"Macromedia Breeze is aimed at enabling organisations to reduce the time and cost associated with travel for meetings, as well as reducing the cost and complexity of providing training to employees, partners and customers," says Allan Stewart, Macromedia country manager.
Stewart says despite local bandwidth constraints, Macromedia Breeze will enable organisations to hold meetings and deliver presentations and training courses through any Web browser to audiences anywhere, at any time.
"Although competitors provide elements of Macromedia Breeze, this is the only product that combines online presentations, training courses and meetings," says Stewart.
Breeze Training is an automated learning tool for creating, managing and measuring multimedia courses. Breeze Presentation turns Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into Macromedia Flash format for delivery through any standard Web browser. Breeze Live provides online meetings with video link, desktop sharing, application sharing and white-boarding facilities.
"The idea is to take a proprietary format that is not easily transmitted over the Internet, and turn it into a multimedia format that is readable by 98% of the world`s computers as well as 3G mobile phones," explains Stewart.
Of the three core modules, Stewart concedes the training module is responsible for the greatest uptake in the global market so far. That component is also soon to be augmented with the introduction of Macromedia Captivate, which will enable users to record onscreen activity and create software demonstrations and interactive simulations.
Macromedia has yet to sign a Breeze contract with a local organisation, but Stewart says there has been considerable interest in the market. "We have seen interest from large organisations in the tourism, health, insurance and public service sectors," he says.
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