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Chasseral Deploys Real-Time System On Versant Technology

Versant Corp, an industry leader in data management and integration for the real-time enterprise, announced that Chasseral, a United Kingdom-based supplier of real-time collaboration systems, has deployed the LiveDrive collaboration platform, which is built on Versant's data management technology, VDS. LiveDrive increases the productivity of collaborative document preparation such as complex sales proposals and contracts.

LiveDrive and the embedded VDS increase the productivity of developing sales proposals and responses to RFPs by 50 percent. LiveDrive is a real-time collaboration platform that enables collaborative editing of documents that require contributions from various people. Authors, reviewers and bid managers can work together on the same document in real-time. LiveDrive uses Microsoft Word as the client program in conjunction with another Chasseral product, Collaboration Manager for Word, and utilizes VDS as the repository for the documents and all the associated in-process and stored state. The shared access, instant access to all document changes, and audit trail requirements demand an object-oriented database. Versant's VDS efficiently stores the data about the state of the system. Its object technology ideally complements LiveDrive.

"Versant was chosen for LiveDrive because it provides a fast, low resource, low administration transaction management system for distributed multi-user systems," said Derek Clark, chief executive officer of Chasseral. "LiveDrive is also available in a developer's edition that provides a platform for customized collaborative applications with multi-user real-time editing, access control permissions, auditing, and activity reporting. VDS is ideal for the hierarchical and network-structured data required by this application. We picked VDS after extensive evaluations of competing products."

A LiveDrive customer, Jerry Musselwhite of Profund says, "Chasseral has delivered a solution that not only saves time across the tender and proposal process -- important enough in itself when facing deadlines -- but more importantly unlocks the quality of the bid team, freeing them up from the chores to concentrate on the content." Profund is the United Kingdom's leading supplier of distributed component-based benefit systems.

"Our data management technology is uniquely suited to solve complex real-time data problems," said Nick Ordon, president and chief executive officer of Versant. "Chasseral's application exploits many of the core capabilities of Versant's object data management technology. In addition, managing the hierarchical data that is typically found in collaboration software is a key strength of Versant's data management technology."