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Press / 2005 / 3^rd January

InfoBasis launches Readiness Manager at Learning Technologies 2005

InfoBasis Limited, a leading provider of skills management technologies, announced that it will launch a new tool for IT training companies at the Learning Technologies 2005 Exhibition. InfoBasis Readiness Manager will enable training companies to provide clients with a range of new skills management services.

“Through Readiness Manager, our training company partners will be able to provide clients with detailed skills gap analysis and targeted training plans,” explained InfoBasis CEO Ashley Wheaton. “Furthermore, these plans will be prioritized on cost, time, job role needs and project importance.”

“This will let client organisations make best use of their training budgets,” added Wheaton. “Now, for the first time, training companies have a tool which will enable them to run skills audits based on industry standard processes and frameworks – all at a fraction of the cost and time of current training needs analysis methods.”

Readiness Manager is based on the same platform as InfoBasis ESI™, the skills management technology used by the British Computer Society, British Army and Norwich Union. Training providers adopting the tool will be able to brand it, and to offer clients a wide range of reports to provide pro-active skills advice to clients.

Already piloted in both the UK and USA, Readiness Manager has been welcomed both by user organisations and by training providers. “Readiness Manager fits very well with Parity’s provision of Human Capital Management services,” says Barbara Greenway, Managing Director of Parity, the UK’s largest IT training company. “Increasingly we are working with corporate clients to manage their human capital, and Readiness Manager will help us do that. It represents a straight-forward way for organisations to begin down the path of HCM, and to begin meeting the statutory and regulatory reporting requirements which they face in 2005.”

“Skills management has become a high priority with our technology driven customers,” said Steve Brugger, President of SQL Soft, a Microsoft Gold Partner training provider with several locations in the north-west USA. “They are beginning to see it as a mechanism to control costs and manage risks, while at the same time deploying technologies that help them attain their strategic business objectives.”

“There is a clear need for a tool like this in Europe and further a-field,” says Alfred Remmits, CEO of Global Learning Alliance, a network of IT training providers in over 100 countries. “We are working with customers to provide structured learning and development programmes using performance support and measurement tools. Readiness Manager will be an essential part of this, letting us deepen clients’ understanding of their people and skills, and ensuring that their training plans are fully aligned to business goals.”

“This is a great introduction to skills management for our clients,” says Brian Sutton, Chief Educator at QA, "QA provides comprehensive managed training services to our clients, and Readiness Manager will be a great way for them to start to engage in skills management as a part of these services.”

"Readiness Manager will be a great first step for many of our clients," says Adrian Hall, Business Development Manager for InterQuad, the IITT's training company of the year. "As well as supplying vital Training Needs Analysis information, it will also introduce them to skills management services in a straightforward way. This fits exactly with our strategy of simplifying training-related processes.”

"This will be a key element in our corporate offering," says Bill Walker, Xpertise Commercial Director. "Increasingly we recognise that our clients are looking for more sophisticated ways of managing their workforce development and human capital. They want to move from reactive training to pro-active skills management.”

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