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Lotus sets dynamic intranet duo flying on their own
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Technorati FastSite makes posting Web documents in 25 file formats easy and fast, without webmaster intervention. It removes the document-posting bottleneck for intranets. |
FastSite converts documents easily, and SmartCenter puts a Web portal, with links, on your screen
By Jason Byrne
GCN Staff
Microsoft Corp. is working to pull all of its products into its office software suite, but Lotus Development Corp. is doing the opposite. It recently let loose two standalone products that had gotten their start in SmartSuite.
FastSite 2.0 and SmartCenter 1.0 are two very different products, each independent but also continuing to flock with the other applications in SmartSuite.
FastSite is an easy tool for converting office documents, such as memos and spreadsheets, into formatted Web documents ready for posting. It works with 25 file types including those of Lotus, Microsoft and Corel Corp.
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| FastSite Easy publisher for Internet or intranet Lotus Development Corp. + Translates various documents into publishable Web content SmartCenter + Places intranet and Internet information unobtrusively Real-life requirements: |
What FastSite does best is loosen the bottleneck in posting documents to intranets. Because it can apply a uniform format to each page, no webmaster is needed to format the pages. If content managers have rights to their particular sections of the site, they can take over the entire posting process.
Content cop
FastSite is great to have around to ensure that content does not turn stale because of posting delays. In my tests, it produced uniformly well-formatted Hypertext Markup Language pages. Its integration with Lotus Domino also worked well, which should be a big help to organizations with Domino Web servers.
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