Paul Caspers, CEO

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Hyper.NetEnterprise Content AutomationICBS
(Central Bank Case Study)

• Presentation
• Paul Caspers, CEO
• Coextant Systems International AG
• Moskau 25th April 2006

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Introduction
My name is Paul Caspers I am the CEO of Coextant
Systems
and I am proud to be in Moskau.
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I will tell you the story of an outstanding
project

• I will tell you the exciting story of ICBS
• an independent European central bank that
• fully automates the creation and deployment of
  its large volume of rich content and
• keeps information in the Web portal in-time,
  consistent and up-to-date

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First a few words about Coextant

• The Business
• Founded 1994
• Offices Germany Denmark
• Focus Financial Services
• Customers Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom,
  Scandinavia, US, Indonesia
• Certified Microsoft Partner
• Strategic alliance with Microsoft Consulting
  Services since 2005
• Mission
• Enterprise Content Automation Automatic
  transformation and distribution of content
• Integration within standard IT environments
  (Co-Existence)
• Elimination of manual effort in the entire
  content deployment process
• Global leadership in ECA Technology based on
  Microsoft .Net

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And what Coextant did in the banking industry
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The underlying challenges of all these solutions
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• Integration of documents, data and applications
• Documents, manuals, plans, calculations,
  drawings, images,
• Business process automation
• Content for any portal/Web solution directly from
  the MS Office System
• Structuring and classification of information
• Content on Demand

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And how did we do this

• Hyper.Net is an XML Web Service that
• turns soft information (documents) into
  normalized, relational data that can be used
  anywhere, in any way
• can be leveraged by any application and used for
  every medium
• can be used alone or in combination with data
  from other strategic systems (ERP, WCMS, )
• Hyper.Net makes it possible to standardize and
  automate the content of all relevant corporate
  documents so that it is
• personalized and optimized for any desired
  format/usage
• Ready-to-use in every Web application and portal

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Our concept in a picture
Documents Content Repository
Transformation
Structured Data
API
Documents Content Repository
Consumers/User
Transformation
Structured Data
API
Web Server Microsoft IIS
Transformation XML HTML PDF Table of Contents
Index PDF Watermarks MetaInfoMapping Security
on topic level Hyperlink generation Gossary
integration Revision markups Effective version
mngt. XLST/CSS integration Customizable
converters Multimedia repository Approval
Rollback Virtual Taxonomies MS .Net / SQL
Server Windows 2003 Office 2003
Office Tools Microsoft Office Microsoft
Visio ,,,
Web Database SQL Server

• DMS or ContentStore
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Windows Sharepoint Portal Server
• Windows File System

Standard APIs Microsoft .NET Web Service
Interfaces

• Web Site / Applikation / Portal
• Microsoft .NET
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
• Coextant HN/SPS Web Parts

Integration kit for legacy systems SAP Net
Weaver IBM Websphere Lotus Domino Java based
CMS
out-of-the-box features Red Microsoft
Components
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Our technology automates every content deployment
task

• Portals
• Web Sites, Intra- and Extranets
• Knowledge Management
• Policies Procedures
• Quality Management
• Product Information Systems
• Service Information Systems
• Customer Care and Helpdesks
• Sales Information Systems
• Stock Information Systems
• Online manuals and documentations
• News Services Circular Letters Newspapers

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Lets look at the real world The ICBS Case
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ICBS Profile

• Independent central bank in a European country
• Assuring price stability
• Guaranteeing adequate cash supply
• Managing currency reserves
• Safeguarding the stability of the financial
  system
• Providing banking statistics and payment balances
• Acting as the bank of the state

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ICBS Situation

• Web site with functional limitations
• Effort-intensive data maintenance processes
• Unscalable technology
• Lack of audit-proof version control
• Missing human accessibility support

