Vasont® SaaS Component Content Management System: Cost-Effective Hosted Content Management
Vasont Systems offers a SaaS (software as a service) version of the Vasont CCMS, a hosted content management system available on a subscription basis. First offered in 2002, the Vasont SaaS CCMS has provided clients with a cloud-based option to better manage and control their business content and processes.
Enterprise SaaS Content Management System for Secure, World-Class Content Management 
The Vasont CCMS application and the client's content are stored in a Tier 1 world-class data center, and clients have access to it anytime via the Web. The Vasont SaaS CCMS provides a cost-effective way for enterprises 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. This highly secure system permits only authorized users to access an enterprise's content through a personal sign-on and password.
The Vasont SaaS CCMS encompasses all of the unique functionality of the perpetual Vasont CCMS model in an enterprise hosted CCMS environment:
| Feature | Description | Benefit |
| Hosted content | The Vasont SaaS CCMS stores a client's content in a secure, world-class data center. Clients can access their content via the Web anytime. | Significantly smaller investment in IT staff, software, and hardware |
| Tier 1 Data Center | The data center provides redundant power supplies, Internet capabilities, cooling and fire suppression systems. Only top-brand, high-performance equipment is used. | Continuous access to your content 24/7/365 |
| Security and protection | Vasont's administrative capabilities ensure that only authorized users throughout an enterprise can access the content with their unique IDs and passwords. In addition, the servers are protected by a five-level security system in the data center. | Ensures content integrity across all documentation |
| Hands-off maintenance | The software and hardware are maintained by Vasont Systems' IT staff on an ongoing basis. | Runs the most current software and recent hardware |
| Support for all DTDs simultaneously | Vasont supports standards such as DITA, SCORM or DocBook, and custom DTDs with the ability to use multiple DTDs in one database. | Provides a flexible environment and ensures your content will never become outdated |
| Versatile content reuse | Vasont provides content reuse of modules, components, words, graphics, multimedia and translations. | Provides content integrity |
| Advanced search capabilities | Vasont's easy interface enables complex searches for text, graphics, documents and metadata. | Helps you find the right content when you need it |
| Comprehensive storage of content | Structured and unstructured content is all managed together in one place - in the Vasont repository. | Provides flexibility in content granularity |
| Controlled vocabulary | Manage terminology across your entire writing team. | Promotes consistency in your corporate messaging |
| Content control | Vasont provides immediate notifications to content owners when changes occur. | Safeguards content from unauthorized changes |
| Release management | Vasont provides capabilities for branching and merging multiple versions of content. | Organizes multiple, simultaneouse processes and coordinates content changes |
| Strong project management | Monitor and track projects and subprojects by date, content and users to keep them on schedule. | Easy tracking, reporting and analysis |
| Integrated collaborative review | Reviewers can markup content with changes and suggestions while viewing other reviewers' comments simultaneously. Once changes are accepted or rejected, the content is automatically updated in Vasont. | Minimizes the need for manual updating of reviewers' changes |
| Translation management | Vasont has complete Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8 and UTF 16) support capabilities for translation management at the subdocument level. In Vasont's Translation Management package, translation projects can be quoted, initiated, and tracked through the entire translation process. | Provides translation project information at your fingertips while saving you money on translation costs |
| Highly configurable solution | Vasont has built-in administrative tools for content configuration and process management. | Lower customization costs and easy administration of the CMS |
| Flexible content tagging model | Vasont allows content migration to alternate DTDs or tag names for reuse in different contexts and adoption of new content standards | Increases content integrity and future-proofs your content |