Delray Beach, Florida – February 29, 2012

Brandon Hall Group, the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing learning, talent management and business research to help drive organizational performance, today announced the kickoff of the 2012 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards.

The 2012 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards includes 38 categories in three program areas:

• The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards, featuring 18 categories
• The Brandon Hall Excellence in Talent Management Awards, featuring 15 categories
• The Brandon Hall Excellence in Sales & Marketing Awards, featuring 15 categories

“Our awards program is comparable to winning an Oscar in our industry,” said Rachel Ashkin, COO of Brandon Hall Group. “Our award winners tend to be the most recognizable and successful organizations in the world based on the results we see from their award entries.”

Mike Cooke, Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group, commented: “Entering its 18th year, our Awards Program has been the most prestigious award an organization can receive. We are proud of our heritage and look forward to the award entries this year.”

The deadline for submitting entries to the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards is April 27th, 2012.

For more information about the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards, including the online entry form, visit: Brandon Hall Excellence Awards.

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.

For additional information please contact Mike Cooke: (561) 865-5017 or mike.cooke@brandonhall.com, Brandon Hall Group.

Now entering its 18th year, the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards Program is the most prestigious awards program in the industry.  Often times called the “Academy Awards” by Learning, Talent and Business Executives, the program was one of the first of its kind in the learning industry, which was pioneered in 1994.

In the last several years we have expanded to include additional categories that cover functional areas that are responsible for driving performance within an organization.  We recognize the best companies that have successfully developed and deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that have helped companies achieve measurable results.

We are honored to receive applications from organizations around the world ranging from small, medium, large, and global enterprises, government, not-for-profit, and associations.

There are sixty-five categories across four program areas. To view topics within each, select the program area listed below for the full list of categories, a description of each category, and a link to the application for each.

We are currently accepting applications for categories within Learning, Talent Management, and Sales and Marketing. Entry deadline: April 27th, 2012.

Excellence in Learning 

Excellence in Talent Management 

Excellence in Sales and Marketing  

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2011 Winners: Learning | Talent Management | Sales and Marketing

Contributed by: Courtney L. Brooks, Corporate Communications Coordinator, Cengage Learning

Clifton Park, NY, February 23, 2012 – NetLearning, part of Cengage Learning and a leading provider of online courses and e-learning software for healthcare workers and hospital administrators, today announced that the NetLearning Learning Management System (LMS) has been presented with a Silver Award by Brandon Hall for Technology Excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology category.

Over 600 facilities nationwide are able to efficiently manage the educational requirements of their staff using the NetLearning LMS. Striving to provide its customers with maximum flexibility, the NetLearning LMS is fully customizable and can be tailored specifically to each facility’s internal branding and requirements.  While the NetLearning LMS continues to boast a fully web-based Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model, pre-assessment by course and curriculum and a customizable portal-based end user interface, the LMS also boasts additional breakthrough features, including:

NetManagerPlus – delegates administrative privileges to the department level making front-line and mid-level managers more efficient while administrators retain overall control. CourseManagerPlus – designed to streamline managing a healthcare institution’s course licenses. This tool provides reporting on course licenses and expirations, usage and enrollments for all courseware used through NetLearning.

• e-Commerce – online storefront for computer-based learning courses. Allows learners to browse course titles and descriptions, make online purchases and access those purchased courses within the NetLearning LMS.

“We are honored to be recognized by Brandon Hall with this Silver Award for Best Advance in Learning Management Technology,” said Will Passano, vice president, NetLearning. “This award is a reflection of our ongoing commitment to providing the healthcare community with products that increase the ease and efficacy of staff training. With extensive customer input, we were able to design an LMS that continues to evolve with the needs of our customers and with the ever-changing healthcare industry. When facilities are able to train their staff efficiently the end result is better, more thorough patient care.”

Said Mike Cooke, chief executive officer, 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.”

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm 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. A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership.

For more information on NetLearning and the award-winning NetLearning LMS, please visit www.netlearning.cengage.com or www.cengage.com.

About NetLearning and Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. NetLearning, part of Cengage Learning, is an elearning solutions provider developing products specifically for the healthcare industry since 1995. The

NetLearning product suite allows for the deployment, management, and reporting of training-related activities. For more information about NetLearning, please visit www.netlearning.cengage.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. (www.brandonhall.com)

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!

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/)

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

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 in Content Authoring and/or Content Management Technology category. The winners are listed at http://www.brandon-hall.com/.

