be quickly installed on-site using Centra's rapid deployment methodology, or conveniently accessed through Centra's secure, full-service ASP. Centra's products - including interactive Web meetings, virtual classrooms, and large-scale conferences - ensure universal access to users through firewalls and proxy servers, and deliver full-performance IP audio conferencing, streaming video, application sharing, and dynamic multimedia over low-bandwidth network connections through a standard browser interface.

"As one of Europe's pre-eminent training companies, Azlan is ideally positioned to accelerate the widespread adoption of Centra's live eLearning and collaboration technology throughout the region," said Lawrence Whittle, Centra's Vice President of Sales Operations for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). "Azlan has embraced Centra, and taken a highly pro-active role in educating customers on how they can take full advantage of live eLearning technology to empower employees with critical IT skills and create dynamic, collaborative work environments."

About Azlan

Azlan's training line of business is established as one of Europe's largest independent network training companies with dedicated training centres in 13 countries and 34 separate locations. The training line of business employs approximately 500 people, over 50% of these being technical trainers, capable of delivering courses in over 20 languages. It services a portfolio of courses from leading vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Novell, Enterasys, and RSA Security amongst many others. Training is delivered in both the more traditional instructor-led classroom environment and also by Azlan's exciting and unique Live e-Learning methodology. This live interactive e-Learning product involves Azlan instructors presenting 2 - 3 hour sessions to a virtual classroom across the Internet. Azlan has a Managed Solutions portfolio comprising a toolbox of 29 training services - including the maneprogramme(TM) (Azlan's own online training needs analysis) and the Azlan Connect Programme (Azlan's training alliance programme). This enables customers to call Azlan for all their training needs, providing a flexible and cost-effective programme to enhance technical development, applications and soft skills. For more information, visit www.azlan.com.

About Centra

Leading with an undisputed track record of helping millions of users to increase revenue and improve overall business performance, Centra provides Web collaboration solutions that enable the delivery of information in a variety of live and self-service formats, and add value through unmatched capabilities to capture interactions and content, personalize and manage this information, and instantly re-use it across the enterprise. Today hundreds of global organizations across every industry and market sector choose Centra, including ExxonMobil, Cadbury Schweppes, Citigroup, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, McKesson, Merck, Nationwide Insurance, Sysco, and Stanford University. Centra's products are bolstered by a vital ecosystem of strategic partners, including PwC Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, KPMG iLS, Microsoft, Siebel, Cisco, and Oracle. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, Centra has sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.centra.com.

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