VSI Communications Group Extends Offer for Free Downloads of Mentor™ for Outlook 2000

Overwhelming Demand Spurs VSI to Extend FREE 30-Day Trial Offer

Norwalk, CT, February 16, 2000 —Strong online response to a free, 30-day trial offer of Mentor™ for Outlook 2000, a leading enterprise training tool, has led VSI Communications Group to extend the free offer through March 14. The free trial, downloadable at www.mentorcg.com, is being lauded by training professionals and the media as a highly effective, new way learn.

The trial software delivers more than 250 concise multimedia training capsules to the desktop. Users access Mentor™ for Outlook 2000 on the fly, as they are using Outlook, so they continue working with no reduction in productivity.

VSI Communications Group is a content development firm focused on creating just-in-time learning tools for major corporations and e-businesses.

"Due to the huge online response in December for our free, introductory offer of Mentor™ for Outlook 2000, we have extended the period the industry can test drive our latest program," says Dan Gallo, VSI"s president and CEO. "The response shows how intensely companies are looking for ways to help people use new applications without having to send them to classes or taking time away from work to click through a CBT course. The innovative elements of our just-in-time, performance support are exactly tailored to meet today"s accelerating demand for communication, learning, and support."

From pre-rollout to enterprise-wide assimilation of new processes and applications, Mentor™ communicates the benefits of a new application, helps users learn it features and functions, and provides twenty-four hour performance support.

"By adding this integrated performance support to Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Exchange, companies can get new users up to speed fast, and provide experienced users convenient reminders of how to perform any Outlook task," says David Malcom, group product manager for Exchange Server at Microsoft Corporation.

Mentor, the core brand behind Mentor™ for Outlook 2000, is currently licensed to more than 2.5 million users at corporations including IBM, DuPont, Colgate-Palmolive, Duke Energy, and Transamerica, Reuters, Canon, Philips Petroleum, Bayer and many smaller companies. Mentor"s success and rapid adoption are due to the speed with which users can use it to master new software, and Mentor"s ability to reduce training and ongoing support costs by as much as 40%.

Mentor™ for Outlook 2000, which installs in minutes and is integrated directly into Outlook 2000, delivers four hours of high-quality multimedia training in less than 30 megabytes of disk space. By relying on state-of-the-art streaming and compression technologies, Mentor delivers content to workstations with connections of 28.8 kbps or faster via LAN, intranet, or Internet in real time with no downloading required.

Mentor™ for Outlook 2000 lists for $15 a seat for 1,000 seats. Smaller quantities and larger volume discounts are available. A new 25-seat Starter Pack is also available for product evaluation.

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