Why Trellis 2011
Trellis 2011 has been designed and developed from the ground up to enable you to distribute
evaluation forms to your training delegates, collect their feedback and deliver analysis
reporting in a way that's both effective and efficient.
Here are some of the benefits of putting Trellis 2011 to work in your organisation.
Keep all your training evaluation data in one place
Trellis 2011 stores all your data in a single enterprise class robust database giving you a
central place from which to administer all your training evaluations.
The project explorer in Trellis 2011 puts all your evaluation data at your fingertips by making
it easy to find and retrieve evaluation projects and run reports.
From evaluation form design to data collection, analysis and reporting, Trellis 2011 keeps all
your training evaluation data together.
A choice of evaluation form distribution methods
Trellis 2011 provides you with the option to choose the most appropriate delivery method for your evaluation forms
depending on your circumstances.
You can use Trellis 2011 to distribute a web form for online feedback collection, a Microsoft Word
form for email feedback collection or just print out and distribute the form for completion and
collection by hand.
Collaborate on training evaluations with colleagues easily and effectively
Any number of users can have concurrent access to Trellis 2011 allowing users to work on different
evaluation projects at the same time or share tasks.
This makes it easy to distribute evaluation work more effectively.
Gain access to training feedback reports on demand
Once evaluation forms have been distributed and responses have been processed, you can begin
running reports.
Trellis 2011 provides immediate access to the analysis reports giving you timely
meaningful reports on your training programs.
Reports can be filtered by question type or individual question making it easy for you to run
reports focusing on feedback to aspects of the training that you are particularly interested in.
Trellis 2011 also allows you to output your reports as Word documents and PDF making it easy to distribute
reports by email.
Deliver aggregate reporting
Trellis 2011 provides multi-project reporting which allows you to aggregate the feedback from any number
of evaluation forms into a single report.
Users are able to choose the evaluation forms to aggregate by setting filter criteria or by
individually selecting the forms they want to aggregate.
The Trellis reporting engine does a good job of working through your evaluation forms to determine
which forms eligible for aggregation.
Measure training performance with benchmarks
Trellis 2011 makes it easy to set benchmark scores for eligible questions in your evaluation forms and
hence for your training.
By running the benchmark comparison report after your data entry is complete
you can easily gain an indication of how the training performed compared to your target.
Easily design and modify evaluation forms to meet your requirements
The Trellis 2011 form designer makes it easy to design any type of evaluation form to meet your
information requirements.
The designer removes the need for you to spend time formatting and inserting tables with word processing
software, making your design process more efficient.
Once created, forms are stored centrally for easy access and reuse and can be output in MS Word and PDF format.
Easily issue and manage follow-up evaluations for richer insight
Trellis 2011 makes it easy to manage the distribution and feedback for any number of evaluation forms
for the different stages of a training evaluation.
You can add a needs analysis, pre, post, follow up, manager/supervisor and instructor feedback form to
an evaluation project and Trellis 2011 can organise all aspects of these evaluation forms for you making
it easy to provide distribution, data collection and reporting for each stage of the evaluation.
Easy to learn and use
The familiar Windows interface of Trellis 2011 makes creating and administering evaluation projects
an easy and intuitive experience.
Its rich feature set enables users to achieve the results they want quickly and easily.
Enterprise-class database for secure and reliable data storage
Trellis 2011 uses and Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Compact edition for its data storage.
Microsoft SQL Server is a robust and highly available multi-user relational database engine.
This provides you with a reliable database and large data storage capacity.
Easy to install and deploy
Deploying Trellis 2011 in your organisation is easy, just install Trellis 2011 on as many PC’s as
you require. When Trellis 2011 starts up for the first time, it configures the database for use
and you're up and running.
If you are already running Microsoft SQL Server in your organisation, Trellis 2011 can be configured
to connect to it. If not, it can be installed as an option with the Trellis installer
Single sign-on Security
Trellis 2011 users, connect to the system using the same security credentials they use to sign on when
they log into their PC’s.
Once a user has signed into your organisations system, they don't have to re-enter login information to access
Trellis 2011. They just need to be set up as a user in Trellis 2011 and this gives them immediate access.
This gives you control over who has access to Trellis as well as removing the administrative burden of setting
and resetting passwords or users having to remember another set of passwords.