Yipinet Launches Professional Development Knowledge Hub; Partnering With SkillSoft, Yipinet Offers Online Management Courses With Full Solution Learning Management System

Business Wire,  Nov 3, 1999  

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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1999--

Yipinet, the foremost provider of Internet-based learning for professionals, today announced a reseller relationship with SkillSoft Corp., a leading provider of instructionally effective Web-based learning and performance support tools.

Through the relationship with SkillSoft, Yipinet will license courses to round out their existing library for use in their professional development Knowledge Hub(TM), an online destination for professionals to seek management courseware, community and resources for career and skill advancement.

In the first year of the relationship, Yipinet will license over 200 management courses in the areas of human resources, communications, marketing and personal development from SkillSoft. These courses will be available on the Yipinet site (www.yipinet.com) before the end of fourth quarter.

"We are selling SkillSoft courses because they will help organizations' employees to be more competitive by teaching them communication and management skills," said Howard Marks, Yipinet CEO. "And this competitive workforce will earn greater profits for the individual and the company."

The SkillSoft courses will add significantly to the Yipinet Professional Development Knowledge Hub. And because these courses address critical principles of management, which are useful to workers in all industries, they will also be made available in the existing Yipinet Accounting, Insurance and Securities Knowledge Hubs to offer broader knowledge to those learners.

"The courses we're licensing to Yipinet teach the critical skills of communication, leadership and management," said Jerry Nine, SkillSoft VP sales and marketing. "More and more companies are providing management training as a core part of employee education. Additionally, Yipinet's administration functionality streamlines the record keeping process significantly for corporations taking our courses."

About SkillSoft

SkillSoft is a leading provider of Web-based training resources for Global 2000 companies Customers receive comprehensive training and support solutions for their employees, comprised of a library of 155 courses, which encompasses a wide array of professional effectiveness skills, such as management, leadership, communication, project management and customer service, as well as business topics such as finance, marketing, sales and strategy.

SkillSoft is funded by Warburg Pincus, a major global venture-banking firm, and has a strategic corporate partner alliance with GartnerGroup, the leading authority on information technology (IT). GartnerGroup also has an equity investment in SkillSoft. Additional information about SkillSoft is available on the Internet at www.skillsoft.com.

About Yipinet

With over 500 current course offerings, Yipinet is the leading provider of Internet-based learning and testing for professionals. Yipinet's Knowledge Hubs are a full solution for professional development offering accredited courses, business news, community and a learning management system which gives administrators the ability to assign, track and report all learner progress by business unit, department or by individual employee. Yipinet currently offers Knowledge Hubs for accounting, insurance, securities, IT and professional development. Based in Marina del Rey, Yipinet is located on the Web at www.yipinet.com or available at 800/410-0831.

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