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

26th February 2009

learn eXact Enterprise debuts at CeBIT

The leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, is showcasing learn eXact Enterprise, the newest version of its learning content management system (LCMS), at this year's CeBIT, the IT and telecommunications fair in Hanover, Germany, from 3rd to 8th March.

Andrea Gentili, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Giunti Labs, explained: "Within learn eXact Enterprise, one server manages the client's different communities, dividing them into different domains, and allows users access on an enterprise level or a project-by-project basis. This fits well with some of the key topics at this year's CeBIT - not least the trend towards digitisation and mobility, which is changing the way we use the media and leading to new business models and markets.

"With learn eXact Enterprise, changes in learning content are tracked to save and ensure consistency; while learner data can be sent to managers or fed into ERP systems. Reports related to course activity, enrolment and course access/monitoring are fully configurable and can be delivered via dedicated portal within the Enterprise application or over the client's corporate portal," he added.

The LCMS, which is highly scalable - both in ‘vertical' and ‘horizontal' terms - is entirely SOA-based allowing services to be activated, de-activated or swapped with client-preferred services without impacting on overall platform performance. This allows organisations to both extend the system's functions, as required, and protect their investment by having a ‘future-proof' LCMS.

learn eXact Enterprise has been created to support all aspects of management of the process and the contents for distant learning in an organisation. In particular, it has been designed to be ‘non-disruptive' to any existing corporate systems, and to maximise existing corporate knowledge banks.

"Those using learn eXact Enterprise should experience more flexible workflow, while also gaining benefits from product features which make editing content, user roles and so on easier," commented Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs' CEO. "Users can also export data in XML format via web services.

"At the core of the LCMS is the ‘domains, users, rules, permissions' module - known as DURP - which ‘structures' the LCMS, allowing it to respond to complex user scenarios and also allowing users to structure and personalise the system," he continued. "This allows the LCMS to continue to be relevant as, over time, individuals take on new roles within the organisation as their competence and skill sets develop."

As with any Giunti Labs' system, learn eXact Enterprise's authoring application works well with learning standards, such as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC and IMS. To simplify the authoring procedure, learn eXact Enterprise includes a set of pre-loaded learning object models (LOMs). These LOMs enable instructional designers and authors to program complex templates in their preferred scripting language - such as XSL, Flash™, Java™, or C#.

Visitors to Giunti Labs' stand at this year's CeBIT can ‘test drive' this state-of-the-art LCMS, under guidance from its developers.

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About learn eXact Enterprise LCMS

learn eXact Enterprise comprises a series of interoperable modules for domains, users and profiles and contents creation management, workflow processes, projects management, contents delivery and performances reporting. Among other things, it:

• Enables more flexible workflow

• Provides workflow status summaries and action lists

• Is a project management tool

• Includes more roles and metadata configurability

• Allows easy editing of user roles and permission

• Allows easy editing of content metadata

• Allows easy team structure management and revision

• Allows easy task editing and association, including within active projects

• Contains full versioning and roll-back functions

• Contains a fully customisable ‘skin' to ensure a corporate family ‘feeling'

• Has localisation capability

• Enables data export in XML format via web services

• Includes simple search or metadata search at digital repository level

• Contains a search preview function

The learn eXact Enterprise platform uses the following technologies:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 / 3.0

• C# language

• ASP.NET 2.0

• Web Services

• Windows Workflow Foundation

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005

• Java (to support eXact Glove)

• Web technologies: HTML, CSS, HTTP(S), XML, XSLT, WSDL

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