This document discusses converting content when moving to a new content management system (CMS). It highlights key considerations for the conversion like choosing an appropriate XML schema and addressing legacy content. The document also shares lessons learned from surveying 12 companies that implemented DITA, including common business drivers, implementation timelines, and maximizing benefits of content reuse. Overall, the document provides guidance on planning a successful content conversion project when adopting a new CMS.
Converting and Integrating Legacy Data and Documents When Implementing a New CMSdclsocialmedia
If you are in the Insurance and Financial industries, attend this webinar and learn the roadmap for implementing a content management system with a customized conversion process.
Is Your Enterprise “fire-fighting” translation issues? Optimize the process w...dclsocialmedia
Join Scott Carothers, Senior Globalization Executive at Kinetic the Technology Agency for an overview of specific translation metrics that will assist your enterprise in optimizing the translation process, and assist you in leading your organization as an advocate of continual process improvement.
Attend this webinar as DCL & Comtech Services review the results of the 2016 Industry Trends survey. Learn innovative approaches to development/delivery and more.
Managing Deliverable-Specific Link Anchors: New Suggested Best Practice for Keysdclsocialmedia
This webinar presents a general approach that uses keys on navigation topicrefs to determine the anchors in deliverables, giving more control to map authors and removing dependencies on the behaviors of specific deliverable generation systems. This way of using keys also addresses challenges inherent in doing cross referencing within a single publication when topics are used multiple times in the map.
Minimalism Revisited — Let’s Stop Developing Content that No One Wantsdclsocialmedia
Dr. JoAnn Hackos, Comtech President and Director of the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), demonstrates how using a minimalist approach in developing content is more relevant today than ever before. Busy customers simply want simple help on performing a task and getting a job done. Learn what minimalism really feels like. Learn about designing minimalist information that gets your customers coming back for more.
Converting and Integrating Legacy Data and Documents When Implementing a New CMSdclsocialmedia
If you are in the Insurance and Financial industries, attend this webinar and learn the roadmap for implementing a content management system with a customized conversion process.
Is Your Enterprise “fire-fighting” translation issues? Optimize the process w...dclsocialmedia
Join Scott Carothers, Senior Globalization Executive at Kinetic the Technology Agency for an overview of specific translation metrics that will assist your enterprise in optimizing the translation process, and assist you in leading your organization as an advocate of continual process improvement.
Attend this webinar as DCL & Comtech Services review the results of the 2016 Industry Trends survey. Learn innovative approaches to development/delivery and more.
Managing Deliverable-Specific Link Anchors: New Suggested Best Practice for Keysdclsocialmedia
This webinar presents a general approach that uses keys on navigation topicrefs to determine the anchors in deliverables, giving more control to map authors and removing dependencies on the behaviors of specific deliverable generation systems. This way of using keys also addresses challenges inherent in doing cross referencing within a single publication when topics are used multiple times in the map.
Minimalism Revisited — Let’s Stop Developing Content that No One Wantsdclsocialmedia
Dr. JoAnn Hackos, Comtech President and Director of the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), demonstrates how using a minimalist approach in developing content is more relevant today than ever before. Busy customers simply want simple help on performing a task and getting a job done. Learn what minimalism really feels like. Learn about designing minimalist information that gets your customers coming back for more.
DITA: From “Do I?” to “Done It!”: An Automotive Case Study that can apply to ...Publishing Smarter
This session showcases how documentation for one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world was to migrated to DITA allowing for publishing of hundreds of manuals in over a dozen languages.
Vehicle documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc) are as crucial to a car as the brakes, engine, or chassis. Without these a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped and sold. Documentation failure can cost over $100,000 per MINUTE if it results in a line being shut down.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way a component content management system, author tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Brakes, engine, or chassis is mission-critical for a car. Equally important is all the documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc). Without these, a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped or sold. When supporting one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world meant migrating to DITA, a solution that supported publishing had to work right. It had to work the first time, and every time.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way, a component content management system, authoring tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Takeaways:
• Attendees should be able to clearly see what worked, what didn’t, learn why, and avoid similar pitfalls in their path to structured content.
• Identify how a tight time frame, expectations vs reality, last minute changes, and many late nights culminated into results that showcase the best and worst of tech comm and related tools and processes.
