Bob Little Press & Public Relations - Reuters, the world's largest international news and financial information source, has selected Plateau's integrated learning management system

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Media Centre Plateau Systems Master List Plateau Systems UK Ltd Royal Albert House, Sheet Street, Windsor, Berks, SL4 1BE tel 01753 705006; fax 01753 831541; www.plateau.com Media Contact: Wendy Werve Plateau Systems 001-703-292-0381 Wendy.werve@plateau.com 31 January 2007 REUTERS SELECTS PLATEAU'S HOSTED SOLUTION TO PROVIDE GLOBAL ENTERPRISE-WIDE ELEARNING Plateau's solution will streamline training and tracking for more than 16,000 employees worldwide. Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimising organisational skills and talent, today announced at the Learning Technologies 2007 conference that Reuters, the world's largest international news and financial information source, has selected Plateau's integrated learning management system (LMS). Reuters will deploy Plateau's fully hosted LMS solution to support and streamline e-learning and training initiatives across its entire organisation. Following a competitive evaluation and thorough assessment of several vendors, Reuters chose Plateau's fully hosted solution and will integrate the content libraries from key suppliers to create a single catalogue environment for learners. By providing a single, centralised point for delivering, managing, tracking and reporting on employee learning activities, Plateau's solution will enable Reuters to achieve greater learning effectiveness while reducing training administrative overhead. Plateau's industry-leading customer satisfaction ratings, coupled with its unparalleled ease of use, ability to support Reuters' global training initiatives, proven scalability in supporting simultaneous use of the system across all users were key factors in Reuters' selection of Plateau. Deploying and relying on Plateau to manage and support the solution in a hosted environment will enable Reuters to reduce administrative overhead, expedite upgrades and maintenance as well as increase use of the system throughout the organisation. "Plateau impressed us with its professionalism, deep learning management experience and domain knowledge, solid reputation for delivering best-of-breed learning management solutions. It also stood out for its proven customer success record, as validated by Plateau's customers, partners and leading industry analysts," said Andy MacGovern, Head of Learning for Technology at Reuters. "From a technology perspective, we are confident in Plateau's ability deliver the critical features and functionality required to meet our e-learning goals while integrating quickly and seamlessly with our existing systems. In addition, with Plateau hosting and supporting the solution, Reuters will be able to free up internal resources for other projects, which will save us time and money." Plateau's flexible, functionally advanced and highly scalable solution replaces Reuters' previous systems which was complex, highly distributed, costly to maintain and lacked necessary capabilities for tracking and reporting on employee learning. Plateau's intuitive tools will enable Reuters to identify, track and record employee training automatically while providing a scalable, extensible platform designed to support the organisation's future training and development initiatives. Using Plateau's self-service reporting and tracking capabilities in a hosted environment will enable Reuters to reduce costs by decreasing the need for third party reporting tools and reducing the associated overheads and ongoing support costs. "We are pleased that Reuters, one of the world's premiere providers and distributors and news and financial information and one of the UK's most innovative and progressive organisations, has chosen Plateau to manage its critical e-learning and training needs," said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. "By selecting and deploying Plateau's solution, Reuters will be able to effectively align their employees' training and development needs with their critical business requirements to maximise productivity, minimise redundancy and ultimately increase the company's bottom line." Conference attendees and press are invited to visit Plateau at the 2007 Learning Technologies conference, 31 January - 1 February, 2007, at Olympia 2 in London, Stand 33. In addition to exhibiting, Ed Cohen, Plateau's CTO, will present the following session on 1 February at 11.30 am, on: 'Managed Content Services' Content integration and administration remain two of the biggest challenges facing organisations today. With the volume and varying types of content available - from third party content and custom content, to podcasts and webinars - the need to quickly access, manage, and deliver content on-demand to end users is becoming increasingly difficult. iContent, powered by Plateau, is helping organisations address this challenge by providing a single place to locate, store and deliver thousands of third-party packaged content offerings from leading providers as well as industry and customer-specific content. With iContent, organisations can accelerate the availability and delivery of content to end users while also realising substantial cost savings by reducing content infrastructure and administration overhead. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/conference/conference.cfm end About Reuters Reuters is the world's largest international news and financial information source, reaching over 1 billion people a day. Known for its speed, accuracy and independence, Reuters content powers newsrooms and financial markets around the world. Reuters distributes its text, data, pictures and video to professionals and direct to consumers via online and digital services. Founded in 1851, Reuters Group has 16,800 employees in 89 countries and had annual revenues of Ł2.4 billion/$4.4 billion in 2005. For more information and the latest news, visit www.reuters.com About Plateau Plateau is a leading provider of adaptable web-based software for developing, managing and optimising organisational talent to increase workforce productivity and business performance. Plateau's software is being used by some of the world's largest, most successful enterprises, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, Internal Revenue Service, and Wendy's International. Industry analysts, including Forrester Research and Bersin & Associates, have rated Plateau a leader in functionality, technology, and customer satisfaction. The company is based in Arlington, Virginia, in the USA. For more information, visit www.plateau.com Further information from: Don Hernandez, Plateau Systems, 01753 705006/ 00 49 (173) 320 4807 Wendy Werve, Plateau Systems, 00 1 703 292 0381; Wendy.werve@plateau.com Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405