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Abbazia dell'Annunziata, Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio, 16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy

Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com

7th October 2008

Giunti Labs runs its first joint learn eXact LCMS and Hive DR user group after its acquisition of HarvestRoad Hive technology

Users of the world's leading digital content repository and marketplace solution, HarvestRoad Hive™, and of the leading online and mobile learning content management system, learn eXact™, will share their knowledge and experience when they gather in Sestri Levante, North West Italy, on 21st and 22nd October, for the first joint Hive and learn eXact user group since Giunti Labs acquired the HarvestRoad Hive technology at the beginning of the year.

Both user bases will convene at Giunti Labs' headquarters in Sestri Levante, to discuss and examine fully fledged, open service orientated solutions - including the use of rich media, mobile and virtual learning content production, management and rendering toolkits - to provide open and interoperable digital repository services.

Hosted by leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, the first 'Hive & learn eXact Joint User Group' conference - 'Opening repositories; releasing content' will examine market trends as well as discuss key business needs and how they are being addressed using Giunti Labs' solutions. Delegates will see how Hive and learn eXact users can produce - from an existing learning infrastructure - advanced multi-device, multi-channel and multi-platform authoring, management and delivery in one click.

The event is sponsored by Giunti Labs' partners Promethean, Cegos, Plateau, Cisco and IBM. These companies will also be presenting their achievements and offerings extending Giunti Labs' solutions into the corporate training and mobile learning fields.

"In addition, a series of workshops, on both HarvestRoad Hive and learn eXact will introduce product and module roadmaps and release plans," explained Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs. "This includes a preview of the new learn eXact and Hive SOA services, as well as the first modular integration of Giunti Labs' flagship and the award winning eXact Packager and eXact Mobile solutions for the Hive Digital Repository infrastructure."

Delegates also have the opportunity to join the Digital Educational Content Marketplaces (DECOM 2008) conference on 23rd October. This conference, which is also being held in Sestri Levante, debates the future of the educational publishing industry - in particular, its ability to adapt to, and exploit fully, a new generation learning content production, management, sharing and distribution models

The results of delegates' deliberations at DECOM 2008 will be summarised in 'The Sestri DECOM Declaration'. This document will be presented to the EU Commission as a set of suggested policy actions to support a transition towards digital content marketplaces for Educational Publishing in Europe.

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Notes for Editors

Agenda: 'Opening repositories; releasing content' will discuss:

• State-of-the-Art User Needs & Solutions

• Building SOA Architectures, Partnerships and Solutions for better Learning Content

• Hive DR and learn eXact LCMS Service Oriented Architectures & product roadmaps update

• Developing XML contents using eXact Method and eXact Packager Suite

• DR Publishing plug-in for eXact Packager

• Developing Mobile & Location based Learning Content using eXact Mobile

• Developing Digital Content Marketplaces and Portals using HarvestRoad Hive

About Giunti Labs

Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry.

In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions, through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector.

Giunti Labs, which has its global headquarters in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering:

• Content production

• Research and development

• Technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management

• Architectural and technological solutions for mobile & wireless

• Training and consulting

Giunti Labs provides the learn eXact® suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions in the market including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.

Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

Further information from:

Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405