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Vasont is a powerful content management system that enables
organizations and enterprises to better create, manage and
repurpose their highly complex multilingual content, including
text, graphics and multimedia clips, to print, PDF, Web, CD-ROM,
and wireless formats.
The system’s comprehensive single-source functionality
increases the efficiency of repurposing content to multiple
publications, regardless of the media format, while ensuring
content accuracy.
Designed to improve productivity and time-to-market of products,
Vasont makes it easy for organizations with editorial groups,
remote authors or enterprise-wide content contributors to
manage their multilingual technical documentation, user’s
guides, manuals and other publications.
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Because organizations of all sizes have different content
management challenges, they can choose from one of Vasont’s
several applications that best meets their needs.
—Provides
licensed users with access to the dynamic system's functionality
right from their desktops. Vasont Client/Server CMS is ideal
for organizations that continually update and repurpose their
content for delivery to print, electronic, Web, and wireless
media channels.
—Empowers
organizations with global offices, remote locations, intranets,
or home-based workforces to control and manage their enterprise-wide
content while creating an efficient and collaborative work
environment. This highly scalable system can be purchased
with any number of Web seats to meet the editorial needs of
an organization.
—Provides
cost-effective content management for organizations that want
the benefits of a content management system without the required
investment for purchasing the software and devoting IT staff
to maintain and support it. Vasont Hosted CMS offers access
to Vasont's robust content management software and hosted
content storage on a subscription basis. An organization's
authorized users can access, update and manage their content
from anywhere at anytime via a Web browser.
—Offers
a low-cost version of Vasont Client/Server that is tailored
to address the needs of small editorial groups with limited
resources. Vasont SG solves the content management challenges
of small editorial groups within organizations that produce
frequently updated technical documentation, manuals, reference
materials, and publications in multiple media formats. The
license fee for Vasont SG includes one server and five client/server
seats. In addition, full support is available to help clients
with their technical needs.
—An extension of
Vasont that enables authors and editors to access Vasont's
functionality from the toolbar menu of their favorite XML
authoring/editing software. VUI is an add-on module to Vasont.
See our Software
section for more detail.
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Vasont Systems offers a choice
of payment options for its Vasont Client/Server CMS and Vasont
Remote User Interface. Organizations can purchase the software
or take advantage of Vasont Systems’ 24-month subscription
option.
See our Payment
Options page for more detail.
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Vasont Systems offers a variety of data services that
complement its Vasont applications and provides additional
support in solving organizations' content management challenges,
including data analysis and modeling, DTD writing, and Vasont
software training.
See our Services
section for more detail.
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Progressive Information Technologies, a leader in the information
management and publishing services industry since 1950, recognized
a need in the marketplace for a content management system
that would give organizations the ability to create content
once and publish it to print, CD-ROM and Web formats.
During 1992, Progressive Information Technologies’ team
of technologists acknowledged the “pain points”
associated with managing and publishing content to multiple
media, which led to the creation of a content management system
for WB Saunders’ Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.
From this project, the software developed into a product that
could manage and repurpose any type of content.
Since Vasont was officially launched back in 1997, its features
and functionality have been continually improved and enhanced
- delivering a robust content management system that has helped
to efficiently manage and repurpose large volumes of content.
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As a single-source content management system for multi-channel
publishing, Vasont goes one step further than traditional
content management systems that focus on managing and publishing
content to one medium (i.e., the Web). Vasont empowers users
to create, organize, manage, and publish multilingual content
for multi-channel delivery to print, CD-ROM, Web, and wireless
formats.
Through its Vasont Universal Integrator (VUI) software extension,
the system seamlessly integrates with leading XML editing
tools, empowering editors and authors to access Vasont’s
functionality directly from their XML editing tool’s
interface for their XML content. More than just a bridge between
software programs, this tight integration with XML editing
tools eliminates the need for users to toggle back-and-forth
between applications; instead, they can work within their
XML editor while accessing, editing, and updating their content
in Vasont.
Vasont’s powerful bi-directional link management capabilities
make an organization’s content accurate. Through its
pointers, Vasont greatly enhances the speed of building links
and the accuracy of links. The system links separate “chunks”
of content, such as sections, paragraphs, or chapters, to
each other and automatically makes the links bi-directional,
making it impossible to delete linked content without first
resolving the cross-references.
