Blue Angel Technologies Announces Software Tool For Automatic Creation Of Web Browse Tress.VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777–June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1998-- Automates the Tedious Process of Manually Creating Web Browse Trees Blue Angel Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday the availability of a software tool which automates the process of creating HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. browse trees on the Web. A browse tree is a web of hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links that assists a user in finding information by leading them from a higher level concept page through increasingly finer levels of information. For example, a browse tree displaying an organization's structure might start with the headquarters location at the top of the tree and have increasingly smaller locations, divisions, departments, groups and units moving down the branches until one reaches a desired organizational unit In computing, an Organizational Unit (OU) provides a way of classifying objects located in directories, or names in a digital certificate hierarchy, typically used either to differentiate between objects with the same name (John Doe in OU "marketing" versus John Doe in OU "customer or individual. Typically, the creation of a browse tree is a labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars manual effort that requires a webmaster or programmer to create individual Web pages containing hypertext links referencing each other and then sewing them all together in a cohesive cohesive, n the capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass. way. Maintaining browse trees tends to be costly because the tree's Web pages must be continually updated, linked together and tested as information changes. The MetaStar Browse Tree tool was developed to provide users with a more cost effective way for managing information on the Web", said Jim Restivo, Blue Angel's president. "When you consider that many sites have browse trees of hundreds or even thousands of pages, the cost of manually creating and maintaining those sites can be a significant burden", continued Restivo. "The uses for the browse tree tool are limited only by the user's imagination. For example, it could be used to lead a customer through a company's product suite (sales orientation), customer service help desk (support orientation), or employment opportunities (human relations human relations npl → relaciones fpl humanas orientation). The best part is that the navigational structure is generated automatically by the tool so that organizations can get their information disseminated disseminated /dis·sem·i·nat·ed/ (-sem´i-nat?ed) scattered; distributed over a considerable area. dis·sem·i·nat·ed adj. Spread over a large area of a body, a tissue, or an organ. quickly, easily and inexpensively", continued Restivo. Availability The MetaStar Browse Tree tool is available immediately. A demonstration of the tool's capabilities is available on Blue Angel's Web site at http://www.bluangel.com. About Blue Angel Technologies Inc. Blue Angel Technologies is the market leader in software solutions for managing metadata in the Internet and Intranet environments. Software products for the capture, maintenance, dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there , discovery, and use of structured information include MetaStar Search, MetaStar Repository, MetaStar Server, MetaStar Data Entry, and MetaStar Gateway. For more information, visit Blue Angel's World Wide Web site at http://www.bluangel.com or call 610/917-9200. -0- MetaStar, MetaStar Search, MetaStar Repository, MetaStar Server, MetaStar Data Entry, MetaStar Gateway, and MetaStar Browse Tree Tool are trademarks of Blue Angel Technologies Inc. CONTACT: Blue Angel Technologies Jon Riewe, Media, 610/917-9200 e-mail: riewe@bluangel.com |
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