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December 2006

PowerSWITCH

PowerSWITCH is the top-of-the-line product from the SWITCH product family. It has been in development since the release of LightSWITCH and FullSWITCH earlier this year and adds important advanced features to the product line.

Metadata Support

In more and more workflows it is important to be able to work with various forms of metadata. PowerSWITCH has additional tools to handle generic XML, Adobe XMP and JDF metadata in flows. This allows PowerSWITCH to receive incoming metadata, customize job processing based on it and export metadata in suitable formats for use in databases and hand-off to MIS, DAM and workflows systems.

Scripting Support

In PowerSWITCH you can write scripts (in JavaScript, Visual Basic Script and AppleScript) that customize the behavior of built-in tools. You can also write completely custom tools that seamlessly work together with the visual flow editor and your existing flows. This allows you to write scripts where needed, without making your flows hard to use or maintain.

Workgroup Support

SWITCHclient, the workgroup client that compliments PowerSWITCH allows you to submit jobs from your local workstation. Flows can be designed so that they contain 'checkpoints'; manual intervention spots where - again with SWITCHclient - you can determine how the job is going to be routed. It's easy to see all jobs that you have in the loop and even to see processing logs from PowerSWITCH. All on your own computer.

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