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. TIS' offered corporations, universities, schools, publishers and government institutions training including simulations, story based learning, courseware and curriculum design & development, special-needs education, assessment tools, electronic performance support systems (EPSS), mobile learning, game-based learning, consulting services and training outsourcing services. Until the acquisition, TIS was a part of the $100bn

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. The newly acquired company is now known as MPS Interactive Systems. TIS was the only e-learning organization in the world to be assessed at Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM (Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model) and P-CMM (People-Capability Maturity Model) frameworks.

Key Milestones

*1990 – TIS founded *1991 – Developed India’s first Computer-based Training (CBT) product and got its first export order *1994 – First US and Europe orders *1995 – First simulation-based CBT on Waste Water Treatment Plant *1996 – TIS entered UK market; proposes and designs Website for the Tata Group *2002 – Entered the Middle East and Australia markets *2004 – Opened a new Development Center in

, India *2006 – Acquired TOPSIM, a simulations company in Germany and Tertia Edusoft AG a Swiss e-learning company *2007 – Expanded operations in Germany and Northern Europe by setting up offices in Köln and Amsterdam *2011 - Launched CLASS

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, a comprehensive learning solution for Indian Schools *2018 - Sold to MPS Limited.

Achievements

Tata Interactive Systems created about 3000 hours of e-learning content annually for more than 50 Fortune 500 clients. TIS had an 800+ strong team working on 220+ concurrent projects.

References

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