Products

How do you know you are choosing the best technology to create your performance-centered solution?

EPSScentral is the foremost leader in applying state-of-the-industry tools to achieve performance centered solutions. We maintain our leadership by sponsoring the PCD™ awards , to identify and highlight the best new performance support tools and solutions in the industry. We further enhance our vantage point of industry expertise around best practices by forming relationships with the best technology vendors so that when our PCD solutions call for technology, we are in a position to recommend the most cost-effective and capable solutions.

Although our recommended tools address different areas of performance, all are proven technologies, easy to use and provide rapid results with simple deployment. They do not interfere with existing IT infrastructure or disturb workers while capturing, analyzing and building performance assets.

Our tool-set includes:


Tool categories:

Analytic tools for performance-centered design - These tools capture quality data, real-time, as performers use their enterprise systems. Through Operating System (OS) listeners, code interrogators and related protocol, analytic tools capture each interaction between the user and the system. Once captured, they can be used to measure unit times, cycle times, infer Key Performance Indicators, measure gaps and reveal "the information in the silence" where users are idle because of confusion, work-arounds and the like. Analytics can be persistent or take discrete snapshots, but always without disturbing the work environment. Example:  Analytics for PCD™  

Model-driven capture tools for enterprise systems - These tools record system interactions by storing model components and automatically generate: procedural documents, simulations, tests and context dialogues that push content to the knowledge worker based on context. Example: Epiplex .

Code-free enterprise software "factories" - provide a fixed code-base for enterprise-class applications, where localization is accomplished via metadata manipulation. There is no “coding.” They provide rapid performance centered solutions for integrating disparate applications, eliminating redundant data entry and building enterprise components. You can snap-together portals that integrate enterprise systems with workflows, knowledge and reference materials to create the optimal user experience. Example: BriteWorks

Total knowledge and performance support platforms - incorporate the best in content, learning and performance management. At the core of such systems is the content repository (catalog) that features rich mark-up to apply meaningful metadata for reuse and personalization. Assessment, learning management, decision support, competency management and skill assessment are some of the key features. Such platforms are moving toward the vision of the Semantic web. They are comprehensive as they include tools for catalogue (content) development, administrative management and delivery of knowledge, learning and assessment to end-users. Examples: Instancy , Xegy , Coachware

Organizational memory capture - These are tools that capture mission-critical information that reside in the heads of people who may one day walk out the door. These are process documentation, content aggregators that fuse knowledge to process and organize such processes into usable on-line information structures. Applications include compliance, emergency planning, certification, project management and any core business function. Example: ProCarta .