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Ecstra


  
 
Product

  
 Product name: Ecstra

  
 Version / release: 2.3

  
 Introduction year: 2000

  
 Product type: Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)

  
 Vendor name: De Voil Consulting

  
 Phone number: +44 (0)7811 325879

  
 Vendor website: http://www.devoil.com
  
 Product website: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 Vendor contact: Nick de Voil

  
 Employees: 1 to 5 employees

  
 Partners: None

  
 Revenues: $200,000 - $500,000

  
 Origin vendor: United Kingdom

  
 Number of installs: Less than 10

  
 References: Contact vendor for details

  
 Product description: A low-cost J2EE-based DBMS-agnostic solution, available either as installed software or as a hosted service, based on two key ideas: first, the strict separation of content, style, page structure, navigation structure and client profile; second, the ability to build interactive web applications with little or no programming, and easily integrate them into enterprise systems. This is made possible by a very broad definition of "content", which includes static HTML page content, interactive forms, documents, multimedia assets, hyperlinks and relational data - all as types of content object, all described using a uniform, flexible metadata framework.

  
 Vendor description: De Voil Consulting is a well-established UK-based IT management consultancy with clients in government, financial, education, media, technology, transportation and charity sectors

  
 Sales methods: Other

  
 Installed base: Public sector (local and national/federal government), Printing, publishing, media and entertainment
  
 
Editing

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Clean-up: no
  
 Preview: yes
  
 Uploading images: yes
  
 Resizing images: yes
  
 Uploading files: yes
  
 Form editor: yes
  
 Form validation: yes
  
 Spell checker: yes
  
 Thesaurus: no
  
 User dictionaries: no
  
 Editing type: Text area replacement, In line editing
  
 WYSIWYG or HTML: WYSIWYG, HTML, XHTML, XML
  
 Editor support: MS Word, Dreamweaver
  
 Edit features: Tables, Bullets, Font size, Font type, Font colour, Copy/paste, Alignment
  
 Content transformation: Copy/paste, Import, Other
  
 Formats: HTML, XHTML, XML, Other
  
 Insert links: Internal links, External links
  
 Lay-out: CSS, XSLT, XSLFO, Other
  
 Validation: None

  
 Technology: JavaScript, DHTML, Other
  
 
Content Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Automatic metadata: yes
  
 Classification: yes
  
 Content expiration notice: yes
  
 Content search and retrieval: yes
  
 Content vs. presentation: yes
  
 Context sensitive navigation: no
  
 Digital asset management: yes
  
 Digital rights management: no
  
 Flexible templates: yes
  
 JavaScript navigation: yes
  
 Link checker: yes
  
 Localisation: yes
  
 Metadata search and retrieval: yes
  
 Multi server publishing: yes
  
 Multiple domain names: yes
  
 Page formats: yes
  
 Personalisation: yes
  
 Portal integration: no
  
 Previous and next page: no
  
 Publishing reports: yes
  
 Sitemap generation: yes
  
 Staging server: yes
  
 Start and end date: yes
  
 Syndication: yes
  
 Template development: yes
  
 Template gallery: yes
  
 Template layout: yes
  
 Template regions: yes
  
 Track content changes: yes
  
 Granularity: Documents, Pages, Paragraphs
  
 Publishing protocols: FTP, Mapped network drive, Local file system
  
 Template output: HTML, PDF, XHTML, XML
  
 
Document Management

  
 Tool status: Not available

  
 Check in/ check out: no
  
 Virtual maps: no
  
 Files (dossiers): no
  
 Printing: no
  
 Viewer: no
  
 Modifying: no
  
 Paper digitalisation: no
  
 Imaging: no
  
 Document security: no
  
 Automatic metadata: no
  
 Collaboration: no
  
 Classification: no
  
 
Email Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Archiving attachments: no
  