Organizations face a major challenge in keeping their learning content current after project or event completion. The award recognized three ANCILE uPerform™ features designed to ensure that learning content reflects current business systems and processes:

• Content retention periods to trigger notifications to authors to review and update content.
• Change notifications to inform authors when transactions or screens change in the documented application.
• Extended collaboration functionality from anywhere in the ANCILE uPerform™ learning portal to allow end users to submit tribal knowledge and sustain learning content.

“It’s very gratifying for ANCILE to be recognized with our sixth Brandon Hall award,” said Frank Lonergan, CEO of ANCILE. “Organizations need to be able to count on content freshness to retain employee confidence in the learning content, support new hires, and address compliance requirements. Our 2011 award confirms the ability of ANCILE uPerform to meet these business needs.”

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. 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 ANCILE Solutions, Inc.

ANCILE Solutions, Inc. is a global software solutions company specializing in the development and support of learning and performance products. ANCILE products support mission-critical business applications by providing solutions that increase employee productivity and proficiency. ANCILE products are used across all industries and in thousands of organizations globally, including half of the Fortune 100. ANCILE develops, sells, supports, and services ANCILE uPerform™, ANCILE uPerform™ Express, ANCILE uLearn™, ANCILE uBenchmark™, and ANCILE Info Pak™. ANCILE is headquartered in Elkridge, Maryland. For additional information, please visit http://www.ancile.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. (www.brandonhall.com)

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 Hall Excellence in Technology Awards in the Workforce Analytics Planning and Technology category. First announced at the HR Technology Conference with overwhelming interest this past September, SHL Talent Analytics is now available as part of SHL’s comprehensive suite of talent measurement tools. In order to make critical business decisions more confidently, SHL Talent Analytics provides scientific, data-driven insight to help companies better understand and measure employee effectiveness. A distinguished panel of independent, industry veteran judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s expert analysts.

 As an increasing number of companies compete for the best and brightest talent in a highly competitive landscape, many are finding that the key to success lies in their talent – often their greatest asset. At the same time, struggles against factors such as unsettled economic conditions, market volatility, employee retention, and rising operational costs have made talent decisions more difficult, and more critical than ever.  “SHL Talent Analytics was created to show how the skills, capabilities, future potential, and overall impact of an organization’s workforce compares with the very best in their industry or region,” explained SHL CEO David Leigh. “This has quickly proven to be invaluable insight, especially to companies who rely on human capital above all else.”

 SHL Talent Analytics is built on the world’s largest database of People Intelligence spanning 30 countries, 37 industry sectors and 31 business functions, and comprised of over 80 million data points to date. This database is set to grow with additional input from more than 25 million assessments per year, globally. Recently dubbed the “next evolution of talent assessment” by The Aberdeen Group (October, 2011 Market Alert), SHL Talent Analytics offers companies of all sizes and industries direct access to this unmatched data. Whereas traditional measurement solutions focus solely on efficiency, SHL Talent Analytics measures effectiveness, or the potential of your workforce to actually achieve organizational objectives. Its robust, user-friendly database segmented by geography, industry, business function, and job level enables companies to drill even deeper into their workforce profiles to more effectively benchmark talent potential and performance against comparable companies. As a result, a large number of global brands have already begun leveraging SHL Talent Analytics’ insight to realize positive business results in industries as varied as telecommunications, retail, transportation, and financial services.

 “We’re very pleased that Brandon Hall has recognized SHL with this award, as part of their program to acknowledge true innovations in talent measurement and management,” Leigh commented. “With SHL Talent Analytics, companies not only gain access to a wealth of desirable data points, but also get the tools to use that data to their advantage. Ultimately, we are delivering better people intelligence, for better business decisions.”

 ”This year’s finalists provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology. 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 operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group. “SHL is the clear leader in talent assessments and I am proud to announce that their latest innovation, SHL Talent Analytics, is one of the most compelling offerings in talent measurement and has the potential to take the human capital management space to a new level.  Congratulations to SHL on winning their award in the most competitive year yet.”

More information on SHL Talent Analytics can be found at http://www.shl.com/us/solutions/talent-analytics/. Information on the Brandon Hall Award Winners can be found by visiting http://www.brandon-hall.com/.

 About SHL – People intelligence. Business results.
SHL is the leader in talent measurement solutions, driving better business results for clients through superior people intelligence and decisions – from hiring and recruiting, to employee development and succession planning. With a presence in over 50 countries, SHL delivers more than 25 million assessments annually in over 30 languages – allowing over 10,000 business customers to benefit from both global expertise and local insight. Along with its world-class consulting practices and 24-hour support center, SHL clients can access over 1,000 assessments through an easy-to-use technology platform. Headquartered in London, UK, the company has offices in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia/New Zealand. For more information, visit http://www.shl.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. (www.brandonhall.com)