Avantstar Introduces Transit Solutions 7; Upgrade to Popular Web Publishing Tool Expands Capabilities to Allow Businesses to Build Powerful Web Sites from Standard Business Documents in More Than 250 File Formats.MINNEAPOLIS -- Software marketing and technical services company, Avantstar Inc., has announced the latest version of Transit Solutions, an innovative Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. software application developed by Stellent. Transit Solutions 7 allows users to build powerful Web sites from standard business content. The software accomplishes this by using a single-source publishing model whereby business employees leverage content from standard office suites and productivity applications such as Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Word Perfect or Visio. Transit then analyzes this content and incorporates the navigation and overall look and feel for the site. New features include WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. publishing options for wireless devices; support for the latest popular office suites, such as Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. 2003 and WordPerfect Office A suite of office applications for Windows from Corel that includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations, Paradox and CorelCENTRAL (PIM, scheduling, etc.). It is the successor to Corel WordPerfect Suite, which was the successor to Corel Office. 12; and support for business productivity applications, such as Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is diagramming software for Microsoft Windows. It uses vector graphics to create diagrams. The 2007 Standard and Professional editions share the same interface, but the latter has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts as well as unique 2003 and Microsoft Project (product) Microsoft Project - A Microsoft Windows program offering various project management tools. http://microsoft.com/office/project/. 2003. As a stand-alone application or integrated with Web development applications, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive, Transit Solutions 7 helps users to more effectively publish and maintain content on the Web while saving time and money in the process. Common uses of Transit Solutions include the rapid publishing of policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental , documentation or regularly changing business content. Victoria Alkhovsky, Application Development Specialist, Enterprise Delivery, Sears, Roebuck and Company Sears, Roebuck and Company U.S. merchandising company, historically one of the world's largest retailers. It was founded in 1893 by Richard W. Sears (1863–1914) and Alvah C. Roebuck (1864–1948). shared the following thoughts about Transit Solutions: "The methods we had been employing to get documents (which were originally in non-HTML formats) to the Internet took either extensive time and resources or were an inefficient process. Departments have saved considerable time and money since we started to use Transit." Alfred Grabka, ITS Analyst, Connecticut General Assembly The Connecticut General Assembly (or CGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is a bicameral body composed of the 151-member lower Connecticut House of Representatives and the 36-member upper Connecticut Senate. , explains how important Transit is to his organization's work. "We use Transit Solutions' multi-threading capabilities to keep up with the content changes necessary for the site. When we are in session, the Web site is sometimes updated every three minutes with new content. It is critical to have the updates as soon as possible since various individuals need to have the latest updates on the progress of bills." "Organizations desiring to quickly move critical business content to the Web have really enjoyed the time and cost savings Transit Solutions offers. Transit Solutions 7 continues to be an invaluable resource for businesses both large and small," commented Pete Rockers, Co-President, Avantstar. Transit Solutions 7 Pricing and Availability Transit Solutions 7 is available immediately direct from Avantstar or through their sales partner network. Pricing begins at $4995. A free fully-functional 30-day evaluation version of the software is available for download from Avantstar's Web site at http://www.avantstar.com. About Avantstar Avantstar, Inc. is a software marketing and technical services company with a focus on the digital content viewing, content conversion and content management markets. Avantstar products have more than 1200 business installations and over one million users worldwide. Transit Solutions from Stellent Incorporated. Republished under license by Avantstar, Inc. (C) 2005 Avantstar, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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