| According to a survey conducted by Gartner [http://www.gartner.com], 90 percent of companies believe they suffer from information overload and that their competitiveness is negatively impacted as a result. Although investments on information management systems, knowledge management systems, document management systems and content management systems are constantly increasing for this reason, survey respondents ranked informal information sources, such as personal networks (e.g. friends and close colleagues) and e-mails more beneficial to their business decision making than information stored electronically. |
| But using informal information resources and electronically stored information is not necessarily mutual exclusive. Ergonomic and easily accessible technologies are adopted faster and can form a meaningful complement to informal information resources. |
| viaContext™ can help you to achieve this: viaContext™ is a completely web-based information management solution with outstanding features for the efficient and compact presentation of the managed information. |
| Documents and content from existing archives can be combined with personal content and comments. Knowledge and valuable information, regardless whether published internally or for the general public, can be explored cooperatively. Digital archives turn from unnecessarily complex into systematically structured information pools. |
| What is viaContext™ not ? |
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| Context |
| More and more knowledge and information is being delivered digitally in these days. The number of digital documents and media increases continuously and systems for managing digital resources are increasingly facing the challenge to store these resources in a way that allows for convenient retrieval. |
| A simple singular structure for the storage of these resources does not suffice anymore - knowledge and information are changing continuously, various demands put our knowledge into new contexts again and again, single resources may occur in different contexts and different users often have different viewpoints. |
| viaContext™ takes information management and knowledge management literally: viaContext™ enables the mapping of new contexts, just with a few mouse clicks ... |
| More about Workspace, Archives, Metadata, Comments and Search ... |
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| Access Control Management |
| The management of user privileges is directly oriented on the features available in viaContext™. Roles can be defined in a flexible manner through the adequate choice of access control options. |
| Whether roles are defined for administrators, editors or content consumers, in either case the roles can be defined individually and attached to any group of archives or folders. |
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| Security |
| Your documents are being stored on our servers following the most current security standards in one of the most up-to-date data centres in Germany. If you prefer to run viaContext™ on one of your own servers, we can provide you with qualified consultance for an equivalent security strategy. |
| For the completely web-based access to your documents you can choose between unencrypted (HTTP) and encrypted (HTTPS, SSL 256 Bit) connections. This means, that you can choose yourself if you want to use the unencrypted, but usually faster connection, or, if the privacy of your documents demand for a secure connection (We strongly discourage the mixture of both connection methods for a single account. For the work with highly confidential documents only the secure connection should be used. Of course, you can restrict access to your account for all account members to SSL). |
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| Technology |
| With viaContext™ you count on a system based on the most recent software components and technologies. The system is completely implemented in Java 6 and uses Oracle 10g for managing your data. The Java-applet based systems management console uses web services to communicate with the viaContext™ server, thus being completely web-based as well. |
| The metadata attached to your documents is stored in XML following the Dublin Core standard, a widely adapted standard for document management. For the presentation of the metadata in the user-interface, XSLT-stylesheets are used. If you have special requirements for the metadata attached to your documents, we can also integrate customized XML dialects and XSLT-stylesheets into your metadata. Ask us for an offer. |
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| System Requirements |
| viaContext™ supports all popular, javascript-enabled browsers. There is no browser-dependent functionality in viaContext™. However, the following minimum requirement concerning the version of the browser should be met (for all browsers we recommend the most current version): Internet Explorer 5.5 (SP2+), Netscape 6.2.2, Mozilla 1.3, Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2. |
| The systems management console (for group management in the group account and business account) requires the java plugin, version 1.5 (Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0) or higher. If the java plugin is not already installed on your computer, you will be asked to download the java plugin when you start the systems management console for the first time. |
| When you already have installed an older version of the java plugin on your computer, you must start the installation of the current version directly over the Java homepage (http://java.com). In addition, you need a Pentium III or IV with 500 MHz or faster and 100 MB free disc space and at least 64 MB RAM. More information about system requirements for the java plugin is available at http://java.com. |
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| Free Account |
| Sounds interesting? Use the chance of looking at the system with a free account! Create a free account and test web-based information management with viaContext™ for free. |
| To simplify your start, we have created some examples for you. With access code MWVIEW (you will find this function after registration) you can get access to an archive of pictures of a Munich artist. This sample also shows you how you can give your resources with workspace folders a new context. If you do not want to see the resources you gained access for any longer, you can easily hide or remove them using the functions provided in your personal profile. |
| Please contact our support-team, if you have questions or problems concerning your account. |
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| Convinced? Let us convince you of our prices as well! |
| You are committed to the features of viaContext™ and want to benefit from professional, web-based information management in the future, too? You can convert your free account to a full-featured account for teamwork with extended system resources at any time! |
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