XDocs dita ccms
Realize the potential of your content with the XDocs DITA CCMS.
Every step along the way, the XDocs DITA Component Content Management System (CCMS) provides tools for smart and efficient content flow
Authoring
Content Management
Information Architecture
Reviewing and Collaborating
Localization Management
System Administration
Authoring
Challenge
Creating and revising technical documentation is complex.
- The content needs to meet the requirements of various end-users, the organization, and the industry.
- While meeting content requirements, versions and release schedules must also be maintained.
- Many parties can be involved.
Solution
The XDocs DITA CCMS enables you to:
- Create information at enterprise scale and speed with best-inclass writing and metadata tool
- Work collaboratively on authoring project
- Precisely control content version
- Quickly and accurately search and find content.
Value
- Reduce the cost of documentation while improving accuracy and usability.
- Rapidly adapt to changing business requirements.
Reviewing and Collaborating
Challenge
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) don’t have time to learn complex new tools and information architecture, yet they need to
- Provide content for technical publication
- Provide feedback on content before it s released.
And the authoring team needs to spend less time transcribing SME input from various file formats.
Solution
- Integrate your SMEs into the documentation process.
- Enable SMEs to collaborate in real time.
- Quickly and easily collect and approve or reject suggested changes and comments from SMEs.
Value
- Complete projects faster by incorporating the work of SMEs efficiently.
- Produce higher quality and more accurate information products.
Content Management
Challenge
- Managing large-scale content for a large organization means having to organize a very large amount of content in many forms, locations, versions, etc.
- Content managers need sophisticated tools like terminology control, metadata use, content reuse, version control, and branch/ merge in order to be able to effectively search, segment, structure, and reuse content.
Solution
The XDocs CCMS provides outstanding
- Metadata management tools
- Smart reuse management tools
- Agile release management tools
- Cool content report tools.
Value
- Implement nuanced metadata strategies that help you meet your organization’s informational requirements.
- Reduce redundancy with smart reuse management tools.
- Plan, manage, and report on releases of technical documentation with precision and speed and re-adjust along the way if required.
- Generate detailed compliance reporting in regulated industries.
Information Architecture
Challenge
- Information Architects need to be able to configure and organize schemas, taxonomies, metadata, templates and rules for use system-wide.
Solution
- The XDocs DITA CCMS provides all the tools that Information Architects require to configure the CCMS for specific strategies.
- Make changes to the configurations as needed with accessible and flexible tools.
Value
The XDocs tool suite allows Information Architects to provide writers with the tools and rules to:
- Create information faster with greater accuracy and quality.
- In regulated industries, ensure that writers capture compliance information.
Localization Management
Challenge
Localization and translation processes are often
- Slow, expensive, and error-prone.
- Challenging to manage according to an organization s specific release schedules and translation requirements.
Solution
XDocs Localization Management enables users to
- Address requirements for translations and localization.
- Easily make changes as localization requirements or strategies pivot.
- Send content to localization in one or more languages while continuing to work on the source language content.
- Send only changed content for new localization cycle.
- Integrate with your Localization Service Provider (LSP) for automated bidirectional transfer of localization packages to and from the XDocs DITA CCMS.
Value
- Significantly reduce localization costs.
- Accelerate localization cycles and time to market.
- Reduce time and effort for the localization manager.
System Administration
Challenge
System Administrators need to be able to
- manage configurations such as the organization s users and content permissions in the CCMS
- support the system’s users
- help troubleshoot issues should they arise.
Solution
Configure automatic or manual updates for user directories
- Access server logs if required
- Extend and integrate with XDocs APIs if desired, and more.
- Get timely, personalized, expert support with system administrator tasks from Bluestream.
Value
- Expertly configure the XDocs DITA CCMS with support from
Bluestream s excellent support team. - Employ everything the system has to offer in order to improve
your operations and achieve organizational targets.
Case Studies
Hear about how companies implemented the XDocs DITA CCMS to greatly improve the management of their information products.
