The idea of “WebCOACH’ is the new combination of open ice cream based products for learning, competence management & assessment based on the service-oriented enterprise framework ‘Hermes’.” The idea of “WebCOACH is the new combination of open ice-based products for learning, competence management and assessment on the basis of the service-oriented enterprise frameworks Hermes. WebCOACH is a reference implementation that is easily extensible and to serve as a template for other solutions in the field of e-learning, competency management, assessment and coaching. Still supported Hermes the dynamic and transport-independent access and use of services both object-oriented and document-based XML interfaces and provides a unified way to find dynamic services with Hermes repository. Hermes supports the separation between presentation layer, open-ice-specific business processes and their communication with each other. The new implementation of system services, also the business logic from the user interface is separated and divided into logical blocks that correspond to each one use case.

The project WebCOACH is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology on the basis of a decision of the German Bundestag. The Community4you GmbH was founded on 1 January 2001 and supervised OTTO today customers such as Messe Frankfurt GmbH & Co KG, VW, BGW, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Messe AG, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bahn as well as ministries and institutions of public administration.