Leading eLearning Authoring Tool Continues to be Interactivity-Enabled and Affordable

Redmond, WA -- (SBWire) -- 07/23/2010 -- Harbinger Knowledge Products today took another leap towards meeting the needs of its international user base with Elicitus Express - Chinese Edition. Elicitus Express is an interactivity-enabled and affordable authoring tool that is lightweight and extremely easy to use.

Now available in Chinese, Elicitus Express comes with all the essential features for an author to get up and running with an eLearning course. Highlights include over two hundred pre-built layout templates, the ability to add assessments, one-click publishing with SCORM 2004 compliance, import of existing PowerPoint courses and embedding of various media types in courses – audio, video, flash, images etc. Another significant highlight is the seamless integration of Raptivity, Harbinger’s award-winning, market-leading product for interactivity building.

“Interactivity has become an essential part of eLearning now. It has moved from a good to have element to a must have in the online training courses. eLearning developers need to be armed with tools which can help them deliver high quality courses – on time and within budget. We believe that the combined offerings of Elicitus Express (Chinese Edition) with Raptivity provide great value to them in quick and easy creation of highly interactive courses”, said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group.

The Chinese Edition of Elicitus Express offers the complete authoring interface in Chinese language. The native language interface enables Chinese speaking eLearning course developers to create highly interactive and compelling courses easily.

“In China, the corporate eLearning market is growing at 40% a year. In such a growing market, it will really add value to provide Elicitus to thousands of eLearning professionals in their native language. And we are delivering that with the Chinese Edition of Elicitus Express. It definitely comes as the most appealing authoring solution for the content creators in Chinese, with its power packed features at a very affordable price point. We are looking forward to enhancing our channel partner network with our resellers in Chinese speaking countries who can support corporations and educational organizations in the region,” added Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products, Inc.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For two consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

Harbinger's patent-pending technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. Red Herring has named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

For more information, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.