pTools delivering on information Transparency

When we did the Transparency initiative for the Irish Stock Exchange I don’t think we realised that this was a new segment in Enterprise Content Management but I’ve noticed lately it’s a hot topic with the big solution houses. Here in Ireland with the Banking crisis and the new National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) there seems to be a real gap in terms of what’s happening, what the rumour mill is saying, and what people can actually access in terms of information. As it happens we have linked up with a partner company Riverdocs to develop a solution that combines the Riverdocs document conversion service with pTools to deliver a process that helps transform a document (Pdf. Word etc.) into accessibility web pages in one go. There’s something quite amazing about dropping a Word document into a folder and then coming back an hour later to see it there, in the CMS, as web pages ready for workflow and publishing. I can see some users opting-out of WYSIWYG editing altogether if this is made available as standard. There’s a cost of course in terms of pages converted but it seems there’s no other way to get the quality needed for key documents that have to be made available online as accessible and searchable pages. In the lab we’ve been looking at next generation CMS functionality that requires no manual activity and this is a hint of what might be coming.