• Discover an automated publishing solution, where one source of content is transformed to multiple channels and uploaded to a CCMS.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the accepted industry standard for creating structured content. A Unified Content Strategy is the methodical and purposeful management of your information assets across all divisions of your enterprise, in a way that breaks down silos and makes information easy to find and use.
Lower Cost and Complexity with Azure and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud SolutionsPerficient, Inc.
Organizations today are being forced to do more with less, and the demand for scalable, reliable and secure cloud-based infrastructure and platform services is on the rise. The cloud is here to stay, and for good reason.
StorSimple is a cloud-integrated storage (CiS) product that allows you to store commonly used data on premises and put more infrequently accessed data in Azure. With a hybrid storage appliance, you can seamlessly use Azure storage without worrying about what's on premises and what's in the cloud.
In this webinar, we provided an overview of Azure's technical storage capabilities, and showed how a hybrid storage appliance like StorSimple can supply your organization with massive amounts of capacity and added functionality, all while providing disaster recovery and reducing costs by up to 50%.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
Presentation of use cases of Master Data Management for product Data. It presents the five facets of MDM for product Data (MDM for Material, MDM for Lean Managed Services, MDM for Regulated Products, Product Information Management, MDM for “Anything”) and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them
"It’s not easy to take millions of documents, scan them, keep them all together, index them for keyword searches and then transmit them to different locations and different
databases at the same time for repurposing into different media. Xerox showed us that they had really mastered
this technology.”
– Tim Ryan
Senior Vice President,
Business Operations
McGraw-Hill Construction
Presentation "Trends in Records, Document and Enterprise Content Management" at the S.E.R. Conference, Vizegrad, Hungary, 28th September 2004 by Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT. (c) CopyRight and Authorship Rights: Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT Unternehmensberatung GmbH, hamburg, 2003-2004. http://www.PROJECT-CONSULT.com
Google for Work Applications: Enterprise-Class Collaboration and Search Integ...Fishbowl Solutions
Fishbowl Solutions' Director of Engineering, Ross Jessen, discusses how Fishbowl has integrated Windchill with Google Drive and the Google Search Appliance to improve enterprise collaboration and search.
DITA as Interchange Format for Crowdsourcing and AcquisitionsBen Colborn
Traditional (XML-based) DITA is a big-iron approach. To gain the benefits of robust control and comprehensive semantics, it generally requires pricey and complicated tools and specialized skills. The tragic consequence is a content silo, or perhaps many silos in an enterprise despite a common foundation. The docs-as-code approach using markdown and Git, by contrast, opens the possibility of crowdsourcing with open reviews (as wikis before it), but at the cost of flabby control and impoverished semantics. These are the same issues found with unstructured authoring, which still retains the advantage of a low barrier to entry.
Lightweight DITA (LwDITA), under development by the DITA Technical Committee, can help to alleviate the drawbacks of the big-iron and docs-as-code approaches. Word-to-DITA has a complementary role. The tech comm community has struggled for decades with diffs and reviews, which are definitively solved by GitHub. Laissez-faire information structure and information product assembly are addressed well by topic-based structured authoring.
Plan a Successful Information Management Solution ImplementationJ. Kevin Parker, CIP
This presentation should help you:
* Plan your enterprise information strategy, architecture, and governance;
* Recruit an executive champion, cross-departmental partners, and your IT organization;
* Plan for continuous implementation and improvement;
* Plan to promote user adoption of your IM solution.
What if all members of your software development team from Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testing and documentation members could create and modify web applications and web services? With traditional SQL solutions this was difficult because of the need to convert web pages to objects, objects to tables as well as the reverse functions. But now with native XML databases and drag-and-drop forms builders, data can flow from the XML model of a web form to the database and back again without translation. This radically simpler process combined with standardized query languages makes it easier for non-programmers to build and maintain their own applications and web services.
Provides an overview of the DITA for Small Teams (www.d4st.org) project and the general approach of using off-the-shelf open-source and commercial tools to set up a usable DITA authoring, management, and delivery system.
The Pivotal Business Data Lake provides a flexible blueprint to meet your business's future information and analytics needs while avoiding the pitfalls of typical EDW implementations. Pivotal’s products will help you overcome challenges like reconciling corporate and local needs, providing real-time access to all types of data, integrating data from multiple sources and in multiple formats, and supporting ad hoc analysis.
Making the Most of the New Math Specializations in DITA 1.3dclsocialmedia
During this presentation, we'll provide an overview of the new MathML and equation specializations, information on how you can get started using these specializations today, and your options for handling MathML in various outputs using the DITA Open Toolkit.
