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censhare Feature Summary Version 5.2 as of July 10th, 2015 censhare at a glance: Concise summary of components, characteristics, features, technologies and contents of the censhare publication system for decision makers, project managers, sales people and IT personnel Copyright censhare AG, Paul-Gerhardt-Allee 50, 81245 München Telefon 089 56 82 36-0, Fax 089 56 82 36-501 [email protected], www.censhare.com Summary The intention of this document is to provide a keyword-based overview of the censhare system, to help decision makers to appraise the system’s capabilities and compare it to competitive products on the market. This feature summary is technically oriented and divided into the major building blocks of the censhare system. Some descriptions might overlap in the different chapters. Features described in this summary might be available only in certain versions, license models or distributions of the censhare system and are subject to change. Many features might appear under different terminology and arrangements in censhare’s sales literature when pre-configured for specific application areas and trades. For more detailed information about the censhare system please refer to a censhare AG representative or one of censhare’s distribution partners. 2 / 55 Table of Contents 1. censhare System Architecture 7 1.1 Fundamental Technologic Architecture 7 1.2 XML Technology 7 1.3 Virtual File System for Client Applications 7 2. censhare Databases 9 2.1 Core Database 9 2.2 Embedded Database 9 3. File Management 10 3.1 Supported File Storage Architectures 10 3.2 Mime Types 10 3.3 Distributed File Systems 10 3.4 Replicated File System 10 3.5 Archiving 10 4. censhare Clients 11 4.1 censhare Web 11 4.2 censhare Client 14 4.3 censhare Admin-Client 15 4.4 censhare Render-Client 15 4.5 censhare Service-Client 15 5. Domain Concept 16 5.1 Domain Features 16 6. User and Privileges Management 17 6.1 User Management 17 6.2 Privilege Management 17 6.3 Security 17 7. Asset Management 18 7.1 Asset Data Model 18 7.2 Asset Management 18 7.3 Asset Behaviour 19 7.4 Duplicate Asset Handling 19 7.5 Address Management 20 7.6 Asset Relations 20 7.7 Version Management 20 7.8 Asset Search 21 7.9 Asset Content Indexing 21 8. Collaboration and Communication Capabilities 22 8.1 Asset related communication 22 8.2 Messaging Service 22 8.3 Email 22 8.4 Asset Notes 22 8.5 Workflow Management 23 8.6 Rating 23 9. Content Management 24 9.1 XML Content Editor 24 9.2 Editor for InCopy Documents 25 9.3 Microsoft Office Suite Documents 25 9.4 Text Editor 25 9.5 Interface to Oxygen Editor 25 10. Image Management 26 10.1 Image Files 26 10.2 Preview Generation 26 10.3 Image Editing 26 10.4 OPI Support 27 10.5 Supported Image Formats 27 11. Video Management 28 11.1 Video Transcoding 28 11.2 Preview Generation 28 11.3 Supported Transcoding Engines 28 11.4 censhare Services and Modules 28 12. Ad Management 29 12.1 Ad Administration 29 12.2 Ad Production 29 13. Time Management 30 13.1 System Basics 30 13.2 Schedule Application 30 13.3 Calendar Application 30 14. Geographical Information Management 31 14.1 Geographical Metadata 31 14.2 Map Widget 31 14.3 Address Conversion 31 15. Variant Management 32 15.1 Basic Variant Features 32 15.2 Transformation Variants 32 15.3 Asset Structure Duplicates 32 15.4 Variant Templates 32 16. Web-To-Print 33 16.1 Basics 33 16.2 Wizard 33 17. Language Management 34 17.1 System Localization 34 17.2 Translation Management 34 17.3 Glossary Application 34 17.4 3rd Party Support 34 18. Flatplan 35 18.1 Flatplan Application 35 18.2 Sheet Plan 35 18.3 Classified Page Assembly 36 18.4 Statistic Function 36 18.5 Preview Function 36 19. Layout Management 37 19.1 Adobe InDesign Integration 37 19.2 Data Integration 38 19.3 Asset Structure Placements 38 19.4 XPress & FrameMaker Integration 38 20. Template Management 39 20.1 Basic Template Features 39 20.2 Asset Structure Duplicates 39 20.3 Editor for InDesign Documents 39 21. Article Management 40 21.1 Basic Article Features 40 21.2 Article-Editor 40 22. Marketing Resource Management 41 22.1 Marketing Management 41 22.2 Resource Management 41 22.3 Project Planning 41 22.4 Reporting 41 23. Targeting 43 23.1 Basics 43 24. Importing into censhare 44 24.1 Client Based File Imports 44 24.2 Server Based File Imports 44 24.3 Interfaces 44 24.4 Developer Interfaces 45 25. Exporting from censhare 46 25.1 Client Based Exports 46 25.2 Server Based Exports 46 25.3 Output Channels 47 26. Mobile Channel 48 26.1 Mobile Channel Basics 48 26.2 Viewer App 48 26.3 Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) 48 26.4 Mobile Content Deployment 49 27. Online Channel 50 27.1 Online Channel Basics 50 27.2 Architecture 50 27.3 Presentation Layer 50 27.4 Online Content 50 27.5 User Generated and Personalized Content 51 27.6 Extensibility, Performance and Scalability 51 27.7 Datastore and Hosting 51 27.8 Integration