COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Pathlore SoftwareCorporation has released Pathlore Learning...

1. Pathlore Releases New Learning-Management System,
Compliance Tools and 'Blended Learning' Top List of
Features.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Pathlore Software
Corporation has released Pathlore Learning Management System (LMS) 6.0.
Release 6.0 is a major upgrade to Pathlore's existing enterprise
LMS suite. LMS 6.0 offers customers a set of high-powered tools to meet
a host of regulations. And the new LMS also delivers "blended
learning," a mix of classroom instruction, Internet-based training,
virtual classes and online assessments. Pathlore's LMS suite will
also measure the level of employee know-how across an organization,
which executives say aligns training with a business's goals.
"Compliance with federal regulations is essential to our bank,
and we've relied on the Pathlore LMS to help us track and report on
our level of readiness," says Paul Dickerson, e-learning manager at
PNC Bank. "Pathlore LMS 6.0 ought to make what is already an
industry-leading product even better."
"Banks, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and airlines ask
us to serve up training on an array of industry standards," notes
Steve Thomas, president and chief executive officer of Pathlore.
"They also want an ironclad system in place for proving that
workers have acquired the skills to do their jobs."

2. Thomas says the Pathlore LMS 6.0 suite gives customers more than 50
new features to do these sorts of things. Among these are a bevy of
security and compliance tools. For example, LMS 6.0 includes components
that:
* Construct audit trails and electronic signatures, which meet the code
of federal regulations for electronic records (FDA 21 CFR Part 11).
* Measure, analyze and track employee know-how.
* Meet Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which sets standards for
making information technology available to people with disabilities.
* Arm administrators with new ways to monitor and control access to the
LMS.
* Alert workers when they need to take training.
According to Gartner, an LMS can be a compliance officer's
best tool for disseminating information. In an October 9, 2003, report
titled, "Use an E- Learning LMS to Ensure Regulation
Compliance," Gartner Analysts James Lundy and Debra Logan say,
"To enable easier compliance with industry regulations, enterprises
without an LMS should consider deploying one."
Along with tools for complying with government regulations,
Pathlore packed LMS 6.0 with cutting-edge features for blended learning.
One example is a content management capability that, among other things,
allows customers to draw together different modes of training such as

3. classroom instruction, online courses and virtual classes.
"Our content management feature allows trainers to deliver
only what workers need in terms of education," says Leonard
Greenberg, chief technology officer for Pathlore. "With our LMS,
employees won't have to wade through unnecessary training to reach
the topics they care most about."
According to Greenberg, electronically tailoring education to suit
employees' needs cuts the time spent taking -- and creating --
training.
"A long-standing goal of those who make and use learning
technology has been to create reusable 'learning objects,'
which are building blocks like lectures, lessons or tests,"
Greenberg says. "LMS 6.0 offers a supercharged capability for
reusing these building blocks in different ways for different
audiences."
For instance, training staff can tap LMS 6.0 to build, say, a
targeted manager trainee program. After that has been built, trainers
can draw on Pathlore's blended-learning tools to easily pull
learning objects from the program and assemble, for example, a 45-minute
report-writing course. With the LMS 6.0 content management features,
trainers can stack and sort these objects to design education that fits
each worker's needs as well as style of learning.

4. "Pathlore's LMS played a part in helping us increase
sales and improve customer satisfaction," adds Bob Allen, president
of Brink's Home Security. "It's a good bet that any tools
Pathlore adds to its product will put a punch in your corporate training
programs."
About Pathlore
Founded in 1995, Columbus, Ohio-
headquartered Pathlore develops
software that delivers, tracks and reports
on corporate training over
the Internet. Customers use Pathlore's
products to increase sales,
comply with government regulations and
adhere to quality initiatives.
The privately held company's client roster
includes Delta Air
Lines, NEC America Inc., Novartis, PNC Bank, Southwest Airlines, more
than 100 hospitals and health care providers and government agencies in
over 30 states including California, Ohio and Texas. Pathlore also has
offices in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. For more
information, go to http://www.pathlore.com/ .
Pathlore is a registered trademark of Pathlore Software
Corporation. All other registered and unregistered trademarks and trade
names are the property of their respective owners.

5. Contact: Bill Perry, Pathlore Software Corp.
(614) 781-7271
bperry@pathlore.com
CONTACT: Bill Perry of Pathlore Software Corp., +1-614-781-7271,
or bperry@pathlore.com
Web site: http://www.pathlore.com/
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