Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information — anytime, anywhere and through any medium.

Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) is a world leader in software for authoring, content management, publishing, website management and localization. ASC was founded in 1996 and has produced five major releases of Author-it, resulting in a robust product built on proven technologies.

The Author-it suite is based on the philosophy of One Source, One Solution. This means that once content is created, the information can be easily shared across multiple documents and published to a wide range of different print, help, and web formats.

Author-it has a broad application across organizations and is already being utilized by more than 3000 customers across 5 continents to effectively manage their content. Today, Author-it has evolved into the most powerful content creation tool with representation in government, technology, commerce, healthcare, education and many other vertical industries.

Author-it has offices in New Zealand and the USA and also maintains a global presence through an extensive experienced reseller network.

MadCap Software is just a new name for a group of familiar faces that have been leading the technical writing community for over a decade. MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the industry, including many former core members of eHelp® Corporation, creators of RoboHelp®. With its flagship product, MadCap Flare, MadCap Software is leading the technical communications industry into the future.

PTC solutions for technical publications enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. It is the industry’s first and only integral solution that enables companies to collaboratively author, manage, publish and dynamically deliver personalized publications from a single-content source.

SDL provides Global Information Management (GIM) solutions to many of the world’s leading brands. GIM is the creation and management of multilingual content across a global enterprise. SDL empowers organizations by combining innovative technology with the highest quality of services, to more rapidly and seamlessly launch global products and services that are specifically tailored to local markets.

SDL has implemented more than 400 enterprise-wide GIM solutions and has over 150,000 software licenses deployed throughout the world. Its global services infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries.

Founded in 1996, In.vision Research Corporation is the leading provider of software for Enterprise XML Authoring. In.vision’s Xpress Author products enable Microsoft Word users to easily and transparently produce XML content. In.vision customers create content that is critical to national security, prescription drug safety, publishing processes, financial services, and enterprise content management. With corporate offices in both the U.S. and Europe, In.vision delivers and supports its products through a global network of industry focused business partners.

Revolutionizing Publishing. Again.™

Two decades ago, Quark drove the first revolution in publishing with QuarkXPress, desktop publishing software that rapidly became the industry standard. Today, not only does QuarkXPress continue to innovate in the desktop publishing market, Quark is revolutionizing publishing again. With Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, we are helping customers meet changing requirements and develop new revenue streams by extending the benefits of advanced technologies across the publishing process. Our dynamic publishing solution is setting a new standard in automated multi-channel publishing by combining the power of flexible layout and design with automated workflows for customized communications across print, the Web, and electronic media.

If clear, concise written communication is important to your company, you need to know about acrolinx, the worlds leading provider of industrial-strength Content Quality Management tools. Our flagship product, acrocheck provides real-time feedback to content authors on conformance to style and terminology guidelines, as well as sophisticated spelling and grammar checking. And acrochecks QC Reports provide the automated quality metrics that have been missing in the information development world. Special style and grammar rules address the needs of non-native speakers, and help to increase the readability and translatability of your content, generally resulting in a 10% to 25% reduction in the cost of translation. Straightforward import of corporate terminology, product names, and trademarks ensure correct usage and protect your brand. Our other tools include TermDesign, that greatly simplifies terminology lifecycle management, and acrosweep, a sophisticated Translation Memory ٓcleaner. Stop by our booth to see it for yourself, or visit our website.

Antenna House is the recognized leader in providing software for formatting XML documents for electronic and print output.

Conforming to the W3C Recommendation for XSL-FO, Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most powerful and compliant software available. Used in well over a thousand installations worldwide, PDF output, multilingual support (including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai), SVG support and much more are all standard features of Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Formatter offers strong support for DITA, S1000D, DocBook, MathML and is used to produce technical, customer, training and business documents, reports, journals, books, personalized documents and a wide range of other documents.

Formatter is available for Windows, Unix, Mac and Linux in a standard and lower cost Lite version for standalone and server applications and includes Java, .NET, C++/C, COM and Command Line interfaces. Formatter also has many extensions to further increase the power of the software.

Antenna House, Inc. has been developing computer software since 1984 under the slogan of ‘data usability.’

