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46,000 members now have access to online learning and payment

Dublin, Ireland - November 11th, 2003 - WBT Systems, a global leader in Enterprise e-Learning solutions, today announced that AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association, has selected TopClass as their e-Learning solution to centrally manage their learners' training needs. To ensure that its members meet professional standards of excellence, AHIMA issues credentials in health information management and following their initial certification, AHIMA members must continually be recertified.

AHIMA’s first attempt to manage learners was a simple system developed and supported by a local provider, which AHIMA quickly outgrew and made a decision to invest in an e-Learning platform solution that would enable them to centrally manage their learners’ training needs. An important requirement was the ability to convert content quickly into learning objects, as they worked with many external content providers. In addition to TopClass LCMS, AHIMA also utilizes TopClass to process credit card, check and purchase order payments from their membership. This offers a secure payment system integrated with a choice of backend credit card payment and verification systems.

“My main advice to anyone who has made a decision to adopt an enterprise-wide e-Learning solution is to develop a well-structured approach to selecting and implementing the technology which would enable them to choose the one that best fits their needs," said Lana Vukovljak, MA, MS, Director of Continuing Education and Training, AHIMA. "By investing in TopClass we are able to centrally manage all our learner needs. This saves us time and cost and, most importantly, gives the best service to our students.”

"We have seen this situation with other customers, where they have purchased a lightweight LMS and realise very quickly that it does not scale with the business," said Declan Kelly, CEO WBT Systems. "People are realising that without a platform solution, there is no central tracking, certification or reporting. We can take the data and content from the existing lightweight systems and convert them very quickly and easily over to TopClass. The transition is seamless, and leaves the customer with a truly scalable e-Learning solution that can grow with the business."

About The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is the dynamic professional association that represents more than 46,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry. Health information management professionals serve the healthcare industry and the public by managing, analysing, and utilising data vital for patient care - and making it accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed most. For more information, see www.ahima.org.

About WBT Systems

WBT Systems is one of the leading providers of Enterprise e-Learning Solutions in the world. WBT Systems' TopClass e-Learning Suite™ enables the rapid creation, deployment, and management of knowledge delivery across the enterprise. It is a robust, easily deployed, web-based Learning platform with over two million users worldwide. Our implementation experience spans a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, and pharmaceuticals, across blue chip companies such as Alexander Forbes, Allergan, Basler Insurance, Belgacom, Credit Suisse, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Diageo, Dow Chemical, Eurocontrol, Liberty Group, University of Chicago Hospitals, U.S. Department of Defense and Volvo CE.

Established in 1995, WBT Systems is the leading European owned e-Learning platform vendor in the world. With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, WBT Systems has offices in North America based in Waltham, MA and in the UK (London) and Germany (Düsseldorf). For more information, see www.wbtsystems.com.

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