In this webinar, I will showcase scenarios in which content analysis and design were more collaborative endeavors, and advocate for getting designers and content experts in conversation early on. The result is a better product and less stressful releases.
DITA: From “Do I?” to “Done It!”: An Automotive Case Study that can apply to ...Publishing Smarter
This session showcases how documentation for one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world was to migrated to DITA allowing for publishing of hundreds of manuals in over a dozen languages.
Vehicle documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc) are as crucial to a car as the brakes, engine, or chassis. Without these a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped and sold. Documentation failure can cost over $100,000 per MINUTE if it results in a line being shut down.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way a component content management system, author tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Brakes, engine, or chassis is mission-critical for a car. Equally important is all the documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc). Without these, a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped or sold. When supporting one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world meant migrating to DITA, a solution that supported publishing had to work right. It had to work the first time, and every time.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way, a component content management system, authoring tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Takeaways:
• Attendees should be able to clearly see what worked, what didn’t, learn why, and avoid similar pitfalls in their path to structured content.
• Identify how a tight time frame, expectations vs reality, last minute changes, and many late nights culminated into results that showcase the best and worst of tech comm and related tools and processes.
• Discover an automated publishing solution, where one source of content is transformed to multiple channels and uploaded to a CCMS.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the accepted industry standard for creating structured content. A Unified Content Strategy is the methodical and purposeful management of your information assets across all divisions of your enterprise, in a way that breaks down silos and makes information easy to find and use.
Lower Cost and Complexity with Azure and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud SolutionsPerficient, Inc.
Organizations today are being forced to do more with less, and the demand for scalable, reliable and secure cloud-based infrastructure and platform services is on the rise. The cloud is here to stay, and for good reason.
StorSimple is a cloud-integrated storage (CiS) product that allows you to store commonly used data on premises and put more infrequently accessed data in Azure. With a hybrid storage appliance, you can seamlessly use Azure storage without worrying about what's on premises and what's in the cloud.
In this webinar, we provided an overview of Azure's technical storage capabilities, and showed how a hybrid storage appliance like StorSimple can supply your organization with massive amounts of capacity and added functionality, all while providing disaster recovery and reducing costs by up to 50%.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
Presentation of use cases of Master Data Management for product Data. It presents the five facets of MDM for product Data (MDM for Material, MDM for Lean Managed Services, MDM for Regulated Products, Product Information Management, MDM for “Anything”) and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them
"It’s not easy to take millions of documents, scan them, keep them all together, index them for keyword searches and then transmit them to different locations and different
databases at the same time for repurposing into different media. Xerox showed us that they had really mastered
this technology.”
– Tim Ryan
Senior Vice President,
Business Operations
McGraw-Hill Construction
Presentation "Trends in Records, Document and Enterprise Content Management" at the S.E.R. Conference, Vizegrad, Hungary, 28th September 2004 by Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT. (c) CopyRight and Authorship Rights: Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT Unternehmensberatung GmbH, hamburg, 2003-2004. http://www.PROJECT-CONSULT.com
Google for Work Applications: Enterprise-Class Collaboration and Search Integ...Fishbowl Solutions
Fishbowl Solutions' Director of Engineering, Ross Jessen, discusses how Fishbowl has integrated Windchill with Google Drive and the Google Search Appliance to improve enterprise collaboration and search.
DITA as Interchange Format for Crowdsourcing and AcquisitionsBen Colborn
Traditional (XML-based) DITA is a big-iron approach. To gain the benefits of robust control and comprehensive semantics, it generally requires pricey and complicated tools and specialized skills. The tragic consequence is a content silo, or perhaps many silos in an enterprise despite a common foundation. The docs-as-code approach using markdown and Git, by contrast, opens the possibility of crowdsourcing with open reviews (as wikis before it), but at the cost of flabby control and impoverished semantics. These are the same issues found with unstructured authoring, which still retains the advantage of a low barrier to entry.
Lightweight DITA (LwDITA), under development by the DITA Technical Committee, can help to alleviate the drawbacks of the big-iron and docs-as-code approaches. Word-to-DITA has a complementary role. The tech comm community has struggled for decades with diffs and reviews, which are definitively solved by GitHub. Laissez-faire information structure and information product assembly are addressed well by topic-based structured authoring.
