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Consolo | |||||
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Product | |||||
| Product name: |
Full name of the product:
![]() | Consolo | |||
| Version / release: |
The current version or release of the product:
![]() | 1.33 | |||
| Introduction year: |
First year this product had its introduction:
![]() | 2004 | |||
| Product type: |
Commercial off the shelf (COTS), toolkit or tailor made:
![]() | Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) | |||
| Vendor name: |
Full name of the vendor:
![]() | Global Happiness Sweden | |||
| Phone number: |
General phone number of the vendor:
![]() | +46 845 708 90 | |||
| Vendor website: |
Website of vendor or community (please include http://):
![]() | http://www.happiness.se
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| Product website: |
Website of product (please include http://):
![]() | http://www.consolocms.com
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| Vendor contact: |
Full name of the vendor contact person:
![]() | Stefan Hamilton | |||
| Employees: |
Total amount of employees:
![]() | 6 to 25 employees | |||
| Partners: |
Cooperation with other vendors, partners, etc.:
![]() | No | |||
| Revenues: |
Revenues and/or market cap, etc.:
![]() | USD 500,000 | |||
| Origin vendor: |
Origin of the vendor:
![]() | Sweden | |||
| Number of installs: |
Number of installs:
![]() | 101-500 | |||
| References: |
References where the product is installed and operational:
![]() | Swedish Industrial Development Fund, The Swedish National Agency for Education, Signs & Marks/Brands Inc, Spring Mobil, Grand Hôtel, The Swedish Fund for Research Without Animal Experiments. | |||
| Product description: |
Short description of the product:
![]() | Consolo is a CMS based on a server application (Win2000/Unix) which communicates with a client application (Win2000/XP). This provides a robust and sold work environment, as well as unique features. Consolo handles xhtml, xml, Flash, databases and can be modified by developers to suit specific needs. Developers can use Consolo for Free and sell it to their clients. There is an extensive dev-section on the Consolo web site. | |||
| Vendor description: |
Short description of the vendor:
![]() | Behind Consolo is web developing company Happiness. Happiness is a Swedish based company working cross the borders with its Internet solutions. With over 5 years of experience with CMS, Happiness has now delveloped Consolo, the next step within web publishing. | |||
| Sales methods: |
Sales and/or distribution method for the product:
![]() | Implementation partners, Resellers | |||
| Installed base: |
The areas in which the product has its installed base:
![]() | Professional services, Telecommunications, energy and utilities, Manufacturing, IT companies (software, hardware and services), Public sector (local and national/federal government), Education, Printing, publishing, media and entertainment, Marketing, communication, media, pr, creative and web agencies | |||
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Editing | |||||
| Tool status: |
Editor is home made, or third party:
![]() | Homemade | |||
| Clean-up: |
Clean up tool for MS Word and other text editors:
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yes
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| Preview: |
Content can be previewed before publishing:
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yes
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| Uploading images: |
Support for uploading images from a web browser straight into the editor:
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yes
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| Resizing images: |
Automatically resizing images by both measures and file size:
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no
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| Uploading files: |
Support for uploading files (e.g. Office document, .pdf) from a web browser straight into the editor:
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yes
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| Form editor: |
Editor supports generating electronic forms:
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yes
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| Form validation: |
Form editor supports automatic form validation:
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no
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| Spell checker: |
Support of a spell checker:
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no
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| Thesaurus: |
Support of a thesaurus:
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no
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| User dictionaries: |
User dictionaries for adding custom words:
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no
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| Editing type: |
Type of editing: whole page, text area, context sensitive, form wizard, inline editing:
![]() | Whole page, Context sensitive, In line editing | |||
| WYSIWYG or HTML: |
Editor presents WYSIWYG and/or HTML, XHTML or XML:
![]() | WYSIWYG, HTML, XHTML, XML | |||
| Editor support: |
Supported editors:
![]() | MS Word, WordPerfect, StarOffice, Open Office, MS Fontpage, Dreamweaver | |||
| Edit features: |
Supported editing features:
![]() | Tables, Bullets, Font size, Font type, Font colour, Copy/paste, Alignment | |||
| Content transformation: |
Transformation of files to content repository from desktop applications e.g. MS Word:
![]() | Copy/paste, Import, Plug-in | |||
| Formats: |
Supported file formats:
![]() | HTML, XHTML, XML | |||
| Insert links: |
Support for inserting links:
![]() | Internal links, External links | |||
| Lay-out: |
Supported lay-out scripting:
![]() | CSS | |||
| Validation: |
Supported validations:
![]() | None | |||
| Technology: |
Technology used (ActiveX, JavaScript, DHTML, other):
![]() | ActiveX, JavaScript, DHTML | |||
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Content Management | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Homemade | |||
| Automatic metadata: |
System stores relevant information about the content including name, folder, creation time, creation user, time last modified, user last modified by, workflow status, lock status, last published time, and user last published by:
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no
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| Classification: |
Support of automatically classification of content (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):
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yes
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| Content expiration notice: |
Emails automatically triggered at specified intervals notifying a user when content is about to expire:
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no
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| Content search and retrieval: |
Ability to do a full-text search of content in the system:
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no
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| Content vs. presentation: |
Ability to separate pure content from presentation elements allowing the user to focus on specific information:
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yes
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| Context sensitive navigation: |
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no
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| Digital asset management: |
Ability to organise and repurpose digital assets (e.g. streaming video):
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no
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| Digital rights management: |
Ability to secure the distribution, and disable the illegal distribution, of paid information items:
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no
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| Flexible templates: |
Support for creating any type of template with no limitations:
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yes
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| JavaScript navigation: |
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no
