Redmond, WA -- (SBWIRE) --06/06/2011 -- Harbinger Knowledge Products, the company behind leading eLearning products Raptivity and Elicitus announced a major release of Elicitus 8.1 (http://www.Elicitus.com). Elicitus is a leading desktop authoring tool for trainers, educators, subject matter experts and other e-learning creators worldwide.

The new Elicitus 8.1 release is a big step for the product, and adds many significant features. The release includes major user interface revamp that goes with the latest Windows 2007 look, and also improves software performance. Importantly, the product now supports seamless integration with Raptivity (www.raptivity.com), the award-winning rapid interactivity builder from Harbinger. The Raptivity interactions imported into Elicitus can now be tracked from within the software using SCORM1.2 or SCORM 2004 standards.

“The combined Elicitus and Raptivity offering provides great value to course creators, and significantly eases creation of highly interactive courses”, said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group. “Now the ability to track Raptivity interactions makes Elicitus an indispensable tool for course creators. Of course, the icing on the cake is the beautiful new interface that it sports.”

Another significant addition is that Slide Converter and Scenario Maker, two utilities for importing existing Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations into Elicitus and adding slide transitions in Elicitus respectively, are now part of the product itself instead of being separate downloadable utilities. Together, these two utilities enable users to not only convert their existing PowerPoint presentations into standard compliant Elicitus courses, but also easily add fancy slide transitions to the course for improved user experience
“Our customers and beta users are very excited about the new release”, added Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products, Inc. “We are constantly listening to them, and this release is a result of their feedback. There are many intricate UI enhancements that we have added based on their input. We are confident that course creators worldwide will see a very significant change in the Elicitus interface and its power.”

Other enhancements include addition of transition effects, such as Scaling and Exploding, image editing facility, support for resizable videos in topic pages and many more. Visit http://www.Elicitus.com to view a list of all feature improvements and additions in version 8.1.

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.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 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. For three 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. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity and Raptivity Presenter, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod. For more information, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.