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VuDu Solutions and NetDimensions announce partnership

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VuDu Solutions, Nigeria's premier provider of enterprise technology solutions, today announced a partnership with NetDimensions, the leading provider of learning management systems to the global market. VuDu and NetDimensions will cooperate to market and support e-learning in the Nigerian market.

LAGOS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 -- VuDu Solutions (VuDu), Nigeria's premier provider of enterprise technology solutions, today announced a partnership with NetDimensions, the leading provider of learning management systems to the global market.

Through the new partnership, VuDu Solutions will market, support and customize NetDimensions' Enterprise Knowledge Platform™ (EKP™), a powerful and scalable multilingual learning management system (LMS), to its growing list of blue-chip clients from different sectors of the Nigerian economy.

Wole Ayoola, founder and Managing Director of VuDu Solutions, said: "As a major enterprise solutions provider in Nigeria, we have a mission to provide our clients with the world's best learning and development solutions. Web-based learning is fast becoming a key delivery channel to realize our mission. This partnership with NetDimensions broadens our e-learning expertise and enables our clients to better deliver, manage and document their learning and development initiatives, thereby improving business performance."

Jay Shaw, founder and CEO of NetDimensions, said: "We are witnessing the growing importance and adoption of e-learning as a training solution for corporations in Africa over the past few years. This agreement with VuDu is a cornerstone of our business strategy to increase our presence in Africa through partnerships. We will work closely with Wole and his team at VuDu to meet the increasingly complex learning and development needs of companies and organizations in Nigeria.

The partnership becomes effective immediately. Technical personnel from NetDimensions head office in Hong Kong recently visited Nigeria to conduct training sessions for VuDu sales and support teams. According to Ayoola, VuDu has actively begun marketing the EKP LMS solution and he confirmed VuDu's first sale to engineering services company Negris Limited where the system has already been successfully implemented by VuDu’s technical team.

VuDu Solutions
As a key representative of Hummingbird Inc (one of the world's top information management solutions providers), and Nigeria's leading enterprise solutions provider, VuDu Solutions provides a wide selection of professional software services, including consulting, deployment, training and outsourcing to various sectors of the Nigerian economy. The group's Web site can be found at www.vudusolutions.com.

VuDu Solutions press contact:
Wole Ayoola +234 8035671324

NetDimensions
Established in 1999, NetDimensions designs and supplies Web-based learning and knowledge management solutions to more than 100 major clients around the world, including multinationals such as HSBC, ING, South Africa Telkom and Cathay Pacific. For additional information on NetDimensions, please visit www.netdimensions.com.