PTC Arbortext Content Delivery provide two major functions; collect, transform and load authored content from your authoring sources to the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery delivery application, and to deliver that content to your consumer base.

The PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Publisher is the application that performs the Transform, Aggregate, and Load (or TAL) operations that are used to move authored content into the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery delivery application.

The input to the Publisher are bundled packages of authored content such as Parts lists, effectivity information, graphics, product hierarchies, PDFs, etc. The Publisher can then perform the TAL processes to locate the authored content into the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Viewers for delivery to the user base.

From an architecture perspective, the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Publisher is maintained close to the systems that generate the authored content. The PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Publisher requires a common file system or FTP access to the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Viewers to complete the TAL operations.

When authored content is published to the Viewers, the content is divided into segments within the E3C Storage in order to maintain acceptable search speeds and minimize I/O impacts. Developing a segmentation plan is highly dependent on your published authored content.

PTC Arbortext Content Delivery delivery is the functionality within a PTC Arbortext Content Delivery implementation where the final published content is made available to the consumer base.

From an architecture perspective, the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Viewers are configured to deliver the published content to the majority of users, whether it be a system within your intranet, an internet-facing system managed within your data center, or an internet-facing system hosted by a third party in a separate location from your data center.