XMetaL Author Enterprise for Teamcenter® software

XMetaL Author Enterprise for Teamcenter® software brings the power of XML authoring to Siemens Teamcenter for total Product Lifecycle Management.

Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter content management solutions provide workflow, version control, and relationship management capabilities that link product documents with their associated parts in an assembly. Whereas traditionally, engineering and technical publication teams work with different systems in isolated environments, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)-driven content management with Teamcenter directly relates XML content instances to a product’s parts. When the design or instructions for a part change, the author of the relevant pieces of documentation is automatically notified.

XMetaL Author Enterprise for Teamcenter® software offers a complete and seamless integration available between Teamcenter and a document-oriented XML authoring tool, with unique features to facilitate creating, editing, and linking together content stored in Teamcenter. With an integrated solution, authors can edit topics with the unparalleled ease-of-use of XMetaL Author Enterprise, while having easy access to the most up-to-date information in the Teamcenter repository.

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, and specialists from marketing and professional services.

Feature Highlights

Access and Reuse Content from the Teamcenter Repository
With XMetaL and Teamcenter, you can deliver consistent content faster by assembling reusable, topic-based DITA content in multiple deliverables. Write a piece of content once in XMetaL, and then check it into Teamcenter to enable team members across the world to reuse it.

Support Collaboration and Sharing with Check-in/Check-out
When you use XMetaL Author Enterprise to open a document, it is automatically checked out from Teamcenter to ensure that other users cannot accidentally make conflicting changes to the document. After making changes, you can check the new version of the file directly back into Teamcenter without leaving the XMetaL Author Enterprise user interface.

Include Your Technical Publications Team in Critical Product Processes
By including your authors and editors in Teamcenter workflows and relating your XML files to the products they describe, your technical publications team is included in product planning. Notifications of product changes can be sent to authors immediately and they can instantly understand the impact of that change to their documentation—knowing which illustrations and topics need to be updated.

Take Advantage of Teamcenter-based Security
With XMetaL Author Enterprise, take full advantage of Teamcenter’s user-management and permissions features to control who can view and edit your organization's most critical content. Users securely access their content using usernames, passwords, and permissions defined in Teamcenter. All this happens seamlessly, with XMetaL reading up-to-date permissions settings from Teamcenter automatically.

Create DITA Deliverables Effortlessly
Through XMetaL's integration with the DITA Open Toolkit, you can preview output on your desktop and generate production-quality HTML, PDF, and online help using simple menu commands. Most importantly, XMetaL accurately processes links, conrefs, and all other types of references within and between documents, no matter how often team members have updated and checked in new document versions.

Work with any DTD or XML Schema
In addition to DITA, XMetaL and its integrations with content management systems can be configured to support arbitrary custom or standard XML Schema (XSDs) and DTDs.

Minimize IT Risk with Easy Deployment
XMetaL Author Enterprise for Teamcenter® software is designed to communicate directly with the Teamcenter server. Everything needed to enable XML authoring with Teamcenter is installed on the local machines of the authors who need it. As there is no installation or additional configuration required on the Teamcenter server, there is no added risk to your Teamcenter implementation, and your IT staff can continue to maintain Teamcenter as they always have.

Note: Teamcenter is a trademark or registered trademark of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries.

To learn more: Download the XMetaL Author Enterprise for Teamcenter® software datasheet.