Part of my presentation at DevLearn 2013. It was a great session, standing room only and a lot of awesome stuff. Also includes trends and forecasts for 2014 and beyond in authoring tool space. Couple of notes: Head guys of Adobe Captivate were in attendance. They have stated that Captivate is not going anywhere and Adobe is committed to it. Secondly, if you have had any issues with the current version, please let me know and I will forward you onto them - they will solve your issue.

1. Craig Weiss, CEO, Analyst, E-Learning 24/7

2. Where the market is heading
Native App
HTML5
Analytics
Advanced A/V
SaaS

3. Trends to watch
Tin Can
Gamification
Advanced
Capabilities
Multilingual
Synch

4. Coming to an authoring tool near you
2020
2017
2015
SaaS finally becomes
the norm
Instructional designers
can build courses within
the app, then synch it
into the LMS and update
w/o going back into
authoring tool
Advanced features and
capabilities embracing
emerging technology will
drive the market, ID folks
rejoice!

5. #10 Zenler Studio
#9 QuickLessons
#8 Lumesse CourseBuilder
 Output to HTML5
 HTML5
 Multilingual
 Easy to use, Simple
 Digital Repository
 HTML5
 Placed within PowerPoint – click
and select
 SaaS, offline too
 Tracking/Documentation –
SaaS too
#7 Courselab
#6 Aura Interactive - SHIFT
#5 Adobe Captivate 7
 Robust Features
 Avatars Synch Communication
 Offers Free, but the best is Paid
 Gaming - Better than most
 Actions, Variables, Advanced 4
some
 Cascading Rules, Objects 2
 Scenarios with backgrounds
that match
 Tin Can, HTML5
 Branching Beyond

6. #4 Training Bricks
#3 GoAnimate
Product
Name
Bricklayer
Product
Name
GoAnimate
Fun Fact
An easy to use and fun
authoring tool for beginners and
those who want to go beyond
Fun Fact
Creating videos hasn’t been this
much fun
WOW
Objects, Triggers, Actions and
Events
WOW
Yeah it’s MP4, but who says
that can’t be a course? Not me.
WOW
Timeline, Page interactions,
Searching
WOW
Voice matches Avatars lips –
Synch City
WOW
Branching has never been more
fun!
WOW
Backgrounds, scenarios,
timeline
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7. #2 Articulate
#1 dominKnow
Product
Name
Storyline
Product
Name
Claro
Fun Fact
It was close, but concerns about
Storyline output to tablet via
LMS..
Fun Fact
One of the first authoring tool
platforms to go SaaS
WOW
Advanced functionality in a
RCAT continues to shine
WOW
Mobile Preview – See b4 u
publish
WOW
Action! States! Layers!
WOW
Multilingual, Translation
Import/Export
WOW
Interactions, Actors,
Backgrounds oh my!
WOW
Feature Bonanza
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8. Craig Weiss
CEO
E-Learning 24/7
craig.weiss@elearning247.co
Web site: elearning247.co