1. SkillSoft Introduction
Jacqui Hobbins
Channel Account Manager
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2. SkillSoft Corporate Strengths
SkillSoft is the largest public company in the world with a sole focus on e-learning
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: SKIL)
Averaging over $40M in R&D investment over the past four years
Track record of execution
Asset ownership allows greater flexibility, speed and innovation
Industry leadership and support for standards
Hot News! Announced intention
to acquire NetG!
New Romanian Partner – SkillSMART!
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3. SkillSoft Global Customer Base
2,000 Customers
Over 6 million users
Global reach
Cross-industry appeal
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4. A Sampling of SkillSoft Customers
Aerospace & Defense Northrop Grumman
Automotive Honda Toyota Hyundai
Consulting & Business Services Accenture ADP Aegis BearingPoint Booz Allen Hamilton Ceridian Deloitte IKON Experion SAIC Unisys
Consumer Products Castrol/BP Lubricants Del Monte Foods Dunkin Brands
Electronic Components Flextronics Solectron
Energy Shell
Financial Services AXA Financial ING Mellon Financial PNC
Government & Education US Air Force US Army Australian Government University of Iowa
Healthcare Christiana Care CIGNA Health Partners Humana McKesson Saint Barnabas WellPoint
Manufacturing Fluor Gilbane Hercules Koch Industries PBR
Media Yahoo! Reuters Young & Rubicam
Pharmaceuticals Merck
Staffing K-Force Manpower Robert Half Administaff
Tech CGI CSC Getronics IBM NCR
Telecommunications Avaya Equant Marconi TELUS
This slide can be substituted for the previous slide. These are just the customers who have given permission to be used as references…
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5. EMEA Client Partnerships
FINANCIAL IT
MANUFACTURING
PETROLEUM/
UTILITIES
PHARMACEUTICAL
GOVERNMENT
DCSA
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6. SkillSoft Solutions

7. How Business Professionals Naturally Learn On-the-Job
Informal Learning - 70% of workplace learning*
Formal Learning
Consult Reference Material
The Internet
Knowledge bases
Books, manuals & Reports
Ask Others
Experts & mentors
Managers & coaches
Peers
Practice & Use
Practice new skills on-the-job
Learning from experience
Refine skills over time
Formal Learning
Directed, goal oriented
To pursue certification, credential or degree
To learn a major new skill set
For career enhancement
Informal learning represents 70% of workplace learning. This slide shows what we mean by informal learning. Emphasize that we have developed a number of resources that are designed to support the natural behavior of employees as the look for answers and learn on the job. Also emphasize that formal learning continues to play an important role.
SkillSoft Resources and Technologies
Books24x7® Referenceware®
Search-and-Learn™
24x7 Online Mentoring
SkillSoft ® Dialogue™
SkillSims & RolePlays
Blended Learning Toolkits
TestPreps
Courseware Collections
Books24x7 Referenceware
SkillPort
*U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics
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8. SkillSoft Courseware Collections
Business Skills
700+ English titles
1,500+ Localised titles
Compliance
140+ English titles
100+ Localised Titles
IT Professional
1,400+ English Titles
620+ Localised Titles
Desktop/End User
200 English titles
570+ Localised Titles
Refreshed with new courses each year
300+ new U.S. English courses each year
200-to-300 new localised courses each year
100+ IT and business professional certifications supported
Online live mentoring 24x7 in certification topics
With our heritage as a courseware provider, SkillSoft has established the leading courseware offering with the broadest and most current range of subjects, along with an array of supporting resources that complement our courseware.
SkillSoft offers more than 2,400 current English courses and supporting resources, divided into six collections: Business Skills, IT Professional, Desktop/End User Skills, Environmental Safety & Health, Legal Compliance and Financial Services Industry.
Additionally, SkillSoft has localized our courseware into a wide range of languages, taking care to localize the content to reflect relevant differences in business cultures. To date, our localized courseware library offers more than 3,100 current titles in 18 languages.
SkillSoft introduces an industry-leading number of new courses each year. We create these courses in response to the priorities we hear directly from our customers. Additionally, we review our active library quarterly, taking care to replace, update or remove content as it becomes outdated with new advances in technology or business.
**Live titles of 3/1/06
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9. SkillPort™ Learning Management Platform
Scalable, reliable, flexible & easy to implement
Strong management and reporting capabilities relevant to e-learning and blended learning
Search-and-Learn™ provides unified discovery/view/access of all e-learning assets on system
Low IT support requirements
Fast “speed-to-learning”
A platform proving value – utilized by over 1,200 companies!
A flexible, lightweight system that is tailored to e-learning and blended learning. A great value for price. Can be implemented more rapidly than other more complex learning management systems.
Search-and-Learn is key feature. (highlighted in coming slide)
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10. Books24x7 ITPro™ 5,000+ titles 2,000 Referencepoints
EngineeringPro 800+ titles
ExecSummaries™ 200+ summaries of best-selling business books
BusinessPro™ 3,000+ titles
Referenceware includes seven collections:
ITPro:
Audience:Technology professionals – developers, web specialists, network administrators, IS/MIS, DBAs, technical product managers, etc.
Unique Strengths: Certification, Programming, Web, Security, Telecom, Databases
EngineeringPro:
Audience: Engineering professionals from all disciplines – developers, web specialists, network administrators, IS/MIS, DBAs, technical product managers, etc.
BusinessPro:
Audience: Professionals in all disciplines – Sales, HR, Marketing, Project Managers, Supervisors, Sr. Managers, etc.
Unique Strengths: Project Management, Six Sigma, Sales Skills, Personal Development
Office Essentials:
Audience: Anyone who relies on standard office applications
Unique Strengths: General Computer Know-How, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Internet Basics
FinancePro:
Audience: Anyone in your accounting or finance organization, as well as anyone in Commercial Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Planning, Insurance, Investment Banking
Unique Strengths: Sarbanes-Oxley, GAAP, IAS, Ethics, Global Biz
Oracle Press:
Audience: Oracle DBAs
Specialty collection containing 12 Oracle Press books
ExecBlueprints™ 320+ articles authored by C-level execs
OfficeEssentials™ 200+ titles
**Live titles of 8/03/04
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11. Jacqui Hobbins
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