New Content Management Product Launches
NextPage, a player in Content Networking, has launched an end-to-end Content Management & Publishing Solution for departments that create and provide access to
business-critical documents, such as compliance guidelines, corporate policies, best practices or other reference information.
The new solution includes NextPage NXT 3, Solo and new Content@, a content management application integrated with NextPage’s Content Network architecture.
The product is XML-based and enables publishing departments within corporations to efficiently author, manage and assemble information with content management features and workflow.
John Miles, Vp European Operations, takes our questions
IN A CM MARKET VERY NEAR SATURATION, WHAT CONSIDERATIONS LEAD TO LAUNCH A NEW PRODUCT?
The primary focus for our new product was to create a solution for publishing departments within companies that addressed the authoring, management, aggregation and delivery of their content. No other content management players to date have addressed these problems for this type of department and generally speaking, the majority of solutions have either addressed the management of content or the presentation of the content, but not both in tandem. We are providing a 'first' complete content solution.
IN MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IS WHAT ALL CMS DO WHAT YOU DESCRIBE ABOVE COULD YOU EXPAND? WHAT PROBLEMS, WHAT DEPARTMENTS?
We believe that no other offering provides such an end-to-end solution for such a low cost of ownership. Some only focus on the authoring and management, some focus on the publishing aspects. Many only work at the document level, and cannot handle document assemble and component re-use without significant customisation. To follow are some unique components of the NextPage solution.
Nobody else has the Content Network. Most other (if not all) CM systems require you to migrate all of your content to the CM system to search and access it. What does that mean for publishing departments in large corporations that already have gigabytes of information that they have published -- in different formats? It is too costly for the company to migrate all of that information into the CM system in order for users to find and access the content. NextPage allows you to make available all of what you have today, immediately, as well as publishing new content faster and more accurately into the Content Network using Content@. NextPage also has the ability to deliver content to disconnected users.
The departments and lines-of-business that we are targeting are those that create and provide access to business-critical documents, such as compliance guidelines, corporate policies, best practices or other reference information. They need to create and deliver content quickly and accurately so that their employees, partners and customers can use the information to make the right decisions at the right time.
In addition, we also focused on creating a total cost of ownership that matched the needs of our customers. The set up, maintenance and administration costs of our new solution is much lower than other alternatives on the market.
The solution is available at $135,000.00 for 10 concurrent users and 100 named NXT 3 users. This includes the first years support and maintenance, as well as an implementation and training starter pack.
WHAT PRODUCTS ARE YOU COMPARING TO?
The total cost of ownership is much lower to similarly positioned products when you consider that we are providing an integrated, end-to-end solution. Because customers purchase one, out-of-the-box solution for all of their content needs, the cost to deliver, operate and maintain the solution is dramatically lower than alternatives. Other vendors require the purchase of several modules, plus the custom integration of these modules, to attempt to delivery the functionality that we can deliver out-of-the-box. Several Enterprise CM vendors are attempting to re-package products and to re-price in order to target the departmental user. However, minimal functionality is delivered with such an entry-level product unless additional modules are purchase along with significant implementation services.
WHAT ARE THE SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS?
Servers: Windows NT or 2000, Client: Windows 98/200/NT or Web browser (IE), Database: Oracle
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