Dublin (IRL) / Boston, MA (USA), November 2019 - Thought Industries, one of the fastest-growing online learning SaaS companies, has announced its expansion in Europe with the launch of an office in Dublin. The new operations, near St. Stephen's Greens in Dublin's multinational tech city center, is well positioned to supply a hyper level of support to the company's growing roster of European customers.

Plymouth (UK), November 2019 - Sponge, an award-winning custom digital learning company has been acquired by Aliter Capital to form part of the private equity firm’s corporate training group. Sponge will play a strategic role in supporting Aliter’s goal to establish a major new force in the learning technology market.

Sydney (AUS), November 2019 - DDLS, one of Australia’s largest providers of corporate ICT and cybersecurity training, has introduced a course in cybersecurity that will take students with no ICT background to three internationally recognised cybersecurity certifications in less than six months.

Lustmühle (CH), November 2019 - Avallain, a Swiss-based company that provides award-winning education technology and tools to create, manage, and disseminate educational content, and EDIA, a Netherlands-based, edtech company that applies artificial intelligence to create smart content for educational use, have announced a technical and commercial partnership.

Boston, MA (USA), November 2019 – Workgrid Software, Inc., a startup software provider of intelligent workplace solutions that is part of Liberty Mutual Group, has announced the addition of an enterprise-grade Natural Language chatbot to its Digital Employee Experience Platform (DEXP™). The new chatbot functions as a centralized workplace chatbot for organizations, capable of handling inquiries from across the enterprise (HR, IT, Finance, Facilities, etc.).

Los Angeles, CA (USA)/ Prague (CZ), November 2019 - VRgineers has officially announced that Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including its popular applications CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, DELMIA, and SIMULIA, is now compatible with the XTAL VR system. By adding support of Dassault Systèmes’ platform to the XTAL platform, engineers are now able to utilize a powerful VR solution capable of total immersion for the powerful 3DEXPERIENCE platform, instead of being required to invest in a costly Powerwall projection systems and cluster infrastructure.

Milton Keynes (UK), November 2019 - After two years in development, Traineasy's new flagship product, LMS-X, is launched. In a move away from open source-based systems, LMS-X is architected with the PHP framework Laravel, bringing huge design and security benefits to customers.

Plymouth (UK), October 2019 - Sponge have launched training to ensure employee compliance with anti-bribery legislation. Based on the UK Bribery Act 2010 and international principles, the learning game helps organisations to combat corruption and protect their corporate reputation. The game is the third in the Sorted series of off-the-shelf compliance training solutions, following GDPR Sorted and Cybersecurity Sorted – for the seriously creative digital learning provider.

London (UK), October 2019 - Vanquis Bank and eLearning specialists GoodHabitz will co-present a case study entitled "How boosting people skills helps digital transformation" at World of Learning 2019.