The release of Content Central™ version 4.6 has been announced by Ademero Inc. The browser-based document management software has been improved with a no-hassle document-creation interface, a document-type organization layer and a data-integration tool for business applications. Both the Enterprise Edition and Workgroup Edition of Content Central have been updated.

Content Central organized, prior to the 4.6 release, related collections of documents using Catalogs. Now one or more Document Types can be defined within those Catalogs, and each document record is associated with its appropriate Document Type. This change moves Catalog components, such as user access, workflow rules, index fields, and retention policies, to the Document-Type level.

Marketing director for Ademero, Manuel Montesino, declared: "The addition of a formal document-type layer in Content Central allows our customer base to organize content smarter." He added: "We've found that a single business department may be divided into numerous subgroups, each with its own document-access requirements. Organizing document collections by document types enables department managers to refine their access-control policies, keeping these distinct divisions in mind."

Content Central now allows users, along with capturing, retrieving, storing, and managing documents and other content, to create new documents using the Capture Forms feature. Customized PDF forms can be uploaded as templates used to generate new documents in the system. Users load a Capture Form within the Web-browser interface, fill out the form's fields, and submit the form directly to the Content Central database. Content Central composes a new PDF document and stores it in the same location as scanned and uploaded documents. These digital documents can be subsequently accessed and edited in the browser, and a new version will be issued automatically for tracking purposes.

Administrators, to simplify the document-coding process, can now define Field Lookups to assign index-field values using data from other applications. For Field Lookups, can be used any external data source added to the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) component in Microsoft® Windows®. Streamlining the capture process and eliminating redundant data entry, data from applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software can be pulled into Content Central.