Arconics specializes in providing integrated web content and site management applications. Our products, IA Builder and Publish Port, provide a unique and powerful end-to-end solution for designing, building, and managing large dynamic sites, enabling organizations to achieve maximum impact and exposure from their content, while reducing the need for expensive developer resources.
The applications were designed and built based on the following guiding principles:
- Simple information architecture tools are an essential requirement for maintaining an ongoing web presence, i.e. enabling non-technical users to control the design, layout, and structure of the site is as essential as allowing them to contribute content
- Maximum value should be extracted from content created - use XML, repurpose content, leverage multi-channels
- Separate content layer from presentation layer
- Deploy cost-effective, fit-for-purpose technology enablers
- Give the business access but retain site control centrally
- Use resources to focus on site evolution and enhancement, not maintenance
In addition to a high-quality application suite, Arconics also possesses
- A highly skilled Research and Development team
- A niche Professional Services team
- A track record of highly successful implementations of mission-critical web environments
- An ability to delivery a rapid and significant Return on Investment
Deployment of Arconics solutions leads to significant benefits for both the client organization and its customers.
Highly skilled Research and Development team
Arconics consists of a group of highly skilled professionals focused on solving content and site management issues for large organizations. The core of the company is an innovative Research and Development team that uses the latest web technologies such as Java and XML to produce world-class enterprise solutions.
The development focus is on providing 'out of the box' applications that are quick and easy to configure. The products are highly intuitive allowing all staff to easily contribute content with minimal training requirement. Installing an Arconics solution has a low level of implementation disruption to the organization.
The company has a number of patents relating to the design of the information architecture tool, which allows web development professionals to design, build, and maintain complex dynamic site structures.
Niche professional services team
Arconics has created a dedicated team of professionals that focuses on providing end-to-end content and site management solutions. This team provides you with the required skills to design and implement a full Arconics solution, which includes content strategy development, project scoping, IA design, product configuration, and testing of the final implementation.
Specialized groups include information architects, user interface designers, graphic designers, classification specialists, publishing organisation specialists, knowledge management specialists, and Publish Port and IA Builder developers.
Successful implementations
The products have been successfully installed in many content-intensive environments. Take a look at the CEUT case study to see an example.
Rapid Return on Investment
Arconics customers achieve a rapid Return on Investment (ROI) that adds directly to the bottom line. The products are designed to reduce web-operating costs. The total cost of ownership is much lower than competing systems. The products are low cost and utilize low-cost infrastructures.
The solution reduces the web resources needed to operate and develop a dynamic site. The entire site can be developed and maintained without technical development skills (many competing content management systems requre technical expertise to design and build the site, limiting the non-technical sections to content contributors only). The solution supports site evolution, not periodic site redesigns which are common with HTML-based sites.
Our customers find our products extremely intuitive and therefore require little training. As the interface has all the common word processor functions, staff adapt to the application quickly. This allows all staff to have the capability of contributing content quickly and easily.
The information architecture of the site can be controlled in-house by non-technical users - very few competing systems can claim this.
Benefits for your organization
The Arconics application suite combined with Arconics unique approach to delivering large dynamic websites can deliver significant benefits to organizations.
- Enables you to develop a detailed publishing strategy
- Gives you unparallelled control over your website, including its design and architecture
- Helps you streamline the publishing process and publish more content, of a higher quality, in a shorter time
- Gives you a publishing and site design system that is easy for your staff to learn, use and buy into
- Provides you with a fully searchable and exportable, database-driven site
- Enables you to set up various geographically-dispersed sites that can be fully or partly controlled from a central location
- Allows distributed content contribution
- Provides you with an editorial process that will ensure the quality and consistency of all contributed content, irrespective of the location
- Enables you to manage the process efficiently and cost-effectively
Benefits for your customers:
In a similar manner, customers gain a number of benefits:
- Gives a consistent, high-quality experience to your customer while at your site
- Helps your customer to quickly find the information they need
- Enables you to deliver up-to-date, accurate, and relevant information to your customer
- Lets your customer read your information in an inviting format, tailored for the Web
