eContent Management

A web-based content management system providing secured access across the enterprise. A key strategic solution for doing business at digital speed and for reducing cost! The product enables creating, managing, and maintaining the complete eBusiness lifecycle-including the creation, approval, and deployment of web-based enterprise applications-while managing all associated digital assets such as web content, documents, multimedia and graphics, and process and workflow-in a single, easy-to-use, integrated environment.

eContent delivers the lowest total cost of ownership for enterprise content management.eConent uses and open standards to integrate with the technology of today and tomorrow while providing line-of-business users with unprecedented control to manage their own content, without the need for technical expertise.

What is eContent?

Web Content Management

• content management: publishing, version control, distribution and scalable content delivery supports content creation and authoization.
• taxonomy: categorization element provides infromation context, including the organization-specific categories that reflect and support your organization's business.
• integration: with existing enterprise applications, systems and hosted services.
• workflow: the process and action enables the user to initiate and participate in your organization's business processes.
• collaboration: content collaboration and forum integration for communication faciliates discussion, problem solving, locating innovative ideas, and recognizing resourceful solutions.
• security: levels of access each user group are allowed to access.
• search: support sophisticated search queries
• and personalization: content preferences

Improves Site Effectiveness

Reduce Cost of Ownership

Uses of eContent

• Enterprise Information System, presenting important company information -- phone lists, HR notices, sales resources etc
• Departmental Information, i.e. Accounting
• Decision Support System
• Table of contents for each department, i.e. finance, accounting, operations.
• Human Resources System tied into tighter security user authentication
• Internet Catalog (tied into ecommerce solution)
• Information Subscription System on Internet
• Customer Support Services on Extranet

eContent makes it possible to present different operational functions of an enterprise to specific audiences and set up the appropriate level of security for each group. For example, your supplier portal may allow a detailed view of your current inventory for the products that they supply, while your customer portal may show the customer only whether the product is in stock or not.

An enterprise resource management for e-documents and other resources spread across and beyond the enterprise. It includes enterprise resource management; simultaneous access to diverse repositories; workflow and enterprise process management; and distributed document management.

Such instant access to information delivers both the promise and the expectation that we can collaborate on business information faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Dynamically generates views of resource content based on security; offers unlimited categories to reflect your organization. Supports numerous file formats. Published Resources include:

• HTML files
• GIFs, JPGs, and virtually every other graphic file format
• static reports
• live dynamic reporting with drill-down and drill-through capability
• Java reports
• online forms
• html files
• executable programs
• OLAP analyses
• PDF documents
• etc

Many documents today originate in digital form. Electronic tools like word processors, spreadsheets, electronic publishing, databases, and even emails now combine to form the bulk of new documents being created.

At the same time the new universal transport via web technologies provides the tools needed to create eContent, an Enterprise Information System, to achieve instant access to resources and a global network for instant transmissions.

Advanced access management of resources ensures that only authorized content is published. Your designated contributors are empowered to maintain their own online content.

Communicating at Light Speed

Companies run on documents. Documents communicate product details, describe new innovations, communicate corporate policy, facilitate forms such as employment applications, carry bids and quotes, confirm terms, and handle payment among thousands of other things. Recently web technology has utterly and irrevocably changed the nature of documents - and facilitating immediate access to information. eContent offers the enterprise the advantage of instant information to the corporate environment by providing access to everything from HR documents and forms to financials and operations data.

Moreover, eContent can be also be used for improving customer and vendor information designed specifically for their particular needs. eContent can used for publishing parts catalogs or to produce customized data in real time for each of potentially millions of clients and partners. The demands for just-in-time information will continue to grow at an accelerated pace through the next decade. Companies embracing technologies to enable production of such information will find themselves possessing a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Providing Enterprise Content Management

Jcorporate's eContent provides content management tools for administering web sites with extensive or complex content, or web sites where access to the content must be controlled. eContent provides an enterprise content manager (CMS) for all your company documents and resources. By instantly responding to the needs of all of a company’s information consumers, eContent propels the enterprise into new dimensions of efficiency, productivity, and customer loyalty.

