KPMG Consulting Signs Strategic Alliance with WBT
Systems
WBT
Systems today announced they have signed a strategic
alliance with KPMG Consulting to provide e-Learning
solutions throughout the United Kingdom, Central and
Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa.
KPMG
Consulting is one of the world's leading management
consultancies with revenues to Sept 2000 of £272 million.
The firm combines leading-edge management thinking
with the latest technologies to 'e-enable' its clients'
businesses. KPMG Consulting's goal is to help its
clients shape their own futures and to achieve sustainable
competitive advantage in the networked economy
"To
help companies exploit the full transformational potential
of e-learning, KPMG Consulting has teamed up with
a number of world-class companies including WBT Systems
to create an end-to end interactive learning solution,
" said David Parlby, Partner, KPMG Consulting.
The
KPMG Consulting Interactive Learning Solution (iLS)
comprises product and service components from various
vendors and service providers. It provides a seamless
e-Learning infrastructure to speed the flow of information
and knowledge from creator to learner in a personalized
on-demand fashion to increase business performance.
iLS is a total e-learning solution comprising learning
management, content management and virtual classroom
collaboration along with a comprehensive catalogue
of online courseware.
"KPMG
Consulting's commitment to its clients is to take
the risk out of systems implementation while delivering
maximum return on investment (ROI). We believe that
the comprehensive nature of the WBT Systems' TopClass
solution enhances our value proposition. KPMG Consulting
is now in a position to help customers realise dramatic
cost savings whilst reducing the time to market for
learning content in every area of the business, from
regulatory compliance & health & safety to product
and sales training for mobile workers. This is particularly
important in the current economic climate, where time
to market is a key business success factor."
"This
alliance with KPMG Consulting represents our combined
commitment to providing the most advanced e-Learning
solutions to customers worldwide," states Des Noctor,
Vice President, International Sales & Services, WBT
Systems. "The selection of TopClass is a further endorsement
of our market leading position as a learning management
and content management system, and we look forward
to working with KPMG Consulting and applying their
expertise with our unique technology to solve real
business problems and deliver proven Return on Investment
to customers."
WBT
Systems provides proven e-Learning solutions to rapidly
create, deploy, and manage all types of learning content.
The company's TopClass e-Learning Suite™ is a robust
web-based training platform with over a million users
worldwide across organizations such as Nokia, Dow
Chemical, Frank Russell, Bayer, Credit Suisse, and
Liberty Group. The company has major offices in Europe
and the United States, with headquarters in Dublin
Ireland.
TopClass was selected by KPMG because it offers a
number of useful attributes:
- Rapid implementation and deployment for fast
Return on Investment (ROI)
- Powerful
content conversion, editing and deployment tool
of any vendor
- Conforms
to SCORM, AICC, IMS, IEEE, & XML
- Scalable
course management and easy editing
- Comprehensive
catalogue & workflow enrolment processes
- Competency
modelling & skills gap analysis functionality
- Continuously
personalized curricula for students
- Multiple
languages simultaneously from single server
- Rich
learning experience including mentoring, forums
and bulletin boards.
November
27th, 2001
 
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