Plan a Successful Information Management Solution ImplementationJ. Kevin Parker, CIP
This presentation should help you:
* Plan your enterprise information strategy, architecture, and governance;
* Recruit an executive champion, cross-departmental partners, and your IT organization;
* Plan for continuous implementation and improvement;
* Plan to promote user adoption of your IM solution.
What if all members of your software development team from Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testing and documentation members could create and modify web applications and web services? With traditional SQL solutions this was difficult because of the need to convert web pages to objects, objects to tables as well as the reverse functions. But now with native XML databases and drag-and-drop forms builders, data can flow from the XML model of a web form to the database and back again without translation. This radically simpler process combined with standardized query languages makes it easier for non-programmers to build and maintain their own applications and web services.
Provides an overview of the DITA for Small Teams (www.d4st.org) project and the general approach of using off-the-shelf open-source and commercial tools to set up a usable DITA authoring, management, and delivery system.
The Pivotal Business Data Lake provides a flexible blueprint to meet your business's future information and analytics needs while avoiding the pitfalls of typical EDW implementations. Pivotal’s products will help you overcome challenges like reconciling corporate and local needs, providing real-time access to all types of data, integrating data from multiple sources and in multiple formats, and supporting ad hoc analysis.
Making the Most of the New Math Specializations in DITA 1.3dclsocialmedia
During this presentation, we'll provide an overview of the new MathML and equation specializations, information on how you can get started using these specializations today, and your options for handling MathML in various outputs using the DITA Open Toolkit.
In this webinar, I will showcase scenarios in which content analysis and design were more collaborative endeavors, and advocate for getting designers and content experts in conversation early on. The result is a better product and less stressful releases.
10 Mistakes When Moving to Topic-Based Authoringdclsocialmedia
But moving to topic-based authoring can be one of the most expensive things you've ever done. In this talk, Sharon Burton will show you the top 10 mistakes made by companies and how you can avoid them. These mistakes can include missing deadlines, delivering poor quality content, or not integrating this content development strategy into the rest of the product development strategy.
Content Conversion Done Right Saves More Than Moneydclsocialmedia
Can you significantly reduce your conversion costs – by 25% or more – without sacrificing quality? The answer is a resounding yes, and this webinar will review the proven methods and best practices for achieving that goal.
Precision Content™ Tools, Techniques, and Technologydclsocialmedia
This webinar will explore fundamental principles for writing and structuring content for the enterprise. Attendees will learn how to approach information typing for structured authoring for more concise and reusable content.
This session will specifically address the analysis phase including considerations such as where the inconsistencies lie, how the content is currently being reused or not, how translation services are applied as a measure of quality, what channels does the content need to support, what issues each channel may have in using the content, does task-based authoring make sense and more in order to achieve the maximum ROI.
Content Engineering and The Internet of “Smart” Thingsdclsocialmedia
The Smart Ass™ Fan is the latest ceiling fan from Big Ass Fans®. Smart products are everywhere now, and they’re connected. Imagine a family of smart products and how much content could be/should be shared. These products can include mechanical, electrical and software parts AND content.
How will you deal with this explosive content requirement? This webinar takes a tour of the problem and explains what content engineering is …and how it can be used to create a sustainable content life cycle. Smart products need smart content.
New Directions 2015 – Changes in Content Best Practicesdclsocialmedia
The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) and Data Conversion Laboratories (DCL) announce the results of our 2015 Industry Trends Survey. Comparisons with these surveys in previous years provides you with a comprehensive view of what is the same and what is changing in technical information best practices.
Attend this session and explore the unseen world of metadata. Learn essential concepts about metadata and taxonomies used to organize metadata. Discuss the role standards play in the design of metadata and controlled vocabularies. Start to formulate strategies and tactics to take control of your metadata.
In this DCL Webinar, long-time DITA champion Don Day will talk about the basic principles of lightweight structured authoring and the current work of the OASIS Lightweight DITA Subcommittee along those lines. And since this is a work in progress, Don will lay out some practical steps you can take today to start taking advantage of some of these principles as we anticipate the Subcommittee's eventual recommendations.
DITA for Small Teams: An Open Source Approach to DITA Content Managementdclsocialmedia
Eliot Kimbler describes a general approach to using common and easily-available open-source tools to provision an authoring and production support system suitable for small teams of authors.
