ViewCentral And Questionmark Form Strategic Software Alliance Integrating Testing And Collaboration Management

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ViewCentral And Questionmark Form Strategic Software Alliance Integrating Testing And Collaboration Management

Partnership Enables Test Creation, Tracking and Reporting Through Blended Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. February 3, 2003 - ViewCentral, Inc., the leader in Collaboration Management Solutions and Questionmark™ , the leading testing and assessment software supplier for educators and trainers, today announced a strategic software alliance allowing the integration of testing and collaboration management solutions. The new alliance lets ViewCentral customers access Questionmark™ Perception™ to create, publish, track, and report results of tests, quizzes, and surveys through the ViewCentral Blended Training and Blended Conferencing Suites. ViewCentral collaboration management solutions automate the scheduling, registration, payment, marketing, surveying, reporting and follow-up for in-person and virtual collaborative events such as Web and audio conferences and streaming events.

Businesses require informed customers, partners and employees in order to grow and maintain a competitive advantage. Using collaboration management solutions, companies can provide a blended offering of in-person and virtual collaborative events. Integral to this offering is the ability to assess, survey, and test attendees of events such as customer training programs, sales product trainings or partner briefings. The interoperability of collaboration management and testing and assessment through one solution expands the mission-critical role of collaboration in the enterprise.
"This alliance furthers streamlines the complex process of delivering enterprise events," said Eric Shepherd, President of Questionmark. "Providing streamlined, easy-to-use, single access to event management is a win-win situation for administrators and their customers."

Questionmark Perception creates, delivers and reports on tests, quizzes, assessments and surveys. With Perception you can author questions, deliver testing, time tests, weight answers, randomize questions, gather responses and provide feedback and scoring.

"This is a partnership that makes sense for our customers and we are excited about the relationship with Questionmark," said ViewCentral President and CEO, Rick Ludlow. "The interoperability of two best-of-breed technologies brings efficiency and cost effectiveness to a complex process and helps our joint customers protect their investment in enterprise collaboration."

About Questionmark:
Questionmark has been producing testing and assessment software since 1988, enabling educators and trainers to write, administer, and report on tests and surveys securely using individual PCs, local networks, the Internet, and intranets. Perception users can categorize their question banks into topics and sub-topics from which to assemble tests and surveys. They can shuffle questions and answers for each participant and preview assessments to see how they will appear post-deployment. They can present questions with videos, graphics and a wide variety of styles. Participants receive feedback as specified by the author. Answers are saved to an encrypted file for scoring and analysis in a variety of report formats. Businesses, governments, schools, colleges, and universities in more than 50 countries use Questionmark software. Typical applications include exams, quizzes, study aids, diagnostic tests, pre-course skills assessments, and course evaluations. Complete information is available at www.questionmark.com.

About ViewCentral:
Founded in 1999, ViewCentral Inc. is the leading provider of Collaboration Management Solutions that are empowering companies to effectively and efficiently communicate with their customers, partners and employees. ViewCentral enables industry-leading customers to schedule, automate and manage global events, conferences, and training. Using ViewCentral, world-class companies such as Amdocs, Autodesk, E*TRADE, Network Associates, EPRI, Peregrine Systems, Plumtree Software, Xerox, and WebMethods can significantly reduce the resources needed to train and communicate with customers, partners, suppliers, prospects and employees. With Web-conferencing, technology and e-learning partners DigitalThink, Microsoft, PlaceWare and WebEx, ViewCentral provides end-to-end, conference and training solutions. Privately held, ViewCentral's investors include Novus Ventures, Aspen Ventures and Artemis Ventures. For more information call (650) 934-8300 or visit www.viewcentral.com

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