American Management Systems Renews, Expands Agreement With CBT Systems

Business Wire, Jan 21, 1998

MENLO PARK, Calif. & FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1998--American Management Systems (AMS), a leading international business and information technology consulting firm, today announced that it has renewed and expanded its agreement with CBT Systems, a leading provider of interactive education software for information technology professionals worldwide.

Under the terms of the new three-year, $1.5 million agreement, AMS' more than 8,000 employees worldwide will have access to a broad selection of CBT Systems' technical courseware, covering topics such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows NT, and programming languages such as C and Visual Basic.

"Since 1995, CBT Systems has provided AMS with a high-quality, consistent learning environment," said Tim Smith, Principal of Learning & Professional Development at AMS. "We continue to invest in learning content from CBT Systems because of its unparalleled breadth and depth of subject matter, its effectiveness in educating our technology professionals on mission-critical technologies and applications, and its flexibility in meeting our deployment requirements."

"Through our close interaction with our customers, we continually strive to deliver a high level of satisfaction in all aspects of our product delivery, service and support," said James J. Buckley, CBT Systems president and CEO. "CBT Systems has worked closely with AMS to understand its unique training and deployment requirements and deliver a customized training environment tailored to its specific needs. We're delighted that AMS has chosen again to renew and expand its relationship with CBT Systems."

About AMS

AMS' business is to partner with clients to achieve breakthrough performance through the intelligent use of information technology. AMS is an international business and information technology consulting firm that provides a full range of services: business re-engineering, change management, systems integration and systems development and implementation. AMS, which completed its 27th consecutive year of growth, is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, with offices in 53 cities worldwide. AMS' revenues for 1996 were $812 million. AMS' site on the World Wide Web is: www.amsinc.com

About CBT Systems

CBT Systems, a subsidiary of CBT Group PLC (NASDAQ:CBTSY), is a leading provider of interactive education software designed to meet the information technology training needs of businesses and organizations worldwide. The company develops, publishes and markets a comprehensive library of 558 software titles, covering a range of client-server, Internet, and corporate intranet technologies. CBT Systems' products are used by more than 1,576 of the world's leading corporations to train employees to develop and apply mission-critical technologies in the workplace.

The company works with leading software companies, including Cisco, Informix, Lotus, Marimba, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Sybase, and the IBM-Netscape-Sun Microsystems Java collaborative education effort to develop and market vendor-specific training.

CBT Systems has also formed the Internet Security Training Consortium with Check Point Software Technologies, Inc., Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, the Javasoft business unit of Sun Microsystems, Lotus, Netscape Communications Corp., Network Associates (formerly McAfee Associates), RSA Data Security, Inc., Security Dynamics, and VeriSign, Inc. to address the Internet security training needs of enterprises worldwide.

For information on CBT Systems products, call 800/387-0932, fax 650/614-5901, or send an email to salesinfo@cbtsys.com . CBT Systems is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.cbtsys.com -0-

Note to Editors: CBT Systems and the CBT Systems logo are trademarks of CBT Group PLC. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

CONTACT: CBT Systems

Cindy McCaffrey, 650/614-5962

cindy_mccaffrey@cbtsys.com