Slate Center™

Slate Center for Business Applications:

Slate Center offers a novel approach to Web-based collaboration and distance learning. Users can Web-enable static and paper-based content for instant mark-up and collaboration. It significantly shortens the customary collaborative process of attaching an image, sending it via email, printing it out, distributing for mark-up, then faxing back for the next iteration. Often enough multiple parties in disparate locations must also evaluate and annotate the document, adding considerable time to the process of closing requirements. Slate Center enables all parties to retrieve the work via the Web, save their work to private, secure folders, and create an always accessible trail of edits, annotations, and general opinion. Users save money by cutting the time and travel of their precious documents between them and the customer. Examples of Slate Center in action include:  

Website Design Collaboration

Slate Technology uses Slate Center for Website development. The international design team created new art for the Slate Technology homepage. Marketing then used Slate Center ’s Web-based tools to annotate the art. They saved their mark-up and comments to a private folder which only they and the lead designer could access. Leveraging Slate Center enabled marketing and design to quickly and easily distribute artwork, while saving all iterations in secure folders. Time, location, and computer keyboard functionality posed no limitations because Slate Center enables browser-based access, mark-up, and collaboration.

Land Use Planning

Urban planners, civil and traffic engineers, and land developers can use Slate center to Web-enable and mark-up plat maps, plans, and schematics.

Slate Center for Web site Applications:

Too many sites force users to “Print out and…” do something. What they might as well say is “turn of the computer and go away.” Rather than shooing away users and potential customers, Website operators can leverage Slate Center to engage them with novel, interactive content. Users take the Web-based tools to color, doodle, sketch, and mark-up content or create their own. But more importantly, users may save their work, making them beholden to the site and more likely to return to interact with new content, find and edit stored work, share work with friends, and purchase goods through affiliates. 

Web-based Coloring Book

Your kids love to color. Right now you're probably stepping over crayons, pens, and markers scattered on the kitchen and dining room floor. Stash away the coloring tools for a moment and give your kids a chance to color online. Slate Center lets users go wild with a host of drawing tools and unique colors. But that's not all. After users finish coloring, they can share their work via email and fax with friends and relatives. Look how this little girl colored Po for her daddy.

Desktop Requirements

• IE 5.0 or Netscape 6.0
• Java JDK 1.0.2 or later (usually already installed on the desktop)

For more information about Slate Center or Slate's digital ink technology, please contact Garth Knudson at gknudson@slatetechnology.com or 703.201.3201.