CERTPOINT Systems

Long Island, NY - February 9, 2005 - Medical Specialties Distributors (MSD), the nation's leading alternate site healthcare distributor and Vuepoint, a global training solution provider, are announcing their partnership to form a standardized product knowledge platform that will provide the MSD sales team, their customers and prospects with real-time training on new products and services.

Utilizing Vuepoint's proprietary e-learning infrastructure, MSD's suppliers will have the ability to transfer product and service knowledge to the MSD sales team - online and in real-time. This technology eliminates any lag time between when a product was ready to be sold - and when the sales team was ready to sell it.

Sales associates can learn remotely, eliminating substantial travel costs and keeping their salespeople in the field selling. In the past, traditional training methods producing product brochures and three-ringed manuals - served as the only source of reference for the sales team once they were back in the field. Recent statistics show that 90 % of these materials go completely unused.

"The Vuepoint's platform provides all parties - the customer, the supplier, the distributor and the salesperson - with information on who is learning about what product at what time - so we are instantaneously aware if there is anyone who needs further training on any one specific product," says Richard Worthen, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, MSD. "This tool is endlessly useful for companies like ours that maintain large, geographically-dispersed sales teams and a constantly changing product line."

"The Vuepoint platform has helped many world-class organizations, such as Toyota, Whirlpool and Guidant launch their products. We look forward to helping MSD and their suppliers create similar success in the medical supply and distribution marketplace," said Ara Ohanian CEO Vuepoint Corporation.