WBT takes top honour at HR Tech Awards

Dateline: 17 August 2004

BT Systems, a global leader in enterprise e-Learning solutions, has been awarded first place at the prestigious HR Technology Excellence Awards in the e-learning/Learning Management Systems (LMS) category. The awards, which honour best of breed technology for the HR industry, were handed out at a ceremony held at HRTech in San Francisco. Over seventy organisations from all over the world applied across five categories. This year’s winners include PeopleSoft, LexisNexis and Unicru. Previous winners include Eli Lilly, Qualcomm and Agilent Technologies. This is the second major award for WBT Systems this year. In April, the company won the “ICT Company of the Year” Award.

The company offers a suite of integrated solutions to enable the “Intelligent Enterprise” based on its TopClass e-Learning Suite. This powerful web-based platform facilitates the realization of key goals in regulated industries such as corporate compliance, sales effectiveness and organisational transformation while dramatically reducing training costs. It facilitates easy conversion of existing knowledge, rapid deployment for web delivery, and manages your knowledge and learning assets in line with organizational goals. TopClass is used by over two million users in 600 organizations worldwide including Credit Suisse, Dow Chemical and Diageo.

A panel of HR expert advisors and judges gave TopClass the highest overall score for:

Adherence to accepted technology standards
Creativity and originality
Measurable productivity gains from usage
ROI achieved by end users
Productivity Improvement
"This is a fantastic endorsement of WBT Systems and TopClass. It reflects our continued investment to ensure our solutions remain at the forefront of best practice in delivering Learning Management solutions” said Declan Kelly, CEO WBT Systems. “We are particularly pleased that this award recognises the real business benefits that TopClass brings to organizations in terms of productivity gains and cost reduction” he added.