CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Customer: A software provider of international trade information
Technology: Content Management

The Customer

Located near Washington, D.C., our customer offers global trade information solutions to government and commercial firms. A recognized authority on international trade, our customer develops software and publishes content that streamlines international trade processes, reduces risks in cross-border trading, and keeps clients up-to-date with the transitive regulatory environment.

The Challenge

Our customer publishes on its website, among other material, the contents of the "Code of Federal Regulations" (CFR) and the "Federal Register" (FR). While the former contains law-related information, the latter, a daily publication brought out by the government, has documents related to law changes. With the purpose of serving its clientele more effectively the customer desired an enhanced website that would deliver better content through enhanced functionality

The Solution

Tata Infotech developed FLUX (Federal Laws Using XML), a solution that converted the CFR and FR from their proprietary ASCII format to an XML format. The XML solution provided for value-additions such as inter-linking pages and querying possibilities. Oracle 8i is being used for the storage of such voluminous data with highly inter-linked text between the CFR and FR documents. A web interface to the application allows users to access information with ease.

The Benefits

• Minimum human intervention for managing such a large volume of frequently changing information.
   
• Value-based queries for specific extraction of data.
   
• Possibility of push channels in the future.
   
• Easy navigation.

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