eLearning Content Industry Standardizes On Docent With More Than 7000 Courses.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001

Online Learning, Booth No. 1813

Course Providers Include FT Knowledge, Harvard Business School 

Publishing, Indeliq, McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning, NYUonline,

PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, and Richardson 

Docent, Inc. (Nasdaq:DCNT), the premier provider of eLearning solutions for Global 2000 companies, announced that over 7000 courses are now available on its Docent Enterprise(TM) eLearning platform. The number of courses has doubled since the beginning of the year.

Docent attributes the rapid growth to its comprehensive content partner program, which includes some of the most respected education providers in the world, such as FT Knowledge, Harvard Business School Publishing, Indeliq, McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning, NYUonline, PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, and Richardson.

The courses available cover all aspects of corporate education, from business skills such as sales and management techniques, to financial courses for insurance and accounting. In addition, customers can use Docent Outliner(TM), the course development component of Docent Enterprise, to create and integrate internal content for company-specific eLearning courses. These could include product training, employee development, certification and `how to' modules on company procedures.

"Content is the lifeblood of eLearning," said Dave Ellett, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Docent. "We have put a lot of effort into ensuring that more courses are available for the Docent platform than any other. Whether our customers need to increase organization knowledge or help their managers to empower their teams, they can do so with Docent Enterprise and our network of leading content providers."

Docent Enterprise, an integrated product suite for both learning management and learning content development and delivery, includes the Docent Learning Management Server(TM) (LMS), Docent Content Delivery Server(TM) (CDS), Docent Outliner and Docent Mobile(TM). The CDS enables real-time delivery and management of personalized learning. By tracking the learner's interaction with content at a detailed level, it also allows companies to analyze the direct correlation between learning and business performance. Docent's thin-client architecture enables learners and managers to access Docent's eLearning solution via any wireless (browser-based) device including handheld PDAs and smart phone browsers.

About Docent, Inc.

Docent, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCNT) is the premier provider of eLearning software and services for Global 2000 companies. Docent creates business advantage for organizations by delivering the right knowledge to the right people at the right time. Docent provides a complete infrastructure for developing, delivering, managing, and measuring eLearning. Docent's eLearning suite Docent Enterprise(TM), includes the award-winning Docent Learning Management Server(TM), Docent Content Delivery Server(TM), Docent Outliner(TM), and Docent Mobile(TM), Docent's customer list features more than 200 companies, including 11 of the Fortune 50. Among global systems integration firms with which Docent has alliances are Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, Hewlett-Packard, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Docent is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit us at www.docent.com, or call 650/934-9500.

                  Quotes from Docent content partners
                            October 1, 2001

1) Harvard Business School Publishing
PR contact: Nancy O'Leary: 617/783-7786

      "To provide eLearning solutions that improve performance, it's not
enough to produce top-quality content -- we must deliver it in a
manner easily accessible to organizations," said Jon Winder, senior
vice president of enterprise solutions at Harvard Business School
Publishing. "Our Enterprise Solutions' modules merge superior quality
content with Docent's eLearning platform to deliver personalized,
learning for entire management populations, which is both measurable
and actionable. Outcome: users gain knowledge immediately and
cost-effectively, resulting in greater success for organizations."

2) Indeliq
PR contact: Dan Romanoff, 312/867-1054

      "More and more companies are recognizing the dramatic impact that
sophisticated, simulation-based eLearning content can have on their
businesses, and they are looking for ways to implement this type of
training to improve their organization's performance," said Indeliq
CEO Daniel Hamburger. "Integrating with Docent's software platform
accelerates our entry to deliver the most advanced level of learning
management capability and opens up more sales channels for us."

3) McGraw-Hill
PR contact: Amy Anderson, 617/926-6665 ext.215

      "To even begin to measure performance and return on training
investment, you need a flexible environment to monitor and analyze the
learner's experience. Better analysis allows for the development of a
more focused, needs-based training program," said Patricia Leonard,
president of McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning. "By delivering our courses
on the Docent platform, our customers can take full advantage of
Docent's powerful management capabilities, which deliver a more
effective learning experience to the organization."

4) PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning
PR contact: Jessica Prah, 212/446-1874

      "Today, our company has positioned itself to meet the training
needs of professionals by offering content in whatever delivery method
is most effective for any given customer," says Josh Klarin, president
& CEO of PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning. "For 15 years, we have delivered
targeted, mission-critical training to professionals in healthcare,
banking, law enforcement and security, fire and emergency services,
industrial and automotive. With Docent's LMS, we can deliver content
online focusing on competency maintenance, accreditation and state and
federal mandated regulations. Professionals now have another learning
choice in addition to our traditional deliveries, which include
satellite broadcast, videotape and CD-ROM."

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