Cobent announces a major new partner - FT Knowledge

"We are extremely pleased to have been chosen by one of the world’s best-known and most influential business brands to help them expand and refine their e-learning capability," said Cobent’s Managing Director, Howard Sears. "We are looking forward to working alongside FT Knowledge and their globally recognised parent media group, Pearson."

Charles Warburton, managing director of FT Knowledge, said, "We selected Cobent to power the Pearson Learning and Compliance Suite after an extensive review of learning management systems currently in the market. Cobent’s functionality, its full audit trail capability and the integration of globally recognised Electronic Signatures particularly impressed us, as did its price point."

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About Cobent
Cobent, a leader in web-based training management solutions, drives business success through e-learning. Based in Oxfordshire, UK, Cobent provides solutions for e-learning and training across the entire range of international blue-chip companies, fast-growth start-ups, and public sector organisations.

Cobent enables its customers to achieve regulatory compliance and knowledge management across the entire organisation, empowering them to create rich, compelling e-learning content quickly and cost-effectively.

Creating reports that are compliance-ready at the outset, Cobent delivers the market’s most reliable, flexible, and compliant solution for distributing organisation-wide learning via the web. Cobent works with organisations in the life sciences, government, financial services, education, retail and call centre sectors.

About FT Knowledge
FT Knowledge creates innovative learning solutions for market leaders worldwide. Our solutions equip professionals with the knowledge and business skills they need to succeed in a world of change. Our capabilities include: consulting services for needs analysis and the development of competency; the design of blended curricula and individual learning paths; Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS); Developing eLearning and ILT; Off-the shelf eLearning in Business Skills, Compliance and Finance; and the evaluation, assessment and analysis of training effectiveness.

FT Knowledge is accredited by the Financial Services Skills Council as a Training Provider of Excellence for its work in ensuring training delivers business results.

About Pearson
Pearson is an international Media Company with world leading businesses in Education and Business Information listed on both the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. We lead our markets in quality and innovation. We bring together some of the most valuable brands in publishing: the Financial Times, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley and Longman. From our roots as the world's largest book publisher, we've grown to provide a range of related services: testing and learning software for student of all ages; data for financial institutions; public information systems for government departments.