GlobalEnglish Unveils GlobalEnglish Edge™ Software Upgrade Featuring the Industry's Most Advanced Speech Recognition and Remediation Technology
Leading Enterprise Software Provider Overhauls Its Core Business English SaaS Offering to Drive Global High Performance for Multinational Organizations
GlobalEnglish Corporation (www.GlobalEnglish.com), a leading provider of on-demand software to advance Enterprise Fluency™ for global organizations, today announced it has released a significant upgrade to its GlobalEnglish Corporate Learning Service™. The new GlobalEnglish Edge offering provides both structured and unstructured improvement of Business English, in addition to adding enhanced productivity tools to help multinational companies more quickly reap the rewards of improved business communications and higher-quality work output to drive increased global team performance. GlobalEnglish Edge features the most advanced speech recognition and remediation technology in the industry to help non-native English speakers of all levels improve their verbal business communications.
A core component of the new GlobalEnglish Suite™ of innovative, on-demand software products for global enterprises, GlobalEnglish Edge lets multinational companies improve Business English proficiency across a workforce that increasingly consists of a majority of non-native English speakers, while continually improving organizational productivity. The enterprise software product engages subscribers, delivers proven results and offers the scalability and efficiency that large, global organizations require.
GlobalEnglish Edge now boasts enhanced productivity resources and a radically improved user experience that provides easier access to content and more intuitive navigation for both employee and administrator. It features redesigned pronunciation communication practice activities, better performance feedback on speaking and writing, a more streamlined on-boarding process and less dependence on IT or downloaded software. The enterprise solution provides robust administrative tools to track improvements over time.
Multinational organizations with 1,000 to 100,000's of employees across the globe can easily deploy the on-demand software. Its culturally relevant, business-focused performance support tools and training curriculum is customized for 11 skill levels and translated into 15 different languages. The content includes rich multimedia features designed to motivate subscribers with speaking and pronunciation tools, live virtual business-focused group classes 24/7, industry and function-specific language and terms, access to mobile learning content and offline study capabilities.
"GlobalEnglish advances Enterprise Fluency by providing the tools and expertise to improve Business English on-demand when and where global organizations need it most. Using GlobalEnglish Edge our customers can more effectively compete and win through widespread access to tools for improved communications in the global language of business," said Mahesh Ram, GlobalEnglish Chief Executive Officer. "Based on customer usage studies, we anticipate productivity gains of more than one hour per employee each week on average. Improving our customers' ability to communicate more effectively around the world directly impacts the speed and adeptness in which they operate, and ultimately creates more nimble, high-performance global organizations."
Subscribers can practice common business language, grammar and writing so they can better communicate in English for a variety of workplace interactions, such as negotiating, phone calls, meetings, email, presentations and business socializing. The new enterprise SaaS offering lets employees practice speaking in English with phoneme-level pronunciation feedback and recommends remediation activities that address their specic problem areas with instant feedback on practice sessions. All writing activities provide immediate writing feedback, indicating corrections for spelling mistakes. Subscribers have access to performance-support features such as customizable email templates, which can be downloaded to common email programs for a variety of business situations.
Listening comprehension is a critical focus within the newly-enhanced GlobalEnglish Edge platform. Its text-to-speech technology lets subscribers hear any text read aloud, and the solution provides access to an extensive library of authentic recordings from around the world to improve their ability to understand English speakers with different accents. The software affords quick access to translation, text-to-speech, vocabulary lists, and other resources for immediate support of work-related tasks. Extensive cultural information, including business etiquette and tips for managing customer relations, is available through its Culture Notes to help employees prepare for international business interactions or travel.
About the GlobalEnglish Suite
GlobalEnglish Edge is a component of the GlobalEnglish Suite, a complete on-demand platform for global enterprises designed to improve Business English proficiency and drive better business results using the web, mobile devices, and enterprise social collaboration software tools. The GlobalEnglish Suite is the most effective solution available for advancing Enterprise Fluency, the communication and collaboration excellence that drives high performance in a global economy. The GlobalEnglish Suite's Enterprise Edition and Business Edition packages include a variety of web-based reporting and administrative tools to measure and track individual and group usage across the platform and to measure performance gains across the enterprise. Administrators can define reports and view data based on their specific information needs, such as subscriber characteristics, usage levels, business unit or country-level groupings and date ranges.
GlobalEnglish Edge is integrated with four other software products including:
• GlobalEnglish Bloom™: the first-ever collaboration platform focused on global communication and Enterprise Fluency for multinational companies - a secure online workspace infused with robust social capabilities to help native and non-native English speakers improve the speed and quality of their work and leverage global and local expertise to complete professional tasks in Business English
• GlobalEnglish LinGo Pro™: a mobile business app that makes award-winning Business English tools available via smartphone, tablet and browser-based devices
• GlobalEnglish STEP™ and GlobalEnglish STEP+™: adaptive online tests that accurately assess Business English proficiency levels and identify skills gaps
• GlobalEnglish Coach™: a web-based platform that allows subscribers to enjoy all aspects of a personal coaching relationship with a native-English speaking coach