Microsoft's announcement of its latest upgrade to Office Communicator 2005 brings renewed awareness of the importance of real-time collaboration between individuals, groups and organizations. With the addition of Elluminate Live!, consumers of the new version of Communicator will gain seamless access to an elearning platform that supports many-to-many Voice-over-the-Internet (VoIP), as well as the ability to engage users on other computers such as Macs and Linux.

The integration of Elluminate Live! with Microsoft Office Communicator enables organizations to enter live Elluminate sessions for online training and distance learning, with access to all the features organizations expect in live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions, including shareable whiteboards, polling and quizzing, private breakout rooms, and text messaging for public and private chat sessions.

Elluminate customers will benefit from Elluminate Live! and its innovative Java-based Collaborative Communication Framework (CCF), which delivers the highest quality user experience and most complete solution for online training, collaborative, web conferencing and eLearning requirements.

"Microsoft's evangelism of its Communicator 2005 product will raise the awareness of individuals, corporations and academia to the strategic importance of real-time online training and web collaboration. It widely validates what our customers have come to expect from Elluminate the past five years," said Rajeev Arora, Vice President of Strategy at Elluminate. "This exposure will benefit the entire market for providers of real-time web collaborative solutions such as Elluminate, and highlight the need for products that can offer the best solution for their specific needs. We expect Elluminate to continue to be the product of choice for distance learning and remote online training requirements."

Elluminate, Inc. provides proven solutions for real-time online training, elearning and web collaboration, regardless of platform or Internet connection speed. Delivering best-in-class performance, Elluminate features high-quality VoIP, robust interactive functionality for participants and moderators. Elluminate is the choice of prominent corporate and academic organizations such as T-Mobile, Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University for online training and web collaboration. For more information, visit www.elluminate.com.