Centra Teams Up with Cisco to Help Growing Businesses Gain Competitive Advantage through Internet Business Roadmap Solutions Program.Business/Technology Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2001 Partnership Helps Growing Companies Discover the Advantages of Adopting Internet Business Strategies for eLearning and Business Collaboration 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 eLearning and collaboration, today announced it has joined the Cisco Internet Business Roadmap program launched earlier today by Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. The Cisco Internet Business Roadmap program provides a unique and comprehensive planning "Comprehensive Plan" is a term used by land use planners to describe a set of goals and policies developed by a municipality to accommodate future growth. Typically the comprehensive plan will look at estimated growth within a specific time period, for example, 20 years. tool that helps growing businesses generate a customized Internet solutions adoption strategy and rollout plan to gain competitive edge and increase profit margins. By completing a simple business and technology assessment questionnaire, companies can pinpoint Internet solutions that are designed to increase the efficiency of their business, improve employee productivity, create greater customer satisfaction and loyalty, and optimize the overall competitiveness of their company. "Traditionally, large businesses have been the ones that have realized the greatest benefits from utilizing Internet Business Solutions. With the Cisco Internet Business Roadmap program, growing businesses of any size can quickly and easily identify the combined hardware, applications software and services solutions like eLearning that best fit the needs of their company," said Robyn Aber, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for Cisco Systems. "We are pleased to have Centra as one of the Internet Business Solutions providers in the program." Software Infrastructure for eLearning and Collaboration Used by more than 600 companies, government agencies, and universities worldwide, Centra's enterprise products and services are based on CentraOne(TM), a robust and extensible thin-client architecture for eLearning and collaboration. By leveraging the core capabilities of the Web-based CentraOne platform, Centra is the only company to offer a full range of knowledge delivery and management solutions - from voice-enabled virtual classrooms, Web conferences and online meetings to powerful products for content management, personalized eLearning, and standards-compliant authoring - all on a single platform. Through this integrated environment, organizations can increase the overall effectiveness of their eLearning initiatives, targeting the appropriate mix of live and self-paced learning formats and activities for each audience or strategic business task. "The networking expertise of Cisco, combined with the breadth of value-added offerings from key solutions providers like Centra, delivers an actionable approach to implementing Internet solutions that growing businesses can start using and benefiting from immediately," said Alan May Alan Randy May (born January 14, 1965 in Barrhead, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. May began his NHL career when he was signed as a free agent by the Boston Bruins, although he would spend most of his time in the minors. , Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Centra. "As customers of all sizes have demonstrated, the inclusion of eLearning in any eBusiness strategy is a winning ticket for continued growth and success." About Cisco Systems To learn more about the Cisco Internet Business Roadmap program, see Cisco's release issued September 10, 2001, entitled "New Cisco Internet Business Roadmap Program Provides Framework to Help Channel Partners Sell Internet Business Solutions to their Customers" or go to http://www.cisco.com/go/CIBRchannel. About Centra With more than 1.5 million users, Centra is the world's leading provider of software infrastructure and ASP services for eLearning and business collaboration. Today hundreds of global organizations have standardized on Centra for the delivery of live eLearning, including Accenture, Century 21, 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. , McKessonHBOC, Nationwide Insurance, Siemens, Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , and Procter & Gamble. Centra supports a vital ecosystem of strategic eLearning partnerships, which include alliances with Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Cisco, Oracle, HP Europe, Deloitte Consulting, Saba, Docent and Global Knowledge. 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. |
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