 Reading email: no
  
 Storing email: no
  
 Retrieving email: no
  
 Print email: no
  
 Send email: yes
  
 Send to subscribers: yes
  
 Integration email application: no
  
 Output formats: HTML, Plain text
  
 
Information Retrieval

  
 Tool status: Third party

  
 Searching content: yes
  
 Full text search: yes
  
 Booleans: no
  
 Wild cards: no
  
 Range operators: no
  
 Refine search result: no
  
 Searching metadata: yes
  
 Marking of search keys: no
  
 Language recognition: no
  
 Indexing: yes
  
 Spidering: no
  
 Fuzzy search: no
  
 Semantic search: no
  
 Sorting search result: no
  
 Storing search result: no
  
 Relational taxonomy: yes
  
 
Records Management

  
 Tool status: Not available

  
 Classification: no
  
 Permanent archive: no
  
 Destroying archive: no
  
 Authenticity: no
  
 Protocol of clearance: no
  
 Registration archive terms: no
  
 Registration destroy terms: no
  
 Batch destroying: no
  
 Ad-hoc destroying: no
  
 
Workflow Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Workflow: yes
  
 Configurable workflow: yes
  
 Unlimited workflow: yes
  
 User management: yes
  
 Ad-hoc modification: yes
  
 Roles: yes
  
 Roles configuration: yes
  
 Workflow filters: no
  
 Document security: yes
  
 Security levels: no
  
 Authorisation: yes
  
 Status change: no
  
 Electronic signature: no
  
 Encryption: no
  
 Version control: no
  
 History: no
  
 Roll-back: no
  
 To-do: yes
  
 Email triggers: yes
  
 Password encryption: no
  
 Session cookies: yes
  
 Audit trail: yes
  
 Login logout audit: yes
  
 Extensible triggers: no
  
 
Investment

  
 License cost (euro): 5,001 to 10,000

  
 License type: Proprietary

  
 Open source license: None

  
 URL download: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 Total cost of ownership (TCO): Will vary depending on type of use

  
 Typical installation time: < 1 day

  
 Implementation time: Will vary depending on type of use

  
 ASP: no
  
 Price rent/lease: Contact vendor

  
 License model: CPU

  
 
Standards

  
 Open standards: CSS, FTP, Gzip, HTTP, MIME, LDAP, SMTP, TXT
  
 De facto standards: WinZip, .pdf
  
 XML standards: RSS, XHTML, XML, XSLT, XSLFO
  
 Metadata standards: Dublin Core

  
 Security standards: None

  
 Interface standards: None

  
 Technical standards: J2EE

  
 
Technology

  
 Adaptable user interface: no
  
 Back-up: yes
  
 Restore: yes
  
 Browser based: yes
  
 Caching: no
  
 Import: yes
  
 Export: yes
  
 Load balancing: no
  
 Native XML: no
  
 URL white paper: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 Application server: ATG, BEA, Borland IAS, IBM Websphere, IPlanet, Jboss, Oracle, Orion, WebLogic, Other
  
 Architecture: N-tier

  
 Browsers: IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.x, NS 6, Mozilla, Opera
  
 Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle
  
 Framework: J2EE

  
 Platform: IBM AIX, Linux, MacOS, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows NT
  
 Programming language: Java, Other
  
 Scripting language: Java, JavaScript, JSP, Other
  
 Web server: Apache, ATG Dynamo, Jetty, Orion, Resin, Sun iPlanet, Tomcat, Other
  
 
Support

  
 API: no
  
 Datamodel: no
  
 URL demo: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 URL documentation: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 Fixes and updates: yes
  
 Helpdesk: no
  
 Helpdesk hours: 9-5

  
 Context sensitive on line help: no
  
 Self explaining error messages: no
  
 SDK: no
  
 SLA: no
  
 Support people: Less than 5 employees

  
 User group: no
  
 URL developer group: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 URL user group: http://www.ecstra.com
  
 Demo: Demo, Trial
  
 Documentation: Users

  
 Update frequency: More than 5 times a year

  
 On line help: Users

  
 Source code: Not available

  
 Training classes: Users

  
 
Components

  
 Free components: Questionnaire, Form generator, Image convertor, IRC, Statistics, Ask a question, XML Convertor
  
 Additional components: Other

  
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