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Astoria Software, provider of software applications for Structured Document Management, today announced availability of Astoria 4.1, the latest release of its software for enterprises seeking to automate the authoring, review and publishing processes of the world's most complex documents.
This major software release delivers next-generation product architecture enhancements to Astoria Software applications that reduce inefficiencies and automate the management, update and publishing processes of an enterprise's complex, lengthy, or frequently revised documents. Designed to deliver customers next generation functionality, Astoria 4.1 extends enterprise content collaboration beyond core technical writers to content stakeholders throughout the enterprise and its suppliers, with new features enabling Internet connectivity and remote access capability. The new 4.1 release also includes major technology and user enhancements specifically tailored for the enterprise environment, including a new MS Windows file-based access and management system, support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Web Services (SOAP) support and performance enhancements including scalable server processing, all necessary to manage complex content lifecycles in the markets Astoria serves, commercial aerospace, military and defense, and manufacturing and publishing.
"This software release represents a major step for Astoria and its customers," said Chip Gettinger, Vice President of Product Marketing. "It lays the technology foundation for Astoria to continue developing innovative, specialized cross-industry and vertical specific applications that solve the most manual, most expensive, and most complex document authoring and publishing challenges."
Automating and Integrating Third-party Content Updates
The release of Astoria Conflict Resolution delivers publishers of complex structured documents an automated way to integrate updates to existing complex documents. In scenarios where third-party originated content is incorporated into a document, such as outside manufacturers documentation in an OEM manufacturer model, the third party releases content updates that must be integrated into current version documentation. Traditionally this has been a manual process done via a laborious and expensive "stare and compare" process to manually identify updated content provided by the third-party, and compare it to existing versions within a document. Astoria Conflict Resolution is an automated application that streamlines the update cycles and dramatically reduces the time, labor and error risk associated with integrating updates from manufacturers.
Connectivity and Content Review
The Astoria Review application extends collaboration capability to a broader range of users for improved automation and control. New content review annotation and approval features though Windows Internet Explorer are managed and tracked via enhanced workflow capability. Subject Matter Expert contribution is optimized with web-based review, annotations, editing and approval of content for publishing occurring at the component level with a document. Additional enhancements in Astoria Review include an interface re-design and six-time display performance improvement.
New with Astoria 4.1 is support for Web Distributed and Versioning (WebDAV) that provides users connectivity to the Astoria server through Windows "My Network Places." Using WebDAV applications, such as Microsoft Office or Arbortext Epic Editor, users can directly connect to the Astoria server to checkout, edit and check in documents. Astoria cabinets and folders are accessed within an Explorer window and provide all file management and editing functionality such as file open, multiple file select, click and drag, deleting, and copying.
Technology with Enterprise Standards Approach
All Internet connectivity is now centralized though the new Astoria Communications Server, providing customers a scalable Web Server architecture and a central point for all Internet applications, remote access and server load balancing.
New technology enhancements such as support for Web Services provides connectivity with disparate systems decreasing integration costs and complexities. Astoria 4.1 includes revolutionary and scalable Server Event Queues for managing server-side tasks such as composition spooling, document version pruning, graphic conversion, search indexing and other events. Astoria search functionality has been improved with a new User Interface and support for Unicode character searching along with Parameterized Searching.
13.04.2004, Astoria Software
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