Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners Deploy Atomz Publish and Atomz Search Across Its Global Web Site.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2003 Atomz's Web-Native Solutions Make Content Updates and Site Navigation Fast and Effortless ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. ; Cost Analysis Proves Significant Savings
Atomz, the leading provider of enterprise Web site management software delivered as an online service, announced that Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners recently completed a redesign of its global Web site (www.bhscanners.com), during which the company deployed both Atomz Publish, Atomz's Web content management solution, and Atomz Search, its enterprise site search engine. The process of updating and navigating the site, which provides product information about dozens of scanners to third party service organizations, authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: resellers and end users worldwide, has been significantly improved. Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners estimates that it will save thousands of dollars this year alone by enabling staff members worldwide to update and add content to the site, rather than relying on a slow, manual process that once required outside programming expertise to make even the simplest change. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Phil Quinn, president of Quinn Interactive, Inc., the design agency responsible for the Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners Web site redesign, the company's goal was three-fold: to provide greater control over its Web content so product literature could be easily added and updated; to add a search engine to the site enabling technicians to quickly find the product or technical information they need; and to create a cohesive look and feel throughout its global site. One of the most significant results of the redesign is an increased level of efficiency for the Webmaster, as well as site visitors. "With Atomz Publish, content updates that once took seven to ten days can now be done in five minutes from any corner of the globe," explained Wendy Bentley, Webmaster for Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners' site. "And Atomz Search, our site's new search functionality, brings order to a vast library of product manuals, drivers and warranty information that was simply frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: and chaotic in the past." The first step in the redesign process was to create a series of templates within Atomz Publish to provide the framework for Web pages and forms that would appear throughout the site. Whereas every Web page was formatted differently on the old site, Quinn was able to automate the way content would be presented in the site's new design. If modifications are needed, a single change made to the template can be dynamically updated across all the pages that depend on that design element, making changes quick and easy. "Redesigning the bhscanners.com Web site was made simpler using Atomz Publish," Quinn said. The Atomz Publish browser-based content authoring interfaces were customized and optimized for ease-of-use, with formatting controls put in place to streamline content entry by non-technical content contributors. Uploading 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. documents, images and even video clips A short video presentation. to the content management system, along with data entry, took hours instead of weeks to complete. In addition, utilizing the powerful link management feature in Atomz Publish, each time a new document is posted, the index page -- which contains links to individual documents throughout the site -- is automatically updated to reflect the changes. "The interface for Atomz Publish is quite intuitive and sets the standard for WCM WCM Web Content Management WCM World Class Manufacturing WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist WCM Wireless Connection Manager WCM Wavelength Channel Module WCM Württembergische Cattunmanufaktur (German cotton manufacturer) usability in creating templates, managing users, setting up tasks and workflow and editing and managing Web content," said Steve Kusmer, chief executive officer at Atomz. "As a result, our customers require very little training, if any, and can begin using the software almost immediately. Deployment is fast, navigation is easy and they have the ability to extend and grow their company's Web site over time." Atomz Search, the company's site search engine, was also added to provide the technicians who visit Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners' site with the robust functionality and high performance necessary to find the technical detail they came looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . The rich feature set in Atomz Search enables Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners to easily control every aspect of site search, including indexing, search results and metadata. Insightful and flexible reporting rank and graph search terms so site managers know what visitors are searching for, and can respond accordingly. About Quinn Interactive Quinn Interactive, an Atomz's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. partner, has been working with Atomz Publish since its inception. Specializing in the marriage of design and information technology, they've been designing and building effective online publications, e-commerce systems, and other data-driven Web sites since 1994. For more information visit www.quinn.com. About Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners Bowe Bell & Howell Scanners focuses on making the most reliable, productive, easy-to-use and cost-effective document scanners An optical scanner geared to office documents rather than photographs. Also called "office scanners," "enterprise scanners" and "business scanners," desktop models have automatic document feeders that can scan in the range of approximately 15 to 100 pages per minute. in the industry. The company offers a full range of high-end, midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually and entry-level production scanners with the Copiscan(R) 8000 Spectrum Series (color/bitonal/grayscale), Copiscan 8000 Plus Series (bitonal/grayscale), and FB Series (flatbed) scanners. All Bowe Bell & Howell products are sold through the two-step channel of distributors and value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. . Based in Lincolnwood, Ill., the company is a business unit of Bowe Bell & Howell, a world leader in production mail and scanning. For more information, call 800-SCAN-494, or visit www.bhscanners.com. About Atomz Atomz provides enterprise Web site management software delivered as an online service. Its suite of Web-native applications provides customers significant advantages over server-based software in reliability, support, ease-of-use, scalability, rapid product innovation and predictable cost structures. The company's unparalleled technical excellence and dedication to customer satisfaction have led products from Atomz to be adopted by thousands of leading Web sites. Select customers include: AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time-Warner, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , Palm, Gannett Corporation, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , Maxtor, Princess Cruises Princess Cruises is an American cruise line, based out of Santa Clarita, California, that operates cruise ships also shares the same building with Cunard Line headquarters. It is one of the many cruise lines operated by the Carnival Corporation. , and Sharp Electronics. Atomz and its products have won numerous industry awards, including ASPnews.com's List of Top 20 Providers, Enterprise Outlook's Investors' Choice, AlwaysOn100, eContent 100, KMWorld 100, Internet World's Best of Show, AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. E-DOC Magazine's 2003 Best of Show Award for Web Content Management and Transform Magazine's Value Leader Award. For more information about Atomz's products visit the company's Web site at http://www.atomz.com/. Atomz is a trademark of Avivo Corporation. Any other marks used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of the manufacturers or marketers of the products with which the marks are associated. |
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