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Comprehensive, Multi-Purpose Solutions Enable Easy Expansion from Individual or Department Implementation to Campus or System-Wide Deployment

Pleasanton, California — December 15, 2009

News Facts:

• Elluminate, Inc., the leading provider ofweb, audio, video, and social networking productsdesigned for teaching, learning, and collaboration, today announced that a growing number of higher education institutions and systems are implementing multi-purpose Elluminate solutions enterprise-wide to support both academic and business objectives.  These include expanding reach and access, reducing costs, facilitating technology adoption, leveraging limited resources, maintaining competitive advantage, and creating a culture of collaboration.
• System-wide implementations of Elluminate solutions include California Polytechnic State University, California State University in Sacramento, CCC Confer (California Community Colleges), Chattanooga State University, Curtin University of Technology, Empire State College, Laval University, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Portland State University, San Jose State University, State Fair Community College, Université Laval, University of Alaska, University of Iowa, and University of Wyoming.
• Elluminate offers a broad range of products that enable colleges and universities to start with entry-level, single-room configurations ofElluminate vSpaces™for individual educator, administrator, or departmental solutions.  Then as adoption grows, they can upgrade easily toElluminate Learning Suite™to expand deployment across campus or throughout the academic enterprise. 
• Elluminate’s flexibility multi-purpose solutions and technical scalability allows institutions to cost-effectively facilitate adoption and confidently standardize on a single collaboration application.  This results in maximized operational and support efficiencies, economies of scale, and ROI. 
• Elluminate Bridgesenable academic technologists to easily integrate with multiple existing learning and content management systems to provide single-click access to virtual meeting rooms, classrooms, and auditoriums, as well as archived recordings.  This tight integration with enterprise applications simplifies end-user access and drives more application adoption and use, accelerating time to value and improving focus on core academic objectives.
• Academic institutions can also add a social learning component withLearnCentral Private Community, which provides a customized private or hybrid social learning environment that combines social networking with real-time collaboration. An entry-level, custom-branded portal is also available.
• In addition,Elluminate VCS™enables academia to leverage existing legacy videoconferencing infrastructure with affordable, high-quality video collaboration from the desktop to reach more participants.
• Benefits of Elluminate solutions for higher education institutions include:
  • Increased revenue with expanded enrollment and support for online, blended, and mobile learning
  • Multi-platform support and easy scalability to 1000s of users
  • Interoperability with existing enterprise applications and infrastructure
  • Shared service for real-time meetings, classes, events, and professional development
  • Convenient, secure SaaS with 99.9% QoS for low-cost administration and high availability
  • Learning and business continuity during pandemics and other disasters
  • Immediate, quantifiable ROI from reduced travel and facility costs
  • Single point of support for widely-deployed web, video, and social learning applications

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