Tera’s CMSA Advantages for the System User
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Without a system built using Tera’s CMSA, News System users are forced to use a different point solution to process each new technology or format as it comes along. The average user, whether reporter or editor has had to become adept at using a variety of tools to produce content. Every user knows most vendors are reacting to new technologies, rather than anticipating new technologies.
The goal of everyone is not only an ordered way of handling what exists, but also some thought and planning on how to handle what might come in the future.
Tera’s CMSA is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This means that ‘‘services’’ are available through the local network or optionally through the internet. Services are very much like retail stores, and like retail stores, may be members only. A service provides an inventory of operations (or services) it performs. In our examples, a service might be accessing a complete article, or just a revision date on a byline.
Like a retail store on a main boulevard, a service is available for anyone who may enter through the front door. In practice, this means that a publishing system using Tera’s CMSA can be distributed across the network or planet. New functionality can be added by accessing services in different combinations.
Tera’s CMSA also means that archives can be made part of the architecture, so a search or a retrieval from archive is no different than accessing a story from the production system.
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