16/09/2008

ALISON Offers Web Database Solutions Via its Partner Texunatech

ALISON and Texunatech (Texuna Technologies Ltd.) have joined forces creating a partnership focused on delivering contracts to the public sector internationally. The development and project management experience of Texunatech, allied with the content development, e-learning platform and editorial expertise of ALISON, creates an exciting solutions provider for clients managing large databases of information in the government, education and skills sectors worldwide.

Texunatech is a leading technology solutions and outsourcing service provider. The company delivers software development services and business process outsourcing for large organizations. These services are based upon Texunatech’s tried and tested Soltex technology platform. Texunatech clients include the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), EduBase, and Lifelong Learning UK. Texunatech typically provides full life-cycle service to its clients, encompassing:

• Project management;
• Business analysis;
• System implementation, integration and testing;
• System support and maintenance; and
• System and service operation.

Texunatech was established in 2000, and since then has worked extensively with and within government agencies. With proven experience of developing and deploying public-sector systems utilizing Web technology, databases, integration, reporting and publication in a highly secure environment, the partnership with ALISON adds significant value to the Texunatech offering within the education, learning and skills sector.

Texunatech's relevant experience includes:

• Consultation with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and a number of educational bodies, including: the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA); the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), and, the Managing Information Across Partners (MIAP) Programme management team on the topic of education-related data record management;
• involvement in the MIAP Concept Viability study with Intellect;
• listing as a potential MIAP prime vendor, a strong indicator of Texunatech’s ability to meet the change management needs of the educational sector; and facilitating a Special Interest Group (SIG) between Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) within the Skills For Business network

For more information about Texunatech, visit www.texunatech.com.

ALISON
Launched in April 2007, ALISON provides freely accessible learning to individual learners. With registered learners in every country and territory worldwide, its mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive self-paced multimedia. Based in Galway, Ireland, the focus of ALISON is interactive learning for basic and essential life and workplace skills. If your organization has a mandate to provide education on any subject of public interest, or has high quality interactive content it would be happy to share worldwide, the ALISON team would be pleased to facilitate its publication and promotion.

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For more information about the Texunatech and ALISON partnership, please contact press@alison.com