with 3rd Party Products and Partners 52 27.9 Searching and SEO 52 27.10 E-Marketing 52 28. Online Channel Portals 53 28.1 News Portal 53 28.2 Media Portal 53 29. Customizing the censhare System 54 29.1 General Customization Features 54 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.1 as of February 9th, 2015 1. censhare System Architecture 1.1 Fundamental Technologic Architecture • 3-tier-architecture • service-oriented architecture (SOA) • one centralized Oracle database per system • any number of distributed, individually customizable application servers • specialized proprietary embedded database for performance enhancement in the application servers • all network traffic based on TCP/IP protocol with customizable ports • interface for hierarchical asset exchange among different censhare systems • optional server-to-server desaster-recovery feature (Unix/Linux/Solaris-based servers only) • integration of given file systems • Nagios support • Server- and client code written in Java and available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac OS-X 10.5 or higher, and Linux/ Unix/Solaris (server only) 1.2 XML Technology • own implementation of XML, XPath and XSLT in JAVA • extensions in XPath - access to assets - access to master data - access to client preferences • extensions in XSLT (since version 4.7) - asset management (create, check-out, abort check-out, check-in, update, duplicate, delete) - XML transformations - image transformations (scale, crop, rotate, flip, …) - barcode transformations (create EAN, QR, …) - FOP transformations - Microsoft Office (read Word and Excel documents) - file I/O (copy files, read and write XML) - render (execute Adobe InDesign Server rendering commands) - PDF transformations (combine, get info, get formula data) - Twitter interface (search, read, post) (since version 4.8) - Facebook interface (get friends, search, get info, post link, post message, post photo, post video) (since version 4.8) - Youtube interface (get video info, list video categories, upload video) (since version 4.8) - Email interface (send, list, read, delete) (since version 4.8) 1.3 Virtual File System for Client Applications (introduced in version 4.7) 7 / 55 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.1 as of February 9th, 2015 • own implementation of a virtual file system which is mounted by censhare client applications • communication goes through the censhare client applications (no separate connection required) • access to all allowed files and transformations • desktop applications (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, …) can work with file links to the mounted virtual file system • files can be placed with drag&drop from the censhare client to the desktop applications • file links get a new modification date in case of a new file version 8 / 55 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.1 as of February 9th, 2015 2. censhare Databases 2.1 Core Database • centralized, high-performance Oracle database • data model fully constrained • standard database maintenance tasks are operated by censhare automatically, for example: verification of the data model, index consistency check, database statistics update, resolution of database locks, pre-emptive index rebuild, purging • data model entirely Unicode-based • automatic multi-language scheme handling • database extensible by the customer; data model is represented by an extensible XML database scheme to the application logic • self-creating HTML documentation of the data model 2.2 Embedded Database • in-house developed, proprietary, non-transactional, high-performance database engine for caching purposes and special applications. This database is embedded into the application servers, the translation memory management module and the Online Channel webservers • automatic synchronization with core database • automatic error-recovery • maintenance-free • unlimited scalability • monitor for all index data of a given asset in the embedded database (since version 4.1) • optional compression of database files (saves about 25% file size) (since version 4.5) • diacritics removed for full text searches • stemming of full text index data and search terms can be disabled in the embedded database settings 9 / 55 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.1 as of February 9th, 2015 3. File Management 3.1 Supported File Storage Architectures • support for most common file sharing protocols and solutions like Helios Ethershare, Mac OS 9/X (afp/Apple Double), Samba and more • support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (since version 4.8) • integrated file system replication for backup and preemptive data distribution • integrated file management maintenance tools for volume cleaning, verifying asset/file consistency, file system size monitoring and more • integrated file streaming allows client file access without mounting volumes on client computers.