Texcel Announces Implementation of Texcel Information Manager At Philips Business Communications.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 1998-- Leading SGML/XML Content Management Solution Provides Improved Efficiency, Control and Production Time Texcel International, the leader in collaborative content management, today announced that Philips Business Communications has implemented Texcel Information Manager(tm) (IM) at the Philips headquarters in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Recognizing that the introduction of SGML SGML in full Standard Generalized Markup Language Markup language for organizing and tagging elements of a document, including headings, paragraphs, tables, and graphics. technology would greatly improve efficiency, control and production time, Philips Business Communications selected Texcel Information Manager to meet the Company's need for automatic management and publication of product information. Philips Business Communications is utilizing Texcel Information Manager for product documentation produced by its Usability Training Documentation (UTD UTD United UTD University of Texas at Dallas UTD Up to Date UTD United Teachers of Dade UTD Uniform Theory of Diffraction UTD Uniform-geometrical Theory of Diffraction UTD Urban Thermo Dynamics (hip hop) UTD Unit Training Device ) department for its SOPHO product portfolio. The SOPHO portfolio includes ISPBX ISPBX - Integrated Services Digital Network PBX. and hybrid systems and products for virtual networking, automatic call distribution, cordless communications, computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration , business terminals, voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. and operator communications. "We found that Texcel's Information Manager is the only SGML tool that provides automatic version control and database management throughout the translation process," states Cees van der Does, Manager of the UTD department at Philips Business Communications. "Using Information Manager has already resulted in major improvements in workflow efficiency and version control, and provided us with real time savings. We estimate that Philips Business Communications will achieve a 20 percent efficiency increase, as well as a return on investment, within 18 months." Prior to the installation of Texcel's Information Manager, Philips Business Communications used a traditional editorial system and published only paper documents. Philips Business Communications can now produce CD-ROMs, an intranet and an online help system from a single source of information stored and managed in the Texcel Information Manager system. Philips Business Communications intends to also use Texcel's Information Manager as a building block to implementing SGML/XML knowledge-based systems According to the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC), a knowledge-based system is a program for extending and/or querying a knowledge base. The Computer User High-Tech Dictionary defines a knowledge-based system , Internet and intranet training, HTML-based user interfaces for products, and direct viewing and commenting in the SGML database via intranets. Texcel's installation of Information Manager at Philips Business Communications included integration with ArborText's Adept*Editor, full training and consulting services, as well as the on-going support provided by Texcel UK Ltd. About Texcel Information Manager Texcel Information Manager Release 2.0 tracks and manages the information components that make up a structured document, unlike other products that simply store and retrieve document files. Groups of knowledge workers can use Information Manager's collaborative tools to find, edit, review, reuse and assemble information managed in a secure database. With Information Manager, users can maintain and access document objects that are independent of delivery format and reusable across multiple documents and applications. New documents can be assembled "on-the-fly" from document components in the repository, then easily distributed to the Web or an Intranet as part of an Intranet or Extranet application, on 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). , or as printed documents. The system has industry-leading support for structured information such as that tagged in 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. or the related SGML standard. About Texcel International Texcel International, the leader in XML content management, provides software and services to corporations and government agencies that depend on information access and efficient reuse for competitive advantage. Texcel's customers use Texcel Information Manager(TM) to create intelligent content-driven applications such as interactive electronic technical manuals, Web- and CD-ROM-based reference materials, and on-demand research reports, as well as printed product and maintenance documentation. Content created and assembled in the system can be easily used for Intranet/Extranet delivery, as well as on paper or CD-ROM. The software has industry-leading support for structured information such as that tagged in XML or the related SGML standard. Founded in 1991, Texcel International has offices throughout Europe and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform DATA represents Texcel in Japan. Among its customers are Deere and Company, Diebold Incorporated, Ericsson Telecom, Boeing Helicopter Systems, Philips Business Communications, Thomson Corporation, Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. , and the U.S. Navy and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Texcel can be contacted at its U.S. offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. by calling 617-621-7004. The Texcel Web site is located at http://www.texcel.no. |
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