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