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Excelsoft signs 5 year agreement with Wolters Kluwer Education (WKe)

While it may not yet be David Vs. Goliath, its starting to look like the little guys are standing up to be counted.

Mysore (India) based eLearning company Excelsoft Technologies has announced a 5 year deal with Europe based Wolters Kluwer Education (WKe), a division of Wolters Kluwer (2005 revenues: €3.4 billion / Rs19,992 crore), the biggest information services and publishing company in Europe, for use of Excelsoft's e-learning 'application framework' across all WKe publishing houses. The agreement also covers development of custom e-learning applications on the framework, for each of the publishing houses.

From a first look at their website it looks like Excelsoft has stitched up a few clients in the UK already.

TATA Interactive Sums It Up

Do not miss this great podcast at the TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) corporate blog. For the first time, you have some of the seniormost people from that company talking about the year that was and their thoughts for the year ahead.

TIS is leading by example once again, and hopefully other companies will take the cue to open up a little bit more and voice and share their thoughts. This can only help facilitate dialogue, which, who knows, may even lead to something more structured.

India e-Learning Directory 2005

I get a lot of requests for a list of eLearning companies in India. I am putting up the first compilation, for 2005, that was done to catalogue the players in the market at that point in time and derive a sense of the size of the pie. It seems like a useful exercise, and I am working on updating that first report with newer data. Thanks to all of you who have been writing in, telling me about your companies or with suggestions.

Please click here to download the "India eLearning Directory 2005"