| Progressive Information Technologies has announced the availability
ofVasont, a cross-media publishing system that enables enterprises to publish
content across numerous media channels. Vasont is the seventh version of
Progressive Information Technologies' flagship TARGET 2000 cross-media
publishing system.According to the announcement, TARGET 2000 was renamedVasont
to better reflect its continuing enhancements and significant new features.
Vasont allows organizations to not only create and manage their content
in XML, SGML, HTML, and WML formats, but to instantly publish it across
all media channels, including print, CD-ROM, the Web, and wireless. This
is done through Vasont's Tag Neutral Technology, which stores content separately
from tags to ensure content integrity and maximize content reuse. Vasont
automatically deploys a new tagging standard to the content as it is extracted
and makes the content flexible for simultaneous publishing to various media
channels.
Vasont's new features and enhancements include the following:
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Graphical work flow, which allows for the creation of simple to complex
work-flow patterns in a pure graphical mode, such as a flow chart
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Advanced content modeling that allows users to define custom extracts of
their original content to various electronic and print publications
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Management of work flow and full editorial processing of content in a Web
browser environment
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Integration with industry-leading XML editors and composition tools
According to the announcement, Vasont also accelerates the peer-review
process and ensures the accuracy of content. An entire organization has
the ability to effectively, efficiently, and securely access, update, edit,
and review content through checkpoints and e-mail notifications, thus alerting
users of the project's status and next step. The administrator has full
control over users' content permissions and work-flow assignments.
Vasont reduces implementation costs because the content-processing options
allow for its custom configuration at the user level without programming
knowledge, and it offers product support of all available customization
options. Vasont provides over 300 automated tasks, more than double the
number of processing options offered with TARGET 2000. These include generating
automatic e-mails and dynamic indexing; performing math calculations; automating
work-flow tasks; and transforming content, which saves users time from
"checking" their work because it dynamically updates content in all of
its uses throughout the entire system once a change is made to the original
content. Vasont is available as a client/server software product, an ASP
model, and as a third-party leasing agreement.
Merck & Co., Inc. is using the publishing system to assist in managing
and exporting the data for the publication ofThe Merck Index, 13th edition,
an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. Vasont provides The
Merck Index with a solution that includes data analysis, DTD writing, data
conversion to SGML, and editorial work flow, as well as composition and
pre-press services for its print product. Other Progressive Information
Technologies clients include W.B. Saunders, the American Society of Healthcare
Pharmacists (ASHP), and the McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Group.
Source: Progressive Information Technologies, Emigsville, PA, 717/764-5908;
http://www.pit-magnus.com. |
