Overview

InfoTrust is proud to present its industry leading content management and distribution product TechSight/X®. TechSight/X is not just a computer system, it represents a way of doing business and has simplified the way that publications are managed. By gaining control of its data, a company can increase productivity and reduce the cost of change management. Maintaining the quality, accuracy, and reliability of data is essential in the achievement of operational excellence. In today's value-conscious environment where we must do more with less in a method faster and better than the competition, using a comprehensive data integrity management solution is imperative. TechSight/X provides this by merging specialized knowledge and experience with business process automation and innovation in technology. The synergy that results from this combination is what makes TechSight/X so powerful, unique, and valuable. Its functions and features are designed to provide control and increase processing efficiency through an integrated asset information management strategy.

TechSight/X allows companies to maximize use of their content across all operations. It is equally suitable for departmental implementation and enterprise level deployment. It provides a rich set of functionalities to automate document- and content-centric business processes out of the box, since its functions and features are designed to increase control and processing efficiency through an integrated change management strategy.

TechSightX is available as an enterprise suite that is comprised of all of its modules and editions. Based on a tightly integrated set of best-of-breed technologies, TechSight/X is available in separate editions targeting different publication groups. These editions share common software architectures but they differ in the type of publication supported and by unique business processes dictated by the user groups they serve. Finally, TechSight/X is unique in that it is extremely flexible in architecture, in its model, and in component-based delivery. An organization can choose the software components they need based on the business processes they would like to implement.

Features and Benefits

TechSight/X delivers powerful functionality for process automation and content management, with a distributed and interoperable Web architecture that enables global, transparent access to content. With a full range of integrations with leading authoring tools, business users and developers alike can seamlessly contribute content from anywhere.

TechSight/X also includes the following key capabilities and features:

• Functionality that automates the business processes associated with routing, approval, distribution, notification, and auditing. By automating the tasks associated with using global content, TechSight/X accelerates time-to-result.
• Advanced Technology - InfoTrust fully embraces the full stack of XML technologies and tools, including Java EE standards and other proven open standards and advanced technologies. TechSight/X is a pioneer in exploiting the power of native XML databases, XQuery, and business rules engines.
• Business process automation – TechSight/X reduces the time to result by managing content over the entire lifecycle from content creation, testing, and staging, to approval, deployment, and archiving. Easy-to-use, graphic lifecycle and workflow services also promote content integrity and security with audit trails and sign-off capabilities.
• Robust content management services – TechSight/X manages content storage, versioning, publishing, security, tracking, and archiving. It can ensure content integrity by eliminating the errors associated with manual content management tasks.
• Relevant content aggregation – TechSight/X brings relevant content together with the appropriate business functions to create personalized delivery that improves productivity by keeping users in sync with changing content and processes.
• Application development and configuration – TechSight/X features tools for developing and configuring applications that reflect dynamic roles, content, and processes. By replacing many common programming tasks with simple configuration, TechSight/X will significantly lower the total cost of application ownership.
• Web-based architecture – TechSight/X provides a Web-based architecture that integrates with existing enterprise systems and provides a scalable repository, the Docbase. This helps to deliver fast-payback applications by eliminating systems integration work and ensuring rapid global deployment.
• Scalability – As the industry's most scalable solution for enterprise content management, TechSight/X enables an unlimited number of content contributors, manages massive quantities of content, and delivers content to high-volume sites with the integrity and security required by today's largest global organizations.
• Security – TechSight/X takes the integrity of your content seriously and protects it through a combination of user- and role-based security, as well as extended permissions that control how content is accessed and modified. TechSight/X supports LDAP, along with SSL, digital certificates, and electronic signatures for approving and routing content and meeting regulatory requirements.
• Business continuity – TechSight/X provides a full set of capabilities for ensuring business continuity of mission-critical content applications. The capabilities of TechSight/X include backup and recovery, redundancy and fail over, and high availability or clustering.
• Open standards – Strict adherence to open standards allows seamless integration with existing e-business infrastructure, enterprise systems, authoring applications, and development tools. TechSight/X supports market-leading development tools and standards, such as XML, XSLT, DOM, COM, SAX2, DTD, XML Schema, VB, ODMA, WfMC, Java EE, Java, HTML, C, and C++.
• Multi-channel delivery – TechSight/X leverages XML for content transformation and multi-channel delivery to any device, including cell phones, the Web, print, CDs, and wireless devices. By creating XML content once and leveraging it everywhere, you ensure message consistency and relevance across all channels of communication.
• Unlimited content formats – Out of the box, TechSight/X supports more than 50 formats and can be extended, as needed, to support additional content types. For certain formats where unique services are needed, such as XML, TechSight/X provides specialized functionality.
• Integration with best-of-breed tools – TechSight/X integrates with popular commerce servers, portals, and delivery networks. In addition, business users can author content in familiar applications such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

TechSight/X allows companies to maximize use of their content across all operations. It is suitable for departmental implementation as well as enterprise level deployment. It provides a rich set of functionalities to automate document- and content-centric business processes. Additionally, TechSight/X offers extensive capabilities for easy configuration to meet specific business needs, without resorting to programmatic extensions. Finally, TechSight/X features a rich set of API functions accessible through Java, XML, and Java EE interfaces, to allow specific and extensive customizations.

Appropriate configurations and custom components can be developed on top of the TechSight/X platform to provide the specific functionality needed for each organization’s unique business processes. The combination of streamlined business practices and their automation through leading technologies will ensure a system that is robust and has a long life span.

A web interface is presented to the user wherever practical. This minimizes the dependency on client applications that must be separately installed, maintained, and constantly upgraded. In some cases, specific client applications are still the best option, such as with complex SGML/XML authoring.

The core functions common to TechSight/X include:

• Change authorization and change request processing
• Rich job queue/inbox functionality
• User access and role-based definitions
• Full and incremental release of publications
• Highly configurable workflow enabling a high level of business process automation
• Predefined reports – Ad-hoc, statistical report generation, and dashboard
• Repository and publication browsing and search
• Single repository housing all controlled publications
• Ad hoc browsing of master documents and latest OEM revisions
• Full-text search across single or groups of publications
• Full-text search contextualized according to publication type
• Role-based access to publications
• Integrated structured and non-structured authoring