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M A G N O L I A
Content Management Suite
Announcement
October 12th, 2005
http://www.magnolia.info/
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MAGNOLIA FOR DOCUMENTS:
EASILY FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
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Basel (Switzerland), October 12th 2005
Magnolia Organization today announces the release of
"Magnolia For Documents 1.0", an easy-to-use,
standards-based document-management-system (DMS) based on
JSR-170. Magnolia for Documents enables you to easily manage
documents through a web-based application, assign
customizable meta-data and fine-grained access-rights to
each document and store, publish, categorize and retrieve
documents efficiently.
Replace Your Fileserver
Magnolia For Documents aims to replace today's typical file
server as it is found throughout nearly all enterprises. The
idea of a file server is to have a centralized place where
documents are stored. While storing works well, retrieving
the said documents is an entirely different matter:
documents can only be stored in a strict hierarchy, only
limited additional information is available about a
document, no audit information is available (who changed
what, when) and you generally cannot restore a previous
version of your document in case you (or someone else)
accidentally deleted an important part of your work.
Magnolia For Documents is poised to change how documents are
used within an enterprise. Since all documents are
automatically versioned, you can easily go back to any
earlier version. A version history lets you view a change
comment, author and date for each version stored. New
versions can be added at any time, and version information
is automatically updated.
Extensible Dublin Core Metadata
Meta data, i.e. information about the document like the
author, related documents or a summary is based on the
Dublin core standard, but easily extensible at runtime. A
powerful search interface lets you restrict your search
results to documents matching any combination of meta data
and full text search. Need all documents you wrote in the
last week related to your new product rollout? No problem.
Every presentation that resulted in a deal? Simply add a new
field to store your presentation outcome, and it will be
available as a dropdown in your search interface. All
documents written in your New York branch? You get the
picture, its as easy as 1-2-3. Magnolia For Documents can
easily be adapted to your specific needs, no programming
necessary.
Controlled Access
Magnolia For Documents lets you grant access to documents
based on roles that you can define yourself. This makes it
very easy to make sure that everyone in your company has
access to all the information they should have, while
maintaining confidentiality where desired. Say your
controller should only be able to write to the folder
"confidential"? Simply define a role that restricts read and
write access to this folder and assign it to your
controllers. The sales department? Add a role "sales" that
may write to the sales folder, and may read everything
marketing has written.
Magnolia Web Content Integration
All documents can be accessed through the Magnolia Web
Content management system. A DMS-query-component lets you
retrieve documents based on any criteria you wish. This
makes it extremely easy to always have the latest
documentation an any subject available at your web site - be
it intranet, extranet or internet. You want all your latest
information regarding your new executive services available
on your web site? Simply ask for all documents available in
the format PDF, concerning said service (any maybe add
status "available for general public" as a meta data field).
If someone adds a new document or updates an existing one
matching the search criteria, it will automatically show up
at the web site.
Matching Your Needs
Magnolia For Documents is available in two separate
editions, a "Community Edition" for small to mid-sized
enterprises, and an "Enterprise Edition" for mid-sized to
large companies. Magnolia For Documents is written in Java,
which provides great enterprise integration capabilities,
and runs on any standard J2EE server. It integrates smoothly
into heterogeneous system environments and runs equally well
on all major platforms.
Benefits of JSR-170 (Java Content Repository API)
JSR-170 is a revolutionary new industry standard for
content-based applications that allows standardized content
reuse between applications. This enables Magnolia For
Documents to be used as a standalone solution or - as part
of the Magnolia Suite - integrated with Magnolia For Web
Content, the leading JSR-170 based content-management-system
(CMS). Magnolia's JSR-170 capabilities mean that you can
access content across the enterprise through a standardized
interface, vastly simplifying content reuse and syndication.
Availability
Magnolia For Documents 1.0 is available immediately. A demo
version can be downloaded from the magnolia.info website
which is valid for 30 days. Commercial licenses can be
bought online.
About the Magnolia Enterprise Content Suite
Free, open-source Magnolia For Web Content - essential part
of the Magnolia Enterprise Content Suite - is the leading
JSR-170-based content management system (ECM) in the world.
It is deployed in several thousand installations worldwide,
available in 15 languages and ranked amongst the top 200 out
of 100'000 projects listed on sourceforge, the worlds
leading open source development repository.
About Magnolia Organization:
Magnolia Organization markets and manages all commercial
activities regarding Magnolia, including partnerships,
certification programs, commercial Magnolia products and the
Magnolia brand. It manages all legal aspects surrounding the
Magnolia brand and provides infrastructure and support for
the Magnolia Community.
CONTACT
Magnolia Organization llc.
Boris Kraft
Binningerstrasse 15
CH- 4051 Basel
Switzerland
Tel +41 61 228 9000
Fax +41 61 228 9001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.magnolia.info
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