Kronos Incorporated Selects OutStart's Technology to Streamline Course Creation and Maintenance.

BOSTON -- Company uses OutStart Evolution Learning Content Management System for e-learning and instructor-led and course creation

OutStart, the leading provider of software solutions for learning and knowledge-sharing, today announced that Kronos Incorporated, the most trusted name in workforce management, has selected the OutStart Evolution Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to customize training courses for its customers, consultants, and system implementers.

With tens of thousands of customers, Kronos is aggressively developing e-learning initiatives to help end users make the most efficient use of its applications. A recent Kronos customer survey reported that users experience a 29 to 38 percent increase in job performance as a result of technical process and procedure training. The research found that the majority of its customers concur that training is imperative to achieving maximum time and cost-saving potential.

Over the past three years, Kronos has grown its e-learning course library by 100% with many more courses planned as new products are released. The company has strict deadlines for the availability of new courses to coincide with each new workforce management software release. With OutStart Evolution LCMS in place, Kronos can achieve faster time-to-market of required training courses without increasing staff.

"We've been able to realign our training approach from traditional product functionality training to task-oriented learning enabling our customers to far better understand how Kronos software impacts their role," said Ruth Fradenburg, Director of Corporate Educational Services for Kronos Incorporated. "Additionally, using Evolution LCMS, we are transitioning our traditional learning content development approach to the reusable object model. Now we're able to assemble existing learning objects for specific audiences in 3 modalities - ILT, web-based and virtual - in half the time it would have taken us in the past."

OutStart Evolution LCMS is the only complete learning application that provides total control over how organizations develop, manage, and assemble learning content. It enables subject matters experts to intelligently deliver native learning content to multiple forms of output. Training programs can be easily personalized by dynamically delivering content that displays unique themes to match various user profiles.

"Kronos invests heavily in the success of its customers," said Massood Zarrabian, president and chief executive officer for OutStart. "Effective training is a key component of this success. We are extremely pleased to play a role in enabling the company's effective learning initiatives."

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos Incorporated is the most trusted name in workforce management. Kronos helps organizations staff, develop, deploy, track, and reward their workforce, resulting in reduced costs, increased productivity, better decision-making, improved employee satisfaction, and alignment with organizational objectives. More than 20 million people use a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos' high-impact enterprise solutions at www.kronos.com.

About OutStart

OutStart software powers solutions that help make people more effective in a fraction of the time and cost. Unlike traditional training or knowledge management approaches that take too long, cost too much and fail to address the entire need, OutStart's applications address the way people learn through a combination of formal training, knowledge sharing and expert collaboration that is available on-demand. Customers like Empire BlueCross BlueShield, Cisco Systems, Steelcase, the U.S. Navy, Verizon and Westland Helicopters rely on OutStart to increase individual and organizational performance, improve knowledge transfer and lower operating costs. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., OutStart has offices throughout the US and Europe and can be found on the Web at www.outstart.com.