Simply XML provides simple, low-cost authoring and publishing solutions to meet the cross-functional needs of leading commercial and government organizations. A great return on investment is achieved through appropriate implementation of single source publishing, multi-channel publishing and other opportunities for information re-use.
Documentation
Information re-use offers great potential for most organizations. Product documentation often contains the same content for multiple products. Policies and procedures across geographies are usually "mostly the same" with slight differences, lending themselves to single source publishing. And any time translation is required there is an opportunity to translate once and use it many times.
Training
Training participants are demanding just in time and just enough training to do what they need to do when they need to do it. Customizing training content for individual job categories, different geographies and different expertise levels means that information re-use is essential to enhanced productivity. Such productivity is achieved with an underlying XML-based architecture, but with the realization that most training content is created through Microsoft Office-based software products.
Compliance
Simply XML products improve compliance because of the underlying enforced structure of XML, workflow enforced through the content management system, versioning and archiving. Content Mapper is the appropriate front end authoring tool for the required compliance system. Government compliance requirments are efficently met through enhanced control achieved through centralized implementation of the corporate ECM system which includes authoring, repository, metadata and workflow support, and publishing.
marketing
Marketing departments need to tailor their deliverables to different external customer and internal audiences that can vary by application, industry, and geography. An XML-based content architecture is required to achieve the intended benefits and the majority of authors want to continue to author in Microsoft Word.
Document Control
In conjunction with the increased control gained through versioning and work flow implementation, Microsoft Word authors can contribute to the corporate publishing function from the familiar Microsoft Word environment. Choices of templates, re-usable objects, and element structures are enforced through standards-driven adoption of XML.
TRANSLATION
Information re-use in translation has become a fundamental application for most organizations that need to compete or operate globally. The ROI for re-use of translated information is unequivocal. Translation repositories and services are usually XML-based. Content Mapper enhances the translation work flow as an easy to use authoring and editing environment.
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