Chrystal Software Announces Availability of Astoria 3.0.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998-- Document Management System Provides Enterprise Solution for Extended Authoring Communities Chrystal Software, a Xerox New Enterprise company, announced today at Seybold Seminars Publishing '98 the availability of Astoria 3.0, an enterprise authoring support system used in complex technical and content-publishing environments. Astoria provides value to every phase of the document life cycle: from content creation and review, through production, translation, distribution and maintenance. Astoria 3.0 offers improved performance and scalability over previous versions, as well as enhanced user interface and customization capabilities. Astoria 3.0 manages all data types, including 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. , and now incorporates an industry-leading Verity ver·i·ty n. pl. ver·i·ties 1. The quality or condition of being true, factual, or real. 2. Something, such as a statement, principle, or belief, that is true, especially an enduring truth: full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. engine. "Our vision is to provide significant business value by enabling customers to produce documents efficiently and effectively in a global environment," said Steve Kiser, Chrystal Software president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Astoria 3.0 will shorten translation times, optimize complex publications processes, and enable dynamic document assembly." Customers using Astoria benefit from reduced customer support costs and document cycle times, accurate and timely distribution to employees and customers, reuse of information without duplication, and translation into multiple languages and simplified distribution to multiple outputs. 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. Brian Cade, Manager of Technical Communications, Rover Group Rover Group plc was the name that was given by the British government, in 1986, to the state-owned vehicle manufacturer British Leyland or BL. After divesting of its commercial vehicle and bus manufacturing divisions the company by then consisting of the car manufacturing , "Our technical publishing demands required a structured solution to streamline the process of translating complex documentation into a variety of languages for Rover's global automotive customers. Astoria cut our production time and reduced composition time for each language from over three weeks to only one and a half days." Chrystal Software, a Xerox New Enterprise company, is built on a foundation of leading-edge content-management technology. The company has a worldwide presence with partners in key markets and customers in automotive, aerospace, telecommunications equipment, publishing and other industries. Chrystal's customers maximize the value of their information assets and achieve real benefits in improved time to global market, simultaneous distribution to the Web, paper, 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 delivery to markets of one. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Chrystal Software and Astoria are registered trademarks of Chrystal Software, Incorporated. Xerox, The Document Company and the digital X are trademarks of Xerox Corporation (company) XEROX Corporation - http://xerox.com/. See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services. . CONTACT: Media contacts: Nancy Mumford, Chrystal Software, (619) 676-7791, nmumford@chrystal.com or Sandy Mauceli, Xerox Corporation, (716) 423-4336, sandy_mauceli@mc.xerox.com |
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