Excellence Awards
Excellence Awards

2011 Social Learning Technology Award Winner – TOPYX®

by Rachel Ashkin on February 21, 2012

Contributed by Jeffrey Roth, Vice President, Marketing and Communications for Interactyx Limited

Interactyx Limited, a leader in providing social learning management system (LMS) software, won the Brandon Hall bronze award for excellence in the social learning technology category for TOPYX®.

TOPYX is the easy-to-use, fully hosted eLearning software solution that has infused social learning tools into the traditional LMS to create an engaging and collaborative environment for learners.  Due to the award-winning features, unlimited users, unlimited bandwidth/storage, multi-language capabilities, and free implementation, TOPYX is regarded as an ideal solution for businesses, associations, academic departments and eCommerce needs of any size.

Interactyx Limited offers a free, personal demonstration of TOPYX by completing the form at http://interactyx.com/request-a-demo/ or contacting information@interactyx.com directly.

Said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group, “2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology. This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results.  Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes.  I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet.”

A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership.

About Brandon Hall Group
Having worked with more than 10,000 clients globally and after 20 years of delivering world-class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research-driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations.  Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing Impact, and Executive Management. (www.brandonhall.com)

About Interactyx Limited
Interactyx Limited is a global eLearning software company providing engaging and interactive learning experiences to learners, businesses, academic departments, associations and nonprofit organizations of any size.

Since 1995, Interactyx has worked with educational programs to develop engaging learning solutions. Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX, is at the forefront of developing eLearning and social LMS solutions that engage learners and enhance collaborative learning environments. TOPYX has gained acceptance as an innovative, affordable solution to deliver a complete eLearning software solution meeting the needs of today’s learner that is the best value in social learning software. (www.interactyx.com)

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Jobscience Takes Gold in Talent Acquisition for 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards

by Rachel Ashkin on February 17, 2012

Contributed by: Erin Jacobs, VP-Marketing, Jobscience  

It’s award season, and not just for Hollywood. Jobscience is taking home the gold. This morning we announced we won the coveted Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence in the Talent Acquisition Technology category.

Social networking is a game-changer for recruiting and will continue to impact the way entire organizations are built. Companies that leverage the social connections of their employees will be the market leaders of the future because of their ability to attract skilled talent while they are passively searching for jobs and engage them before the competition. At Jobscience we approach talent acquisition like customer acquisition and turn recruiting into a marketing exercises. We’re helping our customers create ‘employment brands’ and tap into the leading social networks as well as their internal connections – to create talent pools. These talent pools empower you to quickly access and acquire the top talent in the market.

The Jobscience Recruiting application, built on Force.com, leverages customer relationship management (CRM) concepts, workflows, and best practices, which enable companies to gain, retain and grow employees through the full TRM lifecycle for talent optimization. Whether a company is sourcing talent for future growth plans, actively filling open positions, or managing rehires, the CRM approach of creating and managing a pipeline of talent in a searchable and active database is the key to a closed-loop talent strategy that creates a 360 degree view of the employee lifecycle.

“2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group. “This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results. Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes. I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet.”

A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership. We are honored to receive this award.

Great work Jobscientists!

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KnowledgePoint Wins Brandon Hall Bronze Award For Excellence in Technology

by Rachel Ashkin on February 16, 2012

Contributed by Shaliya Khan, Senior Manager – Global Marketing & Sales, ClearPoint

Hoboken, NJ – ClearPoint, a global authority in interactive health education, won a coveted Brandon Hall Bronze Award for excellence in technology in the sales and marketing category. ClearPoint’s win was announced on January 25, 2012. The winners are listed at http://www.brandon-hall.com/.

ClearPoint took bronze for KnowledgePoint as the Best Advance in Sales Training Software Platform. A unique social-learning platform for life sciences companies, KnowledgePoint offers both formal and informal learning features. Among the features that set KnowledgePoint apart are SCORM compliance; one-click launch of learning assets; highly configurable feature set and interface, including the ability to privately brand; the ability to share documents through the asset management system; and user-generated content, profile information and status updates.

According to ClearPoint CEO Philip McCrea, “We developed KnowledgePoint in order to change the learning dynamic and keep pace with the sea change in how commercial teams in life sciences now need to learn in order to boost their sales performance. This award validates our team’s creative thinking, laser-sharp focus on clients’ needs, and superior execution.”

Architected to give life sciences organizations a high degree of flexibility, KnowledgePoint offers a built-in Learning Management System (LMS) or the portal can be integrated with an organization’s existing LMS.  Replete with robust reporting and dashboard capabilities for training administrators as well as learners, KnowledgePoint makes tracking and analyzing learners’ progress simple and insightful.

