Symantec Education Skills Assessment SESA 3.0 Feature Showcase

1. Symantec Education Skills AssessmentSESA 3.0 Feature Showcase Phil Sanchez Sr. Business AnalystSymantec Education Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

2. Agenda What is SESA? 1 SESA 3.0 Goals 2 OPERATION: Interface Overhaul 3 Make it Faster! 4 Usability is Important!....? 5 Q & A 6 Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

3. SESA Who? Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

4. What is SESA? Symantec Education Skills Assessment • SESA is a web based tool used to assess the overall knowledge of a team of individuals, of any size, on their skills with Symantec products. • This managed assessment application provides the ability to create, assign, and report on assessments. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

5. Who Uses SESA? Symantec Education Skills Assessment So… Who? • Education Sales • Product Sales • Partner Enablement • Symantec Partners • The World At Large… Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

6. But… Why SESA? Symantec Education Skills Assessment Here are some of the key benefits SESA provides to its users. • Opportunity to Quantify an individuals skills • Detailed reporting provides guidance for creating individual training paths • Individuals have the same opportunity to test themselves and find out how knowledgeable they are with Symantec products using a public assessment. • Sales organizations receive detail “Prospect Reports” providing contact information specifically volunteered to them by the individuals taking the public assessments. • Symantec Channel Partners can make use of the same opportunities to assess their prospective clients. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

7. What Were We Thinking? Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

8. SESA 3.0 Goals Symantec Education Skills Assessment • When SESA 3.0 was put on the drawing board, the focus on the collective minds of the SESA team had one major objective; Make SESA Easier to Use! • The result was a whole new SESA interface. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

9. OPERATION: Interface Overhaul Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

10. OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – Public Assessment List Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

11. OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – Private Assessment List Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

12. OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – The Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

13. Make It Faster!!! Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

14. Make It Faster! Symantec Education Skills Assessment • As previously stated, the primary focus for the SESA 3.0 Release was to make SESA easier to use. • A large part of that effort lay in making the interface faster, more responsive to user interaction. • This goal has been achieved through a number of performance enhancements. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

15. Make It Faster! Symantec Education Skills Assessment Optimized Data Handling • In previous versions of SESA, data interactions relied heavily communication with the database server. • In SESA 3.0 the assessment portal works completely within the client browser. • The end result is that the interaction between the user and the assessment is not limited by the interaction between the client and the server. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

16. Make It Faster! Symantec Education Skills Assessment Single Page Application • Now using Single Page Application (SPA) technology, the assessment portal is now contained within a single page, making the application faster. • The single page uses views to show specific content. When the content needs to change, it simply disables the content being displayed, and enables the content requested. No page loads, no wait time while the client downloads the overhead content…. Again… Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

17. Make It Faster! Symantec Education Skills Assessment Enhanced JavaScript • JavaScript makes the magic happen. It happens on the client. So its fast. SESA 3.0 makes more extensive use of JavaScript than before. This plays a large part in making the application faster. Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

18. Usability Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

19. Usability Symantec Education Skills Assessment • And it all boils down to the major theme; Usability. • That’s what its all about. All the changes mentioned so far increase the overall usability of SESA by a significant factor. But these have all been indirect enhancements to usability. • There are some features we put into SESA 3.0 that have a direct impact to the usability of the application. More Screenshots await… Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

20. Usability Is Important?!? – Resume Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

21. Usability Is Important?!? – Assessment Search Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

22. Usability Is Important?!? - Navigation Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

23. Usability Is Important?!? – Assessment Review Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

24. Usability Is Important?!? – Scorecard Symantec Education Skills Assessment Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase

25. Phil Sanchez Phil_Sanchez@symantec.com Symantec Education Skills Assessment 3.0 Feature Showcase