The year in review

Happy new year! I hope you all had a great new year celebration! I spent new years in Edinburgh together with wife and friends. Edinburgh is known for their great new year celebration that is in the same league as Sidney and New York, with 100.000 sold tickets for the street party in princess street. Just a shame that the whole ting was canceled an hour before the party was about to start... :-)

I guess this is the season for looking back at events that has taken place over the last 12 months. I have to admit myself that I'm often way to impatient to stop and reflect over how things develop, so as a mini-new-years resolution I've taken it upon me to compile an unofficial "year in review" of the (mostly) positive stuff that has happened with our company for the last year.

Feel free to comment and suggest updates to this list!

January

• It's learning is, as one of two companies, added to the conformance list at IMS Global Learning Consortium .
• It's learning anounces it's partnership with UK company Viglen at the BETT SHOW 2007.
• For the third year, it's learning and the norwegian directorate for education and training agrees on working together to let pupils perform their graduating exams on the learning platform. Around 3000 exams are later handed in using it's learning.

February

• First agreement signed with customer that allows it's learning to be integrated with Microsoft Learning Gateway using LDAP Authentication, Web-Services, Web-parts and ISA Server for true single-sign-on.
  

March

• The city of Tromsø is the location for our annual norwegian user conference, attracing about 160 visitors from all over the contry.
• It's learning and viglen starts the process with qualifying for the BECTA learning platform framework agreement in the UK. Amongst the keynote speaker is professor Wim Veen/Delft University of technology and professor Arne Krokan/NTNU. They will later form up with it's learning to offer a popular leadership training programme for principals and management in schools.
• Our hosting center installs it's most expencive and advanced piece of hardware so far: a DELL/EMC CX-300 Direct Attached Storage to meet the requirement for capacity, reliability and speed.
• Øyvind joins it's learning as a technical writer in the product development team.

April

• Birte joins it's learning as a user experience specialist in the product development team.

May

• Gjermund joins our technical consulting team.
• Kjetil joins our sales team.
• Torbjørn unfortunately left us and moved on to become a lead web developer in CMA Contiki AS. We still keep an eye on him via his blog kjempekjekt.com ...
  

June

• Tine joins our Service Desk to expand our efforts do give our customers 2nd line support.

July

• It's learning and dutch company ephorus announces it's seamless integration between the dutch plagiarism control application and the it's learning learning platform.
• I got married :-)
• We install two BIG-IP content switches as a part of our ongoing effort to improve the scaleability and robustness of our hosting center. The content switches will help us with load balacing issues, server pooling, SSL termination and cacheing.

August

• Beate joins our team of pedagogical staff as a training coordinator.
• New functionality is released in it's learning, including the support for learning objectives, national curriculum and full support for the Danish language.
  

September

• Bergen Kommune with it's 90 schools in primary education chooses it's learning.
• Support for Spanish is added to it's learning.
  

October

• It's learning and NTNU is featured in Dagbladet, one of Norways largest tabloid newspapers, for it's innovative mobile learning project.

November

• Beta testing of the new edition of it's learning (version 3.1) starts. The new version includes support for blogging and eportefolios, mobile edition, support for proxy tool and better internationalization.
• [UPDATED] it's learning is by Deloitte rated on the top-10-list of the fastest growing ICT companies in Norway the last 5 years. it's learning also ranks high on the Deloitte EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) FAST 500 list.

December

• University of Copenhagen, the biggest nordic university with 50.000 users, chooses it's learning as their new learning platform.
• After nine months of work, testing and waiting, it's learning and Viglen Ltd. qualifies for the BECTA Learning Services Framework Agreement .