XMetaL Author Enterprise – IBM FileNet Edition

XMetaL Author Enterprise – IBM FileNet Edition is the premier authoring tool for creating DITA content that can be managed natively by IBM FileNet P8 4.5.

Since its adoption as an OASIS standard in 2005, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has become a leading XML standard for organizations needing content reuse, flexibility, high-quality tools, and strong community support. DITA is the gold standard for improving document consistency and significantly reducing costs and time-to-market, while meeting the challenge of providing information in multiple formats, for multiple audiences, and in multiple languages.

Content Efficiency Drives Your Competitive Advantage

Today's globally-focused, customer-driven organizations face extraordinary challenges. Under growing expectations from customers, businesses are increasingly expected to deliver product, service and support information in each customer’s native language, in the format they want, when they need it. Businesses are also under pressure to deliver professional content quickly, to reduce publishing and localization costs, and to keep publications consistent and up-to-date.

To meet these challenges, many companies are turning to XML, and in particular to DITA. With XML, you can replace error-prone and expensive copy/paste processes with modern "write once, use in many places" reuse strategies. With IBM FileNet P8 4.5, you gain a consolidated platform for creating, sharing, reusing, and distributing XML content, in any language or format. The benefits typically include the following:

• Accelerate time to market for documentation-dependent products and services
• Reduce the cost of content creation and maintenance
• Dramatically lower content translation costs
• Reduce risk by publishing more accurate consistent and regulatory compliant content.
• Reduced costs by 20% or more through automation
• Reduced localization costs by 40-70%
• Customized, consistent content for a superior customer experience
• Reduced errors, and reduced costs of inaccurate information
• More control over your global brand

A Proven Authoring Tool with Seamless Connectivity

Repeatedly voted as the top choice of end users, XMetaL makes it easy for anyone in your organization to create, share, reuse, and deliver XML-based content, including less frequent content contributors such as engineers, managers, subject matter experts, marketing, professional services and more. A single seamlessly integrated interface for authoring, searching, and managing valid DITA content will enable staff to more effectively manage content, helping you reach new levels of efficiency and quality.

Together, XMetaL and FileNet offer a comprehensive content solution that enables you to harness the value of your organization's information assets and lower the cost of content creation by making content more readily available for reuse.

Feature Highlights

• Connect natively to FileNet P8 4.5
• Link to and reuse shared images, DITA topics, DITA reusable components, and multimedia files, as easily as if they were on your own hard drive
• Browse DITA maps in XMetaL using the graphical DITA map editor side panel, accessing referenced topics in FileNet by double-clicking topic titles
• Add new or existing DITA topics to your DITA map directly from your repository, through XMetaL dialogs
• Benefit from FileNet P8 4.5 native DITA support.
• Edit in an easy to use WYSIWYG environment enabling DITA component-based authoring
• Increase productivity with simple drag-and-drop actions and check-in/check-out operations

Download the XMetaL Author Enterprise – IBM FileNet Edition Datasheet to learn more.