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Key Concept Archive

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Benefits of dynamic product information delivery for life sciences

I was fortunate enough to reconnect to an old friend. I reached out to Greg Johnson from Medtronic and had an amazing conversation about their dynamic information delivery system and the benefits it has to Medical Devices and Life Sciences…

Benefits of dynamic product information delivery for life sciences

I was fortunate enough to reconnect to an old friend. I reached out to Greg Johnson from Medtronic and had an amazing conversation about their dynamic information delivery system and the benefits it has to Medical Devices and Life Sciences…

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…

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)…

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….

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…

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…

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…