IntraNet Solutions grows into content server market
IntraNet Solutions, best known for its Web-based document management system Intra.Doc, has released a new content server called Xpedio. While IntraDoc has remained solid in the document management space, Xpedio leverages the company's Web experience and takes it into the content server space.
According to Dan Ryan, VP at IntraNet Solutions, the new product eveloves from what some customers have requested or custom-built from their IntraDoc solutions. With Xpedio, companies will be able to build KM or portal applcations , he added.
Based on open standards and built on a Java-server based archictecture, Xpedia is designed to enable organizations to build and support content-centric application for the enterprise. Xpedio Content Server's key functionality includes automatic Web conversion and publishing in both PDF and HTML, heterogeneous content input and management, personalized information delivery, enterprise security and scalability, and adherence to Web standards.
"IntraNet Solutions' value proposition of providing easy-to-use, Web-based applications for the enterprise has not changed, and in fact, has become even easier with this new platform that provides users with the necessary functionality for building enterprise, content-centric applications," said Andrew Warzecha, senior program director at META Group. "I applaud the fact that they have seen what customers are actually doing and are going to market with the Xpedio Content Server product."
IKON office solutions, a beta user of Xpedio, is putting the solution to use Xpedio Content Server as part of an initiative to restructure its internal document and production management systems into an Internet-based solution. IKON will combine the Xpedio Content Management System with Impresse Corporation's PresseWare Web-based order and production management system to add more comprehensive work history, order, and content and document management to the company's website.
Xpedio, which will be generally available Oct. 16, is priced at $125,000 per server. Two content application development tools--content publisher, which provides advanced template-based technology to help users automatically publish standard business documents and other content without the "webmaster bottleneck", and ReportSite, which can be added to make it easier for organizations to disseminate application-specific information across the enterprise, each retail for $50,000 a piece