Press
Monday, October 08, 2007
Tera DP Unveils Tera’s CMSA, A New Product Architecture for Content Management Future at IfraExpo 2007
Vienna, Austria, 8 October, 2007 – Tera DP, a recognized leader in news systems engineering, unveiled Tera’s CMSA, Tera’s Content Management Service Architecture, at IfraExpo 2007. Tera’s CMSA will be the architecture for all future Tera products. Tera’s GNPortal product, which will be demonstrated at the tradeshow, is a Tera’s CMSA-based product.
Tera’s CMSA defines the infrastructure necessary to smoothly handle content in a uniform production flow. Products built using Tera’s CMSA are able to accept new content formats, and use new presentation and distribution technologies. Tera’s CMSA does this by defining how new processing, workflow, conversion and storage methods are added to the system.
The number of sources of content to be published, the types of content, the distribution channels and presentation technologies are increasing at an accelerating pace. The challenge to newspapers and other organizations is to manage the disparate and oftentimes nearly incompatible content sources and presentation technologies.
Publishers are often forced to acquire additional systems and point-solutions to process each new technology or format as it comes along. The result is a difficult-to-manage production, archive and retrieval situation.
Tera’s CMSA allows new functionality to be added through plug-ins, access to local and other services and through new content definitions.
A system built upon Tera’s CMSA is not monolithic. It is a group of cooperating software components operating within a well-defined, extensible architecture that is able to accept new technologies and presentation methods.
Products implemented using Tera’s CMSA are web-based, extensible systems that are compatible with all past Tera systems and data. Products using Tera’s CMSA are able to accommodate new technologies, data formats and processing concepts as they are developed.
Tera’s CMSA allows the developers of new technologies and other third parties to access, manipulate, and archive content using standard web facilities. Standard web facilities, in turn, allow decentralized organizations to work together.
Tera’s Content Management Service Architecture is designed by Tera. In its 17-year history of engineering excellence, Tera has never released a software version that has invalidated any customer data. Tera has never required its customers to take on the work, expense or risk that a so-called major upgrade requires. Tera’s CMSA continues to satisfy this engineering imperative.