Anygraaf USA Inc :: Products :: Doris32

As a feature-rich asset management system, Doris32 answers the need for integrated, multi-purpose asset management and publishing production systems. Customizable to meet an organization’s specific requirements, the simple, intuitive interface offers the ability to not only store and retrieve documents, but also track what’s happening to them as they move through your workflow.

Personnel throughout your organization will find uses for Doris. Designers, production specialists, editors and Web managers will find Doris flexible and easy to use. Its infinite scalability supports any number of users through the Doris client or browser-based interface, providing support for users in the central office as well as remote locations. Tied together with its supporting modules, Doris can service tasks for the entire spectrum of publishing needs including asset management, editorial production, pagination, ad tracking, ad proof management, archiving, image management, Internet publishing, Wireless publishing, XML editing and data management.

Backed by any ODBC-compliant database, Doris provides the cornerstone on which Anygraaf asset management and publishing systems solutions are built.

Key features

Platform independent: Doris runs on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms so your organization does not have to invest in new client hardware.

Media independent: Doris is capable of managing any file format for text, video, audio, and graphics, allowing your organization to use the tools that best meet your needs. Since it’s file-format neutral, Doris also leaves the document editing to the tools that do it best, allowing your organization to continue using the word processors, design suites and image editing tools your staff is comfortable with, thus reducing the training and stress associated with the implementation of a new system.

Web accessible: A companion Doris Web Server interfaces with your Internet server to provide access to your database and documents through a standard Web browser, offering the capability to provide staff members access to your assets when they are at home or traveling. Customers can benefit too with tools to interact with your staff via the Web.

Scalable: Doris can work in environments from a single user to thousands. Searchable: Doris offers a robust full-text index, which, when combined with the database, offers user virtually limitless search possibilities.

Traceable: Doris automatically maintains a customizable audit trail of all actions taken on each document or data record. Useful for troubleshooting errors and tracking billable time. CD-ROM support: Organize and manage your CD-ROM burning and storage offline and through CD jukeboxes.

Customizable: There is no “cookie-cutter” solution. Every organization is different and that needs to be taken into account when designing an asset management system. We recognize that organizations have unique needs and workflows and have designed Doris with a high degree of flexibility to meet those needs. From the database to individual user functions, Doris gives you the tools to tailor a solution specific to your organization’s needs.

• Database: Each installation begins with an empty database; there is no predefined configuration. Using our system management tool, configure the database to manage only the information important to your organization.
• Scripting: Through a robust scripting language, Doris offers a toolbox full of functions and features through which users and system managers can customize tools to meet your workflow requirements. With the scripting tools, validate data entry, enforce workflow rules, and provide users “one-touch” access to tasks that now require multiple steps to complete.
• Automate tasks: Combine the Doris scripting language with its scheduled tasks to process routine functions, letting your staff focus on more important duties.
• Security: Build a system-wide security structure that protects your documents. Manage user rights on an individual and group level to control access to documents and data.
• Interface: Design an interface that puts the data your staff needs in the most efficient locations. Using Visual C++, header dialogs are fully customizable down to the individual user level.
• Views: Customize database views to help users easily find the assets they need.

Archiving: Archiving is an integrated component, so with Doris, maintaining an archive is no different than maintaining your live production systems. The same tools that let users find and work with their articles, ads, images and pages are used to manage your archive. To users, there is no difference between the archive and production system unless you tell them.

• Maintain searchable, full-text indexes for all of your material.
• Integrate your archive into your Web site to give readers and customers access to your assets.
• Provide links between articles, images, ads and the pages on which they appear.
• Automatically handle the routing of material from live to archive systems.
• Establish a routing workflow to capture page output and distill PDF files for archiving.
• Maintain a customizable hierarchy keyword list.
• Maintain a common interface that is document-type independent. Using the same interface to search for images, ads, articles and pages reduces training time and system maintenance.

Multipurpose editing

With electronic outlets such as the Internet and wireless devices joining print products to become integral parts of a news organization’s operations, it is necessary to have tools with which users can quickly and efficiently write and edit the content once and still be able to publish it to multiple outlets without having to re-edit or convert.

The SGML/XML-based Eddie text editor offers a “write-once, publish-many” environment that lets reporters and editors focus on the content and not the formatting. Whether the text is destined for print or electronic publication or both, the tools are the same. Users write and mark unique elements of a story such as headlines, body type, bylines and so forth without having to know the specific typographical style sheets or html coding.

Eddie gives users instant access to available element styles and makes sure that only those styles allowed in a particular article or element are among those to choose from. Bi-directional editing and pagination between Eddie and QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign means reporters and editors can write and fit copy against an article’s exact layout, saving time on deadline. Eddie shows a WYSIWYG view of the article, including images, exactly as it appears on the page with overset text indicated.