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Report on K4 6.1,
vjoon’s Cross-Media Publishing Platform
(By Erik Vlietinck, IT-Enquirer 2009, www.it-enquirer.com)
Management Summary
K4 6.1 is now a true cross-media publishing system, with capabilities that are unique, such as the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to publishing terminology (map publication” to anything you want). Its workflow engine is task-based. Users don’t have to know about statuses unless they need to.
Publishing to multiple channels with K4 6.1 can be done faster than before due to the parallelism allowed for by the workflow engine. Besides working in different channels, users can perform parallel tasks — for example, one user can be working on metadata of an image, while another one is still editing the same image. K4 6.1 also makes publishing less prone to errors and time loss. With its rewind feature, a workflow gone awry can even be taken back in time —allowing users to start over again and do it better the second time around.
vjoon’s philosophy of building a core system and enabling third party vendors to develop specialist add-ons ensures that K4 6.1 is a very cost-effective and attractive system. K4 has become one of the most flexible system available, with enough power to drive all publishing needs and markets.
vjoon K4 6.0 Comes Close to Publishing in the Real World with Task-based Workflow
(By Erik Vlietinck, IT-Enquirer 2008, www.it-enquirer.com)
Management Summary
Most currently available publishing systems apply a status-based workflow in order to push layout and content objects through the publishing process. Most disturbing about status-based workflow is that it is counter-intuitive, resulting in steep learning curves, high training costs, and error-prone workflows. A task-based workflow in which the system tells the users working with the system, what to do, instead of simply telling what the result should be as in status-based workflows is less prone to errors and has a less steep learning curve when done well.
vjoon K4 6.0 uses a task-based approach with rewinds, dependencies and the ability to have split workflows that can synchronise. K4 6.0 enables users to finish tasks without the need to check in or check out objects. The user can simply accept a task and from that point onwards the system creates the components needed to complete the task and move the user through the workflow until the desired end-result is achieved. Unique about K4 6.0 is that it uses a simple to use GUI-based Workflow Editor effectively enabling administrators to rapidly set up extremely complex parallel cross-media publishing workflows.
