Podcast Posted: Interview with Barry Schaeffer

This month's interview is with a legend in the industry: Barry Schaeffer. Anyone who's been in the SGML/XML industry for any length of time knows Barry Schaeffer. Barry is a frequent speaker and contributor on subjects related to information and…

• Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, xml authoring
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

What characteristics do you need in an XML publishing system?

I took a trip through the wayback machine and found an old article that had been published on Arbortext.com. Reading through it, I found a lot of key points that are still very relevant today. No single product is for…

• Key Concepts: best practices, single-sourcing, techcomm tools, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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Technology, People, and Successful Projects

I was reminded recently of Rebekka Anderson's presentation at DITA North America a couple of years ago. Her conclusions mirrored what we see every day: Technology is only 1/3 of the things that you need to consider when looking to…

• Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, xml authoring
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Manage your product content like you manage development

Meet compliance and regulatory challenges Medical device manufacturers are facing some very tough challenges today including demand for innovation, complying with strict environmental and regulatory requirements, and shrinking price premiums, not to mention intense competition which demands faster times-to-market. The…

• Key Concepts: content strategy, globalization, make your business case, regulated industries, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Blog
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Released: What's New in Arbortext 6.0?

We've already posted the details to the release feed, but I want to talk about the big features coming to Editor and Styler the 6.0 release. I admit this is little bit of a tour with a focus on the improvements…

• Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), dita, release notes, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks, Release Details
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Common Questions: Automation in Arbortext

This week’s topic: Out of the box automation in Arbortext We're purposefully scoping this subject down for this post. We're answering questions about what automation features come OOTB in Arbortext. If we didn't limit this discussion, we could easily write…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues:

Common Questions: Source Control

This week’s topic: Source Control Source Control is a big topic. To date, the best article I've ever read on branching strategy was a best practices article by Perforce (circa 2003). Today, we're not talking about that, we're talking about…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics, content management
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues:

Common Questions: Change Markup

This week’s topic: Change Tracking & Change Markup Change markup has historically been something that you had to implement yourself in XML publishing. Arbortext supports typical change markup behavior in the standard document types, and with a small amount of…

• Key Concepts: basics, usability and user experience, workflow and process, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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