Efficiently manage multiple Websites
Integrated Web content management capabilities enable people to publish Web content with an easy-to-use content authoring tool and a built-in approval process. This helps ensure that content is uploaded to Websites in a timely manner without placing a large burden on IT staff. Templates in the form of Master Pages and Page Layouts enable consistent branding to be applied to all pages, thereby helping to ensure that brand assets are properly used. A single deployment and management infrastructure for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites — as well as for multilingual sites — reduces the cost and complexity for IT departments.
Streamline business processes
The USA Local Search Network solution enables businesses to streamline content-driven, collaborative business processes by providing the tools and platform for automating the tasks of these processes. Electronic forms solutions provide a mechanism for gathering and validating input for these business processes across Websites, mobile devices, and Microsoft Office system programs. Forms can be created once and management tools allow IT to easily deploy and track the use of these forms across multiple channels.
These capabilities are provided by The USA Local Search Network on a single integrated business productivity infrastructure. This significantly reduces the management burden on the IT organization since they now have a common set of tools and methodologies for managing the solution. Tight integration with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office system programs enables The USA Local Search Network solution to easily extend these capabilities to every information worker in the organization. This reduces the burden on users, who no longer need to learn new tools or change the way they work in order to participate in their organization’s content management strategy.
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Features of The USA Local Search Network |
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Business document workflow support
Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.
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Approval |
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Collect feedback |
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Collect signatures |
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Disposition approval | |
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Document management site templates
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The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites. |
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The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other reporting tools. |
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The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document. | |
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Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)
Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library. |
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Document information panel
Makes editing document properties an integral part of the Microsoft Office system document-authoring experience. |
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Document Action bar
Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the current document and what action they are expected to take. |
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Retention and auditing policies
Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings. |
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Records repository
Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing and expiration of records. |
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E-mail content as records
Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and The USA Local Search Network. |
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Legal holds
Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records. |
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Next generation Websites with consistent branding
Provides the concept of Master Pages and Page layouts to enforce the branding and navigation of Websites. CSS support gives pixel level control on the look and feel of these sites. |
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Navigation controls
Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized by end users. |
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Content authoring
Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich web pages using a Web browser. |
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Content publishing and deployment
Built in approval workflow allows Web content to be sent for approval prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be scheduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page can be specified within which that page is viewable. |
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Site templates
Includes support for several new enterprise site templates: |
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Page Layouts
Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing—site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts, and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs. |
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Site variations
A new feature of The USA Local Search Network, sites can be linked together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a one-way orchestration framework for Web content. This feature allow organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much more structured and manageable environment. |
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WYSIWYG Web content editor
Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring. |
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Slide libraries
The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of The USA Local Search Network. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in a SharePoint site. Office PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically created from a selection of slides in a slide library. |
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Policies, auditing, and compliance
Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 support the following policy, auditing, and compliance features.
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Document retention and expiration policies |
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Highly customizable policies |
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Workflow process to define expiration |
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Access control and security |
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IRM policies applied on download to secure the functional access to documents |
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Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows |
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Official document-of-record repositories |
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Site for storing or archiving enterprise approved content types | | |