Press Releases - 2008
Intuition achieves Microsoft Gold Partnership Certification status
Dublin, Ireland – 17 July 2008 – Intuition, a leading global provider of learning services to financial markets, life sciences and the government sector, today announced that it has been accredited as a Microsoft Gold Partner. The prestigious certification recognizes Intuition’s high level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners undergo a rigorous assessment and analysis by Microsoft to ensure they are delivering technologies and services that meet Microsoft’s stringent benchmarks. The certification offers organizations the means to identify those companies that are committed to the highest industry standards set by Microsoft in building and maintaining end-use solutions.
Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of Microsoft‘s Partner Certification program. It provides access to a variety of resources including training, technical support and early access to Microsoft software products.
“Intuition is committed to being a leading provider of learning technology solutions which support and extend our clients education initiatives,” says Keith O'Loughlin, Head of Technology Services at Intuition. “Achieving Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status puts Intuition in a very strong position to bring leading-edge technologies in the delivery of our learning solutions. It will enable us to provide seamless integration with Microsoft products while staying at the forefront of developing advanced functionality for our learning technologies.”
About Intuition
Intuition is a leading professional education provider to the financial markets, life sciences and government communities. By combining an in-depth knowledge of these sectors with extensive educational expertise, Intuition provides a full spectrum of products, services and technologies to support clients’ learning requirements. Using this approach, Intuition has successfully developed innovative online learning programs for healthcare staff involved in decontamination and infection control as well as delivered financial education programs that cover Derivatives, Credit Risk, Corporate Valuation, Private Banking & Wealth Management, Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, Fixed Income, and Equities.
Intuition is headquartered in Dublin and has offices in New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.intuition.com
Intuition addresses the growing demand for financial markets education in Asia-Pacific
Dublin, Ireland and Sydney, Australia - 10 July 2008 - Intuition, the leading global provider of learning services to financial markets, life sciences and the government sector, has expanded its Asia-Pacific operations with the opening of a new office in Sydney, Australia. The new office marks an important milestone in the company’s continued collaboration working with major Australian financial services and banking firms.
Ciara Clerkin will head up the Sydney office. Ciara has extensive international experience working with Intuition in a variety of roles and locations. Ciara will focus primarily on supporting Intuition’s already well established business in the region.
“Our presence in Sydney now provides a key local point of contact, enabling us to enhance our business relationships with both global and local clients alike,” says Simon Banks, CEO Intuition Asia-Pacific. “I anticipate great success in working with our existing partners as well as helping new organisations realise the benefits of implementing a complete education solution.”
Intuition delivers knowledge services that are aligned and optimized to its clients’ business line objectives. A key focus for Intuition’s Asia-Pacific business is the provision of bespoke education programmes to steer new employees through the induction process so that they can become valuable members of their team as quickly as possible. Intuition provides integrated education programmes that use a wide variety of learning mediums including e-learning, mobile learning via BlackBerry® smartphone, live classroom workshops, on-line assessments and collaborative support.
About Intuition
Intuition is a leading professional education provider to the financial markets, life sciences and government communities. By combining an in-depth knowledge of these sectors with extensive educational expertise, Intuition provides a full spectrum of products, services and technologies to support customers' learning requirements. Using this approach, Intuition has successfully developed innovative online training programmes for healthcare staff involved in decontamination and infection control as well as delivered education programmes that cover Derivatives, Credit Risk, Corporate Valuation, Private Banking & Wealth Management, Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, Fixed Income and Equities.
Intuition is headquartered in Dublin and has offices in London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.intuition.com
Intuition and Merrill Lynch recognized for mobile learning innovation
Dublin, Ireland - 29 May, 2008 - Intuition, a leading global provider of learning services to financial markets, life sciences and government sector, today announced that it was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Wireless Leadership Awards. Being selected as a finalist recognises Intuition's work with Merrill Lynch for its GoLearn project. The GoLearn project at Merrill Lynch was recognised as a finalist in the Innovation in the Private Sector category during a ceremony at the 2008 Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
"We are hugely pleased to have been selected from amongst the global entrants for this prestigious honour for implementing our mobile learning technology solution," says Keith O'Loughlin, Head of Technology Services at Intuition. "The technology approach we applied centered on leveraging the existing mobile infrastructure at Merrill Lynch, whilst adhering to industry standards, and most importantly of all ease of use and deployment."
