Plateau and Cognitive Arts Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver e-Learning Solution to Enterprise Clients

ARLINGTON, VA and EVANSTON, ILL -- May 16, 2002 -- Plateau Systems, a provider of enterprise software that manages all of an organization's learning and knowledge, and Cognitive Arts, a leading designer and developer of blended e-learning solutions for the corporate, academic and government communities, today announced a strategic alliance to provide comprehensive, turnkey e-learning solutions to enterprise clients.

Cognitive Arts and Plateau will jointly market their custom content and learning management solution to Global 2000 customers. Additionally, Cognitive Arts will use the Plateau LMS internally as part of its deployment services, for customers who require a standards-based learning management system with the highest level of user support. The alliance will offer the market an unprecedented level of quality in content design and development - and a learning management system built on industry-leading J2EE/EJB architecture - in one end-to-end solution.

As the platform and product aspects of our industry evolve and choices get increasingly sophisticated, our customers look to us for guidance on making the right choice when it comes to deployment platforms, said Bob Daugherty, President and CEO of Cognitive Arts. Plateau's enterprise solution has withstood the battle tests of time and continues to improve its own offering to the market. Our unique partnership - Cognitive Arts providing best-in-class content design and development of e-learning coupled with Plateau's best-in-class LMS allows us to meet the needs of our clients with a turnkey solution.

Cognitive Arts has an outstanding reputation and a blue-chip client list, and we are proud to work with them in delivering an end-to-end learning solution, said Brad Cooper, Plateau's Senior Vice President of Product Strategy. As part of this alliance, Plateau LMS will be the software infrastructure for many Cognitive Arts customers, and Plateau customers will be able to seamlessly deploy and manage courses from Cognitive Arts on the Plateau LMS.

About Cognitive Arts: Cognitive Arts is the leading designer and developer of learn-by-doing blended learning solutions for the corporate, academic and government markets. Its curricula have been used by thousands of learners and Fortune 500 employees around the world. Clients include: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., JP Morgan Chase, Harvard Business School Publishing, KeyCorp, Liberty Mutual, ExxonMobil, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

With 100 employees and offices in Evanston, IL, New York, Tokyo and London, Cognitive Arts optimizes technology to engage the learner completely in the learning environment where individuals learn within the context of real world job scenarios, learn-by-doing, fail safely, and gain immediate access to just-in-time coaching and expert stories. With more than a dozen years of experience and 250 projects successfully implemented, Cognitive Arts has led the industry in the scientific understanding of how people learn, remember and reason and is considered visionary in the field of e-learning. For more information visit www.cognitivearts.com.

About Plateau: Plateau's enterprise-class software manages all of an organization's learning and knowledge on one scalable platform. Plateau 4 Learning Management System (LMS) is built on Web-based J2EE/EJB architecture, and is the engine behind the largest e-Learning initiatives in the corporate, non-profit and government markets. Plateau 4 LMS automates the management and delivery of online and classroom learning, organizational knowledge and competencies for clients including the American Red Cross, Motorola, Union Pacific and the U.S. Air Force. Plateau is listed as a leader in LMS evaluations from Gartner Inc. and META Group. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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