Maritz Learning Launches Enhanced LMS

Company releases version 4.0 of LIBRIX Performance Management System(TM)

April 9, 2002

Fenton, MO -- Maritz Learning (www.maritzlearning.com) announced today the release of its newest version of the LIBRIX Performance Management System™. Version 4.0 enhances the software's registration management features, expanding user enrollment and tracking functions for "off-line" events and activities such as on-site and satellite instructor-led courses. The new version also makes the integration of third party content much easier and faster.

Version 4.0 of the LIBRIX Performance Management System rounds out the capabilities of Maritz Learning's multi-use platform by extending the system's robust functionality for the management of off-line resources and the delivery and tracking of third party content. A leading system in enabling online skills assessments and competency management, Maritz Learning's system empowers training managers to manage performance both at an individual and organizational level. As with earlier versions, Version 4.0 provides businesses an open, scalable platform that is SCORM and AICC compatible, ensuring interoperability with standards-based courseware.

"As businesses increasingly embrace a blended approach to corporate learning they are demanding solutions that integrate all components of their learning programs under one management umbrella," commented Brian Carlin, President of Maritz Learning. "Maritz Learning has been designing and developing blended learning solutions for more than three decades, so Version 4.0's enhancements are really a natural expansion of our learning and performance management system."

Version 4.0 builds on functionality found in earlier versions of the LIBRIX Performance Management System, which already cataloged and tracked off-line learning activities. This new version provides training administrators broader online management capabilities to manage course descriptions and event profiles, instructors and their event assignments, as well as the usage of facilities. In addition, new registration management functions enable users to not only register for instructor-led courses online but also put themselves on a completely automated waiting list for popular sessions.

Because of Maritz Learning's unique experience in integrating learning programs with corporate performance improvement initiatives, the LIBRIX Performance Management System easily integrates functions to manage incentives and employee motivation programs. The blending of performance improvement with comprehensive learning programs helps drive employee participation and ensure the learning and business objectives are achieved. Maritz Learning's parent company, Maritz Inc., has been a leading provider of performance improvement services for more than 70 years.

"Maritz Learning is committed to continually improving and expanding our multi-use platform," Carlin added. "Ultimately, however, the technology is only a means to an end. Our primary focus is on helping our customers strategically apply this technology so they achieve measurable individual and organizational performance improvement."

The LIBRIX Performance Management System continues to provide the functions that helped it achieve recognition as a top system for competency management in a recent brandon-hall.com study. The platform enables training administrators to define job roles throughout the organization and identify the requisite competencies for each. From this basis administrators can develop and deliver skills assessments to measure an individual's proficiency in each competency and produce instant gap analysis reports that identify an individual's areas of strength, as well as areas that need improvement. In addition, the system provides summary reporting at the individual, group, and enterprise levels. Administrators can use the system to prescribe targeted development activities and create prioritized individual development plans that both employees and managers can monitor on an on-going basis.

To find out more about Maritz Learning, please call 1-877-985-5696 or visit www.maritzlearning.com.

About Maritz Learning
Maritz Learning (www.maritzlearning.com) designs and delivers engaging, high-impact training and development programs to improve the business performance of sales and service organizations. Maritz Learning's systematic approach to performance improvement integrates traditional training techniques, state-of-the-art e-learning content and industry-leading learning and competency management technologies with incentives, rewards and recognition initiatives to drive bottom-line results. As a business unit of Maritz Inc., Maritz Learning draws from decades of experience in helping businesses worldwide improve business and employee performance in critical areas such as sales, marketing, product launches and customer satisfaction by influencing the behavior of employees, channel partners and customers.

Customers turn to Maritz Learning for: expertise in e-learning content development; custom development of instructor-led, video and CD-ROM training; proven leadership in providing incentive and reward programs; as well as a comprehensive learning management system, complete with authoring, competency management, prescriptive learning and skills assessment tools. Maritz Learning's clients include Anheuser-Busch, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Nabisco, HON Industries, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Panasonic, Minolta and the National Restaurant Association.

About Maritz
Maritz Inc., which ranked 157th on the most recent Forbes list of "500 Biggest Private Companies," is based in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, MO. Maritz offers marketing research, travel, and performance improvement services, which are delivered through 18 operating companies located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Further information can be found at www.maritz.com.

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