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September 15, 2009 |
Volume
17, Number 9
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- Elluminate,
Inc., a Hacienda-based provider of web, audio and video solutions for
real-time online learning and collaboration, has released the latest
version of Elluminate Plan!, a program which allows educators to
organize and package content and activities before the live, online
session, automating routine tasks and allowing instructors to focus on
delivering material, facilitating interaction, and optimizing the
online learning experience. The company states that the new release
enables users to decrease session plan development time by 50
percent.
“Live
interaction in the virtual classroom is key to transforming teaching
and learning on a global level, but the eLearning landscape is
evolving,” said Maurice Heiblum, the company’s president. “Elluminate’s
‘learning-edge’ solutions take educators beyond the virtual classroom
with tools for session planning and post-session content distribution.
Our solutions address activities across the entire instructional cycle,
integrate with existing applications in the academic infrastructure,
and scale easily from the department or campus level to complex,
multi-campus, enterprise-wide deployments.”
- Hacienda’s
Veeva Systems has introduced VSpend, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)
offering for pharmaceutical companies designed to ease the burden of
compliance with government regulations that mandate the tracking and
disclosure of expenditures on individual healthcare professionals and
organizations. Built on the Force.com platform, VSpend’s SaaS
architecture ensures that all users are continuously working from the
most recent release so that life sciences companies have the insight
and reports they need to meet the very latest regulatory guidelines.
“The
initial hurdle to achieving compliance is a data challenge, aggregating
data from all of the disparate systems across an organization,” says
Todd Snow, Veeva’s director of strategy. “It gets even more complicated
when you factor in the varied and shifting regulations. As more
regulations are enacted, only a SaaS application can effectively lower
the total cost of compliance while enabling life sciences companies to
keep up with a constantly changing regulatory environment.”
- A
team from SafeAmerica Credit Union’s Hacienda headquarters raised over
$4,800 in the recent American Cancer Society “Relay for Life” event at
Pleasanton Middle School. Relay for Life, the signature activity of the
organization, provides participants with the opportunity to remember
those lost to cancer while simultaneously raising funds for research
towards more effective treatment of the disease. The SafeAmerica team
was led by IT director John Gracyalny, who logged 34 miles in the
event.
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