White Papers
Looking for insight into the latest XML content creation strategies and technology trends? Our white paper library offers a plethora of practical advice and best practices from some of the brightest minds in the business.
Structured Content for Innovation
This final narrative of the series is based on the "Innovation" view of the ROI Blueprint for Structured Content, developed by JustSystems in conjunction with The Gilbane Group. We consider how structured content can be used to foster innovation of business operations and processes, and thus drive promising and profitable business opportunities.
Structured Content for Innovation (PDF - 156 KB)
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Structured Content for Leadership
This narrative focuses on the "Leadership" view of the ROI Blueprint for Structured Content, developed by JustSystems in conjunction with The Gilbane Group. In this paper, we look at real examples drawn from companies who are taking a leadership role in defining new approaches and implementing transformational applications of structured content.
Structured Content for Leadership (PDF - 146 KB)
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Structured Content in Practice
This narrative highlights how structured content is in practice within many leading organizations and delivering business value today. Examples are pulled from the “In Practice” view of the ROI Blueprint for Structured Content, developed by JustSystems in conjunction with The Gilbane Group. We look at what's practical and in practice right now, and how companies today can grow revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks by investing in structured content.
Structured Content in Practice (PDF - 391 KB)
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Dynamic Documents and PLM
Manufacturers know that getting products to market as quickly as possible directly impacts their bottom line. They cannot afford delays in shipping resulting from the time involved in its product documentation. View this whitepaper to learn how to make document development an integral part of the product lifecycle to lower cost and accelerate time-to-market for new products.
Dynamic Documents and PLM (PDF - 761 KB)
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Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box
Organizations need to think beyond technical documentation to how content is created throughout the enterprise. This paper reviews the content delivery process and what it takes to transform authoring and publishing from an afterthought to a key lever for competitive advantage.
Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box (PDF - 263 KB)
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DITA Maturity Model
The DITA Maturity Model divides DITA adoption into six incremental levels, each with its own required investment and associated return on investment. This whitepaper will help you to assess your own capabilities and goals relative to the model and choose the appropriate initial adoption level for your needs and schedule.
DITA Maturity Model (PDF - 577 KB)
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Understanding and Communicating
the Financial Impact of XML & DITA
Download this white paper to better understand and communicate how the advances of XML and DITA can reduce the cost of content creation, localization and publishing for information-rich companies managing documentation in multiple languages. Learn 4 definitive key steps to build your case for DITA and how its time and cost savings translates into revenue growth.
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA (PDF - 163 KB)
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Planning for DITA Success Part Two: How to Deploy DITA, Step-By-Step
DITA, by helping organizations migrate to and leverage XML, is revolutionizing the way modern document publishing teams author, manage, and deliver information.
This paper, the second of the series, examines implementation issues from a technical perspective. Explore best practices within the five key steps of a successful DITA transition.
Planning for DITA Success Part Two: How to Deploy DITA, Step-By-Step (PDF - 165 KB)
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Planning for DITA Success: How to Set Up the Right Team and the Right Strategy
Googling DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) unleashes a flurry of accolades. All hail DITA, the future of content! Finally, XML lives up to its promise!
Learn how to implement DITA effectively in your organization. Checklists, practical examples and step-by-step instructions illustrate how to transition smoothly to a DITA model that fits your team and delivers success.
This paper is the first of a two-part series. You may be interested in part two "Planning for DITA Success Part Two: How to Deploy DITA, Step-By-Step".
Planning for DITA Success: How to Set Up the Right Team and the Right Strategy (PDF - 426 KB)
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How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Content-Rich Workplace
Today's business environment has borne a new breed of corporate executive: the content owner. Across almost every line of business - from marketing and sales to product development, documentation, legal and finance - more and more managers, directors and team leaders are now tasked with publishing the key information critical to doing business. Thanks to heightened customer expectations set by the Internet, globalization and unrelenting competitive pressure, a complex and ever growing mandate rests on the shoulders of this diverse group.
An XML-powered workflow marks the end of slow, labor-intensive and error-prone content creation and publishing. This business paper uses real-life stories to illustrate how business executives and managers in content-rich organizations have made the shift to XML content creation, releasing higher-quality information with less effort, more confidence and greater speed.
