Gartner has included Elluminate, Inc., in its Visionaries Quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing” for 2009. Gartner (News - Alert) used criteria such as market understanding, marketing and sales strategy, product strategy, and business model to select the winners.

 

Elluminate provides various products for communication, collaboration, and education purposes. Elluminate products are enterprise-ready with the reliability, security, and manageability required by the companies. The learning suite includes products such as Elluminate Plan!, Elluminate Live! and Elluminate Publish!.

 

Gartner says Web conferencing has solid future because of the economic pressures and recent enterprise concerns and mandates about reducing travel costs. From a return on investment (ROI) perspective, Web conferencing tools are perhaps one of the easiest to measure, states the company. According to the company, it is easier to decide the potential cost savings from a reduction in travel with the help of Web conferencing.

 

“We’re honored to be recognized in the Visionaries Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing,” said Maurice Heiblum, president of Elluminate. “We believe representation in this influential industry report is validation of Elluminate’s strengths in the eLearning, online collaboration, and Web conferencing market. We are continuing to enhance our product suite in ways that enable enterprise-wide adoption.”

 

Web conferencing also facilitates real-time interactive information sharing. According to Gartner, the use cases of Web conferencing vary from team collaboration to training and support. The Web conferencing services provided by Elluminate include student-centered learning, on-demand collaboration, start-to-finish session management, content creation and distribution, and enterprise-wide adoption.

 

Recently, the company integrated its Live! virtual classroom environment with the Learning Environment from Desire2Learn. With this, the users of Desire2Learn can easily add synchronous distance learning and collaboration to course work, according to Elluminate. Elluminate Live! is a virtual environment, which uses Collaborative Communications Framework to optimize learning. With this, the company minimizes administrative overhead with powerful session administration tools.