Pleasanton, CA - November 13, 2006 - We know that software teams in every organization have different learning needs. As an administrator or development manager, there are times when you need to modify the standard InnerWorkings offering to meet specific internal objectives. InnerWorkings is therefore delighted to announce new customization functionality that gives you the flexibility to tailor our products to support your specific .NET learning goals.

This major new functionality enables you to customize the developer learning experience as follows:

• create targeted Developer Programs unique to your company
• group Drills in your preferred sequence
• mask selected coding challenges from view

Custom Developer Programs
Our standard Developer Programs contain logical groupings of Drills in general categories such as Programming .NET Framework 3.0. With custom Developer Programs, you can create your own combinations containing any number of Drills from our catalog. You can also change the sequence of Drills displayed to match your team’s learning needs.

Custom Developer Programs give you the flexibility to merge Drills from different categories so you can target the learning needs of particular internal audiences. For example, you could combine specific Drills from the .NET Framework 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Development programs into a mandatory prerequisite program for new hires. Your custom Developer Programs will look and behave just like default InnerWorkings Developer programs and they are accessible only to developers within your organization.

Masking Functionality
With the new masking functionality, you can control the learning material presented to developers within your organization. It’s possible to hide any custom or standard Developer Program from your developers. You can also hide specific Drills and tasks if necessary. For example, you could use this feature to mask any non-essential .NET Drills or tasks from your development team so they can focus on the essential learning material.

Availability & Access
These new customization features are included in the InnerWorkings Platform 3.4 release scheduled for Saturday, November 18th, 2006. Developers in your organization will access custom Developer Programs through a simple auto-update process when they next login to the InnerWorkings Developer Interface.

Coming Soon
Further customization capabilities will be made available in the coming months. Clients will be able to create custom links to any web-hosted information, such as the company intranet and documents on internal coding conventions, directly within the Developer Interface. Detailed descriptions, including difficulty ratings and prerequisite information, will also be added to each InnerWorkings Drill within the Developer Interface. Customers will receive notice of these additional features two weeks prior to release.

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