First Quarter 2009 Closes with Year-to-Year Revenue Growth, Exponential Usage Increase by Existing Customers, and Dozens of New Customers Worldwide

Pleasanton, California (April 28, 2009) –

News Facts:

* Elluminate, Inc., the leading provider of learning technology that transforms education on a global level, announced today its continuing high rate of customer satisfaction and loyalty resulting in exponential growth in adoption and usage with more than 600 million minutes of live, online instruction served annually.
* Revenues for the first quarter of 2009 grew year-over-year, fueled by significant customer renewals and upgrades, as well as many new domestic and international users for both K12 and Higher Education markets. This results in a total of over 1,300 institutional customers using Elluminate solutions.
* New and renewal customers for the first quarter included virtual schools, school districts, community colleges, universities, corporations, and other organizations, demonstrating the wide appeal for strategic investment in real-time collaborative solutions to meet the challenges of 21st Century teaching and learning and as a solution to tightened operational and travel budgets. A significant number of customers upgraded to the Elluminate Learning Suite(TM), which adds Elluminate Plan!(TM) and Elluminate Publish!(TM) to flagship product Elluminate Live!®
* Elluminate’s enabling technology goes beyond the virtual classroom with tools for student-centered learning, on-demand collaboration, start-to-finish session management, content creation and distribution, and enterprise-wide adoption. Many customers also expanded size of their deployments, indicating broader acceptance of web conferencing as a solution to cost-effective collaboration and of online learning programs as a new source of revenue.
* Existing customers who renewed or upgraded in Q1 included Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia, Allegheny Intermediate Unit Head Start, Baylor University, Bisk Education, California State University Fresno, Chester County Intermediate Unit, Coastline Community College, Deakin University, Departmento de Educacion de Puerto Rico, Fairfax County Public Schools, Insight Schools, Montgomery College, Novell, Open University, Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, Portland Community College, Red Hat, Union County Public Schools, United States Library of Congress, University of Calgary, and York County School Division.
* Elluminate also welcomed a variety of new K-12 and Higher Education customers including Amridge University, Anaheim Union High School District, Association of Canadian Community Colleges, Eastern Wyoming College, Indiana Department of Education, OCR Examination Board, Queensland University of Technology, Thomson Rivers University, UCLA, United States Marine Corps College of Continuing Education, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and Valencian International University.

Source: Elluminate