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Bottom-Line Performance won two Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology gold awards for its Knowledge Guru Game-Based Learning Platform. One gold award honored Knowledge Guru as Best Advance in Gaming or Simulation Technology. The other award, gold for Best Advance in Sales Training Online Application, recognized BLP and Cisco Systems, Inc. for Cisco’s use of the Knowledge Guru platform.

BLP and ExactTarget also won a bronze award for Best Use of Games and Simulations for Learning in the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning awards earlier this year, bringing our total to three Brandon Hall Awards for the 2014.

The Knowledge Guru platform is used by Fortune 500 companies to reinforce and help employees retain critical knowledge such as policies, procedures, product knowledge and compliance information. The platform uses serious games that link engagement and motivation to the science of learning and remembering.

Cisco uses Knowledge Guru in its award-winning Cisco Sales Associate Training Program (CSAP) to train the next generation of sales leaders at Cisco. The platform helps new sales associates master and retain product and technical knowledge, and participants rate Knowledge Guru highly as a learning tool that helped them complete their Cisco certification. Cisco uses Knowledge Guru games around the world and the experience scores equally well in all regions – Europe, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, North and South America.

“It is truly a great honour for the Cisco Sales Associates Program to receive a second Brandon Hall Award,” said Paula Rossini, Global Program Manager of the CSAP program at Cisco. “The team is proud to uphold the highest standards in learning and to be recognised for this. We value our strong partnership with BLP and with them, we look forward to taking the learner experience to the next level!”

“I am honored by the recognition BLP’s Knowledge Guru platform has received in 2014,” said Sharon Boller, President and Chief Product Officer of Bottom-Line Performance. “It recognizes the efforts our team has put into designing and developing a research-based learning platform focused on helping people learn and remember critical knowledge and skills. It also recognizes the great work clients such as Cisco have done to integrate serious games into their organizations in a relevant, appropriate way.”

The entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group Sr. Analysts and Executive Leadership based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation, and overall measurable benefits.

ABOUT CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected.

ABOUT BOTTOM-LINE PERFORMANCE, INC

Bottom-Line Performance is a learning design firm serving a wide range of corporate, nonprofit, and government clients. Since 1995, we’ve helped clients choose the right learning solutions for their learners, while also helping them to design and develop learning tools effectively. Areas of specialization include product launches, customer training, customer service training, and safety and compliance training. BLP is a certified woman-owned business.

ABOUT KNOWLEDGE GURU

Bottom-Line Performance is the creator of Knowledge Guru, a game-based learning platform that uses learning science to increase employee knowledge retention and improve performance. Use it to create a single serious game teaching foundational knowledge or an extended play experience that incorporates performance challenges to help players acquire and practice new skills. The secret? Every game mechanic and game element are carefully linked to the science of how we learn and remember.