Blackboard Inc. Signs Global Reseller Agreement with Concord; New Agreement Allows Blackboard Inc.'s Global Sales Force to Sell Concord's Masterfile Products to Its Clients.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2002 Concord USA, Inc, a leading provider of content management solutions for education, today announced that it has signed a Global Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. Agreement with Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc. The new reseller agreement links Concord more closely to Blackboard, the leading software infrastructure company for e-Education. Blackboard Inc.'s global sales force can now include Concord's Masterfile content management products in the solutions it offers to clients worldwide. Concord was a founding member of Blackboard Inc.'s Blackboard Building Blocks(TM) Program. This partnership provides Blackboard clients with an easy way to connect the Masterfile CAM (Course Asset Manager) and Digital Library System to their current and future installations of the Blackboard Learning System A widely used education system from Blackboard Inc., Washington, D.C. (www.blackboard.com). Part of the company's Blackboard Academic Suite, it includes course management, content authoring, collaborative discussions, virtual classrooms, as well as testing and grading. (TM). Concord Masterfile provides scalable solutions for four key challenges with the management of online learning: -- The ability to use and track a single content item used in multiple courses or course systems. -- The seamless updating of the same item used in multiple locations. -- The ability to share content across courses for use by other instructors and applications. -- The ability to build a large-scale digital content repository for an entire institution. "The combination of Concord Masterfile and the Blackboard platform provides instructors with a seamless way to access a wide variety of institutional content while maintaining a common user experience," said Dan Cane, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of Research and Development at Blackboard. "The open architecture of Blackboard's technology through the Building Blocks Program ultimately provides clients with a wider variety of features and functions for their e-Learning initiatives." Concord Masterfile enables the effective management and sharing of online content items, and provides an extensive list of features that enhance the Blackboard online learning experience. These features include assembly of a digital library, student portfolio and course cloning cloning: see clone. To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software. . Masterfile also provides automatic version control, extensive meta-data, complete security, user tracking, course reports and data import functionality. Any authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal can contribute or access content within Masterfile from any standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "Concord is pleased to provide its content storage, management and communications solutions through Masterfile CAM and the Blackboard Building Blocks program," said Howard Taylor, VP for Sales and Marketing at Concord USA Inc. "With this new agreement, Blackboard can offer a wider range of solutions directly to their clients." About Concord Concord's headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia USA with offices in Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia. Concord was established in 1987 for the purpose of developing Library Management Systems for schools and universities. In 1994 the development of Masterfile began and the product has continued to evolve, through input and recommendations from users, from a file and document management system to an advanced and highly scalable content management solution. Today Concord is a leader in knowledge and content management storage and communication systems. (Masterfile supports Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. .) For more information about Masterfile please call 770-889-7432 or info@concord-usa.com or visit www.concord-usa.com. About Blackboard Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for the education experience. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. The Blackboard Learning, Community Portal, and Transaction Systems are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe and Asia. 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