One can classify capabilities into following areas:

• Authoring -- Composition of Elegant Pages
• Training Management: Curricula IMS standards and PAPI
• Content Repositories a.k.a. Asynchronous Learning Systems
• Synchronous or Interactive Collaboration/Delivery
• Database: technologies to support web-linked databases

Taken from an IDC Survey, and our knowledge. WebWisdomNT has significant capabilities in all areas. In the case of authoring, we enhance existing systems. None of these systems offer WebWisdomNT's range of capabilities from management, presentation-authoring enhancement, linkage of synchronous and asynchronous modes, database support and flexibility from the use of powerful shared event model of collaboration. Some systems have some of WebWisdomNT's capabilities. WebWisdomNT supports all authoring systems that export to the web but often this loses capabilities of native model as in PowerPoint's web export. For a compendium of systems, see http://www.osc.edu/webed/

• Allen Communications http://www.allencomm.com/ multimedia authoring
• Asymetrix Learning Systems http://www.asymetrix.com/ Toolbook product supports multimedia authoring
• Macromedia Authorware can be fully supported by WebWisdomNT
• Microsoft PowerPoint supported by WebWisdomNT. We support enhanced web export capabilities for this system.
• Persuasion (only in old collections as now defunct) supported by WebWisdomNT
• FrontPage, NetFusion and HTML Editors supported by WebWisdomNT

• KnowledgeSoft http://www.knowledgesoft.com/
• Pebblesoft Learning http://www.pebblesoft.com is password protected
• Saratoga Group http://www.saratogagroup.com/ CyberWISE product appears to support course registration and other capabilities needed to provide course. (Could be classified as asynchronous delivery system)
• Syscom http://www.trainingserver.com/
• WBT Systems http://www.west.ie/

• CBT Systems Campus http://www.cbtsys.com/ has 3000 hours of self-paced training -- mainly in basic computer skills. 1200 employees. Can download demonstration software
• McGraw Hill Online Learning http://www.mhonlinelearning.com/ which is part of http://www.mhlifetimelearning.com/ (McGraw Hill Life Time Learning) which is classic asynchronous learning source
• Docent http://www.docent.com/ has limited curriculum model. It offers service to install corporate training
• Databeam/Lotus LearningServer http://www.databeam.com/ could become interesting but Lotus itself suffers from lack of clean web integration. Shared files have to be displayed in a whiteboard. Databeam was purchased by Lotus and it is not clear what Databeam Learning Server is. They offer a conference center which uses NetMeeting and FarSite which appears to be shared whiteboard.
• Educause IMS http://www.imsproject.org (Instructional Management System) is industry-education consortium setting standards and delivering reference implementations without good synchronous capabilities. No real products.
• Eloquent http://www.eloquent.com has 100 employees and appears to focus on producing and delivering digital video combined with presentations. This is offered as a service. Their class recording and playback capability technology is matched by WebWisdom.com LecCorder.
• Microsoft NetShow multimedia delivery from Microsoft
• RealNetworks Real Media and many systems built around this technology. WebWisdom.com offers qualitatively comparable audio/video support in pure Java.
• WebCT http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/ is a good popular and simple authoring system delivering nice integrated course pages. Supported by WebWisdomNT for synchronous delivery

• Centra http://www.centra.com/ good product aimed at corporate training. Does not have a general collaboration backbone
• Contigo http://www.contigo.com/ seems more limited than other such delivery systems.
• CUSeeMe is an enhanced audio-video conferencing tool. WebWisdom.com offers comparable BuenaVista tool.
• Habanero is a good research project, which has not been customized for education
• ILINC http://www.ilinc.com/ is an interesting product with similar capabilities to parts of WebWisdomNT
• Microsoft NetMeeting limited collaboration model as shared display
• ONE TOUCH Systems http://www.onetouch.com/ is also an interesting product with some capabilities shared with WebWisdomNT.
• Placeware http://www.placeware.com/ aimed at conferencing with good but limited capabilities

• ColdFusion is a good web-linked database, which is not aimed at educational objects and their delivery
• Lotus Notes has poor web integration and no synchronous capabilities unless linked to systems like TangoInteractive