Functional Solutions

Bluestream XDocs provides an excellent solution for cross-functional areas that are looking to solve specific content problems. Bluestream XDocs enables you to create flexible documentation, build content-rich, personalized Web sites, and topic-based knowledge bases that ensure the content in your organization is accurate, relevant, easy-to-find, and tailored to meet customer needs.

Some of XDocs functional solutions include:

Support for multiple authors and concurrent users
Flexible content editor configuration for XML content
The ability to manage attachments, such as graphics or PDFs
Dynamic link management
Ability to export content to multiple formats (web, PDF, or other XML formats)
Ability to exchange content with other systems
Support for reviewers
Web previews through real-time content generation
Web-based file management
The ability to launch non-XML files in their native applications - for example, clicking a CAD file allows you to edit the file without leaving the CCMS
Full text-search capability

For examples of ways that some customers have implemented XDocs to handle a specific need, read our case studies.

Educational institution gets more mileage from standards-based authoring

The Company

Thompson Rivers University

The Situation

A university that delivers distance education degrees wanted to find a less costly, more efficient way of delivering their course content.

The Challenge

The organization discovered that having created their learning content in a proprietary XML format, they were locked into using a costly, closed system. They were looking for an affordable solution that provided authoring and publishing of the proprietary XML to both print and Web formats.

The Solution