CIDM Information Management News December 2005: Vasont Systems releases Vasont 10

Vasont Systems releases Vasont 10

EMIGSVILLE, PA, November 14, 2005—Vasont Systems, a leading provider of content management software and data services, today announced the release of Vasont® 10, the latest version of its powerful single-source content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels.

“The theme behind Vasont 10’s improvements is ‘run faster’,” said Richard Schiding, Vasont Systems’ CEO. “Faster processing along with the ability to store graphical elements and documents in the same repository will allow Vasont users to continue to increase their productivity, money saved, and time-to-market. Our goal is to provide the most robust, single-source, component-level content management system on the market, and we’re confident that Vasont users will be very happy with version 10.”

Some of the new features in Vasont 10 include:

Efficient Enterprise Network Processing

Vasont transactions can now be processed up to six times faster on corporate networks due to Vasont 10’s enhanced server-side processing on the Oracle server. This will be especially powerful for organizations that process large amounts of content.

Oracle 10g

Vasont utilizes the most current version of Oracle, 10g, allowing users to take advantage of its state-of-the-art technology and features across their enterprise.

Digital Asset Management

Digital asset management capabilities have been added to Vasont 10 to make it easier to manage multimedia content. Users can simply drag-and-drop multimedia components, in a wide variety of file formats, from their desktop into Vasont. They can be viewed in the Vasont File Explorer several different ways, including thumbnail, detail, or list views.

All multimedia content is treated just like other content in the Vasont repository:

•	Metadata can be attached to all digital assets and used for search criteria.
•	Users will always be able to access old versions of multimedia components.
•	Each component is implicitly reused.

Document Management

In the current business regulatory climate, the ability to organize, manage, and search unstructured content is critical for full regulatory compliance and overall business productivity. Vasont 10 provides users with the ability to capture, organize, and search all of their information at once by allowing them to store unstructured documents and structured component-level content together in the same database. Users can now drag-and-drop entire unstructured documents from their desktop directly into the Vasont repository. Powerful search capabilities allow users to find specific content within the text of the documents. Users can reuse whole documents or pull text snippets from within the documents to combine and reuse them with their structured content.

Management of Modular Reuse

The new Pointer Log in Vasont 10 manages modular reuse in a similar way that Vasont’s Global Change Log manages component reuse, giving users complete control over the implementation of changes to reused content. The Pointer Log tracks and time-stamps all changes made to referenced content and quickly tells the user exactly what changes need to be approved for a particular pointer/reference. Comments can also be added to each entry to facilitate collaboration. This feature is particularly powerful for quality control and compliance needs and works equally well in a client’s custom environment or in a standard reuse model such as DITA.

Pointer Productivity

With Vasont 10, Vasont users can now relink and unlink pointers in batches. Multiple pointers can be unlinked or relinked to a new component all at once with just a few clicks of the mouse, enabling users to be more efficient and productive. These enhancements make working in a content reuse environment such as DITA highly productive.

About Vasont Systems

Headquartered in Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a provider of content management software and data services, backed by more than 50 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its Vasont content management system enables organizations to manage and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery. Fortune 1000 companies and organizations from industries including manufacturing, technology, publishing, government, and healthcare use Vasont to manage and produce multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and reference materials. For more information please visit www.vasont.com.