KnowledgePoint’s measurable benefits as a training platform have included a 22% savings in training costs as part of new-hire training, 7% increase in proficiency over traditional web-based assessments, and significant speed in deployment with the portal going from conception to pilot to production in less than 30 days. Further, KnowledgePoint’s mobile capabilities also reduce representatives’ time off-territory in formal training settings, thereby enabling sales teams to spend more time in the field with customers and prospects.

Said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group, “2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology. This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results.  Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes.  I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet.”

A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership.

As Dave Phillips, ClearPoint’s Director of Technology explains, “Winning a Brandon Hall Award—an honor  to which we’ve aspired since KnowledgePoint was still in the idea phase—in the same month that we have launched its mobile companion, is a technology team’s dream come true.” Phillips added, “We constantly strive to change, improve and, ultimately, innovate… and this industry recognition pushes us to develop more solutions that enhance the critical learning needs of our life sciences clients.”  

More information on KnowledgePoint available at: http://knowledgepoint.clearpointlearning.com

About ClearPoint:

ClearPoint, a global authority in interactive health education, provides learning solutions to the world’s leading life sciences companies.  With more than 1,000 successful implementations in ten years, the company creates on-demand, multi-channel tools to enable sales, marketing, and compliance professionals to grow their brands, increase clinical competencies, comply with regulations, and enhance relationships with health care providers.

The global ClearPoint team of 175 employees has its headquarters in Hoboken, N.J. and operates from offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. For more information about ClearPoint, please visit: www.clearpointlearning.com/.

About Brandon Hall Group
Having worked with more than 10,000 clients globally and after 20 years of delivering world-class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research-driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations.  Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing Impact, and Executive Management. (http://www.brandonhall.com/)

 

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Knoodle Wins Two Awards for the 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards

by Rachel Ashkin on February 13, 2012

Contributed: Tony Yang, Director of Marketing, Knoodle

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2012, PRNewswire

Knoodle, the leading provider for enterprise social learning solutions, announced that it has been awarded two coveted Brandon Hall awards for product excellence.  Knoodle was honored with Gold in the Content Authoring and/or Content Management Technology category, and also Bronze in the Sales Training Software Platform category.

“We are thrilled to be recognized by the industry experts at The Brandon Hall Group with these two awards, and to be only one of four companies to win in more than one category,” said Michael Rose, General Manager, Knoodle.  “More importantly, these awards are a testament to how we make it incredibly easy for companies to quickly get their content ‘up and running’ and distributed in a variety of ways.”

Knoodle helps businesses extend the value of content already at hand to meet a wide range of goals – from corporate communications and product demos, to online training and certification programs, to interactive social learning communities.  Instead of requiring proprietary or complex authoring and publishing tools, Knoodle makes it easy to combine slides, video, audio and images into engaging online presentations that can be quickly shared throughout the organization and with the external ecosystem of customers and partners.  Businesses also benefit with Knoodle’s testing capabilities and real-time analytics to help track engagement, learning retention, and training effectiveness.  Organizations all over the world use Knoodle, including Black and Decker, The Buffalo Bills, University of California at San Diego, and Easter Seals.

“2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology. This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group.  “Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes.  I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet.”

A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership.

About Knoodle
Knoodle is the enterprise social learning company. By making it easy to capture and share real-time and rapidly evolving knowledge both within the organization and throughout the broader external ecosystem, Knoodle helps businesses solve one of the most critical elements of execution – connecting the people with the right knowledge to succeed to those who need it, wherever and whenever that need arises.  Knoodle delivers its solutions through the cloud, so there is no software to install and manage, deployment occurs in minutes not months, and is accessible anywhere and on any device.

Knoodle is an SK Telecom Americas portfolio company. SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) is South Korea’s largest telecommunications company.

For more information, visit http://www.knoodle.com/.

About Brandon Hall Group
Having worked with more than 10,000 clients globally and after 20 years of delivering world-class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research-driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations.  Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing Impact, and Executive Management. (http://www.brandonhall.com/)

Media Contact:

Tony Yang
408-328-2909
tony@knoodle.com

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Brainshark Wins Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award in Recognition of Superior Mobile Learning Solutions

by Rachel Ashkin on February 13, 2012

Contributed by: Business Wire

Honored in “Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology” Category, Brainshark Makes it Easy to Create and Deliver Interactive Video Content That’s Accessible on all Major Mobile Devices

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile video presentations, today announced that it has received a Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award. Brainshark was honored in the “Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology” category, in recognition of its powerful and easy-to-use mobile learning (mLearning) solutions.

