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VASONT SYSTEMS UNVEILS VASONT® RELEASE 11

Enhancements to Leading Content Management System Promote
Usability and Productivity

EMIGSVILLE, PA, April 2, 2007 – Vasont Systems, a leading provider of content management software and data services, today announced the release of Vasont® 11, the latest version of its powerful single-source content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels.

“The focus for Vasont 11’s improvements is ‘ease of use’,” said Richard Schiding, Vasont Systems’ President and CEO. “We’ve dramatically simplified the usability, navigation, and design of Vasont. Our goal is to provide the most robust yet user-friendly single-source content management system on the market, and we’re confident that Vasont users will be impressed with release 11.”

Vasont 11 includes the following new features.

New User Interface
Vasont boasts a dramatically improved and simplified user interface (UI).

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•	Modern, navigable design: The new UI includes a modern, Windows-like design with intuitive buttons and icons so users can easily navigate through the system.
•	Information at the user’s fingertips: Helpful detail panes bring relevant information about the selected content’s properties and relationships, such as its content reuse, versions, and metadata, to the user’s fingertips for greater productivity and less “clicking” to find information.
•	Personalization: Vasont’s Home page is personalized for each user, displaying his/her favorite collections, queries, and workspaces for quick access to content. Also, up-to-date workflow information provides the user a “to-do list” based on his/her active workflow tasks.

User Productivity Enhancements
Vasont 11 includes other productivity enhancements beyond the UI.

•	Simplified query interface: The query window provides a new simple view that allows users to execute searches more easily. More technical users can still access the advanced view to build complex, multi-level searches. A plain-English query capability hides the complexity of search syntax from users in both views.
•	Variant and Normalization features: Vasont allows users to create variants by relating similar pieces of content. Users can also choose to reuse more of their content by making similar content all the same using the new normalization feature.
•	Automatic storage and pointer creation for multimedia components: When multimedia files are drag and dropped from Desktop or Explorer into Vasont, Vasont can automatically store the multimedia file in a designated collection (i.e., a Graphics collection) and automatically create a pointer from the collection it was dropped on to that multimedia component.
•	One-step processing: Processes such as analyzing content and processing on multiple components are now done in one step, saving users time when editing and reusing content.
•	Refine feature: A new Refine feature allows users to narrow the scope of displayed content to a user-defined, manageable set.
•	MSWord text tracking in Vasont: Vasont tracks reused content in MSWord documents and keeps them in sync. After text is reused in a MSWord document from a component in Vasont, the owner of the MSWord document is alerted of any changes to the original text in Vasont and can update the MSWord document with those changes.

Usability Enhancements for Administrative Functions
Vasont Administrator, the system’s administrative tool, also received usability and global functionality enhancements.

•	Processing option filter: Administrators can more easily find and apply appropriate processing options, Vasont’s exclusive built-in business logic, to multiple components at one time to tailor their system to their business needs.
•	Reference list: Administrators are now provided with a list of references to components in addition to the previous “where used” information in the configuration screen. This list rounds out the ability to manage pointers in Vasont.
•	Relationships across content types: Vasont Administrator also allows users to build relationships with pointers across different content types. Organizations using Vasont in multiple divisions and departments can now relate their once-disparate content.

LDAP Integration
Vasont’s LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) integration allows for enterprise security with a single login for each user for organizations using LDAP.

Architecture Migration
The continuation of our architecture migration includes asynchronous server side processing for loads and clones, allowing client machines to be freed up so users can continue to work on their machines while these processes are running.

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