• Overview
• Virtual Press Room
• News Announcements
• Press Coverage
• Events
• Web Seminars

News Announcements

Astoria Software Announces Change Page Pro 05

Powerful New ‘Loose-Leaf’ Publishing Solution Automates Change Page Revisions for Large Complex Documents

ORLANDO, Florida, May, 17, 2005 – Astoria Software, the leading provider of XML content management solutions for the dynamic publishing of business critical information and documents, today announced the general availability of Astoria Change Page Pro 05, a next generation change page solution that automates ‘loose-leaf’ publishing.

To date, publishing updates of changed pages for large, complex documents with long life spans has been a costly, time-intensive and predominantly manual process. Astoria’s Change Page Pro 05 is uniquely developed to efficiently manage continued updates to large complex documents; deliver those changes in user-friendly ways that eliminate the need to re-publish the entire document; maximize the efficiencies of content re-use; and enable automatic publishing of updated content to any delivery channel—print or electronic.

By delivering unmatched capabilities to manage and reuse content components at the smallest element level, and automatically integrate updates to content using advanced differencing, Astoria Change Page Pro 05 has reduced time-to-publish by more than 50 percent in early customer usage.

“We’re radically simplifying the entire change–page publishing process with a highly automated, highly-scalable application that is ideal for defense, aerospace and manufacturing companies working with massive documents,” said Tom Steding, CEO of Astoria Software. “These companies demand a loose-leaf publishing system that provides unparalleled re-use of their most critical content along with tremendous productivity gains and cost savings. What was previously a hard, long, and complex manual task prone to errors and delays, is now significantly automated.”

Astoria also announced that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, a leader in the design, development, systems integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and related technologies, is using Change Page Pro 05 to streamline the process of managing changed pages in highly complex, closely regulated content and documents, such as million-page maintenance manuals for new Lockheed fighter jets. Such content must comply with regulations from organizations such as the Federal Aviation Administration. For more information about Change Page Pro 05, please visit http://www.astoriasoftware.com/solutions/industries/government/index.asp.

Astoria and Lockheed Martin will present together at the 10 th Annual Arbortext User Group International Conference (AUGI) in Orlando, Florida, May 18 – 20.

Driven by customer use and requirements, and built on Astoria’s proven content management system, Change Page Pro 05 delivers the finest precision to changing content through its ability to address even the smallest element of a document or within digital content. These elements, or components, can then easily be re-used in other places to meet other needs. Change Page Pro 05 also includes state-of-the art content differencing for automated updates to content, structure, and document attributes.

Astoria ’s Change Page Pro 05 provides unmatched support of multiple document types, accommodating literally any DTD including 38784 and S1000D. In addition, it includes integrated workflow unique to the change-page publishing process for the control of review and approval cycles.

Change Page Pro 05 includes advanced composition features with automated pagination, point-page generation, and front and back-end content to automatically publish just the changed content packets. The result is higher quality and shorter times to publish.

Change Page Pro is highly extensible. It is designed specifically to integrate easily with the most widely used authoring environments and with the widest range of composition, pagination and publishing tools such as those found within the Arbortext enterprise publishing software platform.

In addition to the defense, aerospace and manufacturing industries, Astoria Change Page Pro 05 is applicable for other industries, such as the legal and publishing sectors, that face considerable challenges in publishing change-page updates to complex documents that are complicated, error-prone and subject to regulatory review.

About Astoria Software, Inc.