Prediction comes true, SDL buys authoring tool (Xopus)
In 2008 after SDL had purchased Idiom, and bought a stake in Trisoft I asked the questions “could an XML-based authoring tool be in the offing for SDL as well?” Little did I know that that was in fact early days, as they fully acquired Trisoft and a year later they acquired XyEnterprise and all [...]
CMS ROI Calculator Available
We have updated our popular CMS ROI Calculator. We first created the CMS ROI Calculator as a companion piece to our book Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy. We’ve recently revamped it to reflect current industry costs and we’ve added a new section on publishing tool costs. If you are interested in purchasing content [...]
Really Strategies Acquires DocZone.com
Today Really Strategies announced the acquisition of DocZone.com. Really Strategies’ RSuite is an XML-based content management system aimed at publishing and media companies. DocZone.Com is best known for its SaaS-based DITA solution for technical publishing.
SDL Acquires XyEnterprise
SDL announced today that is acquiring XyEnterprise. The XyEnterprise product suite will complement SDL Trisoft. The acquisition of XyEnterprise was not a surprise, with this economy this is one of the products we had identified as ripe for acquisition, but it was a bit of a surprise to hear that it was SDL. SDL Trisoft [...]
Author-it receives patent for Xtend
Author-it announced today that they have received a patent for their Xtend functionality, functionality which identifies potential reuse at the authoring stage.
IBM Does DITA
IBM and Quark have recently announced a partnership to provide DITA through FileNet. Quark XML Author 3.0 has been integrated with IBM FileNet Content Manager P8 4.5 to provide DITA functionality in an enterprise environment.
The second edition of the groundbreaking XML & Component Content Management Report is now ready!
Document management isn’t good enough anymore. Today we need to be able to track the creation of individual pieces of content through their entire lifecycle. We need the content to be intelligent. Intelligent content is not limited to one purpose, technology or output. It’s structurally rich and semantically aware and is therefore automatically discoverable, reusable, [...]
Publishing Automation – Justifying the Change
The sophistication of today’s layout tools are seductive from the start and ubiquitous to the end. They have given us a certain feeling of control that is intoxicating. However, if you have found the justification to manage enterprise content systematically, than you can bet that there is a likely return on investment for automated publishing.
Serving Up PDF – Another Way
A salient point in that post was also made about using the right tool for the job at hand. In this post, I thought I would offer another way. For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the challenge remains the same – dynamically generating formatted content. But in this case, let’s also assume that [...]
The Flavors of CM: LCMS and LMS
A lot of the systems we tend to talk about are focused on either technical publications or on generalized publishing. But there’s another focus area for content management that we haven’t talked about a lot that should be talked about: Learning materials, aka training materials. Enter Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems [...]
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New books in the 101 Series
Following on the heels of the successful DITA 101: Fundamentals of DITA for Authors and Managers, we're working on three new titles.
Steve Manning is writing Publishing DITA 101, Charles Cooper is writing Metadata 101 and Scott Able is writing Social Networking 101.
Each of these will be an easy to read, yet focused introduction to their own topic areas.
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DITA 101
If you're in the process of implementing DITA, expect to do so in the future, or just want to learn more about it without having to wade through technical specifications, this is the book for you.
DITA 101 is designed for authors and managers. We've taken our years' of experience helping organizations to move to DITA and training our clients in creating DITA content and distilled it into an easy to read and understand format. Combined with our expertise in developing effective reuse strategies and adopting content management, this book covers everything you need to know to understand DITA from an authors or managers viewpoint.
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