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| Link checker: |
Automatically checking for broken links with a warning for each broken link:
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no
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| Localisation: |
Ability to automatically translate both interface and content to different languages and/or cultures:
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no
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| Metadata search and retrieval: |
Ability to do a full-text search of metadata in the system:
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no
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| Multi server publishing: |
Ability to publish the same content to multiple servers for load-balanced and mirror server environments:
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no
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| Multiple domain names: |
Support for managing content for multiple domain names from a single content repository:
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yes
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| Page formats: |
Support for automatically generating links to the available page formats (e.g. to a 'printer friendly version'):
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yes
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| Personalisation: |
Ability to match content to the individual:
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yes
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| Portal integration: |
Ability to publish data from a database and/or backoffice application through portlets:
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no
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| Previous and next page: |
Support for links to be automatically generated to the previous and next page as ordered in the system folder:
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yes
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| Publishing reports: |
Ability to generate a publishing report detailing what content was published, length of the publishing process, etc.:
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no
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| Sitemap generation: |
Support for a complete sitemap to be generated automatically:
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no
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| Staging server: |
Content can be published through a staging server:
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no
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| Start and end date: |
Support for scheduling a specific start and end (expiration) date and time for content:
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no
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| Syndication: |
Supply of content for reuse and integration with other material:
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no
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| Template development: |
Templates can be made with industry standard tools lijke Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive:
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no
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| Template gallery: |
Ability to set-up predefined content defaults:
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yes
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| Template layout: |
Support for a visual layout of the template with different regions and page content differentiated:
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yes
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| Template regions: |
Ability to define regions in a template whereby content can be plugged in through a visual interface:
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no
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| Track content changes: |
Track changes between content updates with highlights of content differences:
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yes
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| Granularity: |
The extent to which a system contains separate components (like granules):
![]() | Pages | |||
| Publishing protocols: |
Supported protocols of publishing content:
![]() | FTP | |||
| Template output: |
Support for templates to generate HTML, XML, WML, and PDF content:
![]() | Other | |||
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Document Management | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Homemade | |||
| Check in/ check out: |
Ability to lock content to a specific user while it is being edited or otherwise being modified by another user (mostly the editor):
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no
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| Virtual maps: |
Ability to store documents into 'virtual maps' similar to network (user) directories:
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no
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| Files (dossiers): |
Ability to create ad-hoc dossiers for documents:
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yes
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| Printing: |
Ability to print document independent from the original application:
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no
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| Viewer: |
Ability to view the document independent from the original application:
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no
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| Modifying: |
Ability to modify the document independent from the original application:
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no
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| Paper digitalisation: |
Ability to automatically digitalise paper documents (e.g. through HCR, OCR, ICR):
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no
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| Imaging: |
Ability to create an image from a paper document by scanning:
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no
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| Document security: |
Support of document security (watermark, electronic signature, etc.):
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no
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| Automatic metadata: |
System stores relevant information about the document including name, folder, creation time, creation user, time last modified, user last modified by, workflow status, and lock status:
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no
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| Collaboration: |
Availability of a secure and common web environment in which multiple users can work on the same content:
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no
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| Classification: |
Support of automatically classification of documents (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):
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no
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| Formats: |
Supported document formats:
![]() | Adobe .pdf, Excel .xls, Flash, .gif, .jpg | |||
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Email Management | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Not available | |||
| Archiving attachments: |
Ability to archive email attachments as a separate entity:
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no
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| Reading email: |
Ability to read emails independent from the original email client:
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no
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| Storing email: |
Ability to store emails independent from the original email client:
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no
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| Retrieving email: |
Ability to retrieve emails independent from the original email client:
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no
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| Print email: |
Ability to print emails independent from the original email client:
