XML Collaborator: Features

Collaboration

Flexibility and ease of use

Management of the design process

Registry

Planned enhancements in future releases

Real-time collaboration: Changes made to the metadata repository are reflected immediately through the engine interfaces—allowing teams to easily work together from across town or across the country.

Issue and resolution tracking: Each information component in XML Collaborator may have issues assigned to it by users with the appropriate permissions to do so. The system will not allow a release of an information structure that involves an information component with outstanding unresolved issues.

Scratchpad support: Each user and group has a scratchpad area, where information items can be imported, examined, and manipulated. As a user or group finalizes the design of an information item, it can then be promoted to a position in the namespace hierarchy; from there, it may be integrated into other information structures or released to the registry.

Threaded collaboration at every level: In XML Collaborator, all users, groups, data elements, data structures, enumerations, datatypes, services, and namespaces have their own threaded forum. This allows users to easily communicate specific issues about any aspect of the information components in the system and collaborate on the resolution of outstanding issues.

Full-featured security model: The security model implemented by the platform allows specific permissions to be granted or denied on every possible action in the system. A flexible role system is also provided, where users can be assigned to specific roles for specific branches of the information hierarchy such as reviewer, contributor, and manager. New roles may also be created by system administrators as necessary.