eFront LMS Announced as Honoree for The Best of ELearning! 2011 Awards

ELearning! Media Group announced eFront as a finalist for The Best of ELearning! 2011 Awards. Nominated as:
1) Best Learning Management System (eFront Enterprise), and
2) Best Open Source Solution (eFront Open Source).

 eFront was selected by worldwide readers and professionals from both the private and public sector involved in the eLearning industry.

Synthex S.A. is an official distributor of eFront and Solo Gateway in Greece.

The Virtual Trip Entrepreneurial Ecosystem has announced that Synthex S.A. is the official distributor in Greece of eFront, an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM certified, eLearning and human development platform, and Solo Gateway, an all-in-one Unified Communications software for SMEs.

Synthex S.A. has experience and international presence for more than 20 years in the areas of consulting, transfer of knowledge, and technology expertise both in America and Europe. The company is responsible for designing, developing and implementing organizational and operational tools to improve the overall quality and efficiency of infrastructure, products, and services for companies and organizations.

eFront Enterprise Wins Bronze Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award

Epignosis, a leader in innovative learning, won a coveted Brandon Hall bronze award for technology excellence in the Learning Management Technology for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses category.

Epignosis’s win was announced on Thursday, April 29. The winners are listed at www.brandon-hall.com.

The award refers to company’s flagship product, eFront Enterprise. Tailored with larger organizations in mind, eFront Enterprise offers solutions for the management of companies most valued asset - the people. Based on a coherent approach to human capital management which keeps the workforce actively engaged, the eFront Enterprise platform offers the means of aligning learning programs with business goals to cultivate employee skills and knowledge associated with business performance.

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Research, one of the leading research firms in training and development. The Learning Technology Awards program showcases innovations in the products in the marketplace for creating and managing learning, talent, and performance.

“These outstanding tools and systems propel the learning profession forward,” said Brandon Hall, Ph.D., chairman of the Awards program. “These innovative products let customers make learning faster, better, and easier.”

The entries were evaluated by independent judges around the world.

About Epignosis

Epignosis is a fast growing, dynamic, and technology oriented learning and training company. Based in Athens – Greece, it’s a member of the Virtual Trip Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, together with other twelve high-tech companies in Greece, Spain and the US. Epignosis, is the vendor of “eFront” learning and talent management platform and envisages Learning 2.0 as the dominant approach for human capital development, education & training services.

About Brandon Hall Research

Brandon Hall, Ph.D. is the CEO of Brandon Hall Research and author of the ground-breaking “Web-Based Training Cookbook.” Since 1992, Brandon Hall Research (www.brandon-hall.com) has been providing independent research reports and expert advice on using technology in learning. Brandon Hall Research conducts Awards programs each year to recognize the best in innovative learning.

ADL accepts eFront as SCORM adopter

Epignosis, a member of the Virtual Trip entrepreneurial ecosystem and the vendor of the eFront platform, has announced extended support for the latest iteration of SCORM 2004 standard.

eFront is an LMS commited to international standards. Through time it offered support for SCORM 1.2 and IMS Common Catridge and with version 3.6 it offers support for the latest iteration of SCORM 2004, its 4th edition.

Currently, eFront is one out of three systems worldwide that have achieved this level of conformance, according to ADL (http://webapps.adlnet.gov/SCORMAdopters/Adopter.aspx?i=539).

This distinction places eFront in the first class of elearning systems and comes as the result of a long development process. Support for the SCORM 2004 standard is a prerequisite for participating in a large number of international bids.

Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand chooses eFront to be their LMS

A recent significant addition to the rapid expansion of Epignosis international customer base is the agreement with Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand. In the context of this project, Fujitsu will use eFront platform for managing its human capital, starting with 2,500 users while it is expected that the total amount of users will have reached the 7,500 users by the end of 2010.

Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand is a provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions. Ranging from strategic consulting to application and infrastructure solutions and services, Fujitsu has earned reputation as the single supplier of choice for leading corporate and government organizations. Therefore, Fujitsu has developed a network of over 10 million customers and 160,000 professional staff in 60 countries around the world. In Australia and New Zealand Fujitsu has 10,000 staff.

