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Pastiche® by XylemeTM is a turnkey solution that allows you to rapidly assemble existing textbooks, interactive multimedia, test prep and moment-of-need support materials and publish them on demand to any number of customizable and privately branded iPad or Android apps.

Bring training content to your learners’ tabletsThe Pastiche Ecosystem is made up of three components: the tablet app, a set of authoring and publishing tools, and a content distribution service.

The Pastiche tablet app offers learners a complete blended learning environment on their tablet devices. It puts learners in control by letting them navigate, interact with and experience content in the way they want. Users are not forced into any sequence of lessons or topics; rather, they can freely navigate and search across all content. In that way, they define their own learning experience; they define how they want to learn.

The Pastiche tablet app is supported by a complete ecosystem to provide an end-to-end solution: from content creation to consumption to publishing and delivery. Xyleme provides a set of tools to author and publish content for the Pastiche app. It also allows you to leverage your existing textbooks, interactive multimedia, test prep and moment-of-need support materials through a complete set of import tools. Finally, the Pastiche Store is a hosted service that provides controlled distribution and licensing of your content.

We bring it all together so you don’t have to.

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Product Highlights

• End-to-end solution to import, author, publish and distribute your content to your custom branded app.

• Interactive iPad and Android tablet app, providing advanced offline eReader features, multimedia capabilities, assessments and full-text search.

• Connection to SCORM- compliant LMS’s for score tracking.

• Hosted storefront to distribute your learning materials, manage permissions and obtain reports on users, groups, sales and downloads.

• Monetize your content with license keys and in-App purchases.

• Standards-based means easy migration to emerging platforms to support a Bring-Your-Own- Device policy.

Pastiche is an end-to-end solution from content import and authoring to consumption on your custom branded app. Deploy your app in as little as 30-60 days, ensuring you the fastest go-to-market in a highly competitive environment.


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Navigate Your Own Educational ExperiencePastiche apps are high-end, truly interactive apps where learners decide how they want to view, navigate and interact with your learning materials. Pastiche presents your training content to learners in a number of different views:

Read MeA powerful eReader that allows learners to highlight, bookmark and annotate content for later access. Within Read Me, you can also provide access to additional web resources and supplements in PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint formats. These are displayed within the Pastiche app through a set of specific readers to improve the learners’ experience.

Show MeA player for audio, video and interactive media where learners watch, interact with and explore your training content.

Quiz MeAn advanced assessment engine where learners can test their knowledge. It provides support with feedback, hints and advice. Currently, the following question types are supported: fill in the blanks, multiple choice, multiple select, matrix, matching, drag and drop, bin drop and image map. You can now configure Pastiche to report the results back to your SCORM 1.2 compliant LMS.

Help MeA different way to navigate the contents of a course through a searchable index of topics, procedures and media. It is like an integrated performance support tool to pinpoint and deliver relevant pieces of information to your learners when they need it, wherever they are.

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A Flexible ModelThe Pastiche app is flexible and adapts to the way you organize your content. Therefore, you can build apps that provide any combination of Read Me, Show Me and Quiz Me. For example, you could have a course that only contains reading materials and assessments, in which case only Read Me and Quiz Me

would be displayed.

Additionally, the Pastiche app provides users with access to the list of bookmarks, highlights and notes added to the course. Tapping on one of those items brings the learner to the corresponding page. If a glossary was authored for the course, it is easily accessible for users to easily browse and display the definitions of the different terms.

Future-ProofedThe Pastiche app is based on a hybrid model in the sense that it provides a thin native layer that can be ported to different platforms. The content, which controls how the app behaves, is in HTML5. This allows us to very rapidly port the thin layer to different tablet platforms while still keeping the same format for the course content, as HTML5 is a key standard supported by all major tablet platforms. The Pastiche app and the content communicate through a set of internal APIs.

