Company standardizes on XyEnterprise’s Content@ content management system in an effort to streamline updates and reuse.
LexisNexis, the global provider of legal, news and business information
services, needed an easier way to manage content across its 35,000-plus sources
of legal information, news, business data and public records. Although it had
recently standardized on a single technology platform worldwide, LexisNexis had
no easy way to update content across sources or to take content generated for
one service and reuse it in another.
The company decided to adopt XyEnterprise’s Content@ XML-based content
management system. According to XyEnterprise, Content@ is optimized to manage
large volumes of XML content, as well as business rules for assembling and
publishing it. It manages structured XML source data at varying levels of
granularity, from individual objects to entire collections of content. It also
offers document management support for files from other applications such as
graphics, text and audio.
But beyond its out-of-the-box support for XML and non-XML based content,
the product comes with an open API that can be used to tie Content@ into
existing systems. That API enabled LexisNexis to integrate Content@ into its
homegrown applications to leverage the tool’s content management, versioning,
user access and re-use capabilities right off the bat. It also enabled
LexisNexis to reduce the time required to publish updates to its vast product
set.
“The Content@ application, with its XML re-use capabilities and open API,
has provided an immediate impact on the efficient creation, update and delivery
of our product sets," said Dan Hill, LexisNexis senior vice president for Global
Business and Editorial Systems. And since it’s scalable and integrated easily
with LexisNexis’s current applications, it was quickly leveraged across the
global enterprise, significantly enhancing return on investment, he
said.
LexisNexis’s use of Content@ has also proven to be a
revenue-generator, enabling the publishing of several new titles through content
reuse.
So far, the system is being used
across LexisNexis’s legal titles, including Matthew Bender, Michie, Shepards and
Butterworths in the U.S., the U.K. and the Pacific Rim. Additional deployments
are also planned for Latin America and Europe, the companies said.
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