New LearnLinc Customers Increase Mentergy Market Dominance.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2001 LearnLinc Interactive Virtual Classroom Gains Widespread Acceptance in a Diverse Range of Companies The U.S. subsidiary of Gilat Communications, Ltd. (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 :GICOF), Mentergy, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise e-Learning solutions, today announced a series of live e-Learning sales to industry leading companies to deliver real time, interactive training. Publicis USA, Optimos Inc., Chubb Computer Services Data processing (timesharing, batch processing), software development and consulting services. See service bureau, SaaS and ASP. and United Grain Growers United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain distributor. Founded in 1906 in Winnipeg, UGG was active in grain sales, crop inputs and livestock production services. Limited represent a wide diversity of business cases that have chosen LearnLinc's highly interactive learning environment to collaborate with students distributed over a large number of sites, and deliver high quality training via the Internet. Growth in LearnLinc sales follows a major 1000-seat initiative to use LearnLinc by e-Business integrator, 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. . Publicis USA is a $1.8 billion U.S. communications agency, with over 900 employees. Publicis USA is part of the global $6.9 billion Publicis S.A. network, one of the world's ten largest advertising organizations, spanning 134 cities, 76 countries and five continents. Publicis USA plans to use the LearnLinc virtual classroom to train its domestic staff on Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . Optimos, Inc. - With over 500 employees and customers worldwide, and as an iServices and eBusiness Solutions company, Optimos chose the LearnLinc platform to further its learning technology initiatives. Chubb Computer Services - Chubb Computer Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the multi-billion dollar Chubb Corporation, is delivering America's e-business workforce through its Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Division and The Chubb Institute. Chubb has trained more than 30,000 people for new and exciting careers in the Information Technology field since 1969. LearnLinc will enable Chubb to deliver knowledge and skills more rapidly and efficiently, whenever and wherever needed. United Grain Growers Limited (UGG UGG You Go Girl UGG United Grain Growers, Ltd. (Canada) UGG Urban Golf Gear (clothing brand) UGG Underground Groovement (Finland band) ) is one of Canada's largest agribusiness agribusiness Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts. firms. UGG is using LearnLinc to train over 180 front line employees (located in small farming communities throughout western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West ) on Internet-based software applications. "UGG chose LearnLinc e-learning software because it allows us to conduct an online instructor-led training session - thereby eliminating travel and accommodation costs," said Krista Goossen, Manager of Staffing and Employee Development at UGG. "We found LearnLinc to be very flexible - allowing our instructors to easily customize curriculum for the online environment." "Live e-Learning has become a `must have' option in the corporate arsenal of business process advantages," said Ziv Mandl, Co-CEO of Gilat Communications. "Our LearnLinc and TrainNet solutions are selected over and over as the best learning environments to deliver real time training quickly and effectively to dispersed employees, partners and customers. We see live e-Learning as the exciting introduction to the full suite of Mentergy's blended e-Learning products and services, including custom courseware development, e-Learning consulting and authoring and design tools." The LearnLinc virtual classroom allows a live instructor to lead and control a class of distributed students using audio conferencing See audioconferencing. , with the interaction and flexibility found in a traditional classroom. LearnLinc supports many forms of synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. training content, including PowerPoint slides, multimedia authored courseware, Web-based material, streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. , shared whiteboard and shared software Shared software is a different term used to describe free software and open source software, and possibly also software that is not formally covered by the definition of either, but that is in some other way shared rather than owned. applications. Firewall friendly LearnLinc classes can be delivered over the public Internet, private Intranets and local networks. Mentergy's live e-Learning solutions include the LearnLinc(R) virtual classroom designed for Internet delivery and the TrainNet(TM) virtual classroom designed for satellite and terrestrial broadband delivery, featuring full motion instructor video. About Gilat Communications Gilat Communications, Ltd. is a leading developer and provider of end-to-end interactive distance learning (IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data ) solutions worldwide. TrainNet(TM), Gilat's comprehensive broadband IDL solution allows organizations to conduct instructor-led or self-paced sessions utilizing computers, telephone, internet connections' and broadband communications. Gilat Communications formed Mentergy, its US e-Learning operation, by merging Allen Communication, providing advanced courseware development services and technology-based authoring and design tools for almost 20 years to more than 60% of the Fortune 500, and LearnLinc Corporation, featuring live, collaborative Web-based training via the LearnLinc(R) virtual classroom, used by hundreds of organizations around the world. John Bryce John Bryce (14 September 1833 – 17 January 1913) was a New Zealand politician from 1871 to 1891 and Minister of Native Affairs from 1879 to 1884. In his attitudes to Maori land questions, he favoured strict legal actions against Maori opposed to alienation, and he personally Training is Gilat's European IT training and content company, and is one of the leading providers of IT training services in Europe and the Middle East. www.gilat.net About Mentergy Mentergy, Inc. is a Gilat Communications, Ltd. e-Learning company (NASDAQ:GICOF) formed by Gilat's acquisition of LearnLinc(R) Corporation and Allen Communication. Mentergy is an enterprise e-Learning company that provides a comprehensive set of products and services, including large enterprise implementation, consulting, courseware development, and e-Learning authoring and planning software suites as well as live web-based and broadband e-Learning delivery. With over 21 years of expertise in the learning industry, Mentergy addresses the growing demand to help U.S. and Canadian organizations make a cost-effective shift from traditional learning, with its inherent expense and loss of productivity, to a blended approach, which includes technology- based training solutions or e-Learning. Mentergy's customers range from midsize companies to Global 2000, including Aetna US Healthcare, WorldCom, Made2Manage, Citibank, Countrywide, Rockwell-Collins, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is responsible for the Third District of the Federal Reserve, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. , Intel and other industry leaders. For more information, visit http://www.mentergy.com. About John Bryce Training John Bryce Training is a leading IT training company in Israel and Europe and a fast-growing enterprise in this field since 1994. The company offers over 200 different programs and courses, each tailor-made to suit its clients' rapidly changing needs. John Bryce trains IT professionals, managers, developers and infrastructure personnel in a wide range of subjects, and is an authorized training solution provider for companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Cisco, Novell, and others. LearnLinc(R) is a registered trademark of Gilat Communications. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Certain statements made herein that are not historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. The words "estimate" "project" "intend" "expect" "believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, inability to maintain market acceptance to the Company's products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, rapid changes in the market for the Company's products, loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition, introduction of competing products by other companies, inability to manage growth and expansion, loss of key OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, inability to attract and retain qualified personnel, inability to protect the Company's proprietary technology and risks associated with the Company's international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. and its location in Israel. For additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, reference is made to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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