Skillsoft Selected as Best of Elearning! 2012 Award Winner

Wins readers’ choice awards for Best Leadership Development Program and Best IT Content categories

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skillsoft announced today that Elearning! readers have selected the company as the Best Leadership Development winner and Best IT Content winner in the 2012 Best of Elearning! Awards, the exclusive readers’ choice awards program for e-learning products and services. Elearning! Media Group, the industry voice of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, conducts a search for the Best of Elearning! companies annually through reader nominations and selections. This recognition further exemplifies Skillsoft’s role as a pioneer in the field of learning with a long history of innovation. Skillsoft provides cloud based learning solutions for its customers worldwide, ranging from global enterprises, government, and education to mid-sized and small businesses. Skillsoft was honored at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo September 26 at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, CA.

“With the large number of nominations, to be named a category winner is a true testament to the vendor’s product and service excellence”

“Being selected the Best Leadership Development winner and Best IT Content winner by the Elearning! readers is a great honor for all of us at Skillsoft,” said John Ambrose, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Emerging Business, Skillsoft. "Our team is dedicated to providing a diverse platform of innovative learning solutions for company leaders and IT professionals to make learning quick and engaging, so we are extremely proud to be recognized for our work by those who use our solutions the most.”

In its eighth year, 72 products across 21 categories have been named best-in-class by learning professionals and executives. Each honoree will be featured in the 2012 Best of Elearning! Awards issues of Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines.

“With the large number of nominations, to be named a category winner is a true testament to the vendor’s product and service excellence,” said Catherine Upton, publisher, Elearning! Media Group.

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About Skillsoft

Skillsoft is a pioneer in the field of learning with a long history of innovation. Skillsoft provides cloud based learning solutions for its customers worldwide, ranging from global enterprises, government, and education to mid-sized and small businesses. Skillsoft's customer support teams draw on a wealth of in-house experience and a comprehensive learning e-library to develop off-the-shelf and custom learning programs tailored to cost-effectively meet customer needs. Skillsoft's courses, books and videos have been developed by industry leading learning experts to ensure that they maximize business skills, performance, and talent development.

Skillsoft currently serves over 5,000 customers and more than 13,000,000 learners around the world. Skillsoft is on the web at www.Skillsoft.com.

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