CBT Systems Adds Real-Time Interactivity to Intranet-Based Deployment System; CBTWeb LivePlay Enables Students to Run Courseware Live Over an Intranet.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1997--CBT Systems Ltd., a leading provider of interactive education software to Fortune 3000 companies, today announced that it has further expanded its courseware Educational software. See CBT and OpenCourseWare. (application) courseware - Programs and data used in Computer-Based Training. deployment options with the addition of a "live play" capability to its popular CBTWeb(TM) intranet-based deployment system. CBTWeb was designed by CBT Systems (CBT Systems, Menlo Park, CA) An acknowledged leader in the design and development of interactive education software for information technology training. Specializing in self-study courses that users can take at their own PCs, CBT developed a library of more than 600 titles for to take advantage of the widespread proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of corporate intranets, and extends the reach of companies to employees beyond local area networks to anyone located anywhere in the world who has access to a private corporate intranet. Available since late last year, CBTWeb enables customers to use a 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. to download CBT Systems courseware from a corporate intranet onto a hard disk. With CBTWeb LivePlay(TM), CBT Systems courses located on a web server can be accessed over an intranet and taken live in real time without having to be downloaded to a hard disk. Because CBT Systems has developed its courseware using advanced graphics standards, customers who access courseware via the download capability or the new LivePlay capability will have exactly the same experience that characterizes all of CBT (Computer-Based Training) Using the computer for training and instruction. CBT programs are called "courseware" and provide interactive training sessions for all disciplines. Systems' courseware-breadth and depth of content and richness of interactivity. "Our deployment systems have always been designed to give maximum reach and flexibility to our customers," said Bill Beamish, CBT Systems vice president of Product Strategy and Development. "CBTWeb now gives customers the option to download our courseware or to interact with it live over an intranet without ever having to download it "Download It" is Clea's debut single. It was released in the UK on September 22, 2003 and missed the top 20 charting at #21. The single had average promotion, being performed in shows like Top of the Pops. on to a hard disk. Our advanced design systems ensure that the integrity of the courseware is maintained regardless of how it is being deployed and accessed." To use CBTWeb, students simply use a browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used to access the CBTWeb site, choose the course they want, and either download the course or launch it to run the course live. The CBTWeb site includes instructions for downloading other utilities, such as a remove/record return utility for removing course files and sending student records back to the server when a course has been completed. CBTWeb now also offers special features for training administrators. For example, the addition of Common Gateway Interface (CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. ) technology to CBTWeb enables training administrators to track and record student download activity. Pricing and Availability CBTWeb with the LivePlay capability is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 1997. Pricing is determined on a per enterprise license basis. CBTWeb and CBTCampus(TM), the company's new training management and deployment environment, are being demonstrated at the Technology Performance Management Conference in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 14-17. CBT Systems is located in Booth No. 236. About CBT Systems CBT Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of CBT Group PLC (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 :CBTSY), is a leading provider of interactive education software designed to meet the information technology training needs of businesses and organizations worldwide. The company develops, publishes and markets a comprehensive library of 433 software titles, covering a range of client-server, Internet, and corporate intranet technologies. CBT Systems' products are used by more than 1,350 of the world's leading corporations to train employees to develop and apply mission-critical technologies in the workplace. The company works with leading software companies, including Cisco, Informix, Lotus, Marimba marimba: see xylophone. marimba Xylophone with resonators under each bar. The original African instrument uses tuned calabash resonators. In Mexico and Central America, where it was brought by African slaves, the wooden bars may be affixed to a , Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, Powersoft, SAP, and the IBM-Netscape-Sun Microsystems Java consortium to develop and market vendor-specific training. For information on CBT Systems products, call 800/387-0932, fax 650/614-5901, or send an email to salesinfo@cbtsys.com. CBT Systems is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.cbtsys.com . -0- Note to Editors: CBT Systems and the CBT Systems logo are trademarks of CBT Group PLC. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: CBT Systems Ltd., Menlo Park Cindy McCaffrey, 650/614-5962 cindy_mccaffrey@cbtsys.com |
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