Leading IT training company, PPI Learning

Services, announces partnership with

LearningGuide Solutions and launches

AthenaAssistTM

PPI Learning Services | London | 19 April 2007

PPI Learning Services is engaging in partnerships with several prominent learning providers to widen its portfolio of services and is today announcing the launch of AthenaAssistTM, a performance support system, based on LearningGuide™ technologies and methods. AthenaAssistTM is being introduced to PPI Learning Services' strategic clients to deliver a new breed of highly effective, custom designed training rollouts.

"Our customers are seeking new and better ways to train and support their staff as new systems and processes are introduced within their organisations. AthenaAssistTM, based on LearningGuide™, enables employees to get the information they need when they need it and it is the perfect tool to increase efficiency and reduce costs associated with running a helpdesk or support service" says Dr Marie-Paule Donsimoni-Bupp, Chairman and CEO of PPI Learning Services. "We will maintain our leadership position in the traditional IT professional and end-user training sectors and at the same time expand our offerings to include new learning services."

LearningGuide Solutions is one of the pioneers of the in-process learning and performance support market. Its systems are used for supporting an array of business processes, compliance programmes, desktop and enterprise applications, organisational policies, procedures and workflows. AthenaAssistTM can also be deployed with off-the-shelf learning content, for example the Microsoft Office suite, Visio or Documentum, which in turn may be customised to suit company-specific uses using AthenaAssistTM s authoring environment.
AthenaAssistTM is designed to be especially effective within software migration projects, where learning is provided 'at-the-moment-need' and without users delaying work to take formal training.

"The recent appointment of Joe White and Bob Mosher, two well-known learning-industry professionals in the UK and the US to the Board of LearningGuide Solutions is a strong signal of the company's intent and future growth plans and was instrumental in our decision to base AthenaAssistTM on LearningGuide™," added Dr. Donsimoni-Bupp.

"We are delighted to have PPI Learning Services as part of our UK network. The company has a high-quality service philosophy and is relied upon by its clients for offering effective learning solutions. These are the values that we look for when appointing new partners and we very much look forward to working with the PPI Learning Services team under the leadership of Roy Sunley, their new Managing Director" said Joe White, Managing Director, LearningGuide Solutions UK.