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Automating the Manual Review Process

Often the "Review" phase of dynamic publishing is difficult and expensive to successfully implement because of the all-too-common hand-made edits and hand- executed review and approval cycles.

Astoria On-Demand streamlines the review and approval cycle of dynamic product documentation, particularly across geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams. Documentation managers enjoy automated control and management of the review cycle, and browser-based access is governed by user roles and access privileges.

Astoria On-Demand provides a secure, browser-based, collaborative environment for authors, reviewers, and subject-matter experts to access the whole range of content from documents to even the finest content component. The key technology in Astoria On-Demand is annotations that travel with, not inside, content objects. This feature, unique to Astoria On-Demand, enables real-time, simultaneous review and approval since proposed content updates also capture the "thinking-about" and "reasons-why" content is updated. Also, a robust workflow engine tracks content reviews and edits with configurable, multi-step transaction routing across the most complex and distributed teams. This ensures that content is secure and up to date throughout the entire review process.

Key features and benefits of Astoria Reviewer include:

	Feature	Benefit
Enhanced Quality	Provides users universal, real-time access to the content repository through a common Windows Internet Explorer Web Browser	Provides the most accurate and recent information directly from content contributors. Enables global collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
	Partitioned access at the element, section, or project level enables multiple, simultaneous and parallel workflows	Content routed precisely to required contributors, speeding revision cycle time
Increased Productivity	Graphical workflow feature allows for easy set up and provides automated e-mail task notifications, and tracks the status of all comments	Simplifies processes to set-up, inform and manage dispersed work groups through revision process
	Captures detailed information about annotations, such as name, content, reasoning, method, and more	More concise control of edits and annotations and rock-solid revision history
	Secure log-on through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) standard protects sensitive information	Reduces risk and ensures proper authorization to view and modify content
	Scalability supports thousands of users to view structured content in the Astoria repository	Offers a powerful, proven system that supports large organizations