Join this webinar to learn:
• What SPL is
• How it affects medical devices
• The relationship between SPL and UDI
• What medical device manufacturers can learn from the pharmaceutical industry
• How you can automatically create SPL documents with your standard labeling content
This webinar provides an update on the current status of the DITA for Publishers. EPUB and HTML5 transforms and their support for EPUB3, HTML5, and the implications of new features in DITA 1.3.
We'll identify how teamwork, agile, and UX can work together to increase team communication, and decrease the likelihood of stalled timelines or increased scope down the line.
Attendees will learn:
1. Helpful, concrete questions to ask of other team members in collaborative settings.
2. The secret to why “silos” exist in the first place, and why they’re not always bad.
Foundational Strategies for Trust in Big Data Part 1: Getting Data to the Pla...Precisely
Teams working on new business initiatives, whether for enhancing customer engagement, creating new value, or addressing compliance considerations, know that a successful strategy starts with the synchronization of operational and reporting data from across the organization into a centralized repository for use in advanced analytics and other projects. However, the range and complexity of data sources as well as the lack of specialized skills needed to extract data from critical legacy systems often causes inefficiencies and gaps in the data being used by the business.
The first part of our webcast series on Foundation Strategies for Trust in Big Data provides insight into how Syncsort Connect with its design once, deploy anywhere approach supports a repeatable pattern for data integration by enabling enterprise architects and developers to ensure data from ALL enterprise data sources– from mainframe to cloud – is available in the downstream data lakes for use in these key business initiatives.
When it comes to the cloud, Gartner may have said it best:
“By 2020, a corporate ‘no-cloud’ policy will be as rare as a corporate ‘no-internet’ policy is today.”
If your organization is still skeptical of the cloud, now is the time to take a closer look. Faster implementation timelines and reduced maintenance costs are just two reasons why the cloud is becoming the standard across all industries.
In our webinar, we dispelled common concerns and explored the benefits of operating in the cloud. We also provided real-world examples of companies that have taken the leap and discovered just how much better business works in the cloud.
Building a Modern Analytic Database with Cloudera 5.8Cloudera, Inc.
Analytic workloads and the ability to determine “what happened” are some of the most common use cases across enterprises today - helping you understand and adapt based on changing trends. However, for most businesses today, they are only able to see a piece of the story. Analytics are limited by the amount of data able to be stored and ultimately accessed, it’s time-intensive to bring in new datasets or fit unstructured data into rigid schemas, and user access is constrained to a select few who must already know the questions they’re trying to answer.
It’s no surprise that big data is disrupting this modus operandi for analytics. A modern, Hadoop-based platform is designed to help businesses break free of these analytic limitations, providing a new kind of adaptive, high-performance analytic database. The recent release of Cloudera 5.8 continues to advance Cloudera Enterprise as the foundation for these analytic workloads.
Join Justin Erickson, Senior Director of Product Management at Cloudera, and Andy Frey, Chief Technology Officer at Marketing Associates, as they discuss:
-What technology is needed to build a modern analytic database with Hadoop
-What’s new with Cloudera 5.8
-How to align your teams around agile analytics
-Real world success from Marketing Associates
-What’s next for Cloudera Enterprise’s Analytic Database
It is quite possible to use Agile techniques for creating and maintaining a data architecture. Doing so will dramatically reduce the risk of failed data warehouse projects. This webinar will give you a quick overview of the benefits and challenges of Agile Data Modeling, Evolutionary Database Design, Agile Modeling, Conformed Dimensions, Bus Matrix, Database Refactoring, and an Agile framework for Agile data projects
MongoDB IoT City Tour STUTTGART: Hadoop and future data management. By, ClouderaMongoDB
Bernard Doering, Senior Slaes Director DACH, Cloudera.
Hadoop and the Future of Data Management. As Hadoop takes the data management market by storm, organisations are evolving the role it plays in the modern data centre. Explore how this disruptive technology is quickly transforming an industry and how you can leverage it today, in combination with MongoDB, to drive meaningful change in your business.
Webinar: The 5 Most Critical Things to Understand About Modern Data IntegrationSnapLogic
In this webinar, we talk to industry analyst, author and practitioner David Linthicum who provides a state-of-the-technology explanation of big data integration.
