When you think of Content Solutions,
what comes to mind?

• Document Management?
• Policies, Procedures, Work Instructions, CAD Drawings?
• Online Help, Embedded Help, Context Sensitivity?
• Knowledge Management?
• Database Integration and Publishing?
• Workflow Automation?
• Data Conversion and Digitization?
• Indexing and Semantic Tagging?
• Data Migration?
• Use and Reuse of Data?
• XML? PDF? MS Word?
• Authoring and Editing Systems?
• Workflow Optimization?
• New Revenue Streams?
• Content Licensing?
• Online Publishing?
• All of the above?

At last, organizations can go to a single core partner for all things content. From document management and conversion, to imaging, indexing and original content creation, Apex focuses on delivering exceptional value to our customers through End-to-End Content Solutions.

It’s all about the content and workflow. It’s all about addressing your specific content challenges. It’s all about Apex Content Solutions and you.

We’re Technology Agnostic
It’s not about us, it’s about you.

We start by understanding who you are, what you do, how you do it—and where you want to go. What needs to be fixed? How you can grow.

Then we deploy a combination of our own broad knowledge and deep understanding of the publishing and information management landscape with the expertise of world-class strategic partners to create an ideal combination of services and technologies to solve your problems and create new value for you—and your clients and customers.

Transform your content.  Transform your processes.

Apex Content Solutions—Your Transformation Partner.

Make Your Staff More Productive.
Inefficient workflows require people to spend too much time and effort on tasks outside their core expertise. We let authors be authors, editors be editors, designers be designers, and programmers be programmers.

With Apex technologies and services, you can eliminate the non-value-added work that undermines the productivity of most information professionals—often as much as 50% of their time.

Turn a Burden into an Asset.
Creating, maintaining, and distributing information—especially documentation and regulatory reporting and compliance—can often impede the development, marketing, and effective support of your products.

Apex can transform your workflow to make it help, not hinder, your core business processes—giving every stakeholder in your development and distribution chain accurate, up-to-date, and useful information—End-to-End.

Make Your Content More Dynamic.
Users today don’t just want documents or websites—they want answers. They need to eliminate the clutter and zero in on just the information they need, in the form most useful to them.

Apex’s trained subject matter specialists can add the granular structure and semantic tagging and indexing that will make your information dramatically more valuable to your users, and enable you to deliver the right information in the right form, every time.

It’s 11:00. Do You Know Where Your Content Is?
Today’s business processes demand up-to-the minute updates and status information to keep things running smoothly.

Apex can give you real-time access to every aspect of your information flow—even enabling you to see how changes to one piece of content affect other related content.

The Starting Point: No Preconceived Ideas.
We don’t start with answers. We start with questions. Apex doesn’t start by trying to sell you a solution. We recognize that every organization’s needs are unique. We start by analyzing your information processes and workflows—End-to-End.

Once we understand—and help you understand—your entire information system in detail, we’ll recommend solutions that will help you take your operation to the next level of excellence, efficiency, and economy.

You’re in the Driver’s Seat.
Let us show you how Apex can help you transform your content and processes for dramatic gains in speed, quality and economy.

The choice is yours. Contact Apex today. You’ll be glad you did.

Content Capture
In today's complex electronic world, content comes in an ever-growing range of formats from a variety of sources. Let Apex CoVantage simplify your content supply processes:

• Maximize the value of your data by ensuring that it is the most current information available anywhere
• Reduce the time it takes to obtain and deliver rich content
• Simplify production with a single data format inflow at the front-end of your workflow

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Content Conversion
We offer a variety of content capture services, including archival-quality scanning, OCR, transcription and re-keying. Our proprietary conversion technologies allow us to convert many types of captured source material, including:

• Filmed content (such as microfilm and microform)
• Handwritten manuscript and hand-drawn content (such as cursive script)
• Scientific and mathematical content
• Electronic data files (such as composition, XML, SGML and PDF files)
• Electronic image files (such as JPG, TIFF and GIF files)

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Reference Linking
Differentiate your electronic publications by turning citations, footnotes, and other reference text into interactive links that take your user directly to referenced content or applications. SmartRef™ captures and finely parses a wide variety of citations from electronic or hard copy using an XML or SGML DTD - or similarly granular proprietary tagging structure. If you publish reference works, directories or other data-intensive content, we can keep your content accurate, up-to-date, and completely surprise-free with Spiderbase™, our latest linking methodology. We can deliver your data in XML, PDF, OEB or any proprietary format. Our reference linking service:

• Makes referenced content and applications easier to find
• Reduces reference linking costs
• Creates highly-accurate parsed XML-encoded bibliographic citations
• Saves you the high costs associated with labor-intensive manual re-keying
• Provides your readers with a valuable informational resource
• Electronic image files (such as JPG, TIFF and GIF files)