Euro Argus monitors and analyses the national and international press for major institutional and corporate actors.

During the explosion of the .com era, EuroArgus wanted to deliver a series of content services to important on-line customers. The business objectives were:

be identified as a content provider by corporate companies in Belgium;
automate the content editing processes in order to control manpower costs;
ensure the technical capability to met customer expectations in terms of data format and publishing mechanisms;
respect the strict timing constraints of the editing sector;
ensure the re-usability of archived content.

For Dixite, the technical challenge was to deliver a ready-made solution from scratch including:

realise a technical feasibility study in order to evaluate a provisional budget for the system realisation;
define the infrastructure respecting IT constraints;
implement a system maximising automation where all the workflow between sales, chief editor, editors, QA and customers would be fully automated;
system interfaces should be designed for non-IT staff;
ensure the training of all NewsUP! department members;
develop an alert system to respect strict delivery times;
ensure content formatting in XML, XHTML, RTF and PDF formats;
insure data dispatching using local/remote DB storage, FTP and Mail;

During a consultancy mission, Dixite interviewed the principal conceptors of the business project. We collected their requirements in a URD document and proposed a budgetary line in order to realise their demands.

After Dixite was awarded the contract, we refined the technicalities of the project within an ADD and DDD. The CMS solution proposed was based on IBM Lotus technologies for implementing the workflow and Java/Struts for the document formatting and publishing. Also In creating this workflow system the client was also able to track and audit each writer's work, and maintain and re-use an accessible archive of all submitted articles.

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