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Astoria On-Demand recognized as first XML CMS vendor to adopt DITA 1.1

By DITA News
Published: April 2008

"As DITA continues to grow in popularity, the standard has expanded to embrace more types of documentation. DITA 1.1 was ratified as standard in August 2007, superseding version 1.0 (ratified May 2005) of the standard. DITA News tracks DITA compatibility over seven categories of vendor products. In the category of "DITA XML CMS", Astoria Software was the only vendor showing support for DITA 1.1 as of April 2008. View the entire list."

The New Content Management Paradigm: Leaving Space at the Table for Both Structured and Unstructured Content

In a world where organizations grapple with exponential growth in unstructured content, there is an increasing interest in structured content and its management. This article examines the differences between structured and unstructured content and makes the case for separate but cooperative content management systems. It also identifies a sequence for adopting a structured content environment that should counter any irrational exuberance for the nascent paradigm shift. Read entire article.

Exclusive: Astoria On-Demand tames complex docs

Most enterprises drive their Web sites and intranets using a CMS (content management system). That’s because CMSes offer consistent branding, easy editing, content reuse, and approval workflows. Unfortunately, publishing systems for producing structured technical manuals came late to the party in delivering these benefits. Sometimes you must learn older SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) -- or deal with expensive and cumbersome XML editors. Astoria On-Demand sidesteps these problems with a highly usable and quickly deployed hosted system based on OASIS’ DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) standard. Read entire article.

Dynamic Product Documentation Wants for Some SaaS

Hoping to ease mounting market pressures on manufacturers, Astoria Software has gone into the advice industry with "Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand," their latest brief on how on-demand (SaaS) DITA documentation management solutions can lower costs and reduce time to market. Read entire article.

Turning Wishes Into Commands: Want to Improve Yields? Reduce the Risk of Recalls? Software Makes It Possible

What keeps you up at night? Worrying about beating your competition to market with a new innovation? Strategizing about how to streamline production?

More companies are finding that whatever challenge they face, there is a software solution that can turn their wishes into their commands. Automating each step throughout a product’s lifecycle delivers quality, safety and efficiency gains and saves valuable staff and capital resources that can then be redirected toward other opportunities. Software offers other advantages as well: allowing OEMs to work more effectively within their own organizations and with their outsourcing partners, enabling increased functionality and features in their products, and letting companies grow much more rapidly and profitably than if they were relying solely on paper and homegrown systems. Read entire article.

Astoria Software announces partnership with JustSystems

Intending to "drive the pain associated with product content to extinction," Astoria Software has announced a partnership with JustSystems, Inc. to create an end-to-end solution for XML content authoring, management and publishing of technical documentation to the DITA standard. Read entire article.

Content Reuse, Change Management Named Most Critical for Content Management Projects

Increase product volumes. Get products to market faster. Manage product quality and consistency on a global scale. The mandates of 21st century manufacturing are burdening manufacturers with an exponentially growing demand for corresponding product information. Read entire article.

Astoria Software's goal? Content is key

Sometimes progress can be measured in a single word or phrase.

That's the philosophy behind Astoria Software, a small (34-employee) company that offers on-demand content management for business-critical product documentation. Astoria offers XML content management – as opposed to document management – services through an object-architected content repository, allowing individual words, sentences and sections to be managed, tracked, re-used and translated. Read entire article.

The Hidden Costs of Product Information Publishing

Manufacturing enterprises have placed a sustained focus on information management system software to support and augment the design, development and production process. The associated product and manufacturing information that parallels the production process is closely managed, tracked and reviewed to optimize the overall product lifecycle opportunity. Increasingly, many organizations are tracking and measuring the product information chain beyond the direct manufacturing process. Some estimate the current costs of content creation, management and delivery throughout the organization accounts for up to 6% of the costs of goods sold for any one product. Astoria Software has helped leading organizations realize efficiency and cost-savings in how they create, manage and deliver their product information. Read entire article.

XML, CMS, and DITA

In my recent review of XML editing tools, I looked particularly at their support for DITA, especially integration of the DITA Open Toolkit. The DITA OT is a reference implementation of the OASIS specification for "ready-made metadata" in the DITA DTDs and Schemas. Why is the DITA OT important and likely to affect your choice of a CMS in the near future? Read entire article.

Read Astoria's Velocity, Volume and Variability article in DM Direct, an e-newsletter of Document Management Review magazine

The content universe today is a "3-V" world of velocity, volume and variability. This trio of content management environmental drivers has significant bottom-line impact, especially for manufacturers managing the product information publishing process - authoring, publishing and updating all the critical information for complex products and services over their lifetimes. Read entire article.

KM World Top 100 Companies in Publishing

When we first presented our list of 100 companies in 2000, many of the firms were noted for their dazzling technology-you remember what things were like six years ago. Some of the software was simply breathtaking in its design. But, in fact, some of the technology was all shine and no substance. A number of the companies on our first list are no longer doing business. Read entire article.

The Gilbane Report, October, 2004

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