MUMBAI, India, November 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ashorne Hill and Tata Interactive Systems Join Hands to Enable Key Organisational Initiatives

Now both Ashorne Hill and Tata Interactive Systems, part of the $70 billion Tata Group, have come together to provide a range of bespoke Learning Solutions designed to help organisations address and support key business challenges.

Announcing the alliance, John Carson, Managing Director of Ashorne Hill said, The combination of Ashorne Hill's highly experienced Learning Development capability and Tata Interactive Systems' Learning Technology expertise will enable us to support our clients with solutions that enable employees to impact and deliver measurable results back into the business.

Tata Interactive Systems global experience and expertise in delivering learning solutions using technology, enables us to design and develop solutions that have a demonstrable effect on building competencies within an organisation, adds Alan Samuel, Vice President - UK. He added, The solutions we design with our colleagues at Ashorne Hill will provide a richer and more sustainable learner experience over the life of an organisational initiative.

Tata Interactive Systems and Ashorne Hill plan to initiate long-term relationships with organisations, partnering and collaborating on business and learning needs analysis, design, delivery and evaluation of tailored programmes to meet the business' operational challenges.

Together, the two organisations will offer support for their clients' leadership and change initiatives via content, design and delivery methodologies that extend beyond the classroom to form a solution that is available to users throughout the lifetime of the initiative and beyond.

About:

Ashorne Hill has over fifty years' experience as a dedicated training partner and provider of tailored training solutions at all levels of management seniority. Our team has partnered with organisations across industry sectors to deliver pragmatic training solutions - with the capability to design and validate development programmes, manage large scale projects and create lasting impact.

Located in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, their superbly equipped residential training facilities are less than 25 miles from Birmingham Airport. Ashorne Hill is a member of the Conference Centres of Excellence.

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in learning solutions, is a part of the $70bn Tata Group. Truly international, TIS has a presence across the US, Canada, the UK, mainland Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and India. TIS offers corporations, universities, schools, publishers and government institutions a diversified and innovative bouquet of learning and training solutions including Simulation-based Learning Objects (SimBLs(R)), Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLs), courseware and curriculum design, special-needs education, CyberTest Assessment Engine, electronic performance support systems (EPSS), Learning Planet(TM) LCMS, ManTra(TM) LMS, virtual classrooms, mobile learning, Game-based Learning (GamBLs), and 3D animation along with other corporate training and consultancy services. Our multi-disciplinary expertise and 18 years' experience across domains help us design e-learning programs that are unique to clients' requirements and specifically crafted to boost knowledge retention and application.

TIS is the only e-learning organization in the world to be assessed at Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM and P-CMM frameworks. TIS's quest for excellence is reflected in numerous prestigious industry awards, including a Performance Centered Design Award, an ASTD Award, IT Training Awards, Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards, APEX Awards of Excellence, BETT Awards, and Business World-NID Design Excellence awards.

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Further information from: Sonal Chhaya Tata Interactive Systems +91-22-6643-8000 sonal_c@tatainteractive.com Contacts: Stephen Upton Business Development Director Ashorne Hill Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9QW Tel: +44(0)1926-488051 Fax: +44(0)1926-488006 Email: stephen.upton@ashornehill.co.uk Web: http://www.ashornehill.co.uk Alan Samuel Vice President UK Tata Interactive Systems 18 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HS Tel: +44(0)207-235-8281 Fax: +44(0)207-235-1573 Email: alan.samuel@tatainteractive.com Web: http://www.tatainteractive.com

Further information from: Sonal Chhaya, Tata Interactive Systems, +91-22-6643-8000, sonal_c@tatainteractive.com; Contacts: Stephen Upton, Business Development Director, Ashorne Hill, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV33 9QW, Tel: +44(0)1926-488051, Fax: +44(0)1926-488006, Email: stephen.upton@ashornehill.co.uk; Alan Samuel, Vice President UK, Tata Interactive Systems, 18 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HS, Tel: +44(0)207-235-8281, Fax: +44(0)207-235-1573, Email: alan.samuel@tatainteractive.com