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MasterControl Partners with Princeton Center for Education Services

SALT LAKE CITY– October 24, 2007– MasterControl Inc., the worldwide leader in GxP process management solutions, today announced that it has joined in a collaborative partnership with Princeton Center for Education Services, Inc. (PCES), a leading content developer. The MasterControl/PCES relationship will make it possible for users to implement MasterControl GxP process management software solutions in tandem with the PCES ExpressTrain® Transformation Suite™, a multi-channel software solution designed to capture, transform, and publish content.

“Princeton Center for Education Services and MasterControl share a common goal: to provide complete turn-key solutions that expand the functionality of content delivery in electronic learning systems,” said Dr. Peter Rizza, Chairman and CEO of Princeton Center for Education Services. “This partnership enhances the capabilities of ExpressTrain TS and provides customers with comprehensive solutions that facilitate the learning process while still maintaining effectual training management.”

“The partnership between MasterControl and PCES brings together two very powerful tools that considerably improve users’ ability to create, share, and secure information,” said Michael Bothe, MasterControl vice president of business development. “The MasterControl/PCES partnership is a natural fit, as both organizations are dedicated to providing customers with effective training programs that maximize efficiency for management and tracking purposes. Together both companies’ solutions can significantly reduce the time and effort many organizations are currently wasting on inefficient methods of knowledge sharing and collaboration.”

PCES’ ExpressTrain Transformation Suite is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of consistent, concurrent, and compliant training, performance support, and verification materials in a variety of formats for an organization’s required standard operating processes, protocols, and procedures (SOPs). ExpressTrain TS helps organizations reduce both the cost and the risk involved with developing and maintaining workshops, training, and similar knowledge sharing activities. The ExpressTrain solution works within Microsoft Office Professional and, like MasterControl, is fully functional right out of the box.

MasterControl Training™ is a robust, user-friendly software solution specifically designed for companies doing business in regulatory environments that are subject to stringent industry requirements related to the administration and tracking of training programs. The training solution is a component of MasterControl’s comprehensive document control and GxP process management suite. The integrated MasterControl suite  comprises configurable and connected applications that automate, streamline, and effectively manage document control, change control, audits, corrective/preventive action (CAPA), customer complaints, and other document- and forms-based quality and business processes under a single Web-based platform. The training module of the MasterControl suite effectively automates the routing and delivery of training tasks and provides a secure, centralized, Web-based repository for all training-related documents.

The MasterControl/PCES collaboration makes it possible for both companies’ complementary programs to work in conjunction, expanding the functionality of electronic content delivery and opening a new door for the development of effective training programs. The ExpressTrain solution collects and transforms data into reusable learning content objects that can be run through MasterControl’s training application. MasterControl captures the data gathered by ExpressTrain to develop new, enhanced training courses.

About MasterControl Inc.
MasterControl Inc. provides GxP process and document management software solutions to hundreds of life science companies worldwide. Since 1993, MasterControl has offered automated solutions that effectively manage document control, change control, audits, corrective/preventive actions (CAPA), regulatory training, nonconformance disposition, customer complaints, and other GxP processes. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, MasterControl provides powerful solutions that incorporate industry best practices for automating and linking every phase of a product’s development cycle, while also facilitating compliance with regulatory requirements such as ISO standards, FDA regulations, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The combination of MasterControl’s integrated platform and a continuum of risk-based software validation products and services reduces the total cost of ownership and enables customers to extend their investment across the enterprise. For more information about MasterControl, visit our website or call toll-free at 800-825-9117.

About Princeton Center for Education Services, Inc.
Princeton Center for Education Services (PCES) is a leading provider of content transfer tools, content reusability, custom content development services, and performance support. Princeton Center for Education Service's ExpressTrain Transformation Suite reduces the development by 75 percent and update/revisions by over 90 percent for training, performance support and verification of procedures, processes and protocols. MasterControl joins a growing list of partners making their products and services available through ExpressTrain. Princeton Center for Education Services provides access to a wide range of custom development services through its Authorized Express Train—Training Factory network.

ExpressTrain has been used by a wide range of major corporations and government agencies, including Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cargill, Nabisco, Kulicke & Soffa, Independence Blue Cross, Mobil, Timken Super Precision, Natco Metals, The U.S. Small Business Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Lockheed Martin, Consolidated Edison, National Science Foundation, Wyeth, Biogen, MATEC, CanisIT/Serena, and Univertical/PRI. Princeton Center for Education Services is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, with offices in Washington, DC, and Singapore, and representatives in Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.expresstrain-ts.com.