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ENVISAGE Announces Acadis™ Enterprise Suite 4.0






Major feature enhancements to the leading Law Enforcement Human Capital Management, Intelligent Scheduling, and Training Automation software will lower operational costs and boost performance measurement.

Bloomington, IN - July 12, 2005
- ENVISAGE Technologies, the leader in Human Capital Management and Training Automation technology for the Law Enforcement and Homeland Defense verticals, today announced that it will ship the much-anticipated new version of its integrated enterprise suite in the Fourth Quarter of 2005.

The Acadis™ Enterprise Suite is a comprehensive, modular software solution for workforce readiness. It includes curriculum management for standardization of training, student registration, automated testing and grading, with resource and instructor management. These components are integrated with the Automated Intelligent (AI) Scheduling module to coordinate the needs of training and availability of resources to deliver instruction. The Automated Testing and Grading module links learning objectives to exam generation and grading. Additional modules include role-based management dashboards and electronic forms.

Acadis™ provides training personnel and Human Resources departments with a powerful set of tools that generate significant process efficiencies through automation, mitigate litigation risk by providing legally defensible training records, and standardize distributed training operations.

"By tracking the details surrounding training events and linking this information to learning objectives, curricula, courses, classes, grades, certifications, and special skills, a complete and accurate transcript can be maintained for each individual," states Cory Myers, Vice President of Customer Solutions. "Most systems only capture the fact that an individual attended a specific course of study. Without the detailed training information, performance measurement of the training function, including trend and gap analysis, is not possible."

Dynamic Learning Architecture
Acadis™ version 4.0 incorporates the Company's new Dynamic Learning Architecture™ (DLA). This new technology will give training organizations unprecedented flexibility in developing and managing complex curriculum structures, grading scales, training programs, documents, and pre-requisites. The flexibility of the DLA is such that it easily accommodates tracking of classroom-based instruction, written exams, practical exercises, fitness, firearms, and even e-Learning courses delivered via industry standard LMS systems.

XML Standards Support
ENVISAGE has made a strong commitment to XML standards and has adopted the Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM) and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) as the core metadata model for future releases of the Acadis™ Suite, ensuring compatibility with a wide variety of current and future Criminal Justice applications. These standards will fuel the next generation of software modules that will add significant new functionality to the Acadis™ Enterprise Suite.

Interoperable Modules add "Plug and Play" Functionality
The hallmark of the Company's flagship product is the system's integrated architecture which is specifically focused on the needs of Law Enforcement, First Responder, Homeland Defense and Military training organizations. Unlike "solutions" that are cobbled together from different vendors, technologies, and other industries, the Acadis™ Enterprise Suite was designed from the ground up as a robust set of interoperable modules that seamlessly interact and share a common data structure. "Traditionally, systems were developed as individual data silos, requiring the same information to be hand-entered numerous times. Individual business processes were completely unaware of each other," states Ari Vidali, ENVISAGE CEO. "Most 'integrated' solutions only provide a modicum of cross-functional awareness because these multivendor systems were never designed to work seamlessly together."

Automated Testing, for example, is aware of not only curriculum changes and current resource availability; it also interacts closely with the AI Scheduling module and associated learning objectives. This ensures that test administrators are immediately alerted when exam questions no longer match what was actually taught in the classroom due to schedule changes or conflicts.

Acadis' unmatched flexibility enables organizations to create a legally defensible system of record that includes training, certifications/qualifications, special skills, curriculum, and grades. For training organizations, it automates core business processes, such as scheduling, resource management, document creation and training registration and recordation. For emergency response professionals, Acadis provides instant and accurate results of human capital requirements by special skill. For systems administrators, the suite offers unprecedented interoperability and integration with other technology applications and infrastructures via XML along with sophisticated and robust security architecture.

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