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Full-Gamut Single-Sourcing
You can sit back and relax, we're here to help. Single sourcing is a simple idea that requires a very complex implementation. By leveraging XML technologies and single-sourcing methodologies, our experts have deep experience developing the systems necessary to support…
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Content Reuse Guidelines and Thresholds
A truly excellent post on content reuse guidelines and thresholds was posted today to the stc-single-sourcing mailing list. Julie Kumasaka asked: “Does anyone use a guideline or has anyone come across a guideline recommending what percentage (or some other measure)…
PTC Technical Committee Meetings 2007
Update: 2017 The technical committees for all PTC products except Arbortext are still being run by PTC/User. Arbortext products meetings are by invite-only. Technical Committee Meeting Roundup: January 2007 I recently joined the Technical Committee for the PTC Arbortext product line….
- Key Concepts: best practices, collaboration, community, news
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How to Evaluate a Vendor
Unless you've done a full discovery process, generic vendor-provided survey/ROI reports are fairly meaningless. One of the ways that I've found to really learn about a product is to try to get enough funding to take one of the vendor's…
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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
The goal of object-oriented tool development is to avoid vendor lock-in. Lock-in is not determined by the cost of the application but by the method of its implementation. The level of integrated customization determines the level of vendor lock-in. One-of-a-kind…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
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Tight-vs-Loose Integration
Updated: 2017 I started working with XML and single-sourcing systems in 1999. Although both SGML and XML had been around a long time, vendors were still figuring out a lot about how the overall process should work because every implementation…
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Single-Sourcing is a Software Project (not a Documentation Project)
But only if you do it wrong. If you decide to build software, understanding the staffing requirements is essential. It is your responsibility to create a production quality single-sourcing system because you're putting it into a mission-critical path at your…
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Efficiency is in the Tools
I started off doing mostly XML and XSL development but have started working more in the advisory space—helping companies figure out what they want to do and what they can do. Believe it or not, I often find myself trying…
- Key Concepts: automating content creation, best practices, make your business case, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, reuse, single-sourcing
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