David also provides 5 critical and lesser known data integration requirements, how to understand today's requirements, and guidance for choosing the right approaches and technology to solve these problems.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/big-data
Partner Recruitment Webinar: "Join the Most Productive Ecosystem in Big Data ...MongoDB
We are looking for more partners in your region to deal with the increasing demand for MongoDB. This is the slide deck of the webinar, broadcast on 21st May 2014, dedicated to see if a MongoDB partnership could benefit your company as well.
In this presentation you can find out more about:
- Why MongoDB is growing so fast and how you can benefit from this fast changing market
- How existing partners succeed with MongoDB and how they benefit
- Potential business opportunities
To give you some idea of the momentum in EMEA:
- Tens of thousands of active leads visiting our website
- Tens of thousands of registrations for MongoDB Online Education
- 30.000+ members on LinkedIn with MongoDB on their profile
Visit the Partner Program http://www.mongodb.com/partners/partner-program for more general information.
About the speaker: Luca Olivari
Luca Olivari is the Director of Business Development at MongoDB, where he's responsible for building the ecosystem in Europe, The Middle East and Africa.
Prior to MongoDB, Luca worked at Oracle, where he led the MySQL Sales Consulting team in EMEA. Before MySQL, he ran the Database and Business Intelligence practice and then coordinated the Business Development and Strategy team for a Systems Integrator. Luca has a BA in Business and Marketing
ADV Slides: What Happened of Note in 1H 2020 in Enterprise Advanced AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
Reassessing the information management marketplace for your enterprise direction on an annual basis is too infrequent. The technology is changing too fast. Data and analytic maturity levels rapidly evolve. What is advanced today may be entry-level in two years. Let’s look at the high points for 1H 2020 in information management developments and how that may change what you are doing now. This can also be a strong data point for preparing 2021 budgets.
The Future of IT Infrastructure is Hybrid and on DemandCodero
The rise of IT as Service (ITaaS) is result of the intense rate of change brought about by technologies such as cloud computing, social media, consumerization, mobility, analytics and big data. The pace of change is only increasing, and these emerging technologies need to be rapidly integrated into modern enterprise, almost in real-time. Enter ITaaS, on-demand. In its various forms, ITaaS on-demand solves the myriad problems of modern IT resource consumption. When technology is restructured to be flexible, fast and ready, capabilities are provided based on usage. Transitioning to an on-demand hybrid infrastructure is a complete transformation that can support your future business goals, help fuel business innovation and turn IT from a cost center to a value center. This is the future of IT, it will be hybrid, and it will be on-demand with utmost flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency.
Webinar: How Partners Can Benefit from our New Program (EMEA)MongoDB
The 10gen partner ecosystem is growing quickly and includes leading software, hardware, cloud, channel and services companies who develop, market, sell and support solutions based on the MongoDB document database. We've created a Partner Program designed for companies looking to efficiently build new business or revenue streams based on MongoDB and capitalize on big data, cloud, mobile and other computing trends and opportunities related to our document-oriented database.
Join this webinar for an introduction to 10gen, MongoDB and our partnership program. We're going to explain the benefits of becoming a a partner and common use cases and verticals for MongoDB. Directions and contacts will be given to companies interested in partnering with us in EMEA.
10 Million Dita Topics Can't Be Wrong, December 6th, 2016, Webinar by Keith Schengili-Roberts, IXIASOFT DITA Specialist, Hosted by Scott Abel at The Content Wrangler Virtual Summit
Big Data Made Easy: A Simple, Scalable Solution for Getting Started with HadoopPrecisely
With so many new, evolving frameworks, tools, and languages, a new big data project can lead to confusion and unwarranted risk.
Many organizations have found Data Warehouse Optimization with Hadoop to be a good starting point on their Big Data journey. Offloading ETL workloads from the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) into Hadoop is a well-defined use case that produces tangible results for driving more insights while lowering costs. You gain significant business agility, avoid costly EDW upgrades, and free up EDW capacity for faster queries. This quick win builds credibility and generates savings to reinvest in more Big Data projects.
A proven reference architecture that includes everything you need in a turnkey solution – the Hadoop distribution, data integration software, servers, networking and services – makes it even easier to get started.
Modernize Your Content Publishing Process with Smart ContentGavin Drake
For decades technical writers and technical publishers have reaped the benefits of XML to lower the cost and effort associated with creating, managing and reusing content across multiple output formats. Now, with the introduction of Smart Content, business users and subject matter experts can easily adopt XML in order to keep up with consumer demