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Jim Riley

"An LMS is a different kind of animal. It's going to touch pretty much everybody in an organization and sometimes even outside the organization, so it needs to have some capabilities that you really don't see in traditional enterprise software. We recognized that from the very beginning and we developed the software to allow the end-users to make the changes to the workflows, to the layouts, to the capabilities that they need to have done without much help from us as a vendor. We're always there to help them but they really have the ability to use the software and to morph the software to their business needs."

Curt Allen

"Agilix is also introducing a new collaborative learning community website at NECC, which is currently code named BrainHoney.  With BrainHoney, we’ve harnessed the power of social networking and applied it to a learning-related community of online users. We have a powerful, yet simple rich-media authoring tool that enables anyone to create and share learning content. There’s no charge for users to create learning materials, or to view content.  Essentially, BrainHoney is all about user contributed content and enabling the community to teach one another." 

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Frank Russell

"There is a fundamental shift going on where training and education in the past has sort of been looked at like an activity. But when you begin to think about organizations and how to make them competitive in the world, what you are really trying to do is develop the talent within the organization. So I think this is a fun and interesting evolution that is going on where you're going to see, and we already have seen, the traditional LMS players begin to take on some more components that look like competency and performance management."

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Bruce Duff

"My strategy has helped leverage the college to look beyond just attracting individual students, but to work together with corporations and business as well. The philosophy is that you must use technology to advance your offerings and drive revenue by ensuring programs are at peak performance. You’ve got to anticipate remaining ahead in the game. You can’t fall asleep at the wheel. Just because your education programs are the best today doesn’t mean they automatically stay the best."