XSite Studio Framework

The XSite Studio Framework (XSF) is a content management framework for creating Windows desktop client content management applications. With XSF you can create better quality solutions for your organization in less time than before. With XSF, you'll realize the following benefits:

• Lower time to market
• Higher performance applications
• Lower development costs
• Lower training costs
• Extensibility for the future

Shorter Time to Market

XSF provides a customizable user interface, modules that hook into your content management repository (i.e. Documentum or SQL Server), generalized document functionality and editors. This means that you can spend your development efforts focusing on the business rules specific to your application. The net result is a lower development time and a product that reaches the market faster running on a proven and tested framework.

Higher Performance Applications

While web-based applications are nice for simple forms-based applications, they bog down for any kind of serious content entry and content management. XSF utilizes a client/server architecture that maximizes user performance and provides reliable server connectivity. The XSF document cache additionally improves performance by storing documents and document information on the local machine and allowing users to work in an offline mode for situations where a network connection is not available. This is ideal for a remote sales force, where connectivity may be scarce or unavailable.

Lower Development Costs

If you're an organization that's trying maximize and standardize the use of your content management framework, then you're probably trying to make consistent use of your infrastructure across the enterprise. XSF can help you by providing a consistent framework that can be used for multiple applications. The majority of content and document management functionality is consistent across applications (i.e. checking documents in and out). By utilizing the common functionality found in the XSF framework, you can lower overall development costs by reusing framework components and new custom components across multiple applications.

Lower Training Costs

Each new application introduced into an organization comes with an associated training cost as employees need to be familiarized with the workings of new functionality and processes. XSF can help reduce training costs for multiple applications by providing a consistent user look and feel. As each additional application is introduced, the training burden is reduced since users are already familiar with the general workings of the user interface.

Extend the Framework

XSF is built on Microsoft's .NET framework and utilizes .NET's reflection and discovery technologies. XSF is designed to find and incorporate new modules of functionality. This means that XSF is extensible and ready to grow with your organization.

Features

• Integrated content editing/management environment
• Customizable user layout (docking windows, tabbed, MDI interface)
• Local document cache
• Native CMS connectivity with Documentum 5.x and Microsoft SQL Server
• Document searching, favorite lists
• Integrated user level security
• Interfaces for including custom components, editors, searching, views, etc.

For more information or a live demonstration of XSF's capabilities contact CUESoft.