Track Scores in Your LMS Engage your learners with a richer, more interactive tablet learning experience while still tracking

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knowledge in your LMS. This allows you to keep the tracking data and reports in a single place. Configure any content in Pastiche to report completion status and scores to a SCORM-compliant LMS. You are able to mix both tracked and untracked content in your Pastiche implementation. When content has the LMS tracking option enabled, Pastiche lets learners experience the content while they are offline. At the same time, it tracks user progress and answers to questions, all of which is persisted in the tablet. When the user finishes the course and has an Internet connection available, the learner can then submit the completion status and score to the LMS. Because Pastiche works offline, learners are free to make progress in situations where it has traditionally been difficult to get access to tracked courses like in a plane, in underground transportation, in remote areas with weak or non-available Internet connectivity, etc.

Offline Performance Support Pastiche provides a very powerful search engine embedded into the app. When content is downloaded from the Pastiche Store, a full-text search index is built including all textual content from topics, procedures and media. Users have the ability to search for individual topics, procedures and media within one course or across the whole collection that they have downloaded. The results are returned as the user starts typing in the search bar and they are displayed by relevancy and grouped by course to simplify the navigation. This search feature provides a very powerful virtual suitcase for on the field workers allowing them to carry on their tablets all reference materials that they usually carry with them physically. Since users have the ability to search across the whole collection of materials, whenever they need to pull a piece of content from their virtual suitcase they can do a granular search and immediately find the piece of content they were looking for: a procedure, a video, etc.

Create Apps Simply and Cost EffectivelyCustom BrandWe use the Pastiche source app to build a custom-branded tablet app that matches the branding requirements of your organization. Xyleme provides you with a branding guide that describes the required branding assets (images), and in a few hours, we can get your custom-branded iPad app for you to test

Furthermore, you don’t need to publish a new app every time you want to put a new course in your learners’ hands. With Pastiche, you publish only one app and give your learners access to your catalog directly within your custom-branded app. Learners can then select the content they want to download to their devices. The content of the courses published for Pastiche can also be branded.

Of course, if you need to publish more than one app to target different audiences, this is also possible.

Eliminate Bespoke DevelopmentWith Pastiche, you can finally eschew expensive, one-off software development projects for your


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tablet app:

• Rapid time to marketBespoke tablet apps that used to take 6-12 months of development can now be deployed with Pastiche in as little as 30-60 days, ensuring you the fastest time to market in a highly competitive environment.

• Continuous upgradesForget about app maintenance and improvements. We handle all that for you. We use an agile development methodology that allows us to release a new version of Pastiche every three months.

• Future-proofed contentSince the Pastiche source content is open XML and its output is HTML5, your content is ready today for deployment to tomorrow’s technologies and devices.

Single-Source XML PlatformRapid Content Reuse and Multi-Channel Publishing

The Pastiche courses are authored and published from Xyleme LCMS, the industry’s most efficient content development platform for the rapid reuse of content across any print or digital format. This is accomplished through a single source of format-neutral XML that is centrally located and available on demand for publishing to any type of print, eLearning, tablet or other mobile outputs.

Xyleme LCMS provides advanced importing tools to help you leverage all your existing textbooks, interactive multimedia, test prep and moment-of-need support materials. All the content is converted into reusable, format-neutral XML that can be enhanced and extended through the Xyleme authoring tools.

Once your training content is in Xyleme LCMS, not only can you immediately publish it to Pastiche, but also to a variety of formats like print or eLearning. Moreover, the XML is stored in granular learning objects, allowing you build new learning products through rapid reuse of content.

You can QA your Pastiche courses in real time through the built-in preview functionality. This way, you can see how your content will look in the iPad or Android device without the need to deploy to the real device, saving you a lot of time and hassle.

Xyleme LCMS is based on open standards. The Pastiche outputs package contains a combination of

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HTML5 and XML content and can be fully customized to meet your branding requirements through the use of CSS and XSLT.

Hosted ServiceControlled Content Distribution

As part of the Pastiche solution, you get access to your own hosted instance of the Pastiche Store to help you distribute your courses among your learners.

