Nuance Management Center

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Administrating Dragon with the Nuance Management Console
Dragon Group components
Dragon Group is made up of software modules that include clients, servers, databases, user
profile directories, and web services that integrate with one another. The modules are in
these groups:
n Nuance Management Server components
n Dragon Clients
n roaming user profiles directory (on any server of the network or on its own machine)
Nuance Management Server components
The Nuance Management Server (NMS Server) components are:
n Nuance Management Server (NMS) Main Web service that drives Dragon Group
and helps it interact with external clients and servers by carrying out several vital tasks
involving allowing user access, determining settings on servers and clients, and storing
information about user preferences and transcription formatting.
The NMS Server also stores user identification and related administrative information
centrally, keeping user profiles available at any site the user travels ("roams") to within
the organization and its affiliate facilities, whether the machines are located in different
offices of the same site or at other sites in distant cities. If you have Dragon Group with
NMS in the Cloud, your NMS server is hosted by Nuance.
n Nuance Management Center An interface to the Nuance Management Server for
managing set up of all Dragon Clients on the network.
n Dragon Client Receives and interprets user or healthcare user dictation, pro-
ducing text corresponding to each user's speech. The Dragon Client sends the text into
a target application and also preserves text and audio in the speech profiles.
Roaming user profile directory
n Roaming user profile Directory Central storage area for roaming user profiles
for dictating . A single central storage location applies to a particular site in Dragon
Group. A roaming user profile contains the accumulated speech information for a par-
ticular user from all the Dragon Client workstations where that person has dictated,
enveloping the language the user speaks, the accent (if applicable) used, vocabulary
or vocabularies, and microphone and/or dictation recording device. These user profiles
are called roaming user profiles in other editions of Dragon Group, because their exist-
ence at a central location allows speakers to "roam" from location to location and work
with the same profile. (These profiles are unrelated to Microsoft Windows user pro-
files.)
Nuance hosted servers
Nuance hosts servers and services at its headquarters that your Dragon Group network
interacts with:
n NuanceLink Hosted by Nuance on the Internet. Automatically downloads various
updates to the NMS Server over the Internet.
Behind the scenes web services on the NMS Server help it interact with all of these clients
and servers as well as carry out its own processes to manage the entire Dragon Group
network.
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