ContentBase
The platform between your content and the products you build with it
ContentBase closes the gap between the people who create your content and the engineers who build products from it. Editorial keeps control of the content; your product teams get structured, output-agnostic content ready for anything they build — one source, every product.
ContentBase manages your complete digital content architecture—XML structures, metadata frameworks, and content relationships.
Future-proof your investments in conversion, QA, and enrichment, so your content is ready for any platform, product, or partnership.
Apps
Purpose-Built UIs For Every Content Model.
ContentBase Apps framework solves the UI challenge of being truly content model agnostic. Unlike DITA-only platforms that can pre-build all interfaces, we support any content model.
Whether it's QA review interfaces, taxonomy mapping tools, or specialized editors for specific content types, client developers rapidly build purpose-built UIs using our framework, or we'll create them for you. Every deployment is designed to work the way you work.
Content Editor
Word®-Like User Experience for XML Editing.
ContentBase includes Fonto Editor, a full-featured XML editor with smart toolbars that show only valid operations based on the document section being edited. A "track changes" view gives users a familiar way to track progress, while inline comments gather feedback from everyone involved in the editorial process.
Enrichment Platform
Make your content more valuable by enriching it with additional metadata.
Enrichment tools allow you to map taxonomies to different content sections or add formatting metadata to control how printed products look. Tag authors, titles, and bibliographic information to make content discoverable in end-user applications. Add interactive elements to enhance existing content.
Publishing Engine
Powerful publishing engine and transformation API.
ContentBase's Publishing Engine is powerful enough to produce page-perfect print PDFs, but that's just the beginning. Robust integration with your content model and metadata, granular access to content components, and an extensive transformation API enable you to generate any format for any product or platform.
Workflow
Built to Support the Way Your Team Works.
ContentBase workflows and roles adapt to your team's needs, not the other way around. We configure custom workflows that match your existing processes—limiting certain users to content creation while others handle review and approval, or giving taxonomy specialists mapping access while restricting authors to writing tasks. Automated task assignment keeps projects moving efficiently, giving you complete control over who does what, when and how.
Content Repository
One Repository. Multiple Formats. One Source of Digital Truth.
The ContentBase repository stores and versions all your digital content alongside your content model, separating logical and physical structures for maximum agility. Support legacy formats, partner requirements, and your own XML standards simultaneously while maintaining unified metadata.
Have existing XML? No content migration required—work with what you have while building what you need.
Ready to turn one source of content into your full product line?
Book a 30-minute conversation about what ContentBase could do for your content.