| Capability |
Description |
Benefit |
| Multi-lingual support |
- Identifies changed components in source language, distributes translation package, tracks translation progress and manages translated results in the repository
- Focus translation process only on changed components
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- Repurpose global content and ensure consistency across the enterprise
- Reduce translation costs
- Faster time to market for all languages
- Streamline the data translation process
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| Tracking and versioning |
- Full revision and history tracking, with the ability to roll back to earlier versions of a content component
|
- Minimize confusion and error
- Provide audit trail
|
| XML out-of-the-box |
- Out-of-the-box support for DITA, S1000D and other XML Schemas and DTDs
- Dynamically imports XML data into a repository, manages content through editing cycles and easily assembles for delivery through multiple channels
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- Faster implementations
- Ease of use promoting rapid adoption
- Ability to reuse and repurpose content
|
| Open API |
- Object-oriented API integrates with common development platforms
- Fully documented COM, CORBA and Java APIs provide programming consistency and allow for code reuse that promotes economy in application and tool development
|
- Supports commonly used programming and scripting languages
- Allows for development of client-customized applications and tools
- Supports integration with third-party applications
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| Scalability |
- Support for today’s content repository requirements, including data storage for gigabytes to terabytes, and millions of XML components
- Support for individual workgroups to entire enterprises
|
- Supports organizations of any size
- Solution can scale to fit departments, workgroups and the entire enterprise
- Meet your requirements as your business changes
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| Standards |
- Leverages standards such as XML, Web Services, SOAP, Java, COM and CORBA with out-of-the-box offerings for both DITA and S1000D
- Native XML support
- Also supports standard delivery solutions such as XSL-FO
|
- Ease of use
- Ease of integration
- Compliance
- Faster implementations
|
| Single-source content repository |
- Object-oriented database approach promotes reuse of content
- Role-based access to content ensures appropriate policies are followed
- Capable of managing multiple data types in a single repository
|
- Increase revenue with new publications
- Ensure content integrity and regulatory compliance
- Eliminate redundant authoring
- Promote content reuse and repurpose
- Faster ROI managing legacy and new data types
|
| Multi-channel delivery |
- Simultaneous delivery to multiple publishing channels and formats: Print, PDF, Web, Online Help and IETM/electronic books
|
- Reduce costs associated with accessing and distributing information
- Accelerate delivery of content to multiple media
- Increase revenue opportunities
- Promote content reuse and repurposing
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| Multiple user interface |
- User access to content via the desktop, editorial tools or the Web
- Remote authoring, approval and workflow project management
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- Faster training and adoption
- User efficiency
- Global access
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| Content access |
- Search using metadata, full text search
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- Find appropriate content faster
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