Elluminate

Elluminate, Inc. is a privately held, multinational software company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The company provides live eLearning and web collaboration solutions for academic and corporate markets.

History

Elluminate was founded in 2000 by CEO Nashir Samanani and CTO Mike Mabey. Along with a core group of developers, the founders have a working history of almost 20 years, including at EraSoft Technologies, where the team grew the company to almost US$75 million in less than 18 months. The software was re-branded by Symantec as Norton 2000, and the company was sold to a NASDAQ-listed U.S. company in 1998.

* Nashir Samanani, CEO and Founder

* Mike Mabey, CTO and Founder

* Maurice Heiblum, President

* Rajeev Arora, VP, Marketing & Strategy

* Paul Roberge, VP, North American Sales

Elluminate's products are written in Java and available on Apple Macs, MS Windows, Novell Linux Desktop and Red Hat Linux.

Along with a variety of professional services, the company's product line includes:

* Elluminate "Live!" - a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for distance education and collaboration in academic institutions and corporate training

* Elluminate "Live!" Lite Edition - a virtual meeting environment with unlimited seats and basic functionality

* Elluminate "Plan!" - a standalone application for packaging online session content and activities

* Elluminate "Publish!" - an application for converting Elluminate "Live!" session recordings to industry-standard audio files or standalone recordings.

* Elluminate vRoom - a free, three-seat virtual room with most of the features of the flagship product

* Elluminate vOffice - a single-room virtual office with configurations for 5 to 20 people

* Elluminate vClass - a single-room virtual classroom with configurations for 25 to 200 people

* Elluminate Bridges that enable Elluminate "Live!" integration with a variety of learning management systems

* Ellumiante Bridges SDK - a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for custom integrations

External links

* [http://www.elluminate.com Elluminate website]
* [http://www.elluminate-pt.com Elluminate Portugal website]
* [http://www.elluminate.edublogs.org/ Elluminate blog]
* [http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/issues/jun-july/junjuly08_teachingandlearning.html "Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century," "Elearning" magazine]
* [http://www.districtadministration.com/VIEWARTICLE.ASPX?ARTICLEID=1612 "Video Conferencing Products and Services," "District Administration" magazine ]
* [http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1029 "The eLearning Future is No Longer Five Years Away," "University Business" magazine]
* [http://tesl-ej.org/ej43/int.html "Who's in charge here? WiZiQ and Elluminate," "Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal"]
* [http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545453.html?industryid=47079 "Let's Meet Online: Mostly Free Software for Getting Together on the Web," "School Library Journal"]
* [http://campustechnology.com/articles/57949/ "The Right Spend," "Campus Technology" magazine]