• The volume of documents airlines must produce and maintain has grown significantly in recent years
• Critical information for airline operations usually exists in different formats and on different systems
• Regulators demand a strong process for authoring, updating and managing documents  
• In the absence of such systems, regulators can take the ultimate sanction - ground an aircraft, for example, at considerable inconvenience to passengers and at a huge financial cost.

As regulatory pressures increase and the environment continues to become more complex, regulatory compliance is a major issue for operators. 

Many airlines have developed ad hoc systems, through the creation of web pages or PDF files with hyperlinks.  These have considerable limitations and are costly to maintain.  Increasingly, airlines see the benefits of using specialist document management solutions.

AirPortal 2.3 has been developed to meet airlines' specific document management needs, including eManual management and Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) distribution. AirPortal enables the electronic and paper worlds to be aligned, while maximising the financial benefits of electronic information management. In addition, airlines are deploying AirPortal as a powerful, integrated knowledge management tool to manage and dynamically update a range of airline documents.