Features

• Own built-in admin client
• Remote capability
• External monitoring via JMX interface
• Plug and Play configuration of modules
• Multi-lingual admin client
• Hot-deploy capability for new modules without server restart
• Virus scanner
• Fine granular permissions system
• Client capability
• Unicode support on all levels
• Perfected backup concept
• Automatic rollout of software updates
• One-click installation for the Java Client via Java Webstart
• Export and import of complete clients including configuration and all settings
• User management with linking of external systems such as LDAP and Active Directory including group synchronisation
• Single sign-on / JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service)
• Support of multi-stage systems

• Integrated graphic schema editor
• Importing of existing database schemata
• Definition of database maintenance screen forms without programming
• Use of all database content for all output channels (PDF, XML, HTML, etc.)
• Versioning and historicisation, including for database content
• Direct support for Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Parallel use of different databases within a client
• Migration to other database types through simple export / import
• Use of database content in a static (with specific status) and dynamic form
• Graphic editor for the creation of database queries without programming knowledge
• Aggregated views and maintenance screen forms on content in different tables
• Support for multi-lingualism
• Use of complex content types such as rich text and link lists
• Support for multi-media objects in the preview
• Linking of database objects in any places
• Seamless mixing of database content with semi-structured content
• User-specific views of large data sets

• Dedicated clients for power users and occasional users
• Integrated browser with permanent preview
• Browser Follow (navigation via structure and / or preview)
• Inline editing
• Automatability of editorial processes
• Drag and Drop support
• Full text search
• Project-specific input forms
• Expandability to include client-specific functions such as dialogs, input components, reports
• Import Wizard for media
• File and folder upload by means of Drag and Drop
• Fine granular permissions system
• Multi-tabbing - working in different contexts
• Expandable menus
• Keyboard support with shortcuts
• Bookmarking
• Task lists
• History
• Workflow-supported working
• Role-specific views
• Integrated version-comparison
• Spellcheck
• Support for translation workflows
• Export into standard external translation tools
• Live preview across ALL output channels
• Multilingualism of the client
• Copy and Paste even for complex content
• Graphic support for link selection
• Display of usages for all objects including graphic displays
• Integrated Help
• Colour guide system for improved orientation of the editors
• Multi-browser support for the preview
• Simple modification of the navigation structure by means of Drag and Drop
• Synchronous and asynchronous maintenance of language versions (not all the languages have to have content maintained in parallel)

Simply versioning individual text elements and media is not sufficient to satisfy compliance requirements in complex means of communications such as on internet sites. If there are issues concerning corporate liability and proofs of the previous status of a website are required, these can only be provided if the complex tangle of texts, media, documents and database content can be accessed in its entirety - and at any time in the past. FirstSpirit™ ensures this.

• Support for companies' compliance requirements
• Display of any pages from the past on the browser
• Navigation through the historized site
• Archiving of the page cannot be manipulated

• Storage of any media types
• Versioning of all media
• Automatic scaling of pictures
• Picture generation on the basis of editorial texts
• Version comparison
• Seamless use of any external editors
• Bulk import of media
• Recoverability of all old statuses
• Retention and follow-through all changes
• Fine granular permissions system
• Structured filing
• Freely-definable metadata
• Picture sizing and rotation / mirroring in the client
• Multilingual media
• Storage of different picture variations per medium
• Drag and Drop support for media upload
• Integratability of virus scanners
• Media type and size limitations
• Generaion of image maps
• Own built-in editor for picture galleries
• Multi-page and multi-lingual picture galleries in formats such as HTML, PDF, Flash, AIR
• Workflow-supported release process possible
• Integration of external media asset management (MAM) systems

FirstSpirit™ is supplied with installation packages for all relevant server operating systems:

• Solaris (Sparc and x86 64bit)
• GNU/Linux (x86 32bit and 64bit)
• Windows server
• AIX

For installation under Windows, FirstSpirit™ guides you, step-by-step, through the installation process, as is the familiar procedure under Windows. Details, such as downloading the suitable Java system, are integrated.

