It can be tough to work through the volumes of software vendor marketing and know exactly what products offer. What are the product strengths?  What are the weaknesses? They say the tools “support” DITA ... but what does “support” mean? There’s too much information or there’s too little. In this session, Steve will provide lessons learned from his participation in the creation of the CMS Watch Report, XML and Component Content Management Systems.

Is your organization adopting agile software development methods? Learn how Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Laboratory Automation and Integration group used DITA to produce just-in-time software documentation for the next generation of lab automation software.

This presentation is for you if:

• Your organization is adopting agile software development methods and you want to know what this means for the documentation function.
• You are considering moving to structured authoring with DITA and want to learn from a successful, real world implementation.
• You want to learn how to monitor and measure documentation quality in real time, automatically, using DITA and Microsoft Excel.

This session describes how EMC uses content management, coupled with XML-based strategies, to collaborate on the design, creation, and maintenance of technical content in its corporate-wide XML authoring environment. By managing and publishing all its content through a central infrastructure that includes a content management system, EMC’s goal is to significantly improve the reuse of its content across its internal organizations and external partners, while reducing translation, localization, and maintenance costs associated with its current authoring environment.

This session is for content authors, information architects, developers, and managers who want to:

• Learn how to significantly improve the reuse of content between your internal organizations and external partners while reducing translation, localization, and maintenance costs associated with current authoring environments.
• Understand XML-based strategies for document management.
• Learn how to use the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) to create topic-based content that is easily “chunked” and managed.
• Examine the dynamic customization of documents through various applications and the automatic publishing of rendered copy to company Web sites.