The GoLearn project delivers mandated learning to BlackBerry® smartphone users through an application developed by Intuition. This project enables employees to access learning materials during naturally occurring down time, such as, the daily commute or while travelling on business.
Kristofor Swanson, the global HR mobile strategy lead at Merrill Lynch said: "Using BlackBerry smartphones to deliver learning has been so effective that participants now take their courses in about 45% less time, saving about four to six hours in lost productivity per annum. These employees have also scored higher on competency exams than their colleagues studying in a traditional online format."
About the 2008 Wireless Leadership Awards
The 2008 Wireless Leadership Awards recognizes innovation and outstanding results in wireless deployments. These awards acknowledge BlackBerry smartphone users who have set the standard for business excellence, unique solutions, ingenuity, and customer satisfaction with wireless solutions in the Public Sector, Private Sector and with a valuable Business Impact. The awards are presented during the annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) attended by solution administrators, developers and end-users.
About Intuition
Intuition is a leading professional education provider to the financial markets, life sciences and government communities. By combining an in-depth knowledge of these sectors with extensive educational expertise, Intuition provides a full spectrum of products, services and technologies to support customers' learning requirements. Using this approach, Intuition has successfully developed innovative online training programs for healthcare staff involved in decontamination and infection control as well as delivered education programs that cover Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Equity-Linked Securities, Equity Structured Products, Exotic Options, Interest Rate & FX Structured Products and Pricing Derivatives.
Intuition is headquartered in Dublin and has offices in New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.intuition.com
New partnership combines leading medical communications with world-class learning services
Manchester, UK and Dublin, Ireland, 24 April 2008, Spirit Medical Communications, a leading medical communications agency, and Intuition, the leading provider of learning services to financial markets, life sciences and public sector, today announced a new partnership. The partnership brings together both organisations’ industry-leading expertise in medical communications and learning to offer pharmaceutical and healthcare clients a uniquely integrated approach to their needs.
The Spirit-Intuition partnership will address the communication and learning and development needs of the pharmaceutical and healthcare market by providing:
- Integrated strategic communication planning and implementation throughout the product lifecycle
- State-of-the-art training and learning strategies
- Expertise across all major disease areas
- A global network to support global, regional and local initiatives
“Providing a single source service that combines the talents of both organisations will result in improved and enhanced client messaging. The partnership will also lead to improved time- and cost–efficiencies, as once content is developed it can be re-used and adapted across both medical communications and learning and development arenas.” said Bill McDunphy, General Manager of Intuition’s Life Sciences practice.
Asif Zaman, Managing Director, Spirit Medical Communications, said “The partnership agreement will go beyond delivering the high-quality services expected of a leading medical communications and learning specialist organisation by adding an a new dimension that integrates the expertise of both groups from the outset of a client project”.
About Spirit
Spirit is a full service, medical communications agency serving the pharmaceutical industry. Based in Manchester, UK, the team provides service excellence underpinned by extensive agency and industry experience gained from leading organisations. Spirit has been designed to ensure that the people you work with deliver an expert and tailored service at all stages of the project or programme lifecycle.
For more information, visit: www.spirit-medcomms.com
About Intuition
Intuition is a learning services company, headquartered in Dublin and with operations in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. Intuition develops tailored state-of-the-art learning solutions for each client, unique to their requirements. Integrity and quality of deliverables are key to our approach. Intuition’s Life Sciences solutions are used by global pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, including Schering-Plough, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth, Centocor, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Department of Health England and the NHS.
Intuition is a leading provider of knowledge services to the financial markets, life sciences and public sector communities. By combining an intimate knowledge of these sectors with in-depth educational expertise, Intuition provides a full spectrum of products, services and technologies to support customers’ learning requirements. For more information, visit: www.intuition.com
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For more information please contact:
Séamus Coogan
Telephone: +353 1 605 4300
E-mail: scoogan@intuition.com
Asif Zaman
Telephone: +44 161 955 4298
E-mail: asif.zaman@spirit-medcomms.com
