Xyleme LCMS

Xyleme LCMS (Learning Content Management System) is a fully integrated environment for authoring, managing, and publishing XML-based online courseware, instructor-led materials, mobile learning products, and performance support tools.

From Rapid Authoring to Rapid Reuse

Xyleme LCMS is the industry’s most efficient content development platform for rapid authoring and rapid reuse of content across any print or digital format. This is accomplished though a single source of format-neutral XML that is centrally located with on-demand availability for publishing to all types of print, eLearning, tablet, and other mobile outputs.

As new delivery channels for training content emerge, defining a scalable content strategy has become a crucial foundation for every training organization. Until recently, the use of rapid authoring tools was effective enough because the delivery channels were limited to print (mostly PowerPoint) and Web. The radical change in the digital landscape with the recent proliferation of smartphones, eReaders, and tablets makes the “rapid” way of developing training products highly inefficient and prohibitively expensive as content now needs to be re-authored for each of the different platforms.

Xyleme LCMS single-source technology offers the most rapid, cost-efficient solution in the current digital landscape. It provides a way to publish printed and eLearning materials together with eBooks, mobile, or tablet outputs, all from the same source of open content. Moreover, through drag-and-drop functionality, users can very quickly build new materials by assembling different pieces of existing content into new training products.

Thanks to cutting-edge single source technology, XML and rapid reuse, Xyleme LCMS allows you to streamline your content strategy and dramatically reduce the time-to-market for your training products.

Rapid Authoring Tools vs. Rapid Reuse

	Rapid Authoring	Rapid Reuse
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Fast development for new single-use content
Fast assembly of new products leveraging existing content
Single-user desktop authoring environment
Multi-user collaborative authoring environment
Personalized assembly of content for specific user / audience
OUTPUTS
Focused on a single / few output formats
Publish to any format or device
Freedom to apply multiple styles within a single output
Enforces style and branding consistency within and across outputs
COST
Low initial investment (software and implementation)
Low training costs
Low cost to create new content
Low cost to custom-brand training products
Low cost to republish and rebrand existing materials to new output formats
Low cost of QA and maintenance
Low cost to translate and localize

The industry's only true single-source development

Xyleme LCMS provides a rich, web-based interface for an effortless authoring experience and a consistent and structured authoring process designed to promote high quality training materials.

Users have secure access to Xyleme LCMS through any web browser to quickly access training templates that are formatted, branded, and stored in the same central repository as content. This allows users to easily access all of the tools needed to rapidly develop new, customized, and derivative materials.

Key benefits

A flexible and extendable content structure to meet your business requirements.
A rich content editor that does not require any knowledge of XML.
A customizable template-based authoring model for instructional design, industry specifications or structured writing standards.
Granular learning objects that support rapid reuse through drag and drop.
Rich and interactive content thanks to the more than 20 built-in activities and question types and support for rich media.
Faster and better retrieval of learning objects for reuse through extremely granular search capabilities based on the XML structure.
Advanced media management that can be integrated with external enterprise repositories.

Enable localization at the authoring stage

Translation functionality based on open standards, such as XLIFF, has been integrated with Xyleme LCMS to make localization part of the core learning content life cycle. Users can maintain a single source of content while adapting content as needed to multiple audience requirements such as branding and cultural differences. This eliminates the siloed, after-the-fact approaches to localization and translation to enable efficient and scalable content strategies.

Key benefits

Support for industry standards like XLIFF, the XML-based standard for translation and localization.
Variable text to dynamically substitute words at the point-of-publishing (‘ize’ vs. ‘ise’ for American and British English).
Side-by-side translation to easily translate object by object.
Compare versions to identify changes that need to be translated.

Immediately leverage legacy content

Xyleme LCMS provides out-of-the-box functionality to automatically import learning content from multiple formats and transform it to XML.

Unlike other LCMS vendors who simply cannot import legacy content, Xyleme LCMS enables effortless integration and conversion of learning content from legacy system applications, other functional applications and proprietary content management systems.

This allows you to achieve the maximum ROI of your learning content investment through open, platform-agnostic content that can be output to any delivery modality and can conform to any industry standard.

Key benefits

Import training documents authored with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and convert them to reusable learning objects.
Import content from professional publishing software like FrameMaker and InDesign.
Import content authored in open standards like HTML, DITA, or QTI.

Xyleme LCMS enables a dramatic reduction in Quality Assurance (QA) time by providing a real-time preview of the content within the authoring tool.

All outputs in Xyleme LCMS can be easily previewed before deploying them to production, with previews maintaining 100% fidelity with the deployed content regardless of whether your output is for print, web based eLearning, mobile, or other.

And since the content is authored from a single-source repository, Xyleme LCMS eliminates the need to check and re-check source content for every delivery channel saving valuable time by testing content only once.

Key benefits

QA the content only once and reuse it across many outputs.
Real-time QA of the different outputs directly on the desktop computer without the need to deploy to a third-party system.
100% fidelity between the preview and the outputs regardless of the target publishing channel.

Flexible and collaborative content management

Within Xyleme LCMS, each learning object, rather than an entire document, is an independent asset. As a result, any number of learning objects can be simultaneously checked in/out, previewed, edited, reviewed, or sent through Xyleme LCMS built-in production workflow. This enables parallel project development to optimize collaboration and improve time-to-market.

Key benefits

Easy workflow management by associating tasks to learning objects and assigning them to the corresponding user.
Advanced collaboration features like check-in/check-out and versioning at the learning object level.
Granular security at the learning object level and access control for both users and groups.
Specialized forms-based editor interface for Subject Matter Experts.
Review sessions with built-in real time collaboration.
Production schedules TBD.

With the Xyleme LCMS single-source platform, content is created once as reusable learning objects that can be effortlessly repurposed and reassembled into custom training content and output to print, Web, eReader, mobile, or tablet format. Since all content is created and stored as open, platform-agnostic XML, your content is ready to be immediately leveraged through new formats as they emerge.

Key benefits

Template-based publishing formats to ensure consistency in presentation, branding, and look-and-feel across all blended learning products.
Independence of content and presentation ensures that learning objects can be reused and properly formatted for each publishing output.
Configurable output profiles based on a library of outputs that can be customized to meet the business requirements of your organization.
Automatic generation of the structure, navigation, and sequencing of courses.
On-the-fly production of tables of content, glossaries, indexed, and tables.

Output formats

Print Materials: Design documents, storyboards, production reports, student guides, instructor guides, instructor program support materials, handout packs, slide decks, quizzes, exam bubble sheets / answer keys, and flashcards.
Web Outputs: SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, Common Cartridge-compliant courseware, AICC AGR 10-compliant courseware, online exam IMS QTI, online knowledge bases, exportable help files, reference materials, job aids and wall charts.
Mobile Devices: iPad-specific output (see Pastiche), mobile web, mobile LMS, and eBook readers.

SCORM player

Xyleme also licenses its stand-alone SCORM player to existing Xyleme LCMS customers that require it for web courses that are not managed and published from Xyleme LCMS.