Posts by Mike Rustici

Mike is the Founder and was President of Rustici Software until 2016. Most recently he was the CEO of Watershed Systems. He helped guide the first draft of the Tin Can API (xAPI) and believes ice cream is the "elixir of life."

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Do you have a lead referral or reseller program?

No, we do not. We get asked about it quite a bit though. In our early years, we experimented with some formal lead referral arrangements, but they just never quite worked out nor did they ever feel right. We've given it some thought and concluded…

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We Won a Simulation Award

Check it out. We won a modeling and simulation award from NTSA. Forterra Systems entered our joint project to deliver SCORM training from within virtual words. They describe the project and award in more detail in this press release. It's fun to be recognized just…

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Holiday Gifts

This is a festive time of year. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the New Year, or if you're just excited that it might snow soon, we wish you and your loved ones all the best.The other day, I was talking with a few other…

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“How is the economy affecting your company?”

There's been a lot of talk lately about the economy. It seems that the most popular question people have asked me lately is "how is the economy affecting your company?". I don't have an insightful answer for them. Things are still plugging along. We have…

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Our First Screencast

With the release of v2008.1 of the SCORM Engine, we've been making a push to improve our documentation and give our clients more resources to help themselves. Part of that push will involve screencasts demonstrating some common tasks. I published our first one this afternoon.…

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Music City Future 50 x3

For the third year in a row, we've managed to secure a spot on the Nashville Chamber of Commerce's list of the fastest growing companies in town, the Music City Future 50. It's hard to believe we've been able to maintain such consistent growth over…

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New Digs

It was getting a little cramped around these parts so we decided to bite the bullet and get some more space. We really value having good space. To us, good space is a place I want to spend time. Good space gives developers the privacy…

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SCORM Engine v2008.1 Available

It has been about a year and a half since we last published an update to the SCORM Engine. We're proud to announce that version 2008.1 is now available to our clients. 2008.1 contains a number of improvements, most of which are under the hood.…

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SCORM Engine in Saba

Earlier this year, Rustici Software and Saba embarked on a joint project to integrate the SCORM Engine with the Saba Learning Suite. This project showed the US Army that it is be possible to integrate our SCORM Untethered offline player into the Army's ALMS (which…

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Joe

Meet Joe. With 150+ customers all over the world using five different products, it just isn't very efficient to have nine different people all juggling support requests. Sometimes two people wind up answering the same question, sometimes a request falls through the cracks and sometimes…

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Steppin’ Up

We've always said that our people are our most important asset...and as a software company, they're really our only asset. It only makes sense to keep employees comfortable, happy and productive. This Spring we decided that since we needed a few new computers anyway, we…

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Foray into SSP

There are a few specifications on the periphery of SCORM that add value above and beyond what SCORM has to offer. Two of them, both from IMS, Sharable State Persistence (IMS SSP) and Question and Test Interoperability (IMS QTI) seem to be gaining some traction.…

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