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no
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| Send email: |
Ability to send emails independent from a email client:
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no
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| Send to subscribers: |
Ability to send emails to multiple individuals (e.g. subscribers to a news letter):
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no
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| Integration email application: |
Support of e-mail clients:
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no
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Information Retrieval | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Not available | |||
| Searching content: |
Ability to search for information items (webpages, documents, etc.):
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no
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| Full text search: |
Ability to search for any (combination of) word or number:
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no
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| Booleans: |
Support of boolean values (AND, OR, NOT):
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no
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| Wild cards: |
Support of wild cards (*) :
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no
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| Range operators: |
Support of range operators (e.g. >):
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no
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| Refine search result: |
Ability to refine the search within a search result:
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no
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| Searching metadata: |
Ability to search for metadata:
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no
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| Marking of search keys: |
All search keys are automatically marked within the selected information item:
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no
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| Language recognition: |
Automatic language recognition:
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no
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| Indexing: |
Support of indexing:
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no
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| Spidering: |
Ability to built an index of external information sources (e.g. websites):
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no
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| Fuzzy search: |
Ability to ignore misspelled words etc.:
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no
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| Semantic search: |
Support of semantic search:
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no
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| Sorting search result: |
Ability to sort the search results:
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no
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| Storing search result: |
Ability to store search result for reuse:
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no
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| Relational taxonomy: |
Support of relational taxonomies:
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no
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Records Management | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Homemade | |||
| Classification: |
Support of automatically classification of documents (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):
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yes
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| Permanent archive: |
Ability to create a permanent archive:
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yes
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| Destroying archive: |
Ability to destroy archives:
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no
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| Authenticity: |
Information items that are once stored cannot be modified in any way:
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no
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| Protocol of clearance: |
Ability to automatically generate a protocol of clearance:
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no
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| Registration archive terms: |
Ability to registrate storage terms:
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no
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| Registration destroy terms: |
Ability to registrate destroying terms:
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no
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| Batch destroying: |
Ability to destroy (parts of) an archive batch wise:
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no
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| Ad-hoc destroying: |
Ability to destroy archives ad-hoc:
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yes
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| Phases: |
Supported phases (dynamic, semi-static, static):
![]() | Static | |||
| Storage media: |
Supported storage media:
![]() | None | |||
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Workflow Management | |||||
| Tool status: |
System is home made, or third party:
![]() | Not available | |||
| Workflow: |
Ability to manage the workflow of digital information items:
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no
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| Configurable workflow: |
Ability to create custom workflows:
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no
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| Unlimited workflow: |
Ability to create unlimited workflow steps:
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no
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| User management: |
User management system that scales for organisations of all sizes:
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no
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| Ad-hoc modification: |
Support for users to modify the person responsible for each workflow step in an ad-hoc manner:
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no
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| Roles: |
Support of multiple roles within the workflow:
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no
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| Roles configuration: |
Ability to create custom roles:
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no
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| Workflow filters: |
Ability to filter certain steps based on a specific group or role of user:
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no
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| Document security: |
Ability to prevent individual users (or groups) from access to (parts of) documents:
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no
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| Security levels: |
Ability to generate security levels to documents or information items:
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no
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| Authorisation: |
Ability to generate access rights to individual users (e.g. read, write, modify, delete):
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no
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| Status change: |
Ability to change the status of a document or information item:
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no
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| Electronic signature: |
Ability of adding an electronic signature to a document or information item:
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no
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| Encryption: |
Ability to make information unrecognisable for non authorised individuals:
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no
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