Comprehensive solution with both LMS and LCMS will consolidate numerous systems and enable the delivery of more product knowledge faster

LONG ISLAND, N.Y., April 10, 2002 - Vuepoint, an eLearning software and services company that matches speed to knowledge with speed to market, announces today that Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., has selected it to design and implement a comprehensive, enterprise-wide eLearning system that Toyota projects will pay for itself within 24 months and realize an estimated net savings of $11.9 million over a five-year period due to efficiencies in e-course development and productivity. Vuepoint Learning System (VLS) 3.0 is expected to deliver more learning within current spending levels and provide the ability to disseminate knowledge faster to more than 80,000 Toyota and Lexus dealer and corporate associates.

The single-platform VLS will provide the base training infrastructure for University of Toyota and allow it to consolidate numerous disparate systems into a streamlined, efficient whole. Toyota's main requirement was a sophisticated learning content management system (LCMS), but it also needed a learning management system (LMS) and collaboration capabilities. Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE), a leading business and technology consultancy, is partnering with Vuepoint on the implementation, providing integration services as well as change-management strategy.

VLS gives Toyota the ability to design courses based on proprietary knowledge, reduce the time and cost of content creation, deliver up-to-date, personalized learning to employees, and track and assess learners' progress. For instance, Toyota will use VLS to educate dealers and associates about new products and how to use Dealer Daily, a Web-based dealer information and management system for Toyota and Lexus dealers nationwide.

"In these budget-cutting times, Vuepoint solved our challenge to do more with less. VLS not only helps us cut costs, but more importantly, helps us deliver more learning more effectively than we ever have," said Rick Taniguchi, Associate Dean of eLearning at the University of Toyota, founded in 1998 as part of the company's "Business Revolution" campaign to streamline overall corporate operations. "VLS is so complete, it's the only eLearning system we need. It meets our functional requirements, and eliminates the cost and headache of integrating offerings from other eLearning vendors. And the supportive service team is another main reason we chose Vuepoint over 30 other vendors."

"With its expertise in content creation as well as content management, particularly crucial in a large-scale implementation, Vuepoint enables Toyota to disseminate proprietary knowledge easily and rapidly," said eLearning expert Brandon Hall, Ph.D., CEO of brandon-hall.com and a consultant to Toyota's selection process. "At the same time, VLS provides a highly efficient method of tracking and assessing learners' progress."