ASTM International Upgrades to Advanced Content Management With XyEnterprise Content@ 3.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers READING, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2003 Leading Standards Organization's "Digital Path Initiative" Drives Upgrade; Benefits Include Enhanced Workflow Cycles, Web Delivery Options XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today that longtime customer ASTM International ASTM International (ASTM) is an international standards developing organization that develops and publishes voluntary technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. , one of the largest voluntary standards organizations A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, in the world, has completed a successful upgrade to Content@ 3.0, the latest version of XyEnterprise's XML content management and workflow software. The upgrade is a key component of a comprehensive business-process-enhancement initiative and systems overhaul within ASTM ASTM abbr. American Society for Testing and Materials . Founded in 1898, ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services across more than 130 industries. More than 30,000 ASTM International members from 100 nations develop and maintain standards that serve as the basis for manufacturing, procurement, and regulatory activities around the globe. In 1995, ASTM International selected XyEnterprise's content management application to manage the information that comprises the more than 11,000 ASTM standards found in the 77-volume Annual Book of ASTM Standards. Anticipating the growing importance of the Web and electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. , they also selected XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher (XPP XPP Windows XP Professional (Microsoft) XPP XML Pull Parser XPP Xyvision Production Publisher XPP Extreme Processor Platform XPP XML for Publishers and Printers XPP XPML Page Parser XPP Xyvision Parlance Publisher ) to produce both printed and electronic (CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format) versions from the same information source. ASTM also relied on XyEnterprise's expertise to develop a custom data server application to index the standards and volumes. In production by 1996, the comprehensive system provided numerous benefits, including reduced production times, enhanced speed and accuracy of standards indexing, and the ability to meet the demand for standards published in a variety of formats. More recently, ASTM faced a comprehensive overhaul of its legacy systems and operating platform. The company had also adopted a far-reaching "Digital Path Initiative" with several ambitious goals, including (a) implementing a full electronic workflow initiative, (b) shortening production cycles, and (c) enhancing its ability to deliver standards information via the Web. Upgrading to Content@ 3.0's enhanced user features and new API New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use interrupt mitigation techniques for networking devices in the Linux kernel. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving. fit perfectly with ASTM's plans, and joint teams from ASTM and XyEnterprise commenced work on the upgrade in late 2002. Despite the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin scope of the project--some 18 gigabytes of data needed to be moved into the new system and meticulously checked and double-checked--ASTM International Project Leader Norma Jane Hair describes the upgrade to Content@ 3.0 as "painless." Overall, she has nothing but praise for the XyEnterprise team. "The XyEnterprise team was thorough, attentive, and just absolutely wonderful to work with," says Hair. "They were also great teachers--the entire process was a real education for us." The new system went live January 13, 2003, and ASTM International is already reaping benefits. Content@ 3.0's easy-to-use interface has been a hit with ASTM's in-house editorial staff, enhancing their ability to interact with and manage the structured content within the Content@ system. The new interface also greatly reduces the amount of training time needed to get new staff members (as well as outside contractors that use the system) up to speed. Hair also praises the new systems' ability to produce drafts in PDF format early in the lifecycle and have them returned to the client. This contributes to the efficiency of the review and revision process. An additional benefit will be automatic redlining Identifying text that has been changed in a word processing document by displaying it in a special color, for example. It allows the original author of the text or other users to see ongoing revisions. The term comes from manual editing where a red pen is used to mark up the pages. of the documents under review. "Every day our team discovers new benefits in the system that enable us to make our processes more efficient," says Hair. "We're confident that Content@ 3.0's advanced functionality and usability will serve us well into the future." About ASTM International Founded in 1898, ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Over 30,000 individuals from 100 nations are the members of ASTM International, who are producers, users, consumers, and representatives of government and academia. In over 130 varied industry areas, ASTM standards serve as the basis for manufacturing, procurement, and regulatory activities. Formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM International provides standards that are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems, and commercial transactions around the globe. For more information, visit www.astm.org. About XyEnterprise Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise) is the leading provider of single source, multi-channel XML publishing solutions. Its XML content management software--Content@--and its automated XML publishing engine--XPP--power sophisticated solutions for global leaders in the publishing, technical documentation, financial, government, and e-Learning arenas. Its customers include Boeing, Bureau of National Affairs BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.) is a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of news and information on legislation, regulations, and court decisions for professionals in business and government. It is the oldest wholly employee-owned company in the United States. , Gulfstream, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Thomson and Thomson, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , LexisNexis, and many others. For more information, please contact XyEnterprise at 781/756-4400 or www.xyenterprise.com. Copyright (C) 2003 Xyvision Enterprise Solutions Inc. All rights reserved. Xyvision, XyEnterprise, Content@, ProServ and the swirl logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. 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