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Technology Exchange
Mentergy Adds Instructional Design Capability to Macromedia Dreamweaver Through New Designer’s Edge Extension
SALT LAKE CITY (June 3, 2002) – Mentergy(TM), Ltd. (NASDAQ: MNTE), a leading global provider of blended e-Learning solutions, today announced at the ASTD 2002 International Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, La., the immediate availability of its Designer’s Edge(R) extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver. The new extension enables collaborative and streamlined communication between Designer’s Edge developers, content creators, designers, and Dreamweaver users to create Web-based training (WBT). With the extension, all team members are connected through Designer’s Edge, the industry standard instructional design tool for trainers, a central repository for media and design information for their organization’s training projects.
Effectively enhancing the instructional design capability of Dreamweaver, the extension integrates the Dreamweaver user into the training design team by enabling the developer to directly incorporate a remote view of the Designer’s Edge project content into Dreamweaver, which eliminates the need to work separately off of hard copy storyboards or through lengthy face-to-face review processes.
“Mentergy recognizes Macromedia Dreamweaver as a major player in the development of Web-based training and as a complementary environment to our learning-based design and development tools,” said Ron Zamir, senior vice president, Mentergy, Inc. “By creating a marriage between a leading industry Web development tool and the leading instructional design pre-authoring environment, we have created, for the first time, an integrated suite to drive instructionally sound Web development for Web-based courseware. By adding a significant communication and a work process vehicle to Dreamweaver, as well as the instructional design support, we believe we are able to significantly lower development time for content creation and allow teams across large organizations to work together to create instructionally sound content.”
The Dreamweaver extension for Designer’s Edge integrates a direct view into a Designer’s Edge project from within Dreamweaver, including the content outline, storyboard, and all storyboard-associated content created by the design team, to develop an instructionally sound Dreamweaver WBT course.
“With the new extension, the Designer’s Edge team can now work in parallel with the developer, leaving notes for the developer while he’s working in Dreamweaver,” said Carl Miner, Mentergy Inc. product manager. “On the flip side, as the Dreamweaver user is doing his magic, he can define graphic needs, or leave his issues, concerns and questions for the design team as well.”
Pricing and Availability The Dreamweaver extension for Designer’s Edge is immediately available from Mentergy and free-of-charge to Designer’s Edge users. The extension can be downloaded by visiting http://www.mentergy.com/products/authoring_design/designer/dreamweaver.
About Mentergy:
Mentergy, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNTE), formerly Gilat Communications, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GICOF), is a global e-Learning company, providing e-Learning products, consulting, and courseware development services for large enterprises. With over 21 years of expertise in the learning industry, Mentergy assists businesses worldwide to make a cost-effective shift from traditional learning to a blended e-Learning approach. Mentergy Ltd.’s North American operations comprise of the Allen Communication Learning Services division and the LearnLinc Live e-Learning division (Mentergy, Inc.), in addition to John Bryce Training UK Ltd. in Israel and Europe, and a global sales and marketing operation that includes Mentergy Europe. www.mentergy.com
Mentergy is a trademark and Designer’s Edge is a registered trademark of Mentergy, Ltd. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
Certain statements made herein that are not historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words ”estimate” ”project” ”intend” ”expect” ”believe” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, inability to maintain market acceptance to the Company’s products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, rapid changes in the market for the Company’s products, loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition, introduction of competing products by other companies, inability to manage growth and expansion, loss of key OEM partners, inability to attract and retain qualified personnel, inability to protect the Company’s proprietary technology and risks associated with the Company’s international operations and its location in Israel. For additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties associated with the Company’s business, reference is made to the Company’s reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Melissa Clyne, Scribe Inc.,
for Mentergy, Ltd.
801.486.6763 801.580.1458 - cell
scribe3@mindspring.com
Ron Zamir, Mentergy, Ltd.
404.668.9915 ronz@mentergy.com