Candle Corporation Selects Centra for Live eLearning.Business/Technology Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Centra's Software Infrastructure Enables Acccelerated Delivery of Essential Training to Employees Worldwide at Significantly Lower Cost Centra (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 : CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance CTRA Committee To Restore America ), the world's leading provider of software infrastructure and ASP services for live eLearning and business collaboration, today announced that Candle Corporation, a leading independent software company specializing in fast, flexible e-business solutions, has selected Centra's real-time collaboration software See collaborative software. for the delivery of live, online training to employees and customers across the globe. Using Centra's easy-to-deploy eLearning infrastructure, Candle will extend its reach to more than 1,600 consultants, customer service representatives and field sales employees using the Internet to keep them up-to-date on the company's evolving set of products and services. "As a leading e-business corporation in a very dynamic marketplace, being able to transfer knowledge and information to our employees quickly is crucial to our ability to provide clients with the appropriate solutions for every step of their e-business life cycle," said Chris Gundel, Assistant Vice President of Training for Candle Corporation. "Centra's live eLearning software lets us replicate rep·li·cate v. 1. To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat. 2. To reproduce or make an exact copy or copies of genetic material, a cell, or an organism. n. A repetition of an experiment or a procedure. the effectiveness of live classroom instruction and interactive team collaboration online, significantly reducing the scheduling challenge and expense of delivering training to 1,600 employees on a regular basis." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gundel, Candle plans to build upon the success of its internal employee training by delivering the same value-added IT education to its customers through a newly created Candle e-Learning Exchange (eLX), a Centra-based learning service, to provide training via the Web. Software Infrastructure for Live eLearning and Business Collaboration Already in use by more than 450 companies and universities worldwide, Centra's Web-based enterprise products and ASP services share a common collaboration framework and are optimized to support a full range of human interactions necessary to accelerate internal and market-facing business processes. Providing convenient, easy-to-use facilities for live virtual classrooms, Web conferences and eMeetings, all Centra products feature hallmark voice-over-IP capabilities, collaborative online workspace, integrated application sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. , and intuitive user interface to enable live conversation and interaction over corporate networks and the Internet. "We are delighted that Candle Corporation, like a growing number of other global companies, has embraced live eLearning as a business driver for their organization," said Tony Mark, Centra's President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "Our mission to provide the best solutions for enabling real-time, human interaction and collaboration over the Web has only one goal: to help companies achieve business results through the acceleration of key business processes, such as knowledge transfer and training. To achieve this goal, we believe the best solutions are not only scaleable and user-friendly, they provide effective and highly interactive, blended online work environments where people can learn the skills they need to react to the unique demands of their customers and markets." About Candle Corporation Based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , California, Candle Corporation is one of the world's largest independent global software and services companies. Serving more than 5,000 customers in 59 countries, Candle develops and markets more than 200 products and services that enable companies to create, integrate, manage and measure the effectiveness of their e-businesses. Candle's solutions provide the speed and agility that are mandatory for success in the world of e-business. For more information on Candle's 25 years of experience in managing complex systems and applications, visit www.candle.com. About Centra With over a million users, Centra is the world's leading provider of software infrastructure and ASP services for live eLearning and business collaboration. Today hundreds of global organizations have standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Centra for the delivery of live eLearning, including Accenture, Domino's Pizza For Domino's Pizza in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Principality of Monaco, see . Domino's Pizza, LLC (NYSE: DPZ) (LSE: DOM) is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, United , EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. , Siemens, Nationwide Insurance, and Procter & Gamble. Centra supports a vital ecosystem of strategic eLearning partnerships, which include alliances with Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Consulting, Cisco, Oracle, Saba, Global Knowledge, and 27 international value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. covering 29 countries. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, the Company has sales offices throughout 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. , Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.centra.com. Candle and the Candle logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Candle Corporation. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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