Vasont’s full Unicode support capabilities, including
UTF-8 and UTF-16, allow the system to display and manage all
character sets. These capabilities for multilingual translation
management enable organizations with global documentation
needs to easily manage and edit their multilingual content
from a single source while significantly reducing translation
costs. Vasont links the multilingual versions of the content
with the corresponding English version; therefore, when a
change is made to the English content, Vasont automatically
identifies the appropriate components for translation, not
entire chapters or manuals.
Vasont is also more advanced than other content management
systems because of its exclusive processing options, which
are built-in customizations that allow users without programming
experience to configure Vasont for their specific needs and
business logic. Processing options are quicker to implement
than traditional system customizations and decrease implementation
and customization costs. Processing options also improve efficiencies
by automating various tasks for users, such as sending automatic
emails, performing math calculations, automating workflow
tasks, and generating indexes, among hundreds more.
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—Vasont
saves organizations time and money by automating tasks, allowing
for new product prototyping and deployment in short periods
of time, ensuring accurate multi-channel publishing from a
single source of content, maximizing content reuse, and maintaining
a complete audit trail of all revisions.
—Vasont
is easy for the end user to initiate and use, and it requires
less than one week of training for implementation. Through
the system’s Vasont Universal Integrator feature, authors
and editors can access Vasont’s functionality from the
toolbar menu of their favorite XML authoring/editing tools.
Additionally, Vasont makes it simple for users without programming
experience to customize their interface. If additional support
is needed, Vasont Systems will help clients design their interface.
—Vasont’s
true single-source functionality centralizes content in one
powerful repository, facilitating content sharing and reuse
across multiple media formats. Vasont stores only one copy
of the content in its robust repository and keeps track of
all the content’s uses so that changes only need to
be made once in order to be immediately available for global
or specific uses.
—Vasont’s
powerful reuse capabilities empower organizations to quickly
repurpose their documentation as frequently as daily or weekly
across multiple media channels, including print, CD-ROM, Web
and wireless, without costly data conversions.
—Vasont
has full Unicode support capabilities for multilingual translation
management that enables organizations to easily manage and
edit their multilingual content from a single source while
minimizing translation costs.
—Vasont’s
workflow capability is a methodical and secure process. It
ensures that an entire organization has the ability to effectively
and efficiently access, update, edit and review content through
checkpoints and e-mail notifications—alerting users
of the project’s status and next step.
—Because
Vasont’s single-source functionality requires that content
is only stored once in its robust database, organizations
can rely on Vasont to provide accurate content across all
of its documentation regardless of media format.
—For
organizations who must comply with governmental regulations,
Vasont provides powerful versioning capabilities that enable
the system to track all changes made to a piece of content.
Users can attach comments to the content, search for old content,
and reinstate any previous version of that content.
—Vasont
has the unique capability to allow organizations to use multiple
DTDs and schemas, including custom DTDs or industry standards
including DITA and SCORM.
—Vasont’s
administrative capabilities ensure that only authorized users
throughout an organization can access the content with their
unique IDs and passwords.
—With
years of in-depth industry experience in publishing and content
management, Vasont’s team of technologists provide clients
with unmatched insight and support from the selection process
through ongoing implementation. Each client has access to
a project manager who ensures that the client’s objectives
are met and questions are promptly answered.
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Vasont is ideal for organizations of
all sizes that produce multilingual technical documentation,
product manuals, training materials, or scientific and reference
manuals. Additionally, organizations that continually update
and change their content benefit from the system’s single-source
functionality that enables them to quickly repurpose their
content into multiple products to print, PDF, Web, CD-ROM
and wireless formats. Organizations in the manufacturing,
technology, and publishing industries have found Vasont to
be a competitive advantage for their businesses.
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Organizations have been leveraging
Vasont to manage and produce a variety of highly complex content,
including multilingual software and hardware documentation,
manufacturers’ equipment and product manuals, parts
catalogues,
marketing and educational materials, online training (e-learning)
materials, medical and pharmaceutical reference materials,
dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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Vasont’s customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies
and spans a variety of industries, including manufacturing,
technology, publishing, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals
and education. See our partial client
list.
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See our updated list of partners.
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—Oracle®
version 9i or higher
—40+
Major UNIX Platforms, Windows™ Server Platforms
—Windows™
2000 or higher
—XML/SGML Parsing
Software; User Selected Helper Applications; Citrix MetaFrame
for Windows
—Justsystems
XMetaL™, Arbortext Editor™, Adobe FrameMaker™,
Microsoft® Word™, Quark's XML Author (formerly In.vision)
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