Lumesse, Europe's largest independent talent management software vendor, was ranked one of the top 5 LMS vendors at Human Resources Magazine’s Singapore HR Vendors of the Year 2011 Awards. Human Resources magazine, the leading specialist human resources publication for Singapore’s HR community, annually surveys HR professionals in Singapore to understand their preferences and to see which solutions providers stand out. 1331 individuals responded to the award nominations survey. This is the third award for Lumesse this year, which has also recently won a coveted Brandon Hall silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Content Authoring and/or Content Management Technology category for Lumesse CourseBuilder, and Lumesse was also recently ranked amongst the ‘2012 Top Authoring Tools’ by trainingindustry.com

"It’s great to see our integrated talent management technology recognized in the Asia-Pacific market,” said Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker. “Our global customers are experiencing how collaborative, cloud-based learning technology that allows teams to create, share and re-use great content worldwide is helping them be more productive and driving greater employee and customer engagement, adoption and satisfaction."

The Lumesse Learning SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) portfolio includes Lumesse CourseBuilder and Lumesse Learning Gateway, a fully configurable Learning Management System with a new, fully-configurable user interface that can be self-configured by clients, and easily updated without vendor support, by dragging and dropping applications. Lumesse Learning also includes Lumesse Custom Content, Lumesse On-demand Content, and tight integration with Lumesse Talent Management.

Rolf Bezemer, Managing Director for Lumesse South-East Asia commented “We're a people business first and a technology business second. For us job satisfaction and business success comes from creating fantastic outcomes for our customers and nothing beats being recognised by the HR community.”

'2012 Top Authoring Tools Company' by trainingindustry.com
Lumesse is also as been named as a ‘2012 Top Authoring Tools Company’ by leading training portal trainingindustry.com. Lumesse is the developer of Lumesse CourseBuilder, a 100% web-based e-learning authoring platform that is used by major global brands to collaboratively develop rich, interactive content for global staff. Lumesse acquired Edvantage Group, the original developer of CourseBuilder in October 2011. Lumesse delivers two software-as-service (SaaS) solutions, Lumesse CourseBuilder and Lumesse Learning Gateway, plus custom content development and on-demand e-learning services, as part of its highly integrated talent management offering. Almost 2,000 companies in over 70 countries, including major global brands such as Merck, PSA Peugeot Citroen, British Airways and Carlsberg, now use integrated talent management technology from Lumesse.

TrainingIndustry.com monitors the training marketplace looking for the best providers of authoring tools. This first annual list joins Training Industry’s current roster of top provider lists, designed to help buy-side organizations in their searches for the right training partners. Selection to this year's Top Authoring Tools Companies list was based on the following criteria:

- Leadership and innovation
- Features and capabilities of the authoring tools
- Company size and growth potential
- Company focus on the authoring platforms
- Strength and number of clients/users
- Geographic reach

"Training is changing, with a sharp focus on developing the kind of engaging, interactive, online content that employees raised in the web 2.0 era want to experience,” said Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker. “Companies want highly productive, collaborative, internationalized authoring tools that can create, manage and deliver incredible learning content for their people. Lumesse CourseBuilder uses a cloud-based, software-as-a-service approach to ensure that authors can work productively across disciplines, timezones and languages to develop engaging content for everyone."


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