Key Concept Archive
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How to solve your data merge challenges
By Dave Have you ever had a need to copy information from a database report, spreadsheet or any other source into a document such as a price list or specification document only to find that once you copied the information…
- Key Concepts: data merge, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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Improve your documentation process and achieve 46% higher product revenues
Best-in-class companies achieve 46% higher product revenues by improving information delivery. Over the last several years, now that all the pieces needed for dynamic information product delivery are under one roof, PTC has been working on an application that erases…
- Key Concepts: best practices, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, workflow and process
- Filed under: Blog
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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…
- Key Concepts: data merge, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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DITA is Hard
There's a trope that says, if you want to do good content delivery, you have to advocate for methodology, not tools. (This is often said in despair by someone dealing with a team of writers determined to find a way…
- Key Concepts: best practices, dita, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
- Filed under: Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Common Questions About Arbortext
Arbortext is not simply an XML editor, illustration tool, or component content management system. It's a big-picture solution that includes all the pieces required for creation, management, and publishing of enterprise content. In fact, Arbortext is the only out-of-the-box, end-to-end…
- Key Concepts: basics, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
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…
- Key Concepts: data merge, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
- Venues:
CPR For Your Product Information
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 1, Episode 3 In this web session we will show you how you can get your product information out of the ICU with Structured Authoring using Arbortext. In an unstructured authoring environment, product information is created without…
- Key Concepts: data merge, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog
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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…
- Key Concepts: case study, make your business case, single-sourcing
- Filed under: Blog
- Venues: CIDM