XStream
Software Wins Silver Excellence in E-Learning Award
Award
recognizing RapidBuilder® Deluxe simulation
technology is XStream's fourth brandon-hall.com
award in 2 years.
OTTAWA, Canada, September 25,
2003 - XStream Software, Inc.
today announced that its RapidBuilder Deluxe simulation
technology has received the Silver Award in the
category of "Innovative Technology" from the Excellence
in E-Learning Awards. By achieving this high second-place
standing among a wide variety of competing technologies,
RapidBuilder has once again been acknowledged as a leading
innovative technology by the influential brandon-hall.com.
XStream's RapidBuilder Deluxe technology
enables any developer to create, customize, and deploy Fully
Interactive, Multimedia Simulation (.RBX)
files and Project/Course (.RPR) files that
realistically duplicate the functionality of the live Windows
environment. Using a continuous "pixel-based" capturing technique,
the developer may capture all live screen interactions (including
screen changes, dialog box and menu interactivity, mouse
clicks, keystrokes, and cursor/mouse pointer movements) with
desktop or web-based software applications to instantly create
interactive or non-interactive simulations, tutorials, demos,
and presentations. RapidBuilder files may be edited through
a feature-rich multimedia edit suite, which includes provisions
for adding appended/inserted frames, text, images (both static
and animated), pre-defined screen templates, audio files,
recorded sound clips, embedded sound tracks, video, Flash
files, navigational hyperlinks, links to external files and
web pages, menus, mouse pointer animations, highlighting
actions, drag and drop actions, special visual effects, colors,
shapes, combo boxes, instruction boxes, and more. RapidBuilder
Deluxe is also a SCORM v1.2-compliant technology (meaning
that developers may create SCORM v1.2 courses that will work
with any SCORM v1.2-compliant LMS) and a 508-compliant
technology (meaning that it complies with the recognized
Section 508 accessibility standards). After editing, RapidBuilder
files may be saved with a high rate of compression (80-97%),
and they may be converted to a variety of popular media formats,
including EXE, Flash (SWF), SCO (for use in SCORM v1.2 courses),
AVI, ASF, MOV, and MPEG. Files may be deployed on CD-ROM,
over LANs/WANs, over intranets, and over the Internet.
"Innovation and creativity have always been
keys to the success of our software technologies," says Sunil
K. Sethi, XStream's President and CEO. "That's
why we are especially happy with this latest brandon-hall.com
award, which explicitly recognizes RapidBuilder Deluxe as
a truly innovative simulation technology that is among the
industry leaders."
The Excellence in E-Learning Awards are
presented by brandon-hall.com, one of the e-learning industry's
leading research and consulting firms. Now in its seventh
year (formerly the Brandon Hall of Fame Awards), the awards
program showcases exceptional work in the e-learning industry
by providing feedback and benchmarking to entrants in an
overall effort to help advance the e-learning industry.
"The winning entries have done a terrific
job this year. The innovation and desire to excel that is
demonstrated in these programs gives us all something to
celebrate," said Brandon Hall, Ph.D., of brandon-hall.com
and chairman of the Excellence in E-Learning Awards program. "These
ground-breaking efforts and best practices benefit the industry
as a whole."
RapidBuilder Deluxe was recognized
during an Awards ceremony and dinner held on Tuesday, September
24, 2003 in Los Angeles, Calif., as part of the Online Learning
2003 Conference & Expo, held September 23-25. Winners
are listed at www.brandon-hall.com.
This year, entries were submitted in three
categories: Best Practices, Custom Content, and Innovative
Technology. Entries were evaluated by judges with expertise
in instructional design, online learning and the implementation
of e-learning.
About XStream
XStream Software, a 5x brandon-hall.com
award winner, has designed and developed next-generation,
100% programming-free e-Learning, authoring & tracking
technologies. RapidBuilder® and RapidExam™ are
used for creating interactive Software Simulations, WBT,
Presentations, Exams/Assessments, and Certifications. Performance
Analyzer™ is used for creating Performance-based Evaluations,
which measure, track, and evaluate/test users' performance
through software simulations created for Windows-based applications. LGP
Builder™ offers next-generation learning by creating
'live', step-by-step, in-application guidance along with
animated laser pointers that indicate to the user where they
need to perform the actions within the live application. LGP
Builder™ for SAP provides an out-of-the-box LGP technology
that works with any SAP module. RapidSVG™ is XStream's
vector-based SVG authoring application, which enables developers
to create SVG web sites, graphics, animations, and other
authored content. On the back end, RapidManager™ provides
full tracking and administration capability for RapidBuilder,
RapidExam, Performance Analyzer, and LGP files, and RapidPortal™ provides
browser-based portal accessibility for complete web-based
administration and deployment of RapidBuilder, RapidExam,
Performance Analyzer, and LGP files. XStream's products are
in use by thousands of internationally known clients representing
businesses across all market sectors.
For more information, visit www.xstreamsoftware.com or
call 613-731-9443 or send an email to info@xstreamsoftware.com.
About brandon-hall.com
The Excellence in E-Learning Awards program
is chaired by one of the leading authorities on e-learning,
Brandon Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall is the CEO of brandon-hall.com
and author of the groundbreaking Web-Based Training Cookbook.
Since 1992, brandon-hall.com has been providing independent
expert advice in the form of published reports and consultations
on the tools and best practices of e-learning. Dr. Hall participates
regularly as a featured speaker at the Online Learning Conference & Expo.
He earned his doctorate in educational psychology and has
served on the faculty of San Francisco State University's
Multimedia Studies Program. He has been interviewed by The New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Inc,
and many other publications.
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