- Elluminate
Elluminate, Inc. is a privately held, multinational
software company headquartered inCalgary , Canada, andFort Lauderdale , Florida, United States. The company provides liveeLearning 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 asNorton 2000 , and the company was sold to aNASDAQ -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 SalesElluminate's products are written in Java and available on
Apple Macs ,MS Windows ,Novell Linux Desktop andRed Hat Linux .Along with a variety of professional services, the company's product line includes:
* Elluminate "Live!" - a real-time
virtual classroom environment designed fordistance 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 integrationsExternal 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]
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