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Royal Philips Electronics have introduced Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional as a part of their training strategy. Connect’s Training and Meeting modules are being used to deliver training, video conferencing and web seminars to a potential audience of 135,000 registered users of its Healthcare Learning Management System.

Philips has integrated Connect into their in-house SCORM-compliant Learning Management System, using it as part of their healthcare education programs globally.

Additional information is available online from this press release.

If you’re  a power user of both Outlook and Adobe Acrobat Connect Meetings, you might be interested to know that there’s a free add-in for Outlook that will allow you to schedule a Connect Meeting with associates directly.  It can be used to select a room from the available Meetings on your Connect server and view the schedules for invitees if you belong to the same Exchange server – it is compatible with current versions of Outlook up to Outlook 2007.

The latest version of the Acrobat Connect add-in for Microsoft Outlook can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/support/connect/updaters.html#outlook

An online tutorial is available from the Adobe site, titled “Using the Breeze Add-in for Microsoft Outlook” it can be found at http://brc.breezecentral.com/usingoutlookaddin/

Adobe have released a public beta of the next version of Adobe Acrobat Connect. Code named “Brio”, the beta is both a web meeting and a online collaboration tool based on the Flash Player intended for small business and individuals. The Brio beta can be evaluated online for free, applying for a Brio meeting gives users the opportunity to:

• Host unlimited online meetings with a maximum of 3 participants using:
  • Screen sharing
  • Chat
  • Camera and VoIP
  • Whiteboards
• Share documents and files with participants
• Have a personal Brio meeting URL

Beta means that Brio is still in development. It currently doesn’t offer the same meeting feature list as Connect but is still worth trying out as you’ll find that it is already a good performer – and a good insight into the future of Adobe Acrobat Connect. Apply for a free Brio account now at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/brio/

ZDNet recently featured an article on Fone Zone’s implementation of Adobe Connect, a solution that was recommended and implemented by webqem. Fone Zone had, in the past, trained employees using PowerPoint. The impetus had been on Fone Zone’s employees to go online and download the presentations themselves. webqem’s solution using Adobe Connect, allows Fone Zone to deliver live PowerPoint content to mulitple employees at once. Read the whole article here.

The Challenge

Hyundai Motor Company Australia had a requirement to assess 1400 technicians across Australia within a month. Their specific requirements were:

• Assessment for three different technician levels.
• Each assessment would be timed for 60 minutes and consist of 40 multiple choice questions that would be pulled randomly from its own unique pool of up to 120 questions.
• Each assessment would consist of varying quantities of questions, based on three levels of difficulty: easy, even and hard.
• Marking of the assessment would only occur once the participant had indicated that they’d completed or if the exam had timed out.
• Participants would be allowed to review the exam results once completed.
• The assessment participants would be tracked on their number of attempts.
• For Hyundai’s analysis, the solution also needed to collect data on the questions, such as how often a question was successfully answered and which answers were selected for each question.

The Solution

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OneSteel is an excellent case study in using Macromedia Breeze to deliver cost-effective training and communications across scattered sites.

OneSteel is a vertically integrated mining, steel manufacturing, and steel and metal products distribution company. It manufactures and distributes hundreds of steel products that are used in the construction, manufacturing, housing, mining and agricultural industries. The company serves more than 30,000 customers, has over 200 operational sites in Australia and New Zealand, and employs more than 6,900 people.

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A Macromedia Breeze Case Study The ARU has recently significantly increased the quality and effectiveness of its training and media communications with an online solution from webqem. This case study takes a closer look…

Macromedia Breeze is decentralised and easy for everyone to use. It has allowed us to cut training course development time from 6 weeks to a few days, and reduced the costs of travel and logistics related to training.

Greg West, IT Manager
Australian Rugby Union

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Macromedia Interview with Randolf Clinton / CoHead Asia Pac Cash Equities JP Morgan

webqem recently designed and implemented a rapid online presentation system for JP Morgan, using Macromedia Breeze. A Macromedia case study of the highly successful solution is reproduced here with kind permission… (more…)