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Astoria Software to Highlight DITA Enterprise Advantages at OASIS Symposium 2007

Company's Chip Gettinger to Discuss Benefits of Content Reuse, Interoperability on Panel, "Understanding DITA: Its Impact On A Global Business Strategy"

SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 10, 2007 – Driving efficiencies in dynamic publishing, Astoria Software today announced it will be speaking at the OASIS Symposium 2007 to promote the advantages of authoring, managing, and publishing XML content to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) information standard. Centered on the theme, "eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and Future," the OASIS Symposium 2007 will be held April 15 - 20, 2007, in San Diego, California, at the Marriott Mission Valley Hotel.

On Tuesday, April 17, at 1:30pm, Chip Gettinger, vice president, services and sales support, for Astoria Software will discuss the benefits of content reuse and interoperability on the panel "Understanding DITA: Its Impact On A Global Business Strategy." Chaired by Mary McRae, manager of technical committee administration, OASIS, the panel will include fellow content management and DITA experts JoAnn Hackos, president, Comtech Services Inc. and Bob Beims, information development project manager, Freescale Semiconductor.

"The OASIS Symposium brings together leaders from around the world to explore open standards solutions to business and government challenges," said Dan Ortega, vice president of marketing for Astoria Software. "In terms of advancing organizational efficiency and competitiveness, DITA is certainly one of the most compelling standards available today. Our work with multiple global manufacturing companies has demonstrated repeatedly that adopting DITA accelerates time-to-publish for product documentation, improves content consistency, and reduces overall publishing costs."

The panel, "Understanding DITA: Its Impact On A Global Business Strategy," acknowledges that the DITA standard is gaining acceptance worldwide for publishing technical content to the Web and other media. A number of industries, including medical device manufacturing and semiconductor, have created industry-centered OASIS subcommittees to promote common DITA specializations.

Astoria's Gettinger will speak on adoption of DITA in the medical device industry. The talk will draw on the company's work with Siemens Healthcare Solutions, which has successfully adopted DITA to meet growing business requirements. In particular, DITA has helped Siemens improve customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market, and save authoring time, effort, and expenses. In addition to Gettinger's presentation on the medical device manufacturing industry, other panelists will speak on semiconductors, e-learning, and translation requirements.

For more information about the OASIS Symposium 2007, visit http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.php. For more information on Astoria Software, visit www.astoriasoftware.com.

Related Links

OASIS
http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita

Astoria Case Study: Siemens Healthcare Solutions
http://www.astoriasoftware.com/pdf/resource/cs_siemens_medical_solutions.pdf

About Astoria Software

Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. Teradata and other Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers rely on Astoria to meet rigorous market demands - increasing product volumes, accelerating time-to-market, and concurrent global customization. Astoria reduces documentation costs up to 90% and compresses product launch cycles from months to weeks. Astoria Software is based in San Mateo, California. For more information, visit www.astoriasoftware.com.

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