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Vasont is a powerful content management system that
enables organizations and enterprises to better create, manage
and repurpose their multilingual content—including text,
graphics and multimedia files—to multiple media formats.
The system’s comprehensive single-source functionality
increases the efficiency of repurposing content to multiple
publications, regardless of the media format, while ensuring
content accuracy.
Designed to improve productivity and time-to-market of products,
Vasont makes it easy for organizations with editorial groups,
remote authors or enterprise-wide content contributors to
manage their multilingual technical documentation, user's
guides, manuals, training materials, and other publications.
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Because organizations of all sizes have different content
management challenges, they can choose from one of Vasont’s
applications that best meets their needs.
Vasont
Client/Server: Provides users with
access to the dynamic system's functionality right from their
desktops. Vasont Client/Server is ideal for organizations
that continually update and repurpose their content for delivery
to print, electronic, Web, and wireless media channels.
Vasont
Remote User Interface: Enables
organizations with global offices, remote locations, intranets,
or home-based workforces to control and manage their enterprise-wide
content while creating an efficient and collaborative work
environment. This highly scalable system can be purchased
with any number of Web seats to meet the editorial needs of
an organization.
Vasont
Hosted CMS: Provides cost-effective
content management for organizations that want the benefits
of a content management system without the required investment
for purchasing the software and devoting IT staff to maintain
and support it. Vasont Hosted CMS offers access to Vasont's
content management software on a subscription basis. An organization's
authorized users can access and update their content from
anywhere at anytime via a Web browser.
Offers a low-cost version
of Vasont Client/Server that is tailored to address the needs
of small editorial groups with limited resources. Vasont SG
solves the content management challenges of small editorial
groups within organizations that produce frequently updated
technical documentation, manuals, reference materials, and
publications in multiple media formats. Vasont SG includes
one server and five client/server seats.
Vasont
Extensions: Provides solid integrations
with leading editing, review, translation, presentation, and
publishing tools so organizations can build a complete solution
using their favorite tools.
See our Software
section for more detail on these applications.
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Vasont Systems offers a choice
of payment options for its Vasont Client/Server and Vasont
Remote User Interface models. Organizations can purchase the
software or take advantage of Vasont Systems’ 24-month
subscription option.
See our Payment
Options page for more detail.
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Vasont Systems offers data services that complement
its Vasont applications and provide support in solving an
organization’s content management challenges.
Implementation
Services: Vasont Systems prepares a detailed, customized
implementation plan for each new client and provides the services
needed for a successful Vasont implementation, including document
analysis and modeling, server setup, configuration and testing,
and more.
Support
Services: Vasont Systems offers support services to organizations
that need help with organizing and structuring their content
for a content management strategy. Services include data analysis,
DTD creation, XML consulting, and more.
Training:
Vasont University offers training courses for the Vasont content
management software and related topics, such as XML and DITA.
In addition, the annual Vasont Users’ Group Meeting
provides unique networking and training opportunities for
users of the system.
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Progressive Information Technologies, a leader in the information
management and publishing services industry since 1950, recognized
a need in the marketplace for a content management system
that would give organizations the ability to create content
once and publish it to print, electronic, and Web formats.
During 1992, Progressive Information Technologies’ team
of technologists acknowledged the “pain points”
associated with managing and publishing content to multiple
media, which led to the creation of a content management system
for WB Saunders’ Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.
From this project, the software developed into a product that
could manage and repurpose any type of content.
Since Vasont was officially launched back in 1997, its features
and functionality have been continually improved and enhanced—delivering
a powerful content management system that has helped to efficiently
manage and repurpose large volumes of content.
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As a single-source content management system for multi-channel
publishing, Vasont goes further than content management systems
that focus on managing and publishing content to one medium
(i.e., the Web). Vasont allows users to create and publish
multilingual content for delivery to print, electronic, Web,
and wireless formats.
Vasont has comprehensive single-source functionality and a
reuse-based architecture that consolidates duplicate content,
reducing the volume of content users must manage. Vasont users
average 71% content reuse, ensuring content accuracy and improving
the efficiency of repurposing content to multiple publications
independent of the media format.
Vasont’s smarter, more powerful repository provides
the flexibility to define content granularity at any level.
Users maintain complete control of their unstructured documents
or structured content components using its advanced search
and push/pull global change features.
Vasont makes content future-proof with its adaptable content
tagging model that allows migration to alternate DTDs or tag
names. This flexibility makes it easy to reuse content in
different contexts and to adopt new standards as they emerge.
