The Awards, organised by Elearning! Media Group and decided via readers' and industry professionals' votes, will be presented at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo on 26 September, taking place at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, CA, USA. This year, there are 73 product finalists named - an increase of 15 on last year's figure - in 21 categories.

In this year's learning content management system (LCMS) category, eXact learning solutions' eXact LCMS is one of the three shortlisted systems and is the only one from Europe. Each finalist will be honoured for excellence, and the top vote-getter in the category will be named the winner.

"Every finalist is a winner in the Best of Elearning! Awards", commented Catherine Upton, group publisher of the Elearning! Media Group. "Given the high volume of votes and the number of nominated products, every one of these solution providers should be proud to be honoured for excellence." She added, "The Best of Elearning! Awards programme formalises the informal 'word-of-mouth' referrals practised in our industry."

"It's thrilling to be nominated - and shortlisted - for the Award this year", said Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions' North America and Australia operations and Senior Vice President of the company's Global Business Development.

"It's particularly pleasing because these votes come from the large customer base we've built in more than twenty nations around the world - and their votes reward us for the big efforts we've put into developing our new eXact learning LCMS release 10, which will be out next quarter. Like everyone else, we're looking forward to learning the verdict on 26 September, but merely being shortlisted is already a great payback for our prolonged efforts in this field."