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.

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.

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.

Across Systems, headquartered in Germany, is the manufacturer of the across software solution for Corporate Translation Management (CTM). The company is a spin-off of Nero AG.

The across Language Server is a central software platform for all corporate language resources and for controlling translation processes and workflows. The system simplifies, accelerates, and improves the management, coordination, and implementation of translations. The software includes a translation memory, a terminology system, and powerful project management and translation workflow control tools.

Product managers, translators, and proofreaders all work in one system, either in-house or via a seamless connection to translation service providers. The target group includes all who offer or commission professional translations, such as export-oriented medium-sized enterprises, language service departments of international corporations, and professional translation service providers. By using across, translation costs can be cut drastically and the investment in across usually pays off in a very short time.

Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) provides content conversion services for Life Sciences customers and medical publishers. We have successfully converted more than a quarter of a billion pages over 25+ years. Specializing in XML, DCL has significant experience with SPL, DITA, and customer-specific content models. Our SPL conversions span over 1500 PIs and 125 different sponsors. We’ve migrated Standard Response Packages, Core Data Sheets and internal documentation to XML for a variety of customers. Our unique Content Reuse Analysis service (Harmonizer) allows organizations to understand their reuse before conversion, and points out opportunities to increase content reuse in a straight-forward manner. When the Life Sciences industry requires content migration that’s got to be right the first time every time, it turns to DCL.

EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. We help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers’ expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what’s right and on putting our customers’ best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. We say what we mean and do what we say. We are EMC, where information lives.

Visit us on the web at http://www.EMC.com or call +1 800.607.9546 (outside the U.S.: +1.925.600.5802).

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.

McElroy Translation has 40 years of industry success helping clients meet global language needs. We provide medical, legal, technical, and business translation, as well as software and website localization.

Our workflow system delivers translation projects efficiently and is easily customized to integrate with client systems. We use native-speaking translators and editors, incorporating strict quality control measures, and you may view the current status of your project online at any time during translation. McElroy invests strategically in talent and technology to ensure ongoing language industry leadership.

Clinical and regulatory client documentation has been a cornerstone of our translation and localization work for much of McElroy Translation’s 40-year history. Our experience serving this community covers every aspect of global medical and pharmaceutical business needs, including translation of all types of clinical trial documentation in all languages: Clinical Trial Protocols, Informed Consent Forms, Patient Information Sheets, Questionnaires, Scales, Lab Reports, Serious Adverse Event and Clinical Trial Reports.

Moravia Worldwide is a leading globalization solution provider, enabling companies in the information technology, e-learning, life sciences and financial industries to enter global markets with high quality multilingual products. Moravia’s solutions include localization and product testing services, internationalization, multilingual publishing and technical translation. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Symantec are among some of the leading companies that depend on Moravia Worldwide for accurate, on-time and economical localization. With global headquarters in Brno, Czech Republic, Moravia has local offices in Ireland, Europe, the United States, Japan, China and Latin America.

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!

Translations.com is a world leader in website localization, software localization, GMS (Globalization Management System) software products, and enterprise-level, professional translation services. Backed by our ISO 9001:2000-certified quality management system, our translation solutions allow a diverse array of clients to deliver local language products, services, applications, training and content in a culturally appropriate manner. By allowing our clients to compete more effectively in the global marketplace, we help them grow their businesses internationally. With over 50 offices on 4 continents, Translations.com is the leading provider of technology-enabled language solutions to the life sciences industry.

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.

WebWorks.com, a brand of Quadralay Corporation, is the leading provider of comprehensive online publishing and Help system delivery solutions. Its products and services constitute the definitive single source for all your ePublishing needs. We specialize in content conversion software that outputs Web, online help, and technical publication formats. Our ePublisher Platform can automate the conversion of source documents in popular authoring formats such as DITA-XML, FrameMaker or Word and convert them to multiple end-user formats such as WebWorks Help, HTML, CHM, and PDF. Our conversion system is based on XSL so that output formats can be customized or even developed from scratch if needed.

The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) promotes high standards in medical writing and editing, and provides a forum for professionals engaged in communicating biomedical and health information. It offers an extensive continuing education program, interactive meetings with informative presentations, the AMWA Journal, and valuable opportunities for professional development and collegial interaction. The AMWA Curriculum programs are extensive continuing education programs for professional communicators in the medical and allied scientific fields. The core curriculum program offers an opportunity to improve communication skills in five disciplines: editing and writing (EW), educators (ED), freelance (FL), pharmaceutical (PH), and public relations/advertising/marketing (PRAM). The advanced (ADV) curriculum program is designed for those who have earned core curriculum certificates or have a minimum of five years’ experience as biomedical communicators. Completion of the requirements for the core curriculum program or the advanced curriculum program is recognized with a certificate.

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 Indiana Health Industry Forum (IHIF) is a not-for-profit, private sector organization with members that represent a private/public alliance of manufacturers, healthcare providers, suppliers, educational institutions, service providers and government officials. Its mission is to create an environment where Indiana is a premier location for the creation and growth of health industry enterprises. To learn more, please visit the IHIF website or contact the organization at +1 317.278-9970.

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.

Women and Hi Tech is an organization of women and men whose goal is to attract, develop, retain, support and promote women who are interested in technology, through networking, role modeling, education and professional development. We define technology broadly to include science, engineering, health care, information systems, computer science and other established and emerging technologies. We serve women in any field in which technology has had an impact, starting in grade school and continuing through their professional careers.

Women and Hi Tech was established as a non-profit organization in July 2000 and was created to address the specific needs of women in high tech industries in Central Indiana and to encourage more women to consider careers in technology.

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
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• The Web CMS Report
• The Enterprise Search Report
• The Enterprise Portals Report
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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.

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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.

PharmaVOICE magazine, reaching more than 17,500 U.S.-based life-sciences executives, is the forum that allows business leaders to engage in a candid dialog on the challenges and trends impacting the industry. PharmaVOICE, and its supporting VIEW publications, provide readers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary in a multiple-perspective format through forums, topics, and articles covering a range of issues from molecule through market. PharmaVOICE subscribers are also kept abreast of the latest trends and information through additional media resources, including WebLinx Interactive WebSeminars, Podcasts, Videocasts, White Papers, E-Surveys and e-Alerts. Additionally, PharmaVOICEMarketplace.com provides a comprehensive directory of products, services, and solutions for the life-sciences industry.

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