EPIGNOSIS Ltd is a fast growing, young, dynamic, and technology oriented ELearning Company. Based in Athens – Greece, it’s a member of the Virtual Trip Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, together with other twelve high-tech companies in Greece, Spain and the US. EPIGNOSIS Ltd, is the vendor of “eFront” e-Learning platform, envisages e-Learning 2.0 as the dominant approach for human capital development, education & training services.

Epignosis continues its expansion plans increasing the VAR network across the globe!

eFront is becoming one of the most popular LCMS in the world, as the network of partners is expanding on an increasing pace the last 4 months. As a result, Epignosis has already appointed 17 VARs in 14 countries, 5 continents!

Namely, eFront is currently distributed by local representatives in the US, Argentina, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Poland, Greece, India, Singapore and Egypt!!!

Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity and welcome to our global VAR network our new partners:

1. Liquid Knowledge Group (US)
2. MLAKedusoln LLC (US)
3. e-ABC (Argentina)
4. Dgroup Consulting (Australia)
5. e3vision (UK)
6. e-learning solutions (France)
7. Elsa24.de (Germany)
8. Prestin (Poland)
9. Abbris (Russia)

We will keep you updated with more info regarding the new partners that will very soon join our VAR network, facilitating even more the distribution of eFront to worldwide organizations (US, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Turkey, India, Norway …to follow)

Thank you for your support so far!

Next Generation Learning Services (NGLS) presents its innovative elearning services & tools at the Training and Development Conference 2009

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is participating at the Training and Development Conference 2009 that takes place on May 25th, 2009 at the OTEAcademy, Pelika & Spartis 1, Marousi, Athens.

On behalf of NGLS, Mr. Tsigos Dimitrios, General Manager, is going to present the views of the company on the subject :"eFront: A new approach to Social Learning - eLearning 2.0"

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

NGLS's solutions are aiming to help companies to:
• Test the knowledge of (candidate) employees (gap-analysis)
• Organize training materials as training courses
• Build user-tailored training paths based on organization needs
• Minimize the organization's training costs
• Pin-point the best candidates for tasks
• Fulfill the inner-organization communication needs
• Preserve the company knowledge
• Certify the employee knowledge

Epignosis was elected as the Greek based portal collaborator

The elearningeuropa.info portal is a European Commission initiative which forms part of the eLearning Programme, managed by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture; Geographical Impact of Programmes; Comenius –Grundtvig Unit.

elearningeuropa.info is the main medium established by the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education and training.

elearningeuropa.info has established a network of e-learning practitioners who will act as the portals "correspondents" in their country and region. Collaborators contribute by promoting and animating forum discussions, recommending eLearning experts to be contacted and interviewed, address actual eLearning topics to discuss and highlight, inform and send resources for portal’s directory and do article peer-reviews for eLearning Papers.

Epignosis (represented to this medium from Mr. Athanasios Papagelis) was elected as the Greek based portal collaborator. For a current list of collaborators check: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/main/index.php?page=fix&id=12

Under this role, Athanasios Papagelis represented Greece on the Workshop that was held on Brussels at 30 October 2008. The aim of this workshop was to bring together portal collaborators at a European level to discuss and exchange ideas about the current and future status of distant training.

For more info on the workshop and a personal view on what was discussed you may check our detailed forum post at: http://forum.efrontlearning.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=364

Next Generation Learning Services (NGLS)presents its innovative elearning services & tools at the 4th People Management Executive Seminar.

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is participating at the 4th People Management Executive Seminar that takes place on October 20, 2008 at the Athens Concert Hall, Vas. Sofias & Kokkali, Athens.

During this prestigious event NGLS will present its full range Human Capital Development Solutions.

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

NGLS's solutions are aiming to help companies to:

• Test the knowledge of (candidate) employees (gap-analysis)
• Organize training materials as training courses
• Build user-tailored training paths based on organization needs
• Minimize the organization's training costs
• Pin-point the best candidates for tasks
• Fulfill the inner-organization communication needs
• Preserve the company knowledge
• Certify the employee knowledge
  

NGLS presents its innovative e-learning services and tools at the IT Directors Forum.