The Pastiche Store provides a web administration interface where you can upload courses and make them available to users of your custom-branded iPad app. In a sense, the system is very similar to the App Store: You upload your courses using a browser, and users can download them directly through the app.

However, what differentiates the Pastiche Store is its ability to define who can get access to your content. There are three different access control levels to help you protect your intellectual property:

Course levelDefine whether a course is publicly available to everybody or privately available to users that have specific permissions to download it.

User levelFor each user, you can define which courses he or she has access to.

Group levelAdd users into groups and then make specific courses available to each group.

Your learners seamlessly access the Pastiche Storefront through the iPad or Android app. Before accessing, they have to provide their email and password in order to be authenticated. The Pastiche Store will then display the courses from your catalog that the user has access to, depending on the how the three access control levels have been defined for each course. To download a course to their tablets, they just need to touch a button.

The Pastiche Store also allows you to instantaneously distribute course updates to your learners. Whenever you update a course through the web administration interface, any learner that has the course installed is notified that a new version is available. The user then can update the course with a simple tap of a button.

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Built-In SecurityProtect Your Intellectual Property

All communication, including the transfer of course packages between the Store and the tablet, is encrypted through a secured SSL channel that prevents sniffing attacks on open networks.

Moreover, all course content stored on the tablet, including videos and other media files, is encrypted to ensure that all the assets packaged in the course are secure. To encrypt the data, Pastiche uses highly secure standard encryption algorithms in combination with an encryption key that is unique to each device and course. Therefore, assuming a hacker could break into the tablet and steal the course content, the content would be unreadable without the key and would not play on any other device.

To further increase security, Pastiche uses a special proprietary algorithm to dynamically retrieve the key every time it needs to decrypt a piece of content, making it virtually impossible for a hacker to obtain the encryption key.

Monetize Valuable Learning ContentPastiche provides two monetization models to generate new revenue opportunities.

B2BThe first monetization model is a B2B model based on licensing content. This is a transaction that happens outside the Pastiche platform and is intended for B2B transactions—that is, selling your courses to other organizations. With this model, your client organization buys a license from you to access one or more courses.

Through the Pastiche Store administration interface, you will generate a new license key, associate a set of courses to it, and define a user limit. Your client organization then distributes the license key and gives a limited number of users access to the licensed courses. When the user limit is reached, you can offer your client organization the option of buying another license or an extension of the existing license to provide the content to more users. License extensions are also managed through the Pastiche Store administration interface. On top of the user limit, you can also set start and expiry dates for the license.

B2CThe second model is a B2C model based on individual ecommerce transactions through the app. In this model, the transaction happens within the Pastiche platform and it is intended for end-user transactions— that is, a learner buying one course from your catalog.

When you upload your course to the Pastiche Store, you can define a selling price. When the learners are browsing your course catalog through the in-app Store, they can see the price of the different courses available. If a selling price is defined for a course, the learners will be asked to purchase it before the download happens.

Apple’s policy forces any in-app payment to go through Apple’s payment gateway, and Apple charges a 30 percent commission out of the selling price for the service.

The B2B and the B2C models are compatible and can be used at the same time. About XylemeXyleme, Inc. is the leader in standards-based learning solutions that enable the personalized delivery of training content. Xyleme’s suite of products is powered by Xyleme LCMS, a 100 precent XML-based single-source platform. It provides the industry’s most efficient content development platform for the rapid reuse of content across all types of print, eLearning, tablet and mobile outputs.


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The XylemeTM product suite also includes BravaisTM, Xyleme’s cloud-based content delivery solution that enables personalized learning experiences via specialized apps that can be used out of the box or custom developed and delivered to any device. Pastiche® is Xyleme’s end-to-end solution for rapidly deploying interactive and privately branded iPad or Android apps.

The adoption of the Agile Development framework enables the release of new Xyleme LCMS, Pastiche and Bravais versions every three months, compared to the industry standard of 12 to 18 months.

For more information, visit http://www.xyleme.com.

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