“Using Xyleme has enabled us to render our content consistently and professionally in multiple formats without additional resource demands.”
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 fairly effective because the delivery channels were limited to print (mostly PowerPoint) and the Web. The radical change in the digital landscape following the recent proliferation of smartphones, eReaders, and tablets makes the “rapid” way of developing training products highly inefficient and prohibitively expensive, as the content now needs to be re-authored for each of the different platforms.
Xyleme LCMS single-source technology offers the most rapid and cost-efficient solution in the current digital landscape. It provides a way to publish printed and eLearning materials together with eBooks, mobile outputs, and tablet outputs, and it can all be done from the same source of open content. Moreover, through the 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, the 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 |
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| CONTENT DEVELOPMENT |
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| Fast development for new single-use content |  |
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| Fast assembly of new products leveraging existing content | |
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| Single-user desktop authoring environment | |
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| Multi-user collaborative authoring environment | |
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| Personalized assembly of content for a specific user/audience | |
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| OUTPUTS | ||
| Focused on a single/few output formats | |
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| Publish to any format or device | |
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| Freedom to apply multiple styles within a single output | |
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| Enforces style and branding consistency within and across outputs | |
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| COST | ||
| Low initial investment (software and implementation) | |
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| Low training costs | |
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| Low cost of creating new content | |
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| Low cost of custom-branding training products | |
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| Low cost of republishing and rebranding existing materials into new output formats | |
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| Low cost of QA and maintenance | |
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| Low cost of translating and localizing | |
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The industry's only true single-source development
Xyleme LCMS offers a rich, web-based interface to provide an effortless authoring experience and a consistent and structured authoring process that is designed to promote high-quality training materials.
Users will have secure access to Xyleme LCMS through any web browser, allowing them to quickly access training templates, which are formatted, branded, and stored in the same central repository as content. This allows users to easily access all the tools needed for rapidly developing 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, as a result of 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, which are based on the XML structure.
- Advanced media management that can be integrated with external enterprise repositories.
Localization enabled at the authoring stage
The translation functionality, which is based on open standards such as XLIFF, has been integrated with Xyleme LCMS to make localization part of the life cycle of the core learning content. Users can maintain a single source of content while adapting the content according to multiple audience requirements, such as branding and cultural differences. This eliminates the siloed and after-the-fact approaches to localization and translation, which enables efficient and scalable content strategies.
Key benefits:
- Support for industry standards such as XLIFF, which is the XML-based standard for translation and localization.
- Variable text that allows the dynamic substitution of words at the point of publishing (‘ize’ vs. ‘ise’ for American and British English).
- Side-by-side translation for easy translation object by object.
- Version comparison for identifying the changes that need to be translated.
Immediate leveraging of legacy content
Xyleme LCMS provides out-of-the-box functionality for automatically importing learning content from multiple formats and transforming it into XML.
Unlike other LCMS vendors, which 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 for your learning content investment, using open, platform-agnostic content that can be output to any delivery modality and that can conform to any industry standard.
Key benefits:
- Training documents authored with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel can be imported and converted to reusable learning objects.
- Content from professional publishing software, such as FrameMaker and InDesign, can be imported.
- Content authored in open standards such as HTML, DITA, or QTI can be imported.
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 being deployed 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 formats.
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 the content only once.
Key benefits:
- Content needs to be QAed only once, and it can be reused across many outputs.
- Real-time QA of the different outputs can be done directly on the desktop computer without deploying 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 the entire document, is an independent asset. As a result, any number of learning objects can be simultaneously checked in or out, previewed, edited, reviewed, or sent through the Xyleme LCMS built-in production workflow. This enables parallel project development, which optimizes collaboration and improves the time to market.
Key benefits:
- Easy workflow management based on associating tasks to learning objects and assigning them to the corresponding user.
- Advanced collaboration features, such as check in/check out and versioning, at the learning object level.
- Granular security at the learning object level, as well as 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 as reusable learning objects that can be effortlessly repurposed and reassembled into custom training content and output to print, Web, eReader, mobile, or tablet formats. Since all content is created and stored as open, platform-agnostic XML, your content will be ready to be immediately leveraged in new formats as they emerge.
Key benefits:
- Template-based publishing formats that 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 contents, glossaries, indexes, and tables.
Output formats:
- Print Materials: Microsoft Word, PDF, and PowerPoint. The types of documents include 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: Tablet-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 who require it for web courses that are not managed and published from Xyleme LCMS.
Xyleme would like to congratulate Baker Hughes for winning Brandon Hall's Excellence in Learning Award. Their entry, "Using Content Development as a Competitive Advantage" took bronze and highlights their use of Xyleme LCMS in training their global and diverse workforce.
