31 Mar 2003

New York, NY - RedDot Solutions, (http://www.reddot.com/), a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced the launch of RedDot Content Management Server (CMS) 5.0. Among the new features are improved database support including native Oracle connections, and a graphical workflow designer. The RedDot translation editor is also now available as a server option. CMS 5.0 incorporates RedDot's market leading content management system (CMS) with workflow capabilities that enable businesses to manage their enterprise content in true global fashion, ensuring that local work processes are fully supported at the same time.

"RedDot CMS 5.0 has been enhanced with many new features, primarily to support teamwork for large and/or international projects," said Niels Metger, CEO of RedDot Solutions. "RedDot enables businesses to manage content from diverse sources throughout the enterprise and deliver it to diverse audiences across the globe. Coupled with the new workflow capabilities and document management integration from our alliance partner Hummingbird, RedDot's CMS provides all the necessities to seamlessly manage and maintain online content of any type."
"Content, even in its simplest form, runs throughout most, if not all, departments in a workplace," said Mark Gilbert, research director, Gartner Inc. "What the enterprise needs is a structured method to facilitate collaborative as well as publishing functions to manage and deliver different types of information. Users look for vendors that offer out-of-the-box solutions that extend content management capabilities by increasing employee productivity and reduce maintenance costs at the same time."

Among the many enhancements, version 5.0 introduces:

Oracle and ODBC Database Writing
RedDot now offers full support for Oracle (in addition to MS-SQL Server and MSDE) as the internal database platform for a RedDot deployment. RedDot CMS continues to connect to any external ODBC database to read in external data and in version 5.0 is able to write back into these databases, making RedDot a suitable front-end for some online database application deployments.

Workflow Designer
A new graphical browser-based interface for the design and modification of workflow processes within RedDot. Using drag-and-drop icons that represent actions, reactions and users in the process, administrators can quickly build and modify workflows and the visual representation makes it easier to understand dependencies and interactions in the workflow.

RedDot Translation Editor
The RedDot Translation Editor supports a global enterprise with translation tools to assist with the deployment of multilingual sites. Translators are notified via workflow e-mail when content has been created or modified and that content needs to be translated into the language that s/he is responsible for. The RedDot Translation Editor gives the translator a split-screen text editor with one side displaying the original content and the other a text editor ready for the translator to input the content in the language needed. The RedDot Translation Editor is available as a server option.