Being first to market provides a competitive advantage. Sharing the vision across the organization, gaining buy-in, building knowledge and enabling skills in a timely manner are essential to ensuring your organization’s market readiness. Every moment spent working on a formal curriculum or course can potentially be a moment of opportunity lost to competitors. Today’s bi-modal business approaches—supporting the stable parts of the business and adapting to changing business requirements—demand fast alternatives that reduce time to value. Savanna365 iPlus is a cloud service that allows authorized groups to convert Microsoft PowerPoint slides to responsive, rich media courses with audio voice-overs and integrated video—without having to stop to install proprietary software.

1. Savanna365 iPlus for Rapid Enablement
www.cgsinc.com
Savanna365
iPlus
for Rapid Enablement
Optimize your organization’s ability to
adapt and seize opportunities
Respond to change faster than ever
Being first to market provides a competitive advantage. Sharing the vision across the organization, gaining buy-in, building
knowledge and enabling skills in a timely manner are essential to ensuring your organization’s market readiness. Every
moment spent working on a formal curriculum or course can potentially be a moment of opportunity lost to competitors.
Today’s bi-modal business approaches—supporting the stable parts of the business and adapting to changing business
requirements—demand fast alternatives that reduce time to value.1
Savanna365iPlusisacloudservicethatallowsauthorizedgroupstoconvertMicrosoftPowerPointslidestoresponsive,
richmediacourseswithaudiovoice-oversandintegratedvideo—withouthavingtostoptoinstallproprietarysoftware.
The need for rapid enablement
Successful organizations are those that can adapt to changing
requirements and seize opportunities. Time to value is a key
indicator of an organization’s ability to adapt. Consider the
following scenarios:
Empowering the experts
Today, people expect to be able to share knowledge and
skills quickly with others. More than 300 hours of video are
uploaded to YouTube every minute.2
In just one year, the
number of videos posted to Facebook per person increased
75% globally and 94% in the US.3
Slideshare has had more
than 10 million presentation uploads since 2007, drawing 50
million visitors and 3 billion views a month.4
Yet, the process
for sharing within enterprises can be quite cumbersome
and include installation of proprietary software or plug-ins,
SCORMing the course once it is completed in order to load
it into a learning management system (LMS), instrumenting
it for tracking and uploading files. By empowering experts,
making the process of knowledge and skill sharing as simple
as possible, businesses are more likely to realize benefits.
Accessing Savanna365 iPlus and iPlus videos
iPlus and the resulting iPlus video output is system-agnostic
and can run on any device—desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
With 52% of all time that consumers spend online occurring
from smartphones and tablets, iPlus has taken a “mobile first”
approach to supporting users.5
Additionally, resulting iPlus
videos are responsive and adapt to the screen size in use. In
this way, iPlus clients can be certain that their deliverables
meet the needs of mobile users without requiring special
implementation for different screen sizes.
In each scenario, reducing time-to-value has an impact
on important business metrics, such as revenue, quality,
successful integrations and—the ultimate measure—
customer satisfaction.
A salesperson engages with a client and is surprised to
hear of a new competitor. He successfully makes the case
to win the deal. How quickly is he able to teach sales team
members in other regions what he has learned in a “trial by
fire” situation and increase sales?
A technical field lead finds that technicians are consistently
making a mistake with their hardware installations. How
quickly is she able to demonstrate the correct method
and make that available to technicians in order improve
installation quality and customer satisfaction?
A software developer is conducting a lunch-and-learn
session on new APIs. How easily can that session be
packaged as Web-based training and made available
more broadly help increase Business Partners’ successful
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2. Savanna365 iPlus for Rapid Enablement
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Savanna365 iPlus for Rapid Enablement
The simplicity of Savanna365 iPlus
iPlus is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that users
can access from a laptop, desktop PC or tablet. It requires
no download of special software or plugins. Users
authenticate using a standard registration tool or, with a
services engagement, single sign-on with their corporate
authentication system.
Users select a Microsoft PowerPoint to convert. iPlus then
automatically extracts the content from the slide deck and
converts it into a responsive HTML5 format.
From there, the user is able to record audio for each screen.
When iPlus encounters a screen with animation, the user
is prompted to provide audio as each transition will play.
Additionally, the user is able to record a video that will be
embedded as one-fourth of the screen or as a full-screen
video.
Savanna365 iPlus for
marketing campaigns
iPlus videos can also be instrumented
for marketing campaigns. Simply send
an email message with a link to the
iPlus video and you have the ability to
track access and areas of interest and
respond appropriately as part of your nurturing and
development programs.
Measuring impact
The ability to track learner interactivity
also enables you to identify content
that may have the greatest value, to
identify content that is unused and to
adapt your approach based on data.
This data can then be used as part of
your metrics strategy to demonstrate a value trajectory
from simple counts of access and demographics, to usage,
reactions, learning, behaviors and, ultimately, business
impact.6
Contact CGS to receive a demonstration of iPlus today and
to learn more about how iPlus can help you to measurably
optimize your organization’s ability to adapt and seize
opportunities.
About CGS
Leading industry organizations,
including TrainingIndustry.com and
Brandon Hall, have recognized CGS
for our leadership in designing and
delivering innovative training
solutions. CGS has earned TrainingIndustry.com’s
coveted “ Top 20 Outsourcing Company” honors for
four consecutive years, their “Top 20 IT Training Services
Company” award for two straight years and was named to
the “Leadership Training Companies to Watch” list. Brandon
Hall honored CGS technology with a Gold “Excellence in
Learning Technology” award and with a Bronze “Excellence
in Learning Technology” award.
Email: info@cgsinc.com
Phone: 506.642.4247
Sources
1. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2903717
2. http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Nearly-All-Mobile-Video-Viewers-Mobile-Video-Sharers/1009586#ugIrFIE2mMgp9oka.99
3. http://media.fb.com/2015/01/07/what-the-shift-to-video-means-for-creators/
4. http://www.cmo.com/articles/2014/3/10/mind_blowing_stats_slideshare.html
5. https://www.internetretailer.com/2014/12/10/mobile-apps-dominate-time-consumers-spend-online
6. Request CGS Whitepaper “L&D Metrics: Know Your Value Trajectory”
iPlus videos can be used to demonstrate hands-on
techniques, highlight important points, showcase the
environment, and much more.
When the user has completed the iPlus, the iPlus then
processes on the server and produces a SCORM package
that can easily be loaded into a SCORM-conformant learning
management system (LMS).
By keeping the functionality simple and focused on core
needs, iPlus provides rapid enablement with faster time-to-
value.
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