Control Content with the Vasont® DITA Component Content Management System
The Vasont® DITA Component Content Management System (CCMS) focuses on the DITA standard by providing DITA-specific functionality and reporting. Our DITA XML content management system allows you to search content with ease, control user access to content, and analyze reused content’s ROI, all under a protective umbrella of advanced security.
Advantages of DITA Content Management
DITA publishing maximizes the productivity for topic-based content. In addition to the unique functionality of the Vasont CCMS model, the Vasont DITA Content Management System provides additional DITA-specific features:
| Feature | Description | Benefit |
| Enhanced searching of components and attributes with no special processing | Vasont’s DITA content management capabilities allow users to search for content components and attributes without special processing, including Boolean and complex searches. | Allows you to search across DITA content and metadata without incurring extra time or cost |
| Intelligent interaction between referenced content | Vasont’s DITA solution facilitates intelligent, bi-directional interaction between source and target conrefs. | Manages global revisions and content reuse effectively |
| Modular content management | DITA maps and their corresponding topics can be viewed and processed concurrently. | Speeds up the content processing times to help meet schedules |
| Related topic- and map-level workflows | Workflows for maps and their corresponding topics are integrated with checkpoints and alerts at relevant steps in the DITA XML content management system’s processes. | Controls publishing of incomplete or unapproved content |
| Management of multiple active branches | The Vasont DITA CCMS processes and monitors multiple active maps and topics in simultaneous releases for better DITA management. | Provides coordination and automatic tracking across multiple releases running concurrently |
| Missing or broken reference reports | Reports generated from the Vasont DITA CCMS provide information on unresolved errors that will negatively affect the publishing process. | Prevents errors in publishing before content goes live, assuring you won’t need to backtrack and hunt for errors |
| Full integration with the free DITA Open Toolkit | DITA content can be published from the Vasont DITA CCMS directly through the DITA Open Toolkit to provide access to a wide range of deliverables including PDF publishing and compiled help. | Provides free DITA publishing tools for multichannel delivery |
| Advanced Security | Vasont Systems' excellent administrative capabilities ensure only authorized users can access your DITA content management system. You control all user and content access rights. | Guards against costly data breaches and allows you to concentrate on content management instead of security issues |
| Translation management | With complete Unicode Transformation Format capabilities (UTF 8 and UTF 16), our DITA content management system supports multilingual translation and reuse at both topic and component levels. | Saves significantly on translation costs |
| Tracking and Measurement of Content Reuse | Our DITA content management interface shows where and who uses content at all times and provides statistics and reports on content use. | Allows you to quickly evaluate the ROI on reused content |
| Project Management | Managers and leaders can view the progress and status of all content within the Vasont DITA content management system, receiving instant notifications of changes to its status. | Quickly view content maps for accurate analysis of project progression |