Lake Mary, FL - 27 February 2006 - IMS Global Learning Consortium announced today that HarvestRoad's federated digital repository system, HarvestRoad Hive® is the inaugural IMS conformant product. HarvestRoad Hive® 2.6 is compliant with IMS Metadata 1.2.1 and Hive Explorer and RELOAD Editor 1.3 is compliant with IMS Content Packaging v1.1.1 - v1.1.3 Import and Export Compliant.

"We are delighted that HarvestRoad, a Contributing Member of IMS, has become one of the first to receive the IMS Conformance Mark", said Rob Abel, IMS/GLC Chief Executive Officer. "HarvestRoad's dedication to IMS is a real asset in moving the Compliance Program forward."

"Interoperability has always been a focus in IMS and as additional products become IMS Compliant, our goal is to see an even greater improvement in the interoperability of learning products", added Abel.

"IMS is the most influential player in the e-learning standards arena and we are happy that we are the first to have an IMS Conformance Mark", remarked Grame Barty, Managing Director and Founder of HarvestRoad. "We are eager to continue our work with IMS in moving learning standards and interoperability forward."

The IMS Compliance Program improves interoperability in the worldwide implementation of IMS Specifications by establishing realistic measures of interoperability and increasing those measures over time as best practice and more rigorous testing capabilities become available. The IMS Compliance Program describes conformance for data instance and defines conforming behavior for standard operations, including import, export, and service behavior. Product developers provide evidence to support conformance claims based on self testing.

The IMS Compliance Program was initiated in response to requests from education and training providers to help identify which marketplace products were IMS conformant. Only Vendors of Conformant Products receive the right to use the IMS Conformant Logo. For more information about the IMS Compliance Program and a directory of Conformant products visit: http://www.imsglobal.org/conformance/index.html

About IMS
IMS Global Learning Consortium
Innovation, Adoption, Learning.
The IMS Global Learning Consortium is the leading advocacy group encouraging the growth and impact of learning technology worldwide. IMS/GLC is a nonprofit membership organization that includes more than 50 Contributing Members and Affiliates. For information about IMS/GLC specifications, on-going activities, and membership application visit http://www.imsglobal.org.

About HarvestRoad
HarvestRoad is a software development company based in Perth, Western Australia, with branch offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Mexico City, Atlanta, London and Paris and global partners in Europe, UK, USA, Latin America, and Asia. Established in 1996 and publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange [ASX: HRD] in September 1999, HarvestRoad has developed software for the eLearning and eTraining markets in education, government, defense, and enterprise.

About HarvestRoad Hive®
HarvestRoad Hive® is a federated digital repository system. Totally independent of, but interoperable with, the systems that create and deliver content such as authoring tools and Learning Management Systems, HarvestRoad Hive® allows the reuse and sharing of learning objects across single, multiple or geographically dispersed locations.

HarvestRoad Hive® can be used to store any type of digital file but it is particularly suited to the requirements of online or flexible learning where content needs to be stored, accessed, assembled, disassembled, shared and reused in multiple contexts and environments and scale to millions of users. Please visit http://www.harvestroad.com for more information.

For More Information:
Contact: Lisa Mattson at lmattson@imsglobal.org

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