7 Reasons for Purchasing the Virtual University Appliance
Knowledge Transfer by Design.

With the VU Appliance, you can create Virtual E-Learning Environments in a matter of  days. All you need is an IP address and a registered domain name. (if the Appliance will be an Intranet only, then the domain name does not have to be registered). Once the Appliance is online, you can start uploading courses that you have created or purchase courses from 3rd party vendors and upload them.

2. Low Cost of Entry

The VU Appliance is an inexpensive solution for E-Learning as well as traditional learning management. Unlike many other systems that can cost anywhere from a low of $150k to several million dollars on the high-side, the VU Appliance can be implemented for under $20k. Yes, this is correct. You do not have to spend huge amounts of money for your E-Learning initiatives. The Appliance is an Enterprise-Class and extremely robust solution - with uncompromised functions and features.

3. Open Standards Based

Open standards means that the Virtual University Appliance is based on technologies that have emerged as defacto standards because they have proven to be well understood, accepted universally as sound and in many cases endorsed by several agencies and standards committees. For example, the product is build on Java, J2EE, XML, HTML and supports multiple languages and foreign country character sets (Yes - you can convert the interface to any language and accept content created in different languages!). It runs on  Linux, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Operating Systems.  The product supports any ANSI compliant relational database. This mean MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgress, IBM DB2 and others such as Ingress and Interbase. The System uses JDBC for database connections and comes pre-configured with MySQL as the content storage database. There are no proprietary calls code (such as use of stored procedures) for any specific database and all SQL queries are handled by the Java Software running in the scalable three-tier architecture. If you are a large enterprise and already have licenses for Oracle or MS SQL server, then you may wish to switch to Oracle.

In addition, the Appliance conforms to ADL/SCORM standards for content creation and aggregtion. ADL initiative has defined high level requirements for learning content such as content reusability, accessibility, durability and interoperability. Learning management Standards are initiatives to develop a industry-wide strategy for using learning and information technologies to modernize education and training. In order to leverage existing best practices, promote the use of technology-based learning and provide a sound economic basis for investment, these initiatives define high level requirements for learning content management as well as learner tracking.
 

4. Turn-Key System

E-Learning systems can be very cumbersome to install and configure. In addition, there are many elements in E-Learning that must be integrated together to make an effective solution. Understanding and integrating these various elements can take time and also can be expensive. A single turn-key solution based around industry standards and best practices can get you started much faster. The turn-key Appliance comes pre-configured with a Learning Management System (LMS), Learning Content Management System (LCMS), Exams/Quiz Server, Evaluations/Appraisal Server, Discussion/Chat Server and a Course Builder Tool for creating and Importing content.   We bring simplicity to complexity and make e-learning initiatives easier to implement by packaging and tying all  e-learning components and their related processes together in an 'Appliance' .

5. Reduced Risk

E-Learning systems and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE's) can be very expensive to set-up. With a low-cost and turn-key solution based on open standards you are significantly minimizing your risk in up-front costs. The features, functions, scalability and ease of use of the VU Appliance provides advantages extending to all roles in the enterprise. The VU Appliance offers more function and scalability than systems costing ten times more. It is customizable and easy to roll out. In short, we believe that it is the highest value LMS/LCMS solution available anywhere. The "Price to Features & Performance Ratio" is exceptionally high because we have combined a rich feature set, high performance and scalability with a very low cost of ownership. We are so confident in our product's capabilities that we have a 90-day money back guarantee -  no questions asked.

6. Flexible and Extensible

This means that you can customize the software (or we can customize it for you if you choose our customization services). The product conforms to disciplined programming, object coding and design patterns and is therefore extremely extensible. We maintain a comprehensive software revision control facility in case you want to revert back to a previous version of the software.

7. Protect Your Investment

All courses created by you are reusable with other Learning Management Systems. Your investment in courseware is secure. You can resell the courses to others and recoup your investment.