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General
Questions
Evaluation &
Licensing Questions
Functionality Questions
Security Questions
Technical Questions
General Questions
Question:
How can Net-It Central help my organization?
Net-It Central provides significant cost-savings by
enabling visual non-editable access to files in
different formats without requiring the native authoring
software on every desktop, without requiring IT
involvement to post new content to the intranet each
time. Time is saved in both a process simplification in
preparing content for general enterprise distribution
and in looking for files of interest across the
organization.
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Question:
What's unique
about Net-It Central?
Net-It Central is simple. Unlike complex
document management systems or other web based
publishing solutions, Net-It Central can be deployed in less than a
day. It's easy to use. Drag and drop
files into monitored folders and Net-It Central does the
rest. Alternatively web browse to a folder of
interest and use contribute to add document files with
metadata. Document files are automatically
published and indexed for document users to find and
access using a web browser. Net-It Central is very
efficient on large paged documents since it can deliver
search results down to the specific pages of interest
and deliver just those pages to be viewed.
Net-It Central is not licensed on a per user basis - so
it is a less costly solution over most document
management solutions for distributing "released"
documents to the entire organization for intranet
/ extranet access.
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Question:
How does Net-It Central compare to document management
systems?
Unlike complex
document management systems or other web based
publishing solutions, Net-It Central can be deployed in less than a
day. Net-It Central does not require a database,
nor does it provide check in/check out or version
management. Content consumers in general do
not require this complexity in accessing a document.
A document management system can be used to manage
documents under revision and approval. But once
approved the release process can deposit these documents
into a "release" folder and Net-It Central can do the
rest to make the most current version of the documents
available for searchable intranet/extranet access.
For many departments and smaller organizations, document
management solutions are costly, expensive to deploy and
administer, and involve more complexity that is really
required for the majority of the users that just need
access to current documents (like policy and procedures,
operation manuals, etc). Most users don't need
access to previous versions, just the current version.
Most users don't check in new documents (as content
consumers). Most users just need to find the
documents then need and view them quickly online.
That is what Net-It Central is about. Net-It
Central can compliment existing document management
solutions and reduce the overall system price by giving
the right functionality and complexity to the right
users.
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Question:
How
much training is required to use Net-It Central?
None. Net-It Central's
intuitive and simple interface makes it possible
to use immediately with no special training.
Once sites and monitored folders are established, users
use the same document authoring tools they are familiar
with and simply save files that are ready for general
release to established folders. It's seamless.
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Question:
Can Net-It Central be used with other software?
Absolutely. Net-It Central is integrated with several
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Project
Management/Collaboration offerings, or you can
integrate Net-It Central to your own intranet/extranet
deployment using the SDK
interface and included examples.
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Evaluation and Licensing
Questions
Question:
Can we
evaluate Net-It Central before we license it?
Yes. Contact our Sales department to request a trial copy. We also have an
online demo that
shows example document sites created by Net-It Central.
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Question:
How do I get help during my evaluation period?
You may reach our Sales or Technical
Support departments at 800-398-7005 or via email at
sales@infograph.com.
Assistance is available from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. MST Monday
through Friday.
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Question:
How is Net-It Central licensed and what does it cost?
Net-It Central is licensed on a server basis with
unlimited users allowable. The licensing is
designed for pilot, departmental and enterprise class
deployments. The difference between each is the
number documents that can be published to a document
site and how many document sites can be created.
Pricing for Net-It Central is in the $2500 to $20K
range. To receive a quote,
please contact our Sales group at 800-398-7005 or via email at
sales@infograph.com.
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Functionality Questions
Question:
What formats does Net-It Central support?
Click here to
see our format list.
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Question:
What key features does Net-It Central support?
Click here
to see a detailed feature summary.
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Question:
What navigation and display tools does Net-It Central offer?
