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Give your intranet Ferrari power on a Holden budget

Web Spinner® intranet document system

Web Spinner® uses the Web’s power to drive your business documents in a powerful, light and dynamic package. Like a Ferrari? Maybe.

Web Spinner® is simple, flexible and easy to drive—an alternative to more static and costly systems.

What is Web Spinner®?

Web Spinner® is a Web application for writing, storing, publishing and accessing business documents on your organisation’s intranet.

High performance

Most electronic document management systems we’ve seen don’t use the Web’s real power—they still work like the paper systems they’ve evolved from. But that’s like putting a Ferrari body on your old Holden—it’ll still take three minutes to get from 0-100 km/h.

Effortless power

Web Spinner® may have Ferrari power, but you don’t have to be Michael Schumacher to drive it.

Managers, as document owners, can easily set up and maintain the system themselves, without relying on their IT departments to load documents. This not only saves time and money, but frees IT people to do IT work.

And since Web Spinner® uses industry standard components, IT managers will find that it’s easy to support, maintain and modify.

The best driving experience

Web Spinner® is the complete high-performance package:

  • It stores and displays documents as XHTML Web pages so it’s light, fast and dynamic.
  • It preserves document properties on the journey from Microsoft® Word to Web—so all the richness of your document properties are still there on the intranet.

And enjoy the ride

Web Spinner® pleases passengers and drivers:

  • Users will find it fast, dynamic and easy to drive.
  • Managers will appreciate its low cost, adaptability, and ability to be deployed simply and quickly.
  • IT managers will like how light it is on bandwidth and storage and how easy to setup, maintain, modify and expand.

Maybe we should paint it red.

Total control

Like the best performance cars, Web Spinner® gives you complete control—over people’s access and the writing process.

It’s easy to get around

Set up a structure that matches your organisation’s information framework so all your people know where to find what they need, just like they do on the best web sites. Detailed information on each document is only a click away.

It’s easy to find things

Web Spinner makes it easy to search

Your people can search document properties so they don’t have to sift through the mountain of information that full text searches often give them. Use the document properties built into Web Spinner®, or design and add your own.

Search by:

  • document types
  • business areas and groups
  • accountable roles
  • document owners
  • subjects and keywords.

It’s easy to drive

With Web Spinner®, there’s no steep learning curve. Document authors write in Microsoft® Word. Alucida provides automated Word templates that not only keep your documents consistent, but capture control information and other document properties.

Accurate handling

Many intranet systems lose the document properties, such as reference numbers, version information and review dates, when they convert documents to Web pages. This means that the document on your intranet is not the same as the paper document you started with. When it converts the Word documents to Web pages Web Spinner® keeps the document properties that writers enter into the templates. This means that all documents loaded onto Web Spinner® are always under control, including:

  • Microsoft® Word documents converted to XHTML Web pages
  • Adobe® PDFs
  • Microsoft® Word, Excel or Powerpoint documents.

It’s easy to publish

Once documents are reviewed and approved by the appropriate people (Alucida works with you to tailor the process to your business) publishing is easy. As an author, you don’t have to send your documents to IT to be published, you publish them in Web Spinner® keeping you in control of the process.

It’s all there

Users browse, search, print and read the latest versions of published documents—everything online is up-to-date. This means that managers can rest easy, knowing that their people have the right information, including:

  • all previous versions of documents
  • all related documents, either by using document properties or by following Web Spinner’s links.

All this and it’s very reasonably priced.