Content Management
Content management is an advanced, scalable and robust management platform designed to store, organize, maintain and publish various types of digital content. Content of any type including audio and video formats can be stored and used by different applications from a single instance of this section.
Challenges
An increasing number of users, devices and services is resulting in an increasing volume, complexity and variety of content that must be stored, processed and published for delivery.
There are multiple contributors (including external partners & services) to the content development. And content may need to be published in multiple formats simultaneously to multiple internal and external platforms. As a result it must be simple to connect the partners and services. As the process is complex, standardized administration and work-flows are required. Although as content flows in several directions this presents challenges in terms of security and data-flow rules.
As it is difficult to predict the uptake of new services it is necessary that the content management platform and any connectors to supporting 3rd parties are able to cope with unexpected demand. In addition it is necessary to source and deliver content from multiple sources.
Furthermore the system is ready for Apconet’s proprietary content portfolio.
Features
The section is ready to store and manage virtually any content coming from internal and external business partners. The content can be published via channels like internet and mobile portals or content aggregators for presentation and delivery. Often it can be connected to the enterprise level to serve as basic information for advanced publishing systems, internal or external delivery platforms or other content-centric services.
The section has 3 main components which enable the end to end content management process:
Publishing Engine
Content Management Engine
Multimedia Archive
Publishing Engine
The platform provides control over the content publishing process which provides content to services, applications and platforms for presentation and delivery.
The requesting services, applications and platforms can define which content items are published, for what purpose, at given time and to a given target.
Services connected to the publishing engine can define custom meta-data to take control over the publishing process and content/preview branding for various portals and publishing layers.
Publishing interfaces can be used to build high volume static web portals or can provide the content for dynamic applications on as-needed basis.
Application defined hierarchies can be published to build rich user interfaces like content browsers or catalogs. Built-in and external service provided filters can be used to publish XML, RSS and Atom feeds in the structure precisely matching all needs of a consuming application.
Content Management Engine
Content Management Engine provides tools for the management and maintenance of large content catalogs, including content import, content processing, quality assurance and content deployment.
Any number of contributors can submit, manage and edit the content simultaneously in a secure way with full respect to system defined authorization rules.
The whole process of content development and related work-flow is driven by application/service defined properties and variable content attributes. integration with external work-flow tools is possible.
Content management uses a flexible versioning model. This allows to create snapshot versions, rollback to older content versions and enables to work on several content versions in parallel.
Media Archive
It is a flexible data storage and meta-data management tool that enables the consolidated storage of multimedia content. Any data formats can be stored and accessed by any attached management platform. It is optimized for managing content with multiple formats/versions to be delivered to multiple targets e.g. Internet applications, mobile devices or third party platforms.
Users and services can define custom data attributes to enrich content with the meta-data needed for content selection, processing and publishing in various presentation hierarchies or delivery bundles. This is particularly useful for delivery platforms requiring flexible pricing policies and content bundling.
External data sources can be integrated or mirrored to the archive. Embedded data can be enhanced with service defined attributes.
Additional Integrations
Standard interfaces enable out of the box integration with delivery platforms, portals etc. for content delivery. The integrations are optimized data layouts for high volume presentations and include support for DRM and multiple formats including watermarked previews. Managed content does not have to be imported to the platform directly but can be reused from any legacy system or third party.