The Solaris Package Manager and the Solaris Management Facility for process control are supported for SUN Solaris.

Both the Debian package system (.deb) and RPM for Red Hat and SUSE Linux are supported for a Linux-based installation.

Alternatively, installation using a tar archive under a normal user account is possible on Unix systems.

All Unix installations can be easily performed from a text console.

Updating FirstSpirit™ to a new version is just as easy as the installation. The update takes place optionally via the installation package or by exchanging the Java archive (JAR file) on the server side.

FirstSpirit™ clients are then automatically updated via Java Webstart the next time a user logs in, so that no intervention by the administrator is necessary on the client side.

• 5 million objects in a CMS client
• 500 editors working in parallel on one system
• 1,500 editors working in parallel in the cluster
• 500,000 media (> 1 Tb) in one CMS client
• 1,000 deployments per day
• 110,000 users in the SAP portal
• 200 Mb press reviews daily, with around 30 PDF documents generated from 4 data sources in 10 minutes

• Output channel neutral storage of all content and structures, links and formats
• Reusability in different formats and compilations
• Use for all channels such as Internet, intranet, portals, mobile devices, e-commerce or print
• Output of HTML, XML, Flash, AIR, PDF, WML, RTF, ODF, etc.

For companies which do not only address local target groups, the requirements for their communication channels, and therefore the costs too, rise significantly. From the outset, FirstSpirit™ was developed as an international product - multilingualism has therefore always been incorporated in the design. This means that all content, for example, texts, pictures and media, can be managed in any number of languages. In addition, extensive tools are available to the editors for editing.

• Support for multilingualism of all content objects
• Linking external translation tools
• Support for any number of output languages, including Asiatic and Eastern European versions
• Full Unicode support
• Integrated translation Help
• Workflow supported translation process
• Support for different variations of multilingualism
• Change-tracking for language variations of an object
• Multilingualism for media too
• Support for master languages and fallback languages
• Different fallback strategies for untranslated content
• Support for different client languages
• Multilingual labelling of all input components

• Migration functions
• Adoption of content from old systems via scripts
• Special interfaces for reading in content
• Data acceptance from systems which have not separated content and structure from each other
• Special migration tools
• Software for the analysis of websites and transfer into FirstSpirit™ via appropriate interfaces

When linking other functions, it does not matter whether these are the client's own enhancements or modules made available by e-Spirit and its partners.

• Client-specific expandability in client and server
• Acess to the server via open Access API
• Java component model for expanding the server
• Hotspot capability for integrating new modules within restarting the server
• Integration of existing third party systems and databases
• Standardized modules for individual needs
• Additional modules from the partner network

Details of the currently available modules are given here.

Complex internets and intranets are created by collaboration between many participants, who maintain and work on the systems in parallel. This results in the need to be able to trace development steps. 'What changes were made to a text?', 'How was a picture changed?' and 'Which content was released when and by whom?' - these are typical questions from everyday editing work. In order to be able to answer these questions, all changes in FirstSpirit™ are versioned and are available both for comparison and for renewed use.

• All changes to each object (texts, media, templates, database content) are versioned
• All old statuses can be viewed, compared with other versions and restored.
• Visual version comparison between any versions
• Display of changes, deletions, releases, additions and move operations.
• Output channel independent version comparison (not only HTML)
• Coloured visualisation of all changes on comparison
• Display of concealed changes, e.g. in old tags of pictures, keywords in an HTML page or on adding elements from drop-down lists.
• Versioning including all modifier information (time at which change made, responsible editor, etc.)

The platform neutrality of FirstSpirit™ is characterised by:

• Support for any web, application or portal server for the live system
• 100% Java implementation
• Can be run on Linux Solaris (x86, Sparc), Aix, Windows
• 64bit support
• Multicore support
• Multi-DB support (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres)
• Clients can be run on Windows, Linux
• Mac OS X

• XML
• Java
• JAAS
• JDBC
• GWT
• LDAP
• AD
• Unicode