A small Coffs Harbour ISV which builds software for the online education market has secured a three year, $2M contract with the NSW Department of Education to provide its Learning Management System (LMS) to 130 TAFE campuses and 2200 schools.
Janison, in operation since 1998 and has only 13 staff, defeated consortiums Accenture/Blackboard, Microsoft/HP and IBM/Learningspace to the deal.
Wayne Houlden, MD at Janison, said the company, originally based in Tamworth, NSW, has focused on developing from a regional location which had worked to its advantage.
'Online learning's emphasis on provide content, collaboration and support remotely fits neatly with our experience of building a leading online learning software development company in a regional location,' he said.
Under the contract, Janison is providing the software to NSW schools, which would use it as a platform for the delivery of online learning courses. 'It's a toolkit for developing and delivering courses online,' Houlden said.
Houlden claimed that the developer had a 'better and less expensive' product than its competitors and feedback from customers had suggested it's the best online learning product that they had seen. 'You can drop components into a web page and students can interact with [them],' he said. 'There are a few organisations who have bought first stage e-learning products and are looking to purchase products that have better features and are more cost-effective,' he claimed.
The deal would provide the company with a revenue boost on top of its current sales revenue run rate of around $1.5 million per annum.
Janison was also recently awarded the state contract for the provision of the software to TAFE in South Australia. Some Australian private schools had purchased the software and in January this year the Toolbox LMS was selected by Yale University in the United States for the development of new online courses, the company said.
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