Our Company

The WebTrain concept was developed in 1998 for the purpose of reducing training costs for off-site business clients. The idea was later expanded to include additional communication services. Six different communication products were released after two years of initial development. Each of the software products provided a specific set of features related to its intended market. There was a call alert monitor, a free PC-PC telephone application, a virtual business meetings application, a webinar presentation application, a virtual conference center application, and a web based virtual classroom application. All products were VoIP based.

After releasing the different products in 2001, it was found that clients wanted a single product that provided all of the features offered by each of the separate applications and services. In 2003, WebTrain released version 1 of their Communicator product, merging the feature sets of the separate applications into a single hosted application. Version 2 was released Feb 11, 2003, Version 3 of the Communicator was released August 6, 2006. Web service APIs for back end integration and OEM white labeling were also provided in the v3 release. Version 4 was released on October 12, 2008.

Most recently in October 2009 the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Paul Greenwood as the new President and CEO of WebTrain. Another recent management change is the appointment of Mr. Trevor Tasker as Vice President and General Manager to transform WebTrain to appeal to a more diverse market sector. The new Canadian head office is now located in Mill Bay, British Columbia and the new Regional Office was opened in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Amongst other things an entirely new brand was created called BlueTrain, this was done to expand the marketing of the product into other sectors worldwide. WebTrain was upgraded from an NT 4.0 environment into a new 64 bit Windows 2008 virtual server environment. This allowed the new BlueTrain brand to offer the ability to use the Web Conferencing platform to not only save money by having your meetings online but make money using the powerful Syndicated Marketing, PayPal payment integration and the vastly improved white labelling features.

Dr. Doug Hallett is the Chairman of the company. Hallett's more notable achievements include receiving a medal from the United Nations relating to his research and discovery of dioxins in the Great Lakes. He was senior scientific advisor to Environment Canada Ontario region and holds numerous patents of his inventions (PCB destructor, UV Water Disinfector) and took ELI Eco Logic public as CEO.

With Dr Hallett's background the new BlueTrain focuses heavily on helping its customers reduce their Carbon Footprint by doing as much as possible online.

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Awards

Over the years Webtrain has been the recipient of many awards:

WebTrain was recognized by PC Magazine as a contender to major web conferencing providers. TheWebtrain product has been compared to 39 other vendors by Wainhouse Platinum Research and mentioned in the Frost and Sullivan World Web Event Services Markets report.

WebTrain was present at the BCTIA (British Columbia Technology Industry Association) Technology Impact awards ceremony being nominated as one of the three most successful technology startup companies in British Columbia. Over 700 technology companies were represented at the awards ceremony.