When the amount of information presented by a particular web site grows, the need for a way to manage content better is felt. eContent offers networked and integrated document and resource management. It facilitates quick access to the wealth of digital documents and objects stored in systems across your organization so your business can stop handling paper and start using the best information for your e-business. Leveraging information and knowledge is a key part of transforming businesses to e-business. eContent can give you a complete picture of customer relationships, integrate project information from across your organization or provide immediate access to the wide range of information needed to be agile in a competitive environment.

eContent provides capabilities to manage any number of resources on one or more web sites. The resources can be of any type including static HTML pages, images of any format, specialized formats such as PDF files, online forms etc. These resources can be organized into hierarchical categories, with a single resource being a member of any number of categories.

These categories then form the basis for the user's views of resources - where different users can see different organizations of the same content. Each user can see resources organized according to a structure appropriate to their needs: for example, managers might see financial reports organized according to business unit, whereas the company controller might see the same reports organized by parent company. Resources can be sourced from any number of different report-writing packages, and parameters and bursting makes support of complex business reports straightforward.

Resource can be secured individually, and can either be simply not seen listed for unauthorized users, or can be set to direct unauthorized users to a custom page - for example, an on-line magazine might present a page offering a subscription to a user that clicks on an issue of a magazine they have not purchased access to.

Resources can be linked to dynamic operations, such as a catalog that ties automatically to an e-commerce and shopping cart application - and automatically knows to show a different catalog with discounted prices to high-volume customers, for example.

Authors can easily upload new content without special client software, only a web browser is required. Resources can be uploaded one at a time or in bundled groups, which are automatically published into the correct categories after upload. Version control and update locking are supported for multiple authors accessing the same resource, and any number of previous revisions of a resource can be maintained online.

Access to resources can also be tracked and audited, with a log maintained and automated email notifications sent to specified groups of users when a particular resource is updated - for example, if the controller wants to know when the month-end receivables aging published by the receivables department, he can set up such a notification.

Users can also make use of a sophisticated search capability to locate resources or categories of resources - custom attributes can be added to a resource to cause it to be included in particular searches. For example, an attribute of "material" might be added to resources in an online clothing catalog, and a particular sweater would be found when the user searches for "wool". Search can also be used to customize the view of resources for a particular purpose, such as specifying an attribute "price", which would then allow resources to be searched by this attribute directly. This is in contrast to the general-purpose keyword search so often seen on websites, which does not do the best job of getting the user to the correct information quickly.

Presentation of the table of contents of available resources can use any of the predefined layouts, such as a "Tree" layout, or a matrix or table-style layout. Custom layouts can also be easily generated for exact control over the presentation of resources to the user - a JSP style layout allows the full capabilities of Java Server pages to be used to customize the presentation.

These capabilities make the management of a large or complex set of information easy and reliable, and provide content authors, users and site administrators with a set of tools needed to accomplish their tasks efficiently.

By using eContent, the availability of information resources represents a significant asset to the corporation. Such resources may be from policy Word-based documents to data kept in databases. Using eContent, information can be made accessible from data culled by data mining and other business intelligence tools in order to extrapolate key trends and other hidden information – again providing a distinct competitive advantage. Unlike a "standard" web page which presents a static view of information which all users view - eContent offers users customized table of content (TOC) views. A particular TOC may be different for different users based on their security permissions.

Enables report files downloaded from any mainframe, midrange or client/server system to be stored for reference. Users can display a current softcopy of the report or view history reports. Appropriate users can be notified when new reports of interest to them get published and access them via hyperlink.No more report distribution hassles! No more wasted paper printing multiple copies of a report!

Reduce Costs

In developing their enterprise information system companies are initially deploying eContent to create Report Warehouses, using servers as distribution points for the application reports created on a wide variety of platforms, unifying & organizing access to disparate enterprise data sources.

• How many hours have been wasted in your organization because people must dig through mountains of printouts to find the answers they need?
• And how many more hours have been wasted because of printer errors or time spent distributing reports?

Chances are, these lost hours are costing you real money. eContent will reduce your printing and distribution costs. In addition to savings here, greater savings come from the user collaboration and knowledge base created resulting in better decision.

Great Value Solution

The eContent solution comes with source code giving company's the control and security for the success of their project. We have aimed the eContent product to be priced below that of object code competing products. In many cases our product, updates, eServices and Premium Support will be several times more cost effective than competing products. Why have we done this? We believe the real strength of our solutions to our clients lies in the collaborative infrastructure and the involvement of the users in the community process. We are interested in having a strong user community and a low pricing structure supports that. Collaboration is why so many open source projects are so powerful - and we felt this same benefits could be achieved through commercial source. The commercial aspect enables us to have a full time development team working on the project and an emphasis on service.