Canto Announces Cumulus 6.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 New Version Simplifies Creation, Management and Deployment of Digital Asset Management Solutions for Users, Administrators and System Integrators See systems integrator. Canto can·to n. pl. can·tos One of the principal divisions of a long poem. [Italian, from Latin cantus, song; see canticle. , the global leader in Digital Asset Management solutions, today announced "Cumulus cumulus: see cloud. 6." Workgroup and Enterprise Editions of this new version will be available at the end of November and are geared to professional users. Both Editions offer many new features and explicit improvements that dramatically simplify the users' daily work when managing their assets. Administrators now have all possibilities to administer the settings of an entire solution at the server. Furthermore, Cumulus 6 incorporates a new central user management. The newly introduced EJaP technology (Embedded Java See PersonalJava. PlugIn) enables both customers and especially system integrators to customize the available out-of-the-box solutions to meet customer needs. New functions can easily be added and Cumulus 6 can be integrated into any workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. , Enterprise Portal See corporate portal. or Enterprise Content Management-solution. Also, with Cumulus 6 Mac OS X clients will be offered for the first time. One of the three essential design concepts behind Cumulus 6 is the application's Ease-of-Use. Now all assets can be managed and made accessible centrally in one window. An extra keyword list and the asset location can be displayed in addition to the categories. Cumulus now features a toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the with the most important functions such as Quicksearch. The menu structure has been simplified, a new central settings dialog being the most apparent change. With Cumulus 6 the administrator's workload is dramatically reduced due to the new server-centric concept. The integrated EJaP technology is the third essential design concept. This revolutionary cross-platform technology enables system integrators to cut expenses by at least 50 percent. Canto has modified its native applications and designed its jsp-based Internet solutions so that system integrators can write their applications once and deploy them on the different platforms. EJaPs enable the development of seamless workflow solutions using native applications that can even tie into Internet applications. The new Cumulus product generation also offers various performance improvements. For example, previews can now be down-sampled to the required display size at the server so that transfer and display time can be notably reduced. Cumulus 6 now allows users to perform multiple cataloging processes simultaneously and even to catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. in the background while working with Cumulus. Cumulus 6 (Workgroup and Enterprise) is estimated to be available at the end of November 2003. |
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