Key Benefits:

• Increases trainers' productivity by an average of 36 percent (Kagel Associates)
• Provides a starting point and step-by-step guidance through critical decision-making stages and design processes
• Standardizes the design process for entire development team
• Integrates data and displays it in a visual course map for easy access
• Provides a fully integrated script-storyboard with visual screen layout capabilities, showing thumbnails of graphics used
• Powerful online help puts a virtual encyclo-pedia of learning strategies and instructional design expertise at your fingertips

Other Key Features:

• Direct output to HTML and Java helps you get quality cross-platform training online quickly using Net Synergy™
• Links directly to popular authoring systems such as Quest®, Authorware®, and Toolbook® II for final development
• Trainers can customize the interface and wizards to support their own design methodology
• Creates a central media log of video, graphics, audio, etc.
• Provides flexibility to execute functions (such as reports and synergy outputs) for individual modules from the course map

The Industry Standard Instructional Design Tool for Trainers, again!

Designer's Edge® 3.0, the latest version of its popular training design and planning tool, incorporates significant enhancements for developers of training applications. These include the ability to do task analysis and report customization, as well as combined interfaces throughout the tool to increase user productivity and encourage the creation of reusable elements.

The tool's Enterprise version will include the desktop capabilities as well as enterprise database support through ODBC connectivity, security features and the functionality for exporting training titles directly to HTML and Java through Allen Communication's Net Synergy™. 

Designer's Edge 3.0 Enterprise

Designer's Edge Enterprise provides a central performance support system in which anyone within a corporate enterprise can design, retrieve and use critical training data, including full courses or portions of courses designed for delivery on any medium.

All your training developers can be online at the same time, sharing ideas and data. You can bring all your training groups and personnel together to leverage their experience and share reusable content, templates and processes.

• Supports enterprise databases (Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server), making it easier to share data with other enterprise applications such as training administration systems, media databases, HR systems, etc. This database support also assists in the cataloging, storage, and reuse of learning objects.
• Includes security features to protect your training assets and allow you to assign different levels of security clearance to different members of your organization.
• Advanced search features support reuse of media elements and design components across multiple projects.
• Provides built-in capability to deliver online training.