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Regardless of which industry sector publishers target, they continually seek to add value to their operations through the gathering and dissemination of knowledge internally with their customers and partners.
Increasingly, market positioning is dependent on the publisher’s ability to provide added value and faster time to market for end users. Traditional booksellers are facing a decline in book sales, while technology drives the demand for information to be available in multiple formats.
In the past, Content Management Systems have concentrated on managing information at a document level. However, this is only valuable if content is then managed and accessed at this level. A more competitive and specialist market now demands a more granular approach to content.
CSW’s Knowledge Management Suite (KMS) provides a complete solution for creating, maintaining and publishing XML. The Knowledge Engineering System (KES) doesn’t just check content out at the whole document level; it also provides the ability to break down documents into their constituent components at pre-defined structural levels, making it possible for multiple users to work on the same document collaboratively. All KES functions can be performed on any individual or batch of components. This approach allows content to be managed across publications and crucially gives publishers the ability to reuse the same component in multiple places. This ‘reuse’ functionality eliminates the need to modify the same content repeatedly and reduces the overhead costs of maintenance.
The Knowledge Delivery Engine (KDE) is constructed using a number of mature and robust Open Source frameworks, creating a high volume, low cost, content delivery platform. KDE can be used to deliver content directly to users, or to provide content feeds to business partners.
Importantly, in this increasingly competitive environment, KMS is proven to reduce costs for publishers wherever XML content is engineered in medium and large teams, cross departmental operations, or in remote authoring situations. By optimising the reuse of content, time to market is reduced by managing a single source of content, while publishing to multiple outputs ensures added value to end users.