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ICBS Solution Goals

• Fully controlled content creation and automated
  deployment into a modern state-of-the-art Web
  Site.
• Integrate content from different sources
• Ability to integrate with existing systems
• Ability to leverage existing know-how
• Implementation of process automation
• Ability to create virtual taxonomies to organize
  content
• Multilingual support

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ICBS Expected Benefits

• State-of-the-Art Web Site
• Always with up-to-date, authentic and consistent
  content
• As part of an integrated production belt -
  streamlining and automating content authoring and
  distribution processes
• High scalability and flexibility
• Cost/time/failure savings through elimination of
  human distribution effort

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Project milestones

• 2005 Q1 Concept
• 2005 Summer Build 1 (base prototype)
• 2005 Autumn2006 Spring Build 2 (main
  development)
• 2006 April-June Build 3 (polishing phase)
• 2006 Summer Build 4 (pilot/migration)
• 2006 End of Year Going live

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Solution Overview (1)

• All content is authored with Microsoft Office
  2003
• Content from external sources is delivered in PDF
  format
• Complex data (XML files gt 300 MB) is delivered
  out of legacy statistical systems
• Documents are managed in SharePoint Portal Server
  which functions as a DMS
• Workflows for review, approval, preview,
  effective date management, etc., are managed in
  SPS
• Content is authored in 4 languages and logically
  organized in SPS
• A multilingual taxonomy designer enables the
  flexible management of navigational structures

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Solution Overview (2)

• Approved content is automatically transformed
  into Web ready consumer data
• Content is strictly separated from design at all
  levels
• XSLT and CSS technology allow CI conform flexible
  presentation of consumer data
• Advanced security requirements (DMZ, effective
  dates, clusters)
• Multilingual Web application with intelligent
  switching between languages
• Support of human accessibility requirements and
  statutes

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Solution Overview (3)

• Individual welcome pages with specialized
  teasers containing context-sensitive information
• Dynamic Web lists - flexibly maintained in SPS
  and Word
• Support of RSS feed content via Hyper.Net
• Search and subscription functions based on
  external Web Services like ATOMZ
• Effective Version Management functions to
  automate the monthly publishing of mass data
• Load balancing and failover

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Most Difficult Challenges

• Multilingual support
• Review/Preview/Approval workflow in SPS
• Efficient publication of complex mass data
• Flexible support for various human accessibility
  requirements
• Seamless integration of exsiting components and
  platforms
• Please contact Coextant to discuss or view a
  demonstration of the solution, which can also be
  made available for presentations by prior
  arrangement.

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The ICBS Live Demo
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Further information in the Web

• Coextant Microsoft Download Page
• http//www.coextant.com/topic.aspx?DOC_UNIDCBA4B0
  57A89B4d9400256efd005bad1a
• Coextant _at_ Microsoft
• http//directory.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/S
  olutionPage.aspx?i1SolutionID1263
• Best Switzerland Web Site 2004 runs with
  Hyper.Net
• http//www.rieter.com
• EUCNord technical College (complete SPS/Hyper.Net
  solution)
• http//www.eucnord.dk/ http//kursuskatalog.eucnor
  d.dk/
• Hyper.Net Live Demo in the Web
• http//www.coextant.net

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Contact

• Coextant Systems International AG Paul Caspers
• Schönbergstr 45 CEO
• 73760 Ostfildern/Stuttgart 49 711 45 1000
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• Germany pcaspers_at_coextant.de
• 49 711 45 1000 0 Tel
• 49 711 45 1000 - 20 Fax
• www.coextant.de www.coextant.com
• info_at_coextant.de
• Coextant Systems GmbH Paul Caspers
• Schönbergstr 45 Managing Director
• 73760 Ostfildern/Stuttgart 49 711 45 1000
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• Germany pcaspers_at_coextant.de
• 49 711 45 1000 0 Tel
• 49 711 45 1000 - 20 Fax
• Coextant Systems A/S Robert Nederby
• Europaplads 16.1 Managing Director
• 8000 Aarhus C 45 40 40 77 96

www.coextant.net