Olive ViewPoint

Olive ViewPoint is an end-to-end electronic publishing platform. It transforms documents stored in different formats on disparate systems to a unified XML-based digital format, allowing easy information retrieval. Users can search across document collections, individual documents, and sections within documents, and view the results through a Web browser. Viewpoint unlocks information trapped inside unstructured content and publishes it through portals or knowledge management applications.

Olive ViewPoint allows users to search document
collections and their components through a browser

Key Benefits

• Unifies all documents to a standard format and preserves the original look and feel
• Enhances the value of your enterprise content management system with automatic structural and semantic metadata tagging
• Delivers component-level access to your documents through a browser
• Creates intelligently-tagged searchable content from electronic, paper, microfilm, or microfiche documents

Leverage Content in Unstructured Documents

Most organizations invest heavily to produce documents, centrally manage them, and prepare them for printing or electronic distribution. In contrast, they do little to prepare their document collections to leverage the information they contain. Too often the information in content management systems remains untapped, especially in larger documents that people do not have the time to open and read.

Several issues prevent users from getting the information they need:

• Information is not available to users over the Web.
• Searches return too much information, much of which is not relevant.
• Unstructured documents limit users to search only for entire files.
• Viewing source documents often requires the original application.

Access Data in Any Document

Olive ViewPoint allows information publishers to empower their customers with searchable access to any document, regardless of its original format. Typical documents include reports, catalogs, designs, engineering specifications, training manuals, schematics, books, newsletters, and journals, which might be stored as unstructured PDF files, Microsoft Office documents, or scanned TIFF images.

Improve Searching with Automatic Metadata Extraction

ViewPoint automatically understands the structure and semantics of documents and identifies information components within each document. Each component contains a single section on a specific topic. Olive can retrieve additional information from external sources such as databases or Web sites to annotate components with metadata. Component-based searching enables faster access to relevant content.

View Any Document Through a Browser

ViewPoint provides a unique content visualization and reading application to create virtual documents that maintain the look and feel of the originals, through a Web browser. Organizations can consolidate their content, along with documents from customers, suppliers, and business partners, into a single repository accessible to any authorized user. These users have instant access to individual components across the repository, without long download times or searching through large documents.

Augment and Extend Existing Systems

Olive Viewpoint fits seamlessly into existing corporate or government IT environments. It complements enterprise content management systems, providing granular search on individual components, and the ability to view all document types using a single application. ViewPoint extends portals with access to content through advanced navigation and search functions. A software development kit allows complete customization to simplify building Web based knowledge management and ePublishing applications. A rich Web-based administration console makes managing users, content, and functionality simple.

Applications

• Publishing Web content
• Producing and distributing technical manuals to support customers and employees
• Building documentation repositories for training
• Delivering personalized content to subscriber groups and communities
• Integrating and personalizing content for internal knowledge management

In the information age, people need the right information in the right format. Olive ViewPoint delivers browser-based access to any content, quickly and easily.

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