Now in its 18th year, the awards program is hosted by Brandon Hall Group, a leading analyst firm focused on learning, talent management and business research. A panel of independent senior judges, along with Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executive leadership, evaluated submissions on their breakthrough innovation, unique differentiators, value proposition and measurable results. According to Brandon Hall Group, winners represent the “best-of-the-best” across learning, talent management, and sales and marketing categories.

“Throughout the last year, technology providers and their clients have tapped into the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies – with proven, validated results,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group. “We’re pleased to honor Brainshark among the winners in our annual awards program, recognizing its ease of use, market penetration and results in the field of mLearning.”

Brainshark’s cloud-based software enables anyone, regardless of technical expertise, to create high-impact, interactive mLearning content that’s accessible anytime, anywhere – on nearly every smartphone and tablet. It’s easy for users to add their voice – along with video clips, survey and test questions, attachments and more – to PowerPoint decks and other documents, and create online and mobile video presentations and courses. Users can share this content in multiple ways – including through mobile content portals, email links, learning management systems (LMSes) and Brainshark’s free iOS and Android apps – and track learning participation, completion and content effectiveness.

It’s easy for learners to access and interact with Brainshark content too, regardless of the smartphone or tablet model they’re using. Behind the scenes, Brainshark automatically detects the type of mobile device accessing content and serves up the optimal file format.

“Given today’s global and mobile workforce, it’s important for companies to be able to reach their learners in a convenient, accessible manner,” said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. “At Brainshark, we’re committed to making this process easy – enabling organizations to rapidly create mLearning content and deliver it in the ways their learners want to access it. We’re honored to be recognized by Brandon Hall Group for our mobile learning solutions.”

About Brandon Hall Group

With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is the most well-known and established research organization in the performance improvement industry. We conduct research that drives performance, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership research and expertise in our primary research portfolios – Talent Management, Learning and Development, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing, and Executive Management. At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Our members have access to research and connections that help them make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services tailored to help put the research into daily action. (http://www.brandonhall.com/).

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based software for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations. With Brainshark, businesspeople can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand. Customers can also obtain extensive viewing details, enabling them to measure the effectiveness of their content and follow up accordingly. Thousands of companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. For more information, visit www.brainshark.com .

 Contacts

Brainshark, Inc.
Joan Babinski, 781-370-8001
jbabinski@brainshark.com
www.brainshark.com
or
Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
Kelly Elverson, 781-418-2419
brainshark@daviesmurphy.com
www.daviesmurphy.com

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ANCILE Wins Bronze Brandon Hall Award

February 9, 2012

Contributor: Marianna Noll, Director of Marketing and Communications, ANCILE Solutions, Inc. ANCILE uPerform™ recognized for ability to keep organizations’ learning content fresh Elkridge, MD (PRWEB) February 8, 2012 — ANCILE Solutions, Inc., a global company that develops learning and performance software products, won a coveted Brandon Hall Bronze award for excellence in the Best Advance [...]

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SHL Talent Analytics Wins Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award

February 8, 2012

Contributed to by: SHL Now Available: Industry-First Solution Capable of Providing Data-Driven Insights to Benchmark The Caliber of Your Workforce Against the Competition Atlanta, GA – February 8, 2012 – SHL, the global leader in talent measurement solutions, today announced that SHL Talent Analytics™, its newest offering, has won silver in the coveted 2011 Brandon [...]

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Tying Learning Analytics to Business Success Metrics and ROI

February 1, 2012

By Ron Zamir, CEO of Allen Communication Learning Services In a July post on this blog, Rachel Ashkin wrote, “It is critical that organizations can identify and demonstrate measurable results for their investments and efforts.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. A state-of-the-art ERP or other system is only beneficial to a company if [...]

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What are companies doing today to move away from traditional training?

December 5, 2011

I’m very fortunate to have the opportunity to review so many great programs that companies have implemented within their organization, and have submitted to Brandon Hall Excellence Awards Program. We have 25 categories not including our Excellence in Technology Awards. I will be sharing some thoughts weekly on these incredible programs to offer our viewers [...]

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Congrats to the Winners – 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards

November 16, 2011

Brandon Hall Group Announces Winners of Annual Excellence Awards   The 2011 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards recognize the best of the best in Learning, Talent Management, and Sales and Marketing.   Brandon Hall Group, the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing learning, talent management and business research to help drive organizational performance, [...]

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