This paper was compiled from a variety of case studies and interviews conducted with JustSystems customers and users of XMetaL®, a family of applications that simplify and control the design, development, deployment and maintenance of XML authoring solutions.
How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Content-Rich Workplace (PDF - 241 KB)
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Financial Services: How XML-Based Content Creation Drives Competitive Advantage
No matter what branch of financial services an organization may operate in, it is imperative that clients feel total confidence and trust at all times, and that concrete, quantitative objectives and regulatory requirements are met. For many of these organizations, fulfilling that mandate comes down to one critical skill: efficiency in creating, validating and distributing informational content.
The pace of this industry - combined with the high volume of content it produces - leaves absolutely no room for error, delay or inefficiencies within the content creation process. While efficiency in this area has a great impact on client satisfaction and repeat business, it also has a vital role to play in securing regulatory compliance.
This white paper introduces XMetaL®, a complete suite of collaboration software. It explores how XMetaL introduces efficiency to the financial services industry's intensive and revenue-critical document creation process, improving time-to-market and reducing risk.
Financial Services: How XML-Based Content Creation Drives Competitive Advantage (PDF - 235 KB)
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High-Tech Manufacturing: How XML-Based Content Creation Powers New Efficiencies
In high-tech manufacturing, improving time-to-market is a universal goal. Competing companies win new markets by accelerating the pace of product development and all the business functions associated with it, documentation included.
In addition to ambitious product cycles, high-tech manufacturing companies champion international-scope product launches and go-to-market strategies that require enterprise-wide consistency and efficiency. In this business environment, the demand to translate documents into multiple languages across multiple channels has never been greater.
The importance of speed-to-market cannot be understated. A global leader in high-tech manufacturing recently noted that getting a product to market just one month early was typically worth more than its entire engineering and development cost. Furthermore, the company has calculated that reaching the market either six months earlier or later can increase or decrease a product's lifetime profits by one-third.
This white paper explores how collaboration software can be used to improve time-to-market, enhance team communication, and reduce compliance risks. It explores how XMetaL can introduce new efficiencies to high-tech's often complex, cumbersome document creation process.
High-Tech Manufacturing: How XML-Based Content Creation Powers New Efficiencies (PDF - 135 KB)
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Fuelling Enterprise Content Management Systems
The way organizations create, process, and consume unstructured, semi-structured, and structured content is undergoing rapid reconception, and XML technology is powering the shift.
Content can be completely unstructured or highly structured. Most content today is stored haphazardly on networks as innumerable text documents, graphics, sound files, or hundreds of other formats.
Enterprise Content Management systems - powered by XML content - represent the future of organizational efficiency and productivity gains based on structuring and manipulating formerly unstructured content.
XML overcomes the complexities of getting information in and out of incompatible databases, passing it between applications, sharing it among departments and enterprises, and presenting it in different media formats. It achieves the business goals of information reuse, interchangeability, and universal access by imposing a standardized, modular discipline on today's chaotic patterns of content composition and storage.
This white paper examines the Enterprise Content Management revolution. With XML authoring tools such as XMetaL, organizations now have the ability to optimize content assets that will in turn, offer a competitive advantage, reduce overhead, and maximize human and technology resources.
Fuelling Enterprise Content Management Systems (PDF - 150 KB)
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The XMetaL XML-Content Solutions Development Platform
Once the decision has been made to implement an XML content creation solution built on a standards-based development approach, the XMetaL suite of products provides a powerful solution.
The XMetaL XML authoring solution development platform has much to offer both developers and systems administrators on the technical side, leading to the ability to create, manage and maintain a sophisticated solution, which meets end-user needs.
XMetaL is a XML authoring platform built for the long run, taking into consideration the latest industry standards, which can readily leverage new technologies and extend to new systems as they emerge.
This whitepaper examines the advantages of implementing the XMetaL XML content creation development platform.
The XMetaL XML-Content Solutions Development Platform (PDF - 140 KB)
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The Next-Generation Product Documentation Report
A report on Product Documentation best practices by prominent research and analyst firm, Aberdeen Group.
The new report entitled "Next-Generation Product Documentation: Getting Past the "Throw It over the Wall" Approach" shows that structured document, content management, and translation memory technologies are helping product documentation teams to meet product launch and publication dates – on budget, with fewer resources, in multiple languages.
Aberdeen Report - Next Generation Product Documentation (PDF - 481 KB)
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