Macromedia Breeze
For Rapid Training and Communication
Breeze is a solution designed to simplify and accelerate training and communication across your organization.
Currently, as the formality of the communication and training increases, the cost for delivering this information tends to also increase. What is needed is a way to author and deliver various types of information while minimizing the time and cost of doing so.
The cost of delivering comes mainly from two areas. First, there is generally a very limited number of people within an organization who can create rich and effective communication and training content. And the delivery mechanisms and cost of delivering this content is also limiting. What Breeze does is expand the ability to create and deliver rich, engaging content to not just the rest of the training department , but to every single business professional and Subject Matter Expert within an organization, and to deliver that content to anyone, anywhere, at anytime using a single integrated solution.
Breeze enables you to transfer knowledge rapidly. It does this by reducing the number of steps involved in creating and delivering content. It empowers regular business users to create effective content, directly in the environment that they’re already familiar with. In short, Breeze
- streamlines communication
- creates rich, engaging content
- is easy-to-use
Breeze Presentation
Breeze is a single solution that allows you to accomplish all of the informal and formal communications, to various types of audiences. Take a new product launch as an example. With Breeze Presentation, you can deliver audio-enhanced presentations to your company to educate them on the new product. Then, to ensure that your sales force is equipped to sell the new product, you can append a quiz to test their knowledge. You could also use this formal training function to certify that your partners have the minimum level of knowledge required to represent your company well. Finally, you could use Breeze Live to conduct live presentations and demos of the product to announce the product worldwide, and also to individual customers and sales prospects.
Breeze leverages existing technologies by allowing users to author directly within PowerPoint, which means that business users don’t need to learn additional tools in order to create rich multimedia content. And Breeze content is delivered to the almost-500 million Flash-enabled browsers meaning that materials can be created and delivered more rapidly to a ready audience.
Breeze Architecture
Presentation Platform
Breeze is a modular product which means that you can deploy the components that make the most sense for your specific needs.
Let us go over each of the major components that you can choose to purchase when you consider Breeze.
First is the Presentation platform. Breeze Presentation enables users to author and deliver rich multimedia content to anyone at any time using your standard internet or intranet. It does this by leveraging the existing skills of regular business users.
Here are some of the features that come with the Breeze Presentation platform. First of all, you get rich media authoring directly within Powerpoint via the Breeze PowerPoint plugin. This means that you can add a synchronized audio track, Flash animations and video without leaving PowerPoint. Once you have created your content, you can publish it to the Breeze content library. This allows you to store all your Breeze content in a centralized repository which you can then share with others. This means you can re-use and repurpose content easily, and there is a search feature that allows you to locate content down to the individual slide, just by typing in a keyword. You can invite your audience to view your presentation using standard email messages, and the viewer simply clicks on a URL to view the web-based presentation. You have complete control over who is allowed to see the presentation. And you can use Breeze to get a report on how many people have viewed the presentation, and who they are.
Training Module
The Breeze Training module provides the fastest way to achieve your training goals.
Breeze Training allows you to create and deliver courses in minutes, not months. One of the biggest hassles with online training is the tedious tasks associated with enrolling, managing, and tracking students in your courses. Breeze Training relieves you of all the mundane work by automating and streamlining many of those functions. And finally you can measure and track the effectiveness of your training using Breeze’s powerful reporting features.
The Breeze Training module enables you to create and manage your courses via a web-based application. You can deliver your courses online to anyone anywhere, and they can access these courses simply by clicking on a URL. To avoid the tedium of pre-enrolling students, you can choose to enable self-enrollment for any given course. Breeze tracks each individual user and how they performed on any given course. You can also track the aggregate performance of students for any given course. And finally, you can certify students in cases where you need to track compliance or ensure minimum knowledge levels.
Breeze Live
Breeze Live is the exciting new module for the Breeze product family that reduces the hassles associated with first-generation online meeting solutions.
Breeze Live provides a superior user experience with many features not available with traditional solutions.
And Breeze Live allows you to fully customize the meeting interface to suit the audience, topic, or your presentation style.
Leveraging Macromedia’s expertise in web experience, Breeze provides the optimal interactive experience with screensharing, chat, integrated video, and voice over IP. With Breeze Live, you can have persistent meetings which allow you to (a) plan and preload meetings ahead of time; and (b) use meeting rooms over and over for recurring meetings or to deliver the same content to multiple groups of people. Breeze Live includes advanced presenter aids to ensure a smooth delivery and high production value for your presentation. And finally Breeze has the flexibility to allow you to use the pre-built layouts, or to fully customize the meeting layout to your specific needs.
Enterprise Integration
Breeze is architected to fit well into the enterprise, with APIs that provide integration into enterprise applications such as directory services or learning management systems.
