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XyEnterprise Announces ContentaView V3.6 with a Powerful New Web-based Update Server
Wednesday 20. August 2008 - Provides users with a flexible, easy-to-use method for updating publications
XyEnterprise, a leading developer of award-winning XML content management and multi-channel delivery solutions, today announced the release of ContentaView 3.6, an update to their software solution suite for the intelligent delivery of interactive, textual and multimedia content via CD-ROM or the Web. This new version now features a powerful web-based update server, providing a universal means for updating all digital publications with a simple internet connection.
The update server in ContentaView 3.6 makes it fast and easy to push content updates from the server to the desktop and ensures that users are working with the correct version of their publication. It also allows for unattended updates to be performed at pre-determined intervals. Because these new features in ContentaView 3.6 are web-based, they do not require any additional hardware or software.
Also included in ContentaView 3.6 is a tracking mechanism that compiles an audit trail of every user who connects to the server and every update that is downloaded. This tracking mechanism provides up-to-date information about all end users along with the publications, versions, and historical information in each client record.
“We continue to expand ContentaViews footprint to meet the needs of a larger group of information distributors, including manufacturing and legal publishers”, says Andrew Trese, Technical Product Manager for XyEnterprise. “This feature release is just one example of how sharing requirements between industries such as military, aerospace, manufacturing and legal publishing can positively impact the development of the technology, making it easier for just about anyone to deliver data on the Web.”
Additional capabilities of ContentaView 3.6 include a new generic export tool that allows a user to export the XML into any desired file format, such as RTF, Excel, Word, CSV and plain text, making it easier to update files and accommodating users not familiar with XML. The new release of ContentaView features an improved robust search capability that permits end-users to search for full text or categorical content using phrase searching, search stemming, search excerpts or saved searches.
Support for the S1000D process data module in ContentaView 3.6 means users can perform dynamic troubleshooting using the products built-in logic engine and can create their own data set based on a sample data set, provided by XyEnterprise, which shows the major components of the process data module in action. ContentaView 3.6 features an expansion of the ContentaView API, which is extremely useful in integrating the product into external systems and makes it more customizable for end-users.
The new features in ContentaView 3.6 build upon the existing adaptive publishing environment of the product, including its powerful search, navigation and assembly elements and the real-time presentation of content as XML components.
“Adaptive publishing technologies continue to revolutionize the way that technical content and information is delivered to end users,” said Melissa Webster, Program VP for Content and Digital Media Technologies at IDC. “Vendors such as XyEnterprise that have deep roots in XML and XML-based standards are innovators in this area. They’re providing tools that enable users to interact with the content, see changes in real time, collaborate and share annotations, export to various formats, and integrate content with other applications.”