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Progressive Information Technologies would like you to know that Vasont is more than your typical content management system.

That doesn't mean Vasont skimps on any of the usual duties of a content manager. It can store and organize data, especially data meant for publication, so that anyone in your organization can access, edit and work with it. It can break down data into useful categories and subcategories.

But while that might be the sole function of other content managers, it's just the launch pad for Vasont. With Vasont, you can repurpose your material in any way you'd like, with little effort, getting new life out of existing materials. And you can even use it to organize data that's required by several different departments, and to automate internal processes that direct people to work on that data. That makes it more than a content management system. That makes it an excellent organizational tool for intranets.

Vasont allows for metadata to be added to each component, making it available for users to repurpose material however they would like.

The Tag Neutral Advantage
Progressive Information Technologies (PIT), the creator of Vasont, started long before the days of content management systems. In fact, PIT began as a hot metal typesetter, before computers and printers automated such things. It got into the software business in 1992, when a frustrated customer needed a way to organize and repurpose content.

If the name "Vasont" doesn't sound familiar, perhaps you've heard of the product as TARGET 2000, its original name (which became a bit dated with the changing of the millennium). The key to the success of Vasont (and TARGET 2000) is its tag neutral organization. Content is stored in a pure state that is unassociated with any specific content type. Thus, you might have a database of recipes, ingredients, and nutritional information in Vasont, and that information will can be used to build other recipes, but the information chunks themselves aren't associated with any particular format. They're not DOC pages or HTML files, but could be converted into those types and many more. PIT understood the value of being tag neutral long before XML was a hot topic. It's why, when you've got a collection of information stored in Vasont, you can repurpose that information into a book, Web site, internal resource center, or anything else.

The Vasont Manager allows for multiple extracts of the same content. Because content is stored in a pure state, unassociated with any specific content type, it can be converted into any type of file.

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