Brainshark Unveils On-demand Content Portal for Enterprise Collaboration and Business Learning

Latest Release Provides Organizations with New Options for Knowledge Delivery to Key Audiences

Waltham, MA - May 27, 2008

  • Brainshark (www.brainshark.com) today announced the latest release of its Brainshark Presentations™ application, which includes a new option for delivering Brainshark on-demand presentations within a Private Content Portal.
  • The Private Content Portal allows customers to share best practices, communications, training, and enterprise knowledge with their key audiences in a collaborative, hosted environment.
  • By providing a central repository for subject matter experts (SMEs) to easily publish on-demand presentations for employees, customers, or partners, organizations can efficiently distribute business information and learning, and develop communities around valued content.
  • Other new features in the latest release of Brainshark Presentations™ include the ability to add background audio to presentations, support for additional languages within viewer toolbars and buttons, simple ways to embed Brainshark presentations into other sites such as blogs, wikis, and landing pages, and enhanced administrative features.

Key Features of the Private Content Portal:

  • Content authors can instantly publish their Brainshark-delivered multimedia presentations to a portal environment featuring enterprise-class features like user permissions and optional content approval workflows.
  • Web 2.0 feedback mechanisms such as audience ratings, reviews, and comments provide qualitative insight into content effectiveness. By combining this qualitative data with quantitative usage reporting, authors and managers across departments can gain valuable insight into the usefulness of their content across the enterprise.
  • Company highlights add emphasis to important content. Audiences can also browse the portal by topic, tag, or author; or view recently created presentations, most popular, or most discussed.
  • The Private Content Portal is available with a Standard or Corporate Edition of the Brainshark Platform.

Quotes:

Many organizations are examining how to leverage the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies in ways that are valuable for enterprise learning and communication. With the Private Content Portal, Brainshark helps companies to cultivate and share user-generated multimedia content, as well as collaborate on important topics. It promotes the effective communication and collaboration that is so essential to business success today.

Attributed to Christophe R. Merville, Pharmaceutical Development Manager, Boiron USA

Making sure those involved in selling your product are knowledgeable and updated on recent developments seems like a basic principle, but actually finding the time and the means to do so effectively is much more complicated. The ability to deliver channel training programs on-demand ensures your partners are as well versed as you are, turning knowledge retention into increased sales and business revenue.

Attributed to Greg Flynn, VP Products and Services, Brainshark

About Brainshark Inc.

Brainshark is the leader in on-demand presentations, transforming static business content into high-impact communications. Delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Brainshark enables audiences to access and engage with business content when and how they want. Users also can access the Brainshark Content Network, the premier online marketplace for on-demand, user-generated business content. More than 1,000 companies - including a third of the Fortune 100 - rely on Brainshark software and services to help sales, marketing, training and HR experts cost-effectively deliver measurable results to their organizations. For more information, visit www.brainshark.com.