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Avant Werx’s Content Werx is the content management software for today’s enterprise faced with a disparate range of content. Content Werx allows enterprise information to be managed reliably and be segmented based on Access Control List.

Content Werx empowers non-technical staff to deploy your web pages. It allows your staff to publish content and expire content without any technical knowledge and thus releasing your IT department form repetitive content linkage and uploads.

Workflow is built-in and may be customized, based on the nature of the content, to endure only approved content is published.

Product Architecture

Content Werx is built on open standards like J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and a MVC (Mode-View-Controller) framework. Thus, it is not meant to be a product that will lock-in the user to any proprietary format.

Due to the adoption of open standards, Content Werx easily integrates with other existing products that the organization currently may have.

Content Werx integrates with leading portal platforms and enterprise applications from BEA and with Portal Werx. Portlets are available for quick deployment in a portal Environment. Using well-documented APIs, any J2EE developer may extend the services of Content Werx to the particular needs of the organization.

Complete Application Infrastructure

Content Werx delivers the infrastructure to build and store content-rich applications across the enterprise. Content Werx provides a set of application services that help manage content. These include services for creating, browsing, searching and viewing assets; workflow capabilities; versioning, access control, and search services; metadata management; and archival services.

A Wide Suite of Tools

Content Werx allows authoring of content either through the browser or through Microsoft Word.

The intelligent Wizard Builder allows building of Wizards, trouble-shooter or just guides for customer self-help. This alleviates the support staff from answering repetitive questions.

A wide range of statistics on the usage of the content are built-in, to allow authors to check if their content is access frequently.

A Digital Asset Management Tool allows you to tag Metadata to your videos, sound clips, graphics and other type of digital assets. Users may search a wide range of digital assets based on key words.

A choice of workflows allows the user to customize the approval of content so that different types of content will be routed based on their sensitivity and importance.

Key Features

WYSIWYG Editor	A friendly and intuitive editor for the purpose of content creation.
Customizable Workflow	Choose the workflow that best fits the type of content that you publish. If the content is highly time-sensitive, you may configure a shorter workflow to allow the content to be available faster.
Preview Content	Preview and use content as you would in the system with zero downtime.
Share Information	Share content with your colleagues, and allow them to use your content or allow them to get a copy and modify it to suit their needs.
Content Versioning	Content versioning is done to ensure that only the versions that you want published are published.
Single Content Store	Store all your content in a single content store for easy migration and management.
Metadata Management	Capture, add, edit, store, version, manage and search metadata to locate content based on data types, categories, language and specific keywords.
Familiar Tools	Enable direct content authoring and submission form Microsoft Word.
Security	Split the content contribution and content publishing modules into two physical servers, allowing you to use a firewall, restricting only privileged networks to access the contribution server.
Calendar of Events	Post calendar of events with the relevant contact persons.
E-Newsletters	Manage and distribute content through newsletters subscriptions.
User Segmentation	Segment your users into related mailing groups so that you can provide them with relevant information through email.
Intelligent Wizard Builder	Build Wizards or Friends to allow users to get the information that they require. You can decide on how the answers made by the users will determine what the next question to pose to them.
Statistics	Check the statistics and frequency of content that is being used.

System Requirements

Browser-Based Client Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP Sun
Solaris 2.6, Solaris System 7
System 8 Macintosh 9.0

Supported Browsers
Netscape 4.7x
Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

Server Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT
Sun Solaris and Linux

Application Server Requirements
BEA Weblogic 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.1
Tomcat Application Server
Any J2EE-compliant server

Database server Requirements
Oracle 8i, 9i
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
MySQL 4.1

Hard Disk Requirements
100MB minimum required disk space

Related Resources

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