2009年12月16日星期三

Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs’ HarvestRoad Hive Digital Repository as a ‘content bridge’ for Sakai and Moodle on appearance at Online Educa Berlin

At this year’s Online Educa appointment and exhibition, captivated in Berlin from 3rd to 5th December, Giunti Labs, a arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider for the Educational sector, will be showcasing new developments in its Hive agenda athenaeum technology which was acquired by Giunti Labs in March 2008 from the Australian Stock Exchange quoted Harvestroad™ company.

In particular, it will be demonstrating the new HarvestRoad Hive online and adaptable acquirements assembly plug-ins (Hive Packager™ and Hive Mobile™) as able-bodied as the new SOA architectonics favouring advanced affiliation with Sakai and Moodle, the arch accessible antecedent basic acquirements platforms, application Hive’s beat DR technology for managing, administration and federating multi-channel acquirements capacity above agreeable providers and educational networks.

Michael Korcuska, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, an accessible antecedent software activity apprenticed by a common bunch of educational institutions, bartering organisations and individuals committed to accouterment advance management, analysis accord and e-portfolio accoutrement will be abutting Giunti Labs’ exhibition berth at Online Educa Berlin on Thursday 4th December, from 4:30pm to 7:00pm.

“The actualization of accessible antecedent solutions, such as Sakai and Moodle, heralds a aeon of greater best and flexibility,” said Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs’ CEO.
“HarvestRoad Hive is a agreeable arch band-aid – allowance organisations to move their agreeable cautiously from one acquirements administration arrangement to addition while federating their agreeable offerings and accoutrement into accessible agenda marketplaces administration both user generated and able publishers’ materials. This not alone allows organisations to assure their investment in agreeable but aswell opens the way for greater best and adaptability for managing acquirements and ability altar a allotment of the end user community, analogously to what the iTunes archetypal has done for music.”

Digital repositories, such as HarvestRoad Hive, accommodate a centralised, co-ordinated and user-focused ability to serve the teaching, acquirements and analysis needs for organisations in all sectors of the economy. They accompany calm an organisation’s agenda assets in a single, adamant and accessible web-based ambiance that aswell provides acceptance to alien agenda assets to added abutment the acquirements process.

Having a agenda athenaeum aims to advanced the development and agenda accessibility of different interdisciplinary abstracts by creating an basement that allows learners to accompany calm concepts, data, discoveries, ideas, interpretations and methods in able new ways.

According to, Andrea Gentili, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Giunti Labs: “A key ‘pain point’ adverse the avant-garde organisation is that it has a abundant accord of agreeable but its agents spends a cogent aggregate of its time to acquisition this agreeable if they charge it.

“A contempo abstraction by Forrester Research shows that workers tend to absorb amid 25 per cent and 40 per cent of their archetypal alive day aggravating to acquisition absolute content,” he said. “They again absorb 70 per cent of the time larboard recreating the advice that can’t be found.

“Organisations can calmly advance ‘vertical’ silos of advice which, by their actual nature, accomplish this advice difficult for others to find.”

“In adjustment to accomplish this advice accessible and accessible to all those aural the organisation who charge it – and, added importantly, all those who can account the organisation by accepting it - you charge to abundance it in a individual abode but bear it to assorted places. That is what a agenda repository, such as HarvestRoad Hive, does.

“And, in acquirements terms, if you can’t even acquisition the acquirements agreeable you’re analytic for, you can’t apprentice from it!” he acicular out.

“One way of advantageous this botheration is to accept a agenda athenaeum alms aesthetic categorisation and seek accoutrement that advice locate advice quickly. Such a arrangement would accommodate assessable accumulation in agreement of time and assets – and that’s what HarvestRoad Hive does.”

“The system’s beat absorb engine lets you almanac and clue acceptance of absorb actual and licences,” said John Rowling, Hive’s arch abstruse officer. “And it interfaces with added systems to accommodate a adjustable hub for agenda asset management, carrying agreeable to a ambit of front-end accumulation systems.”

It is in this way – as a ‘content bridge’ that Staffordshire University in the UK is application HarvestRoad Hive. Established in the aboriginal 1990s, Staffordshire University has some 16,000 students, based at two capital campuses in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford, as able-bodied as a co-funded University Centre in Lichfield.

The university provides courses at foundation, certificate, diploma, amount and postgraduate akin in the arts, media and design; business and law; computing, engineering and technology; as able-bodied as bloom and sciences. It aswell runs a amount of abstruse courses, including a ambit of employer-backed foundation degrees, through its arrangement of added apprenticeship colleges throughout Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Recognising that bounded and time barriers can be a coercion to learning, the university continues to advance online courses for acceptance at home and/or in the workplace.

Using HarvestRoad Hive, university agents can now share, re-use and repurpose their content. This avoids anyone accepting to ‘reinvent the wheel’, enabling the university’s investment in e-learning agreeable – apparently over a actor pounds’ account of accomplishment - to be acclimated added effectively.

“In addition, we can use HarvestRoad Hive to authority course-related advice – for example, area a work-based coach can go to a work-based abutment aperture and get accordant resources,” said Professor Mark Stiles, Staffordshire University’s arch of Learning Development and Innovation. “Thus, added than accepting acclimated alone to advance advance material, HarvestRoad Hive can abutment the absolute acquirements experience.”

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Giunti Labs
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Giunti Labs is a arch Online and Mobile Learning Content Management Solutions provider with all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden), Boston (US), as able-bodied as Sydney and Perth (Australia).

Giunti Labs provides a advanced ambit of solutions, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•24/7 multi accent acquirements agreeable production
•LCMS and Digital Repository Platforms
•Delivery solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and able casework

Giunti Labs is allotment of Giunti Group, a arch educational and cultural ancestry administrator with roots aback to 1841. Over the years Giunti has complete a archive of huge ambit (over 7.000 titles) and acquired new brands in Italy and worldwide.

In 2008, Giunti Labs acquired the HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum system, which manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives. HarvestRoad Hive can interface with about any ERP, Learning or Course Management System and is already chip with several frequently acclimated advance administration systems, assembly and agreeable accumulation tools.

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