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Go single vendor or go toolbox? (build vs buy)
Summary: Do you build or buy? What's the true cost of integrating different product from different vendors? What are the ramifications for integration and process flow? And how do you make that determination? Recently I've had the opportunity to…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog
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Resources for Single-Sourcing Projects
Update: 2016 Since this list was put together, we've published several books about Arbortext that are available on Amazon in print and ePub. The books cover everything about configuring, authoring, styling, publishing, and managing content in Arbortext. Arbortext 101 (Configuration)…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog
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Starting an Arbortext User Group
We're doing our best to restart the Arbortext User group. We are preparing to launch this organization in coordination with the national PTC/User organization. When Arbortext was acquired by PTC, a lot of things changed for existing Arbortext customers. We were…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, community, jobs and careers
- Filed under: Blog
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Keep the Control in Your Hands
Although I'm writing about S1000D, the same philosophy applies for transferring DITA, Docbook, and XSL/XSL-FO knowledge to your staff. Our goal is to provide expertise to help customers grow to proficiency. We find that companies rarely need an expert on-staff….
- Key Concepts: training and mentoring
- Filed under: Blog
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Helping Arbortext Customers Get Started
Regardless of your choice of doctype, we know that writers and publishers need the right tools to be successful. We help people learn to take charge of their xml publishing projects. After the acquisition of Arbortext by PTC, we saw…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog
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The Single-Sourcing Triangle
Single sourcing is a simple idea that requires a very complex implementation. Single sourcing is a methodology, not a technology. XML is a technology, not a methodology. Bringing the two together is not obvious or well-defined. Traditionally, the literature is…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog
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Application-specific XML tools development
Did you know you can auto-generate content in more than one direction? You can auto-generate content… …FOR Documentation Documentation for technical manuals can be generated directly from the product source code or other engineering systems. Technical requirements and product specifications…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
- Filed under: Blog
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Revision management for content components
Where Source Development Meets Documentation In traditional publishing environments, source control is minimal if it exists at all, and often follows the lock-modify-unlock model that prevents simultaneous, collaborative, content authoring. Single-sourcing environments require content management (source control) to manage the reusable…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
- Filed under: Blog
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