Live eLearning and Web Collaboration Product Selected for Low-Bandwidth Access, Cross-Platform Functionality, and Ease-of-Use Advantages

Elluminate, Inc., provider of live eLearning and Web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, announced today that its flagship product Elluminate Live! was recognized by CMP Media, LLC's Network Computing magazine with an Editor's Choice Award for in-house web conferencing software.

Elluminate Live! was selected for its rich feature set, consistently strong performance, low-bandwidth connectivity, explicit focus on universal accessibility that includes ADA compliance, and highest level of cross-platform functionality. In addition, evaluators found Elluminate Live! easy to install, deploy, manage, and use as moderator or participant.

Also highlighted was the product's high-quality recording capability that captures sessions in their entirety, including audio, video, text, websites, slides, and whiteboard content.

"Increasingly, universities are striving to make all services accessible to the widest possible number of users, including distance-learners with low-bandwidth connections and/or people with some disability, " according to the Network Computing article. "Across the board, Elluminate has the highest level of accessibility."

While more than 40 products provide synchronous, web-based collaboration for multiple groups, only 14 met the stringent review criteria, which included support for distributed group work and virtual teams, collaborating teaching and elearning configurations, and the ability to run distributed seminars, research meetings, virtual labs, and other activities for geographically distributed teaching and research