Net-It offers dynamic zoom, pan and
magnifier view controls; visual compare of two files
showing differences; rotate and mirror; layer control;
scale to gray (for black and white raster), page
thumbnails, and geometry snap
measurement tools.
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Question:
Why is Net-It easier to use than competitive offerings?
Net-It's familiar Windows interface is uncluttered, with
an
emphasis on navigation so you can quickly find what you need whether
you are viewing a document, image or CAD drawing.
Documents load zoomed to width for easy reading. Drawings
load in Fit All view, ready for you to select the initial zoom area.
The combination Zoom/Pan tool lets the user get to any location fast. Changemarks
make stepping through annotations/markups foolproof, so reviewing is a snap.
Our print dialog shows a detailed preview of the page, including margin lines so
there are no surprises.
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Question:
Is
Net-It Central available in other languages?
Net-It Central is currently available
in English and Japanese.
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Security
Question:
Will Net-It Central work with my existing network security
system?
Yes. Net-It Central honors existing firewalls and
encryptions.
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Question:
Can Net-It Central edit document/drawing files?
No. Net-It Central does not allow for any editing
of the original file.
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Question:
Can users edit markups created by others?
Users cannot edit another user's annotations. Each
annotation entity is marked with the creator's username,
date and time. Users with sufficient permission can consolidate all markups,
even from other users, for a workflow process.
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Question:
What is secure CSF and Visual Rights?
Visual Rights allow you to control how your
documents can be used when sent to suppliers, customers
or partners. Net-It allows document, image and CAD files
to be published into an accurate, encrypted, secure Content Sealed Format (CSF)
that embeds persistent Visual Rights like print,
copy, measure, markup and analyze rights and the ability
to expire the file on a certain date. You can also add
watermarks and banners and include annotations. A CSF file can be viewed with Visual Rights control
using our free Net-It Reader. Unlike PDF, a secure CSF file is not an open format and cannot be edited
by third party software.
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Question:
Can a user capture a copy of the file they are viewing?
No. Net-It Central does not send your original
documents files to any part of the client disk. The
Net-It Server processes your drawing and image files
behind the firewall and delivers compressed page by page
renditions of the documents through the HTTP/HTTPs
server. Optional client side processing for opening
files is available for PDF and TIFF and when enabled,
file information is securely passed for only memory
processing.
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Technical Questions
Question:
What platforms does Net-It
Central support?
The Net-It Central client supports Windows platforms.
Net-It Central can be configured to be “serverless”
for imaging deployments (viewing just PDF and TIFF),
allowing any server platform configuration (Unix, Linux
or Windows). The Net-It Central transaction server is
implemented in .NET (Windows Server) or as a Java
Servlet (Unix or Windows with a JVM). For viewing
of all supported file formats, Net-It Central uses a
publishing server that processes files into
content rich viewable pages deliverable to the client. This behind-the-firewall publisher requires
a Windows Server to provide the highest level of
accuracy in rendering Office Documents for TrueType
fonts, OLE objects, Hyperlinks, etc.
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Question:
What type of operating system do I need to run Net-It
Central?
See
Technical Information.
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Question:
What is the setup and installation procedure?
Setup and installation involve installing
(if necessary) and configuring a Web server (Tomcat is
provided with Net-It), installing and configuring the
Net-It Server and installing the Net-It Client on your
Web Server and configuring it. The client is Web-delivered
to the end user's machine and does
not require manual installation (for version 5.0, users
without the Java 2 JVM will be prompted to run that
install, which is provided automatically).
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Question:
Is Net-It Central implemented in
Java, .NET or ActiveX?
Net-It Central has two client options: Java Applet
or ActiveX. There are two server options: Java Servlet
or .NET.
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Question:
How can the client be installed on Restricted
User desktops?
The Net-ItClientInstall.bat script provides an
alternative method to the CAB download for installing
the Net-It client control. If the user is set up as a
Restricted User as opposed to a Standard User, this
script will register the necessary components to allow a
Restricted User to run.
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