Proceedings

Abstract:

This session will introduce Critique, a document reviewing application based on Blast Radius' vision for XML-centric team collaboration.

In almost every industry, today's organizations create a wide range of documents that are directly linked to profitability, revenue and operational compliance.

Critique makes this content creation process more efficient, manageable, and auditable. It gives authors and reviewers the tools to view and respond to each others' comments in real-time and in-context, eliminating miscommunication, backtracking, multiple versioning and process delays.

Critique captures and retains a complete history of all reviews in context, through all drafts. No matter how intense the debate or how complex a d document's evolution, your team can track their process and seamlessly meet regulatory requirements for tracking and auditing document history.

Critique is the first example of a new approach to contextual collaboration: Documentspaces. Documentspaces are places within a document in which teams can meet and work, synchronously or asynchronously, to create, review, and publish content.

Blast Radius has developed an XML middleware platform that enables the creation of Documentspaces. The Dominion platform uses a protocol based on the XML Document Object Model (DOM) to synchronize change events between a central, shared document stored on the server and multiple remote client copies. Each client has a real-time view of the current state of the shared document and all related artifacts of the collaborative process at any point in time.