This talk shows how recently available CAD technology integrated with an XML-based content management system can deliver powerful 3-D content and customized views to end users enabling:

*Faster product development through better collaboration at the design phase

*Improved documentation using 2-D graphics produced from CAD drawings

* Powerful WEB and CD access to 3-D views of products and assembled parts

* Quicker training through the ability to manipulate product views from any perspective

* Assured integrity of content through managed workflow and coordinated review

Deep Server, a visual information system from Right Hemisphere, enables the intelligence embedded in standard CAD drawings to be captured and reused across multiple delivery channels. Typically the richness of 3-D presentation and the ability to inspect images in three dimensions from many perspectives has been limited to high-end CAD applications. Costs have kept full access to this content limited to a small number of people. Design content, vital to the manufacturing of the product, has not left the design department. Downstream consumers of product-related information have been deprived of the benefits of a full view. Instead of the near-equivalent of hands-on manipulation, theyve been limited to a two-dimensional snapshot.

Deep Server enables collaboration among designers, ready reuse of the content in product documentation and literature, and efficient delivery of three-dimensional content to the Web. By providing easy access to CAD data kept in standard formats such as IGES or common vendor formats, Deep Server unleashes the power of CAD content for use in down-stream deliverables.

Addition of these content components to the data stream brings the challenge of managing these components and integrating them with existing processes in documentation and training groups. Because Right Hemisphere uses XML to manage and control Deep Servers creation of content files and because these files can be tracked using metadata in XML, the CAD content can be brought in to the managed workflow of Content@, from XyEnterprise. Content@ is an object-oriented, XML-based content management system designed to manage the authoring, evolution, and review of product documentation and training materials. Content@s Prod Doc solution provides out-of-the-box workflows, templates, and tools for managing product documentation.

This talk will be accompanied by a brief demonstration of 3-D graphics used in a product documentation workflow, showing the interoperability of content between Deep Server and Content@ and the use of XML in managing the process.

This session is written for the business audience.