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BEST OF Learning Management System (SaaS, Open-Source, or Content Supplier) BEST OF Simulation Tool Category Winner: Zenler Online Z enler Online is a Learning Management System (LMS) in the cloud. With few clicks, you can publish your Zenler Courses online, manage, delivery and track trainee's progress. Afordable monthly subscription plans are available, with no setup fee. All online subscription plans get their own subdomain and are SSL-enabled for secure encrypted access. With Zenler Online, you manage courses created with Zenler Studio. Assign courses to trainees, track trainees and course details (granular details including score, time taken), and issue course certifcates. See a snapshot of your account. Efectively manage trainees using the available interface. Add trainees to diferent groups and send e-mails to them directly from Zenler Online. You can also create diferent group of users and track them efectively at a very granular level to see which page of the e-learning course they are at, their scores, timings and more. A simple upload feature allows you to import more trainees. And users can choose to resume the course from where they lef of or start viewing from the very beginning. Zenler Online is hosted securely on the Amazon Web Services Cloud computing platform, a cost-efective solution for storing information. Amazon Web Services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store 14 December 2012 / January 2013 Elearning! (Amazon EBS) are used to leverage the power of the Amazon cloud computing platform. Zenler Online also uses the power of Scalr.net's technology, which monitors resource consumption on all Zenler server nodes and launches, confgures and balances load to servers automatically — all based on variable demand. Scalr automatically scales the database by setting up replicated slaves (read servers) when the load increases. Te Amazon service enables Zenler to deliver content through a worldwide network of edge locations and automatically routes end-user requests to closest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. WHAT ZENLER SAYS: "We appreciate this honor, and we are very surprised," says Zenler's Tom Burton. "We've kind of had our nose to the grindstone, doing things the old-fashioned way. In 2010, we were looking for an LMS that would meet the criteria of 'simple, fast, easy and economical.' Our strategy is to be at a lower cost level for people just entering the feld or those without a lot of experience. People can become productive almost immediately with our product." KEY CUSTOMERS: >> Nova South Eastern University >> Dream Health >> Gradient Groups WHAT CUSTOMERS SAY: >> "Easily blends into PowerPoint Presentations to create intuitive and professional educational programs" >> "Provides e-learning authors an incredible tool in their own hands to easily create, publish, and update online training and learning interactions" >> "Only product with a zero learning curve" COMPANY HISTORY: Zenler is an innovative e-learning company from the house of DigitalOfcePro, which was founded in 2005. With 70,000 customers around the world, DigitalOffcePro (a Microsof and Intel partner) has been a leading global provider of powerful rapid communications, online-training solutions and high quality multimedia tools for more than a decade. Zenler focuses on providing innovative tools for creating and managing high-end interactive e-learning content with great ease. CONTACT INFORMATION: Zenler/DigitalOfcePro, Inc. 117 E. 57 St. New York, NY 10022 Phone: (800) 306-3208 or (646) 448-8686 Email: support@zenler.com or sales@ zenler.com AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE (SEE PAGES 21-22): >> Articulate Online >> BizLibrary CompanyCollege LMS >> Docebo Cloud >> ePath Learning ASAP >> Epignosis LTD eFront Enterprise LMS