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SESA 3.0 Feature Showcase

Phil SanchezSr. Business Analyst Symantec Education

Agenda

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What is SESA?1

SESA 3.0 Goals2

Make it Faster!4

Usability is Important!....?5

Q & A6

OPERATION: Interface Overhaul3

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SESA Who?

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What is SESA?

• 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.

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Who Uses SESA?

So… Who?– Education Sales– Product Sales– Partner Enablement– Symantec Partners– The World At Large…

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But… Why SESA?

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.

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What Were We Thinking?

SESA 3.0 Goals

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• 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.

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OPERATION: Interface Overhaul

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OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – Public Assessment List

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OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – Private Assessment List

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OPERATION: Interface Overhaul – The Assessment

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Make It Faster!!!

Make It Faster!

• 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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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Usability

• 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…

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Usability Is Important?!? – Resume Assessment

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Usability Is Important?!? – Assessment Search

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Usability Is Important?!? - Navigation

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Usability Is Important?!? – Assessment Review

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Usability Is Important?!? – Scorecard

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Thank you!

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Phil SanchezPhil_Sanchez@symantec.com