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is going to participate to the IT Directors Forum, which is taking place on October 10, 2008 in Athens, Greece.

On behalf of NGLS, Mr. Papagelis Athanasios, Technical Manager, is going to present the views of the company on “Business Transformation & Human-Capital: Managing Change through Learning”.

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

The tool for the educational program implementation is e-Front, the platform for distanced asychronized education and training .

It can be used as:

• Communication and briefing tool
• Tool for education and training
• Tool for assessment, output control and as a “machine” that creates trainees improvement proposals
• A report data base

In three sectors:

1. continuing employee’s education
2. preliminary control of knowledge of candidates
3. certification of knowledge skills of the employees
   

eFront ‘s new reselling agreements in India, Egypt and Denmark

Epignosis, spin-off company of the V.Trip Group has achieved new reselling agreements for eFront, an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system.

Our new partners are:

• DEEKSHA SYSTEMS PVT LTD, the only IT Company in India which focuses only and purely on education sector. DEEKSHA SYSTEMS PVT LTD was founded 4 years ago and is backed by the Technology Innovation Center of UNIKEN INC (the parent company based out of Tampa, USA) where the technology components are developed – it has some of the leading figures on its Advisory Board who have more than 30 years of experience in technology industry.

• CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, a Middle East based company established in Egypt Since 1987, offering turnkey IT solutions. Its purpose is to provide high quality end-to-end solutions and offer organizations of all sizes a trusted source for all their current and future communication requirements. CC has alliances and strategic partnerships with major software and hardware manufacturers. Utilizing the diversified recourses and know how, CC provides turnkey solutions in automation, Learning management systems, and multimedia broadcasting.

• OPTIMON, a Danish company who has collected a battery of open source digital service tools for the demanding organization. Optimon provides services as: e-learning development planning, courseware flash, scorm and video productions and various knowledge logistics solutions for mainly the Scandinavian Healthcare sector and other e-learning consumers.

eFront at "Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week" of Patras' Science Park

Patras' Science Park organizes a five-day Forum under the general title: «Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week» from 30th June to 4th July 2008. The Forum is organized around several thematic sessions oriented towards innovation, entrepreneurship, carrying innovative ideas and actions.

On behalf of Epignosis, spin-off company of the V.Trip Group, Mr. John Gialelis will present “Methodika” tomorrow,Tuesday 1st of July 2008 between 10:10 – 10:30 am.

The purpose of the Methodika project is the modelling of a distributed operational system in the form of entities, relations and activities. The project developed a standardised methodology which can convert IT enterprises to a virtual and distributed form combining a number of software tools that facilitate this transition. One of these tools is based on the eFront platform: an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system, which is suitable for both company and educational usage.

More specifically, Mr. Gialelis will present the case of eFront WiKi which integrates the following tools: Project Content Management System (CMS), Project Content Management Administration System, Project Management System, Timesheet Planner.

TechWorld and Open Source Living about eFront

eFront, Epignosis' e-learning and human capital development system, was presented at Open Source Living , as “an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system. It is suitable for both company and educational usage.” Open Source Living is “a community-driven dynamic archive of Open Source software spanning all major platforms”. Read more here.

Moreover, eFront was suggested as one of the best 10 open-source e-learning projects at Techworld. One of the top technological sites commented on eFront:

"As corporate and government organizations embrace the Web for delivering more education and training programs, a wealth of free and open source e-learning applications will help lower the barrier to entry.

eFront claims to be an easy to use e-learning and "human capital development" system, making it suitable for both company and educational usage.

The flagship product of Epignosis, an e-learning company based in Greece, eFront enables "community learning" and supports the principles of "collective knowledge". Organizations using eFront include the Greek Ministry of Public Order, and the Polish Ministry of Interior.

Version 3.5 is in beta and claims improved stability and speed, extended courses management, a new Ajax-based file manager and functionality, and core functions have been rewritten to take advantage of the object oriented features of PHP 5. Also new is a PayPal payment module and the ability to install eFront without any Web server or "Document root setup hassle".



You can download here the open-source eFront v3.5.0beta3.