Pathlore Software Demos Author Assist, Which Integrates Design, Authoring In Single Interface.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1998--TRAINING '98 Booth #13 PHOENIX 2.2's Author Assist tool, unveiled at TRAINING '98, ends design and authoring tool duplication Pathlore Software Corp. is demonstrating a new tool this week at the TRAINING '98 Conference & Expo that integrates course design and authoring in a single interface so a course is automatically created as the author designs it. This new "design-to-deployment" tool, called Author Assist, saves authors time and duplication and eliminates confusion. "Authors no longer need to figure out how to glue together point design and authoring products, and they can avoid the confusion over whether to maintain the course in the design tool or the authoring tool," said Bruce Duff, Pathlore's vice president of marketing. "Instead, they can leverage Pathlore's 20 years of development methodology embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in the tool to build sound, effective training courseware." Attendees at the TRAINING '98 Conference & Expo in Atlanta are invited to try Author Assist and the rest of PHOENIX 2.2's new features by visiting Booth #13 in OLLO OLLO Official Languages / Langues Officielles (Canada) throughout the show, which runs today through Tuesday. PHOENIX 2.2 - which runs on the Internet, intranets, LANs, WANs and PCs - also includes new reporting and course creation tools that help organizations create courses faster and analyze courseware benefits. More than 20 new reporting templates generate custom reports on individual and group training progress - including courses taken, time spent, success rates and mastery levels - using popular tools such as Seagate Software's Crystal Reports or Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. . These reports allow managers to fine-tune training programs, monitor compliance with training mandates and assess return on training investment. A new course creation tool called PHOENIX Quick Start provides new templates, bitmaps and backgrounds that authors can use to quickly build courseware. Now they can focus more energy on content even as they enjoy more ready-made options for look and feel. These features enable customers to build more effective courseware faster. Pathlore's PHOENIX offerings for Internet, intranet and client/server platforms incorporate these new features and are the first network-based distance learning products to integrate authoring, student performance management and delivery. Pathlore is still the only vendor to use standard database engines from Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase and others to store, manage and stream dynamic reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us learning objects to desktops and student progress information back to servers. This approach eliminates duplication, maximizes product compatibility, and conserves network bandwidth. It also ensures organizations won't need to re-author courseware when next-generation desktops emerge. TRAINING '98 runs from Sunday, Feb. 15 through Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. in Atlanta. About Pathlore Pathlore's PHOENIX enterprise products provide network-based and standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. distance learning and CBT (Computer-Based Training) Using the computer for training and instruction. CBT programs are called "courseware" and provide interactive training sessions for all disciplines. solutions for client/server, Internet, intranets, mainframe, Windows and PC-DOS The DOS operating system originally developed by Microsoft and supplied by IBM on its PCs before Windows 95 became the norm. Up until DOS 6, PC-DOS was almost identical to Microsoft's MS-DOS for non-IBM PCs, and both versions are called "DOS." See "IBM's DOS 6" under DOS 6. environments. PHOENIX is the only training software that automatically integrates authoring, Computer-Managed Instruction (CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress. ), administration and course delivery to address an organizations complete training needs. PHOENIX's unique Distance Learning Environment (DLE (character) DLE - Data Link Escape, the mnemonic for ASCII 16. ) provides organizations with an open, standards-based architecture to integrate leading training technology such as virtual classrooms with self-paced training. PHOENIX is currently in use at more than 80 percent of banks with assets greater than $3 billion, 70 percent of companies making up the Fortune 1000, as well as at major telecommunications, financial and utility organizations and government agencies. Pathlore Software, with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , delivers training solutions worldwide. Pathlore has additional offices in Alexandria, Va.; London, England; Milan, Italy; and Sydney, Australia. For more information, visit Pathlore Software's site on the World Wide Web at http://www.pathlore.com or call 614-781-0036. Headquarters are located at 7965 North High Street, Suite 300, Columbus, Ohio 43235. -0- PHOENIX is a registered trademark and DLE is a service mark of Pathlore Software Corporation. All other trademarks and trade names are owned by their respective companies. CONTACT: Pathlore Software Diane Crawford 888/728-4567, ext. 7225 dcrawfor@pathlore.com or Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Inc. Christine LeCompte 603/436-6690 lecompte@beaupre.com |
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