Vasont is also more advanced because of its exclusive processing
options, which are built-in customizations that allow users
without programming experience to configure Vasont for their
specific business logic. Processing options are quicker and
less expensive to implement than system customizations. They
also improve efficiencies by automating various tasks for
users, such as sending automatic emails, performing math calculations,
automating tasks, and generating indexes, among hundreds more.
Vasont’s full Unicode support (UTF-8, UTF-16) allows
the system to display all character sets and enables organizations
with global documentation to easily manage and edit their
multilingual content from a single source while significantly
reducing translation costs. Vasont links the multilingual
content with the corresponding base version; therefore, when
a change is made to the base content, Vasont automatically
identifies the appropriate chunks for translation—not
entire chapters or manuals.
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Vasont saves organizations time and money by automating tasks,
allowing for new product prototyping and deployment in short
periods of time, ensuring accurate multi-channel publishing
from a single source of content, maximizing content reuse,
and maintaining a complete audit trail of all revisions.
Vasont is easy
to use, and it requires less than one week of training for
implementation. Through the system’s Extensions that
tightly integrate Vasont with editing, review, translation,
presentation, and publishing tools, users can build a tailored
solution using their favorite tools. Vasont is simple for
users without programming skills to customize their application
using profiles or processing options.
Vasont’s true single-source functionality centralizes
content in one powerful repository, facilitating content sharing
and reuse across departmental boundaries within an organization.
Vasont stores only one copy of the content in its repository
and keeps track of all the content’s uses so that changes
only need to be made once in order to be immediately available
for global or specific uses.
Vasont’s
powerful reuse capabilities enable organizations to quickly
repurpose their documentation as frequently as daily or weekly
across multiple media channels without costly data conversions.
Vasont has full Unicode support and translation management
capabilities that enable organizations to easily update their
multilingual content from a single source and monitor translation
projects while significantly minimizing translation costs.
Vasont’s workflow capability is a methodical
and secure process. It ensures that an entire organization
has the ability to effectively and efficiently access, update,
edit and review content through checkpoints and e-mail notifications—alerting
users of the project’s status and next step. Managers
can also create relevant reports to monitor the progress of
their projects and staff.
Because
Vasont’s single-source functionality requires that content
is only stored once in its powerful database, organizations
can rely on Vasont to provide accurate content across all
of its documentation regardless of media format.
For organizations
who must comply with governmental regulations, Vasont provides
powerful versioning capabilities that enable the system to
track all changes made to a piece of content. Users can attach
comments to the content, search for old content, and reinstate
any previous version of that content.
Vasont has the unique ability to allow organizations to use
multiple DTDs and schemas, including custom DTDs or industry
standards including DITA and SCORM.
Vasont’s administrative tool ensures that only authorized
users can access specific content with their unique IDs and
passwords.
With years
of in-depth industry experience in publishing and content
management, Vasont’s team provide clients with unmatched
insight and support from the selection process through ongoing
implementation. Each client has access to a project manager
who ensures that the client’s objectives are met and
questions are promptly answered. Training support is provided
through Vasont University, and user networking is encouraged
at the annual Vasont Users’ Group Meeting.
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Vasont is ideal for organizations of all sizes that produce
multilingual technical documentation, training and testing
materials, product manuals, scientific and reference materials.
Organizations that continually update and change their content
benefit from the system’s single-source functionality
that enables them to quickly repurpose their content into
multiple products to print, electronic, Web, and wireless
formats. Organizations in the manufacturing, technology, government,
and publishing industries have found Vasont to be a competitive
advantage for their businesses.
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Organizations have been leveraging Vasont to manage and produce
a variety of highly complex content, including multilingual
software and hardware documentation, manufacturers’
equipment and product manuals, parts catalogs, marketing and
educational materials, online training (e-learning) materials,
medical and pharmaceutical reference materials, standards
manuals, dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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Vasont’s customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies
and spans a variety of industries, including manufacturing,
technology, publishing, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals
and education. See our partial client
list.
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See our updated list of partners.
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—Oracle®
version 9i or higher
—40+
Major UNIX Platforms, Windows™ Server Platforms
—Windows™
2000 or higher
—Multiple Vasont
Extensions are available that provide solid integrations
with leading editing, review, translation, presentation, and
publishing tools so organizations can build a complete solution
using their favorite tools
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