Services - Electronic Publishing

Content Management

Generally, content management is the process by which an enterprise gets control of its critical data, documents and other content, makes that content available electronically both within and outside the organization via Web technologies, and formally integrates the content into business processes and product offerings. For a publisher the principle content is the collection of authored works published for the its readership. In a competitive e-commerce market, a publisher's content is no less subject to content management than any other form of corporate information. The rewards can be significant:

Enhance, supplement and grow the content collection - assure control and security of Web content
Improve currency of content - reduce time to market of critical information (reduce the content creation and publication cycle)
Reduce information delivery costs
Improve subscriber service responsiveness

Content Life Cycle

In assessing the content management needs of our clients, we focus on the Web as the core communication technology and examine the content life cycle from that perspective. The content life cycle includes creation, collection management, access management, and content production and delivery. NetLogex typically analyses the issues that are summarized in the following table.

Content Life Cycle
Content Creation	Content development tool
	Storing content methodologies; repositories
	Authoring/editorial process	Multiple authors
		Workflows
		Versioning
		Revisioning
	Architecture for multiple formats
	Additional content sources; content aggregation

Content Collection Management	Support for construction of Web content	Repositories of elements (Web parts)
		Dynamic linking
		Editing and quality control of Web content
		Ready deployment to production environment

Access Management	Multi-level subscription services
	Search tools, search engines, and taxonomy generators
	Content taxonomies

Content Production and Delivery	Dynamic serving of content to the end user
	Personalized delivery based on user preferences to foster user loyalty
	Building user communities
	Multiple output formats (including print)
	Multiple device support (e.g., PDA's)

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