BizLibrary Wins Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence

Dec. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Chesterfield, MO - BizLibrary, the leader in innovative employee training for small and mid-sized businesses, won a coveted Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for External Training category. Brandon Hall announced BizLibrary’s win on December 19, 2012.

“To win the gold award is a thrilling accomplishment,” said BizLibrary President and CEO Dean Pichee. “The Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Gold Award truly represents the best in the business. We’ve always dedicated ourselves to producing an innovative and quality product for our clients. For Brandon Hall to recognize that, and to place our learning management technology at the top, helps explain why we are the leading online training solution provider for small and mid-sized companies.”

BizLibrary was chosen to receive the gold award by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group Sr. Analysts and Executive Leadership.

“It is our honor to recognize this year’s award winners, who exemplify the commitment to innovation and excellence that drives growth and over--‐the--‐top business results,” said Mike Cooke, Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group, Inc.

BizLibrary overhauled its Learning Management System, CompanyCollege, earlier this year. The LMS now features courses that are mobile friendly, with a streamlined homepage, and advanced catalog. The Streaming Video Library also includes social elements like user-generated comments, ratings and allows users to recommend courses to each other.

“We’ve worked very hard this year to make updates that put BizLibrary at the top of the learning management field,” said BizLibrary Chief Technology Officer Les Wight. “We’re thrilled Brandon Hall honored us for our advances in training technology, and we are even more excited about our plans for even more advances and ongoing improvements we have planned for 2013.”  
Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Office of Brandon Hall Group, Inc. stated, “This year’s entries underwent a rigorous judging process and arriving at a final decision on this year’s award winners was extraordinarily difficult for our judging panel.”

The entries were evaluated based upon the following criteria

-          Product: What was the product’s breakthrough innovation?
-          Unique differentiators: What makes the product unique and how does it differ from any competing products?
-          Value proposition: What problem does the product solve and/or what need does this product address?
-          Measurable results: What are the benefits customers can expect to experience as a result of using this product?

The winners are listed at http://go.brandonhall.com/Excellence_Awards_Home.  
Chris Osborn, VP of Marketing at BizLibrary said, “When you look carefully at the list of winners of the Brandon Hall awards, it really is a “who’s who” in the learning technology industry. We are honored to be a part of this year’s awards, and just could not be more pleased the judges looked at our work and deemed it worthy of Gold winner status.”

View BizLibrary’s full press release at http://www.bizlibrary.com/AboutUs/NewsEvents/RecentNewsPr....

About BizLibrary

BizLibrary provides online training and technology solutions for small and mid-sized organizations nationwide. BizLibrary’s online content includes streaming videos, interactive e-learning courses, custom developed courses, reference materials and e-books. BizLibrary fully-hosted Learning Management system tracks and manages all training activities including online courses, instructor-led-events, virtual events and online collaboration. Learn more at http://www.bizlibrary.com.

About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.

Having worked with more than 10,000 clients globally and after20 years of delivering world—class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research--‐driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations. Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing Impact, and Executive Management.