DocZone.com makes the benefits of XML content available to everybody ...not just large companies with big software budgets…by offering a powerful, “all-inclusive” XML-based environment as a SaaS solution. No big capital expenditures for software products. No need for months of requirements analysis or expensive consulting bills. No more maintenance of multiple software applications on local computers. No extensive and painful customization.

With DocZone.com, you can quickly be up and running with an XML-based system (based on the emerging DITA standard) to manage multilingual content and automate the production of technical documentation, training manuals, online help, and website content. All you need is a browser and an Internet connection.

With a proven, production-ready technology platform built on open standards, DocZone.com is the safe and smart choice for migrating your content to XML and enjoying the benefits of streamlined business processes, lower production costs, and higher revenue streams.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, Inmedius is a global leader in providing technical publication lifecycle solutions that capture, create, manage and deploy technical information. Integrating those information assets within business processes, using proven and innovative techniques, is an Inmedius hallmark. Providing lifecycle solutions to aerospace, defense and technical publications departments worldwide, Inmedius enables its clients to share an unprecedented level of productivity and efficiency—empowering every corner of the organization. Easy to implement, maintain and use, Inmedius’ fully integrated COTS software solutions make every facet of a project possible throughout its entire lifecycle. For more information, visit our website.

Stilo International provides software and services to help major enterprises automate the processing of technical and complex information.

Stilo specializes in building high-performance content processing solutions that aggregate, enrich and deliver technical information to performance support portals across a range of industry sectors. Stilo’s OmniMark, a well-proven high-performance content processing platform, is used by corporations worldwide for the rapid processing of content in all its forms, including combinations of data, plain text, hypertext and markup (XML, SGML and HTML).

Stilo Migrate, the world’s first on-demand content migration service, is set to revolutionize the growing market for legacy content conversion to XML, massively simplify the conversion process, and significantly reduce associated timescales and costs. Accessible 24x7, users can initially migrate Word and FrameMaker documents over the internet to XML DITA, on a pay-as-you-use basis.

Tedopres, with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, has been offering professional technical documentation services since 1974. We have an outstanding reputation of providing our customers with cost-effective, high-quality service that meets industry-specific standards.

Our services include Simplified Technical English implementation, including the leading checker software HyperSTE. We also specialize in technical translation, technical illustration as well as software development to support the creation and management of technical documentation. Tedopres publishes a popular 112-page guide to Simplified Technical English and a companion guide to Simplified Illustrations. Request your free copy today!

Vasont Systems is a leading provider of content management software and data services with more than 55 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its Vasont content management system enables organizations to manage and store their multilingual content as a single source for multi-channel delivery. 

The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing was formed in 1973 to encourage dialogue among teachers of technical communication and to develop technical communication as an academic discipline. ATTW today has approximately 1,000 members and includes both graduate and undergraduate students of technical communication as well as professional technical communicators in business and industry.

DITA Users supports hundreds of technical communicators from dozens of countries around the world who are interested in learning topic-based structured authoring. Members have personal workspace folders on an interactive website, where they can author and build documentation sets. They can publish links to their projects and easily show their colleagues, clients, or employers work they did in DITA.

DITA Users is entirely web-based training. It features the DITA Storm web-based editor. It uses a DITA Open Toolkit installed on the server to publish member docsets to XHTML, PDF, and online help. And it uses an Eclipse Help server to deliver online help.

You don’t have to install anything or know XML to begin topic-based structured writing. Consider joining today!

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is an international non-profit association that promotes local communication as an indispensable component of a global strategy. Our member companies are experts in language services and technologies. They deploy sophisticated and proven tools and processes to help global enterprises understand in-country issues, languages and needs.

The Information Architecture Institute is an international professional organization, operated by a dedicated, multi-national group of people. Through its programs and activities, IAI supports individuals and organizations specializing in the design and construction of shared information environments. Volunteering our own resources, we aspire to build bridges to related disciplines and organizations. We invite you to join us in advancing the state of information architecture through research, education, advocacy and community service.

The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) is the largest UK body representing information development professionals.

With a history dating back more than 50 years, the ISTC:

• encourages professional education and supports standards
• provides guidance about the value of using professional communicators
• facilitates research, discussion and networking opportunities for its members and industry affiliates

Becoming a global enterprise is one of the most important challenges that your organization will ever face. LISA is the leading international forum for organizations doing business globally. It has distilled the right ways and wrong ways of supporting international customers, products and services over the last fifteen years from more than 500 corporate members, public and private institutions, government ministries and trade organizations.

Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Since 2001, it’s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way.

If you’re interested in improving the way information architecture is done, if you find yourself sparking provocative conversation on interaction design topics in your spare time, and if you go out of your way to help everyone in your office think differently about everything from the design process to software, we want to work with you.

CMS Review leads a network of websites providing resources on content management systems - CMS Wiki, CMS News, CMS Calendar, CMS Glossary, and CMS Global. It features descriptions of over 350 Proprietary CMS, Open-Source CMS, and Hosted CMS services at application service providers.

It separately lists “CMS-Lite” products like Forums, News Portals, Weblogs, and Wikis, as well as WYSIWYG Editors and XML Editors for a CMS.

CMS Review helps you to answer these basic questions:

• What are the defining features of a CMS?
• How can you compare different CMS?
• What are the 15 steps to select a CMS?
• Should you build, buy, or rent your CMS?

Get the real story. Thousands of enterprises, government organizations, and consultants worldwide rely on CMS Watch reports for in-depth technical analysis. Known for their unflinching critical assessments, and scrupulous vendor neutrality, CMS Watch reports provide all of the information you require to make the right choice—including implementation advice and pitfalls to avoid. CMS Watch can help you, too.

CMS Watch Reports:

• The Content Component Management Report
• The ECM Suites Report
• The Web CMS Report
• The Enterprise Search Report
• The Enterprise Portals Report
• The Web Analytics Report

Contented Enterprises trains people to write better web and intranet content, making it readable, usable, accessible and findable. We teach a few crucial skills with maximum impact. These include writing plain language, headlines, summaries and link-text; structuring documents for skim-readers; and writing text alternatives for images.

By editing content correctly, organizations can double the usability of web sites and intranets. With our award-winning courses, you get better return on your ICT investment and can train staff with minimum effort and cost.

Web-based and continuously accessible, Contented courses include tutorials, tips, exercises, examples, quizzes and checklists. Big groups: big discounts!

We are a New Zealand company with international clients, including government agencies, international corporations, NGOs and universities. Those registered include consultants, web content managers, web designers and developers, IT staff, project managers, policy analysts, editors, journalists, scholars, teachers, corporate communicators, librarians and marketers - in short, anybody who writes at work.

Did you realize that most linguists cannot agree on the origination of the Japanese language? Do you know where to turn for resources designed to help you tap into the U.S. Hispanic market? You would if you subscribed to Global Communicator, our free monthly electronic publication that covers a variety of topics related to international communications.

Browse through the past issues of Global Communicator and sign up for access to experts’ suggestions on website translation, foreign search engine registration and international website marketing, case studies of successful international advertising campaigns, and more. Each month we showcase a new language and useful web links related to both the featured industry and language.

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ITtoolbox is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective knowledge of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals. In doing so, ITtoolbox satisfies the need for practical and timely information for an infinite number of possible challenges in the complex and rapidly changing field of information technology.

The ITtoolbox platform integrates the following collaboration and community publishing tools:

• Groups
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Knowledge Bases
• Professional Networking

We serve the IT community through 28 different knowledge bases including: Business Intelligence, C Languages, CRM, Knowledge Management, Java, Security and Web Design.

ITtoolbox is visited by 2.6 million IT professionals a month and has over 1.7 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information.

MultiLingual Computing, Inc., publishes MultiLingual, the leading industry magazine for language technology, localization, international software development and website globalization. Free downloads at http://www.multilingual.com/gsg include guides to multilingual content management, writing for translation, project management and more. Current language technology information and news are also provided as well as a biweekly electronic newsletter.

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Peachpit publishes the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, digital video and general Macintosh computing.

TheContentWrangler.com is a popular online resource for technical and business writers with an interest in content management. Become a member of TheContentWrangler.com community. It’s free!

Members receive:

• Monthly email newsletter and other topic-based email news
• Discounts on training, conferences, books, and more
• Access to an influential network of content professionals
• Invitations to participate in industry surveys
• Access to survey results
• Content placement consideration on TheContentWrangler.com

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Venn Communications System offers a complete solution for creating interactive, content driven websites and applications on the web. Venn can help you prototype your information architecture and design your website so that you can efficiently create, manage, and maintain your information assets and content on the Internet.