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censhare Feature Summary Version 5.3 as of September 18th, 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 / 54 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 13 4.3 censhare Admin-Client 14 4.4 censhare Render-Client 14 4.5 censhare Service-Client 14 5. Domain Concept 15 5.1 Domain Features 15 6. User and Privileges Management 16 6.1 User Management 16 6.2 Privilege Management 16 6.3 Security 16 7. Asset Management 17 7.1 Asset Data Model 17 7.2 Asset Management 17 7.3 Asset Behaviour 18 7.4 Duplicate Asset Handling 18 7.5 Address Management 19 7.6 Asset Relations 19 7.7 Version Management 19 7.8 Asset Search 20 7.9 Asset Content Indexing 20 8. Collaboration and Communication Capabilities 21 8.1 Asset related communication 21 8.2 Messaging Service 21 8.3 Email 21 8.4 Asset Notes 21 8.5 Workflow Management 22 8.6 Rating 22 9. Content Management 23 9.1 XML Content Editor 23 9.2 Editor for InCopy Documents 24 9.3 Microsoft Office Suite Documents 24 9.4 Text Editor 24 9.5 Interface to Oxygen Editor 24 10. Image Management 25 10.1 Image Files 25 10.2 Preview Generation 25 10.3 Image Editing 25 10.4 OPI Support 26 10.5 Supported Image Formats 26 11. Video Management 27 11.1 Video Transcoding 27 11.2 Preview Generation 27 11.3 Supported Transcoding Engines 27 11.4 censhare Services and Modules 27 12. Ad Management 28 12.1 Ad Administration 28 12.2 Ad Production 28 13. Time Management 29 13.1 System Basics 29 13.2 Schedule Application 29 13.3 Calendar Application 29 14. Geographical Information Management 30 14.1 Geographical Metadata 30 14.2 Map Widget 30 14.3 Address Conversion 30 15. Variant Management 31 15.1 Basic Variant Features 31 15.2 Transformation Variants 31 15.3 Asset Structure Duplicates 31 15.4 Variant Templates 31 16. Web-To-Print 32 16.1 Basics 32 16.2 Wizard 32 17. Language Management 33 17.1 System Localization 33 17.2 Translation Management 33 17.3 Glossary Application 33 17.4 3rd Party Support 33 18. Flatplan 34 18.1 Flatplan Application 34 18.2 Sheet Plan 34 18.3 Classified Page Assembly 35 18.4 Statistic Function 35 18.5 Preview Function 35 19. Layout Management 36 19.1 Adobe InDesign Integration 36 19.2 Data Integration 37 19.3 Asset Structure Placements 37 19.4 XPress & FrameMaker Integration 37 20. Template Management 38 20.1 Basic Template Features 38 20.2 Asset Structure Duplicates 38 20.3 Editor for InDesign Documents 38 21. Article Management 39 21.1 Basic Article Features 39 21.2 Article-Editor 39 22. Marketing Resource Management 40 22.1 Marketing Management 40 22.2 Budget Management 40 22.3 Resource Management 40 22.4 Project Planning 40 22.5 Reporting 41 23. Targeting 42 23.1 Basics 42 24. Importing into censhare 43 24.1 Client Based File Imports 43 24.2 Server Based File Imports 43 24.3 Interfaces 43 24.4 Developer Interfaces 44 25. Exporting from censhare 45 25.1 Client Based Exports 45 25.2 Server Based Exports 45 25.3 Output Channels 46 26. Mobile Channel 47 26.1 Mobile Channel Basics 47 26.2 Viewer App 47 26.3 Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) 47 26.4 Mobile Content Deployment 48 27. Online Channel 49 27.1 Online Channel Basics 49 27.2 Architecture 49 27.3 Presentation Layer 49 27.4 Online Content 49 27.5 User Generated and Personalized Content 50 27.6 Extensibility, Performance and Scalability 50 27.7 Datastore and Hosting 50 27.8 Integration with 3rd Party Products and Partners 51 27.9 Searching and SEO 51 27.10 E-Marketing 51 28. Online Channel Portals 52 28.1 News Portal 52 28.2 Media Portal 52 29. Customizing the censhare System 53 29.1 General Customization Features 53 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.3 as of September 18th, 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 / 54 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.3 as of September 18th, 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 / 54 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.3 as of September 18th, 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 / 54 censhare Feature Summary, Version 5.3 as of September 18th, 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.