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Key Concept Archive

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What’s all the DITA buzz about?

You’re in a staff meeting and the documentation manager is giving a report of the advances his team has achieved using a new technology. He mentions that the team has gone through a lot of effort and pain to implement…

What is the ROI of XML?

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 6 If you have information about your company’s product or services that needs to be delivered to customers, whether it’s in print or electronic form, chances are you have heard of XML. Are you…

Podcast posted: Interview with Todd Nowlan, “Benefits of XML and single-sourcing”

When we were getting ready for the CMS DITA/NA 2010, we reached out to long-time Arbortext customers to find out where they were now, what they did originally, and how they got from point A to point B. Just what…

Deploying and Maintaining a Large Single-Sourcing Solution [Arbortext User Meeting]

Deploying and Maintaining a Large Single-Sourcing Solution: Now What? Your organization has gone through the pains of developing business cases and acquiring funds to implement a single-sourcing solution. How do you proceed with choosing and implementing a solution, what are…

Move your training deliverables to a dynamic, single-source solution

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 4 In this web session we will show you how to develop a solution that can deliver faster, high-quality, standards-compliant training and eLearning. Discover how the implementation of a Reusable Content Strategy, using Arbortext…

Conference notes from: PTC User 2010

by Dave While at the PTC/User World event this year, I had the opportunity to attend a few sessions. There were 4 in particular that I wanted to talk about:  Arbortext Roadmap and Strategy, Product Information Delivery System, Virtual Parts…

Conference notes from: Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2010

For the last decade I have made a regular habit of speaking at or attending the DITA NA/CMS conference. This is one conference that provides the opportunity for perspective. As you attend, year over year, you start to see trends…

Documentation, Medical Devices, and the FDA

This month the implementation date for MDD directive (2007/47/EC) comes due. There are a number of issues that require action by manufacturers (changes to the Essential Requirements, clearer requirements for clinical evaluation, changes to the QA of third parties) and…