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Whitepapers for better technical content
Explore practical perspectives on DITA, component content management, AI in documentation, and connected manufacturing information. Compare approaches, understand integration options, and find ideas for improving how your team creates, manages, and delivers content.
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Report 2025: AI and technical documentation
Explore findings from Bluestream’s 2025 LinkedIn polls on AI adoption, authoring tools, and content delivery. See how respondents describe changing workflows and the relationship between documentation portals and chatbots.
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Start with the challenge your team is working through, from choosing a CCMS to connecting product information with service documentation.
DITA & CCMS
Build a stronger content foundation
Compare content-management approaches and explore the value of structure.
Git or CCMS for structured content?
Compare Git-based workflows with a component content management system. Consider the tools, skills, maintenance, and content-management requirements behind each approach.
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Why you need structured content
Understand how structured content separates information from presentation. Explore the role of XML and DITA in content reuse, localization, and multichannel publishing.
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Connect product information with service
Explore documentation for complex equipment, connected factories, and the people who use them.
READ ONLINECCMS + PLM
XDocs Manufacturing Suite and PLM: benefits of a combined solution
Explore the documentation challenges that follow complex equipment from quotation through service. Learn how a CCMS can complement PLM data across the product lifecycle.
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Why Industry 4.0 & the Smart Factory needs Documentation 4.0
Examine why connected manufacturing needs more adaptable documentation. Explore machine-specific information, structured content, localization, and intelligent delivery.
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Advancing Human Machine Interfaces
See how Picanol and Bluestream partner Flowtime brought documentation to loom operators through on-machine interfaces. Explore context-sensitive help, machine-specific updates, and offline access.
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How XDocs supplements Windchill
Explore how XDocs Manufacturing Suite can complement a Windchill environment. Read about content reuse, localization, metadata, and build-specific documentation.
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Support the full content lifecycle
Look at the tools and integrations that connect authors, reviewers, and readers.
READ ONLINEOxygen authoring
Why Authoring in Oxygen’s Desktop Applications Remains the Preferred Solution for Technical Writers
Examine Bluestream’s perspective on desktop authoring, browser-based review, and CCMS integration. Consider performance, customization, collaboration, and the needs of different contributors.
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How are XDocs & Oxygen integrated?
Follow the content lifecycle from desktop authoring and web-based review to release management and publishing. See how XDocs and Oxygen work together across those stages.
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How can XDelivery enhance Salesforce?
Explore approaches to connecting technical content with Salesforce. Compare content integration, search, and delivery options described in this whitepaper.
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