Challenger Corporation Licenses OutStart Evolution to Create New Market for Education and Training of Physicians

Boston, Mass. - April 29, 2002 - OutStart, the leading provider of content-centric learning software announced today that Challenger Corporation, a privately held firm specializing in the creation and distribution of high-quality clinical educational material for physicians throughout the United States and Latin America, has licensed its Evolution™ learning platform. Challenger selected OutStart Evolution to enhance its ability to market clinical education and training for practicing physicians by storing the content a central repository once, and then tailoring it for delivery through multiple formats, to meet the needs of individual learners.

"Physician training and education is vital to maintaining board certification, continuing medical education (CME) requirements, and ongoing competency evaluation for medical practitioners. However, training of this kind has traditionally required lengthy and expensive, in-person classroom training with volumes of materials to review," said Bob Sweeney, CEO and President of Challenger Corporation. "Using OutStart's Evolution™, Challenger Corporation will be the first to deliver personalized competency assessment training to physicians via a transparent platform model that encompasses the Web, PowerPoint slides, Word documents, CD-ROM, DVD, PDAs or any other format that the learner deems most effective. Content will be further tailored to only include what is relevant and necessary, so that learners' time is optimized. This is an entirely new approach to education and training for the health market," he said.

Evolution™ brings Challenger Corporation the ability to transform its unique business knowledge and extensive library of physician education and training content into learning objects and resources that can be stored in a central data repository. From there, that knowledge can be easily transferred to physicians who need it, by being delivered through the format and medium that is most effective for each learners.

Sweeney continued, "Easy authoring, the ability to support multiple output formats, and the vision of OutStart's team, put OutStart head and shoulders above their competitors during our selection process," he added.

"Evolution™ will serve as a key enabler of business for Challenger Corporation with innovation that overcomes their current learning content development and delivery challenges," said OutStart CEO Massood Zarrabian. "Challenger and OutStart together are creating a new, incredibly efficient, blended model for training and certification within the healthcare marketplace, which we believe will become the standard, helping practicing physicians to learn without taking time away from work," he said.

For corporations looking to make individual and organizational performance a sustainable competitive advantage, OutStart delivers the only proven, content-centric learning platform. First generation learning software was administration-centric, focusing on class scheduling, catalog creation, and user registration. The next generation, being led by OutStart, is content-centric, focusing on the creation, storage, reuse, management, and delivery of learning content. This content-centric approach enables an organization to:

• Transform its unique business knowledge into learning and support resources.
• Capitalize on those resources as assets that can be used across the enterprise.
• Transfer the knowledge from those who have it to those who need it.
• Deliver the right resource to the right person at the right time.