Docent and Raytheon Professional Services Form Global Alliance

Business Wire, Jan 22, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001

Docent, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCNT), a provider of eLearning and knowledge exchange technology, today announced that it has signed an Enterprise Solution Provider agreement with Raytheon Professional Services, a global performance improvement company.

Under the agreement, Raytheon Professional Services will incorporate Docent's eLearning solutions into the consulting and training services it offers to customers worldwide.

The alliance leverages Raytheon Professional Services' competency in helping companies design, develop and implement learning management systems in complex working environments. Docent offers an Internet-based platform, Docent Enterprise(TM), allowing companies to assess employee competence, create personalized programs for their employees, develop training content and deliver it on demand and relate performance to business goals. Docent's Application Service Program will bring all components of the eLearning system together in a hosted environment.

"We chose Docent because its learning management system is extremely flexible and rich with capabilities our global enterprise customers need," said Roger Blomgren, Raytheon Professional Services' Vice President and General Manager. "Docent has strong testing features that allow for the inclusion of graphics, audio and video in assessment exams, and we plan to deploy it in an ASP-hosted environment, as well as on customer-owned networks. We believe these features are significant for future LMS deployments."

"The customer wins with this partnership," said Kathleen Gogan, Docent's Vice President of Marketing. "Docent offers leading-edge eLearning infrastructure products and services, and Raytheon Professional Services possess unparalleled expertise as a training system integrator, with a long history of deploying strategic and mission-critical training systems to multinational companies. Together we'll offer customers best-in-class solutions."

About Docent

Docent, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCNT) is a premier provider of eLearning infrastructure and services for the enterprise and beyond. Our complete, integrated solutions increase revenue, cut costs, and build competitive advantage. Docent Enterprise, our award-winning Internet-based software platform for knowledge exchange, provides a complete infrastructure for developing, delivering, managing, and measuring eLearning for employees, customers, partners, and professional communities.

Docent is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with other offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit us at www.docent.com, or call 1 (650) 934-9500.

About Raytheon Professional Services

Raytheon Professional Services is a leading performance improvement company, with more than 600 professionals offering consulting and training services that help Global 2000 companies achieve their strategic and business objectives. Raytheon Professional Services, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, serves companies in the automotive, information technology and other industries.

Raytheon Professional Services is part of the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN.A, RTN.B), a global technology leader that provides products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics and business and special mission aircraft. Raytheon has operations throughout the United States and serves customers in more than 70 countries.

For more information about Raytheon Professional Services, visit www.rps.com or call 1 (817) 619-9000 in the Americas, 49 (0) 6142-917-00 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 65-732-8829 in Asia/Pacific.

This press release contains forward-looking statements including statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. They are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance or events. They are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions and goals and objectives, and are subject to uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Often such statements can be identified by their use of words such as will, intends, plans, believes, anticipates, expects, and estimates. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information known to Docent, Inc. as of the date of this press release, and Docent, Inc. assumes no obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to update any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future results and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by these statements. Docent's prospectus filed with, and made effective by, the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 2000, lists several risk factors facing Docent. Additional factors which could contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the success of any or all of Docent's strategic partnerships and whether Docent's solutions can be successfully implemented for a particular company.