BAE SYSTEMS North America Chooses Click2learn's Aspen to Deploy Centralized Learning Intitiative

Business Wire, March 17, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003

Enterprise Productivity Suite will consolidate existing systems

into one collaborative, standardized learning program for 22,000

employees

Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS), a leader in enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that BAE SYSTEMS North America, a leading defense and aerospace provider, has chosen Aspen to build a centralized corporate learning and information infrastructure for 22,000 employees nationwide.

The hosted deployment, which includes the Aspen Learning Management System (LMS), the Aspen Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and Aspen's Information Management and Performance Management modules, will consolidate a decentralized learning organization dispersed over numerous business units into a tightly integrated, enterprise-wide, full-service learning management and performance development system for the organization.

Aspen will replace existing systems currently used to track training throughout BAE SYSTEMS U.S. operations, and will be integrated with a number of human resources information systems to provide up-to-date tracking of employee development and training information. In addition, the company will use Aspen to create new SCORM-conformant learning content, ensuring a standardized content development process and a streamlined reuse of knowledge assets.

Aspen's Performance Management module also will provide BAE SYSTEMS with a central location for auditing and reporting employees' and contractors' skills, competencies, certifications and qualifications. This will allow the company to efficiently manage workflow and increase productivity by enabling the assignment of projects to employees and contractors with the appropriate skills.

Dave DeSantis, BAE SYSTEMS e-Learning program manager said, "Aspen will provide the company with consistent, flexible management of our extensive performance development culture and will permit us to design an efficient, standardized way to deliver information and training across our geographically diverse business units."

"In an increasingly complex and challenging world, BAE SYSTEMS delivers innovative solutions that help make the world a safer place. We take very seriously the part we play in providing servicemen and women around the globe with the means to do their jobs effectively and safely in often-dangerous environments," DeSantis added.

"There is little margin for error, so our company and our systems have to perform," said Bruce Hamilton, president of BAE SYSTEMS Technologies Services Sector, who also serves as e-Learning business champion. "Providing our employees with the right training, skills development opportunities and knowledge tools is essential to their being able to deliver critical solutions to the people around the world who depend upon them."

Click2learn's strategic consulting team will play a major role in helping BAE SYSTEMS successfully integrate Aspen into its corporate culture and establish strategies for the most productive use of the technology. These learning experts will guide BAE SYSTEMS in establishing clear success metrics, developing an e-learning content strategy, aligning Aspen and the learning initiative to the needs and business goals of the organization, developing a communications strategy and rollout to support the initiative, and evaluate and modify the system as needed over the next several years.

About Aspen

Click2learn's highly acclaimed Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM) enables organizations to strategically manage corporate knowledge and workforce productivity to improve business performance. With Aspen organizations can deploy a comprehensive, integrated solution for their specific learning needs, all under one platform with one, seamless user experience. The Aspen Suite consists of separate but integrated modules, including:

-- Learning Management (LMS)

-- Learning Content Management (LCMS)

-- Virtual Classroom (VCS)

-- Performance Management

-- Collaboration, Knowledge Exchange & Instant Messaging

-- Information Management

-- Simulation Creation and Editing

-- Auditing and Compliance Tracking

Whether organizations choose to deploy the entire Aspen suite, or to integrate select Aspen applications with existing infrastructure, Aspen's standards-based (AICC, SCORM, XML, etc.) modular and open architecture is designed to help companies reduce total cost of ownership and meet a wide variety of business goals.

About BAE SYSTEMS North America:

BAE SYSTEMS North America is a high-technology U.S. company employing more than 22,000 Americans who live and work in some 30 states and the District of Columbia. The company is dedicated to solving its customers' needs with highly innovative and leading-edge solutions across the defense electronics, systems, information technology, and services arenas. www.na.baesystems.com

About Click2learn

Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) is the recognized leader in enterprise productivity solutions for Global 2000 organizations and government agencies seeking to improve business performance and workforce productivity. Using Click2learn's Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM), many of the world's best-known corporations improve sales force readiness, achieve and demonstrate regulatory compliance, improve speed and quality of customer service, and educate customers and partners, while at the same time realizing significant cost savings. Click2learn's clients include such industry leaders as Accenture, American Airlines, AstraZeneca, Century 21, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Pfizer, Symantec, and Towers Perrin. Based in Bellevue, Wash., with offices throughout the U.S., Click2learn (www.click2learn.com, 800/448-6543) also is represented in, Europe, Australia, Japan and India.