Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, the current version of this popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, can help you easily capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images. It's the ideal tool for creating engaging presentations, training, and business communications.

Whether you're a content professional, media professional, or information worker, with Producer 2003 you can create dynamic presentations and training cost-effectively. At the same time, you can increase comprehension and the number of people you reach. Producer 2003 addresses a wide variety of communications scenarios by making it easy to work with audio and video. Use it to:

Develop training content

Content providers, media departments, or training groups can create on-demand content that engages users and complies with eLearning standards developed by Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Global Learning Consortium, Inc. and the U.S. Department of Defense Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).

Generate high-quality online presentations

Companies of all sizes can create rich-media presentations that can help them meet important business goals, such as introducing a new product.

Create informal business communications

Business professionals can use Producer 2003 to create informal, yet effective presentations, such as an audio description of quarterly results.

Produce on-demand executive broadcasts

Capture the audio and video of a live broadcast and then use Producer 2003 to integrate slides and other related elements. Then, post your presentation for on-demand viewing.

Archive departmental meetings

Workgroups can use Producer 2003 to capture meetings, quickly add entries to the table of contents, and then post the indexed content for others to access from their computers.

Index archived videotapes

Take existing video training content, synchronize it with PowerPoint slides, and then publish your updated content to the corporate network to reach users in a cost-effective and engaging way.