DRAPER, UT & FORT WORTH, TX – March 27, 2001-- Learnframe, Inc, the leading developer in KnowledgE-Commerce and e-Learning infrastructure technologies and RIVA TECHNOLOGIES, Inc., a software development company specializing in e-Learning and online learning software, announced today that they have signed a collaborative sales and marketing agreement to bring comprehensive online solutions to the e-Learning market.

Through this arrangement, RIVA and Learnframe will develop a cooperative marketing relationship and offer the combined power of their e-Learning technologies to corporate customers throughout North America. E-Learning is quickly becoming instrumental for optimizing organizational performance and productivity for the enterprise sector.

“The agreement with Learnframe creates a great opportunity for RIVA to prove the modularity of our e•test™ product within the online training industry,” Bryan Berthy, President of RIVA Technologies said. “RIVA and Learnframe are teaming up to provide our customers with true enterprise-class test authoring and delivery as part of an ultra-scalable and modular learning management solution. We are very excited about the chance to incorporate our marketing ventures and deliver flexible e-Learning services to our clients.”

According to the agreement, the two companies will work to fully integrate RIVA’s e•test with Learnframe’s universal delivery platform, Nebo™. Both RIVA and Learnframe have agreed that technologies built on Learnframe’s new revolutionary patent-pending KYSO™ technology provide extreme scalability, reliability and ease of integration. Thus Nebo and e•test have incorporated this technology providing clients a robust e-Learning platform, a highly functional LMS and an online testing tool to meet the needs of their employees, customers and partners. 

“We are very pleased to be working with RIVA,” said Mike Memmott Sr., Chairman and CEO of Learnframe. “This productive alliance represents an important stride in the testing management market. With Riva’s e•test™, our customer’s will be able to capitalize on their return-on-investment (ROI) as well as offer a testing management solution that is robust and reliable. This will not only strengthen us, but reinforce our leadership position in the e-Learning industry.”

ABOUT RIVA e•test™
RIVA e•test ™ is assessment authoring, delivery and grading software based on Java™2 Enterprise Edition Java Beans (J2EE™ compliant) technology. Fully web-based and plug-in free, e•test ™ is designed to run with any 4.0 or greater web browser on any computer platform.

RIVA e•test ™ is built using an open architecture supporting Internet technology standards, including XML and Java, and industry content management standards such as IMS – QTI (Question Test Interoperability), as well as the AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Compliant) , and SCORM (Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model) standards. RIVA e•test™ offers a unique degree of scalability, capable of accommodating millions of on-line users on a single system, with outstanding robustness and reliability. RIVA e•test™ incorporates test question types such as “True/False”, “Multiple Choice”, “Essay”, “Matching” and “Fill In The Blank” as well as offering the ability to poll and survey users and students. The software then presents test results via eight different reporting types.

About RIVA Technologies
RIVA Technologies Inc. is a software development and systems integration company with a suite of e-learning products and services that support a diverse range of educational needs. Founded in 1993, RIVA’s primary emphasis is in the eLearning, distance learning and web development sectors. RIVA’s interactive products are fully scalable to an educational environment of any size or type, and take full advantage of the potential of the Internet to revolutionize learning. RIVA’s wide range of technical expertise includes complex web-based application development and development of custom software and training systems for customers in a variety of industries including eLearning, publishing, education and aerospace.

About Learnframe
Learnframe is the leading provider of KnowledgE-Commerce™ solutions, e-learning infrastructure technologies and services for large and small enterprises, government agencies, learning providers and Internet businesses around the world. Our premiere product Nebo, a Universal Platform™ and Knowledge Hub, is easily tailored to your business processes with our patent-pending KYSO Technology™. The combination of Pinnacle, Learnframe’s learning management system and e-Learning infrastructure, and the Learnframe Learning Center, an e-commerce front end, defines KnowledgE-Commerce™ — the point where e-Learning and e-commerce unite. Learnframe also provides web-based content delivery, hosting and re-branding services and one of the largest online libraries of CBT, WBT, text, audio and video courses on the market. Learnframe customers include Compaq, Compucom, Rockwell Collins, Supervalu and others. For more information, please contact Kimberly Stilson at kstilson@learnframe.com, or Tamara McNatt at tmcnatt@learnframe.com, or call 800.738.9800. Visit www.learnframe.com for product and company details.