UltraCSDB® is an AI-enhanced Common Source Database system supporting S1000D, ATA iSpec 2200, Shipdex, and legacy data formats, delivering unmatched precision and efficiency across the content lifecycle.
- Compatible with S1000D (Issues 1.8 to 5.0), ATA iSpec 2200, Shipdex, and legacy formats.
- Utilises AI for content creation, review, translation, and project management, boosting efficiency.
- Includes UltraAuthor for seamless, error-free authoring directly within the system.
- Offers on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment to meet diverse security and operational needs.
- Efficiently scales from small teams to large enterprises, optimized for various deployment scenarios.
- Publish to PDF, tablet devices, website and IETP-X formats.
Cost effective, versatile, flexible and completely integrated enterprise S1000D content lifecycle management. Out of the box support for S1000D issue 1.8 to 5.0, Shipdex and ATA iSpec 2200.
Detailed Features
- On-Premises, Cloud, or Hybrid deployment models to suit diverse enterprise needs.
- Scalable architecture for both small teams and large enterprises, ensuring optimal performance across different deployment scenarios.
Flexible Deployment Options
- Full compatibility with S1000D, ATA iSpec 2200, S2000M, Shipdex, and legacy data, ensuring compliance and seamless integration with existing systems.
- Comprehensive support for S1000D (Issues 1.8 to 5.0), ATA iSpec 2200, Shipdex, and legacy data.
Comprehensive Standards Support
- AI Author, Reviewer, Translator, and Project Manager Agents: Automate content creation, review, translation, and project setup for enhanced efficiency.
- UltraAuthor Copilot: Interactive assistance for authors during the S1000D content creation process, integrating AI-powered features for real-time guidance.
AI-Driven Content Management
- User and Role Management: Create, modify, and delete users; manage roles and user groups; integrate with Active Directory; and visually distinguish between user types.
- Access Control and Credentials: Implement rolebased access control; manage passwords and UltraPortal credentials; and set up email notifications.
- Project Continuity and Efficiency: Replace users in projects; use a custom role editor; and perform multiselect operations for streamlined management.
Advanced User Management
- UltraAuthor Integration: Direct connection to UltraCSDB® web service for fast, error-free authoring with real-time rendered WYSIWYG preview.
- Native XML Authoring: Ensures consistent and highquality content creation with integrated tools for inserting references, lists, tables, and multimedia objects.
Integrated Authoring Tools
- Centralized Access: Access all projects through a dedicated pane with a customizable grid.
- Flexible Configuration: Support for multiple project types, easy modification, organizational tools, and site segregation.
- User Control and Tracking: Role-based access, progress tracking, and secure project deletion.
Advanced Project Management
- Work Allocation: Allocate project items manually or automatically based on type and attributes.
- Multi-stage Reviews: Manage sequential and parallel review workflows with in-app preview and annotation.
- Approval and Rejection: Customizable approval processes with automatic status updates and required comments.
- Email Notifications: Keep stakeholders informed with customizable notifications throughout the project lifecycle.
Streamlined Workflow Management
- Integrated Authoring: Connects UltraAuthor to UltraCSDB for efficient, error-free authoring with real-time previews.
- Version Control and Languages: Manages check-out/in for version control and supports multi-language projects.
- Review and Notifications: Automates review notifications and email alerts for streamlined communication.
- Multi-language Publishing: Supports content management and publishing in multiple languages.
Efficient Content and Asset Management
- Information Code Management: Maintain, edit, and manage multi-language Information Codes with import/export functionality.
- Automated Data Module Creation: Automatically populate document types and Information Names for new data modules.
Information Code Management
- BREX and Schematron Management: Create, import, and manage BREX and Schematron files for advanced business rules validation and reporting.
- Layered Validation and Custom Configs:UltraCSDB and the integrated authoring tool, UltraAuthor, provide comprehensive validation support. This includes the use of custom configuration files.
- Flexible Rule Control: Enable or disable business rules as required, with visualization and search capabilities for BREX rules and lists.
- Integration with Authoring Tools: Provide BREX value lists and rules directly to integrated authoring tools.
Advanced Business Rules Management
- Parts Data Management: Import and manage parts data from Excel/CSV files.
- S2000M and LSA Support: Import and manage S2000M and Logistic Support Analysis data.
- Illustration Mapping: Map ICNs to CSNs for efficient illustration management.
Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) - UltraILS Add-on
- Stylesheet Management: Easily manage various stylesheets for consistent document formatting.
- Integrated Workflow: Streamlined workflow for stylesheet requests and priority setting.
Advanced Stylesheet Management
- Versatile and Customisable Deliverable Outputs: Seamlessly support multiple formats, including PDFs, UltraXML documents, and IETP-X, while enabling the generation of bespoke formats like ATA CMM and XML books using the UltraXML Server.
- Centralised Deliverables Management: Efficiently manage all deliverables within a dedicated grid, enhanced by integrated workflow processes.
Comprehensive Deliverables Management
- Publication Modules and Workflow: Manage and compile structured content efficiently with integrated workflow, versioning, and visual layout definition.
- Versatile Publishing Formats: Support multiple publication formats, including loose-leaf and website publishing, ensuring cross-platform compatibility.
Publication Management & Configuration
- S1000D Comment Module Support: Utilise comment modules for reporting errors and recommending improvements with full integration into the workflow.
- "Change Driver" Management: Manage change requests through dedicated workflows, ensuring effective tracking and implementation of changes.
Robust Change Management System
- Hundreds of API Functions: UltraCSDB® exposes extensive API functions, enabling deep integration with third-party applications and custom CSDB development.
- Support for Custom Schemas and Document Types: Configurable document types through XML configuration files, supporting future S1000D issues and custom workflows.
Extensive API and Customization
- Secure Platform for Technical Publication Distribution: Seamless integration with UltraPortal for uploading IETP-X deliverables and managing publication distribution.
- User-Friendly Interface: Simple ʺSend to UltraPortalʺ option in the deliverables context menu for quick and easy publication management.
UltraPortal Integration
- Full-text, Applicability, and XPath Search: Powerful search tools with support for regular expression and Boolean expressions.
- Search Across Projects: Browse and search data modules from other projects to find reusable content, with export options directly from search results.
Advanced Search Capabilities
- Comprehensive Standards Support: Supports S1000D (Issues 1.8 to 5.0), ATA iSpec 2200, Shipdex, S2000M and legacy data formats.
- Flexible Deployment: Deploy on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments to meet diverse organizational needs.
- Scalable Architecture: Ideal for both small teams and large enterprises, with optimized performance for different deployment scenarios.
- Advanced User Management: Robust user role management, Active Directory integration, and customizable access controls.
- Comprehensive Workflow Management: Offers manual and automatic work allocation, customizable workflows, and integrated email notifications.
- AI-Enhanced Functionality: Incorporates AI for content creation, review, translation, and project management.
- Integrated Authoring Tools: UltraAuthor provides seamless, error-free authoring directly integrated with UltraCSDB®.
- Robust Validation: Multi-layered validation using BREX, Schematron, and custom project rules.
- Multi-Language Support: Manage and translate content in multiple languages within a single project.
- Comprehensive Asset Management: Tools for managing multimedia assets with integrated workflows and version control.
- Stylesheet and Deliverable Management: Supports various stylesheet types and deliverable formats, including IETP-X.
- Publication Management: Efficiently compile and organize structured content across multiple publication formats.
- Effective Data Reuse: Supports TIR, CIR, and efficient data reuse across projects.
- Change Management: S1000D comment modules and "Change Driver" management ensure effective tracking of changes.
- Advanced Search: Powerful search capabilities, including full-text, applicability filtering, and cross-project search.
- Audit Trail and Reporting: Detailed audit trails and comprehensive reporting for compliance and management.
- Integrated Logistic Support (ILS): Facilitates management of parts data, S2000M, and LSA data.
- UltraPortal Integration: Secure, seamless distribution of technical publications via UltraPortal.
- Extensive API: Hundreds of API functions for deep integration and custom development.
- Configurable Document Types: Supports any document type through XML configuration files for custom schemas and future standards.
Why Choose UltraCSDB®?
- On-Premises: Windows Server (2016/2019/2022) or Windows 10+ (all versions), 4 Cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB+ storage, SQL Server (2012-2022), .NET Framework 4.7.2.
- Cloud (Azure): Standard_D4s_v3 or newer equivalent VM (4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM), Premium SSD (256 GB+) or equivalent storage, Azure SQL Database S3+ or equivalent tier, VNet, NSG, VPN Gateway/ ExpressRoute.
- Hybrid: Combine on-premises for critical data with Azure for scalability, using Standard_D4s_v3 or newer equivalent VMs, secure via VPN Gateway/ ExpressRoute. Ensure data consistency with Azure SQL Data Sync and Azure File Sync or equivalent future technologies.
- Security & Management: Azure Active Directory, AD Connect, Azure Backup Service, local backups, Azure Monitor, and on-premises tools for monitoring.
UltraCSDB Deployment Requirements
FAQs
UltraCSDB is a client/server solution that can operate over the internet/intranet and so can be accessed over WAN & LANs. The system enables full collaborative features such as workflow and email notifications. UltraCSDB is a fully scalable solution and can handle any data volumes. An unlimited number of UltraCSDB servers can be deployed in parallel.
UltraCSDB supports the entire S1000D data modules Issue 1.8 to 5.0. Support for new S1000D issues is easily implemented through XML document type configuration files. Any additional schema can be supported through external configuration files.
ATA can be broken down into any required granularity for example at pgblk level, task or subtask level. The document parts are then treated in the same way as S1000D data modules and go through the full workflow. The CSDB will create the skeleton XML / SGML structure for each ATA module. The ATA modules are then combined by automatically building a publication module with a tree representation of the structure. The rules for creating the publication module chapter structures and filling the chapters with the correct modules and order are defined in the project type configuration files.
The publication module goes through the workflow with review. The ATA publication module can be published to an instance of a full CMM / ACMM, the parts are automatically combined and attributes and structure adjusted according to the server defined XML configuration rules for that project type.
The resulting single XML file for CMM or ACMM can then be published with UltraXML or any other formatter. The stylesheet for the project can be stored as an asset in the CSDB along with full workflow for the stylesheet. Through the configuration files UltraCSDB can support any DTD in the same way.
UltraCSDB stores binary assets of any type on the server machine. Thumbnail previews are also generated by the server as a background process for later viewing by the client application. Full workflow for all asset types is supported. ICN numbers are generated by the system with the correct sequence number. Assets can be associated with a data module. The ICN numbers already used in a data module when importing are read into the CSDB and the associations made in the database.
UltraAuthor is available as an add-on for UltraCSDB. UltraAuthor tightly integrates with UltraCSDB Server to retrieve project information.
UltraCSDB is able to utilise COTS editors such as Framemaker, XMetal or Arbortext Epic Editor.
An UltraCSDB API is available which exposes all existing functionality of the UltraCSDB service. Any programming language that supports web services can be used.
UltraCSDB Multiple Language Support includes:
- Stores and manages multiple language versions for each data module in a project.
- Unicode enabled.
- Export or publish any chosen language.
UltraCSDB is compatible with all Windows and Windows Server platforms from Windows XP / Windows 2003 Server and above. Microsoft .NET 4.0 or above is required on the server and client machines.
UltraCSDB is compatible with the following databases:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and above.