I.O. and Markzware Agree to Provide On-Line Education
Press release from the issuing company
LAS VEGAS -- October 29, 2003 -- By agreement today, Markzware and I.O. Technologies announced that they will co-develop new training foor FlightCheck Professional. I.O. Technologies will provide subject matter expertise in the general area of Pre-Flight processes, and Markzware will supply their expertise on the FlightCheck Professional 5 software functionality. The training will be deployed on-line using I.O. Technologies, ollÈ learning environment and ollÈ(tm) InfoFind knowledge support system.
Markzware Quotes...
"We feel that I.O. Technologies' extreme subject matter expertise in Pre-Flight coupled with our detailed knowledge of FlightCheck would provide the best training product to our customers," said Patrick Marchese, CEO of Markzware. "The ollÈ environment and infoFind interactive glossary represent what we feel is the state of the art in on-line content delivery," continued Marchese. InfoFind is a knowledge support system that allows content to be linked to a database of quick reference terms containing over 12,000 references of which 50% are illustrated or animated.
"It is the intention of both Markzware and I.O. Technologies to help people who deal with digital files understand the impact of their jobs in a workflow environment, and help them minimize the problems they encounter during this process," said Douglas Rosen, Training Engineer at Markzware and one of the subject experts on FlightCheck.
I.O. Technologies Quotes...
"InfoFind is growing at 100 terms a month, so user content is being continually updated without effecting the learner's progress," said Eric Kenly, CEO of I.O. Technologies. "InfoFind is cross-linked and searchable and our new ollÈ(tm) InfoFind Professional Performance Support Environment gives subscribers our complete library of content with an effective and fast search mechanism," continued Kenly.
Peter Muir, President of I.O. Technologies and author of Preflight is the I.O. subject matter expert for the project and will be one of the primary authors of the course content. "We are very excited about this project and feel that the blending of our process focused education with Markzware's application-specific content will make for a perfect on line experience", said Muir.
Availability...
The new training program will be available at http://www.markzware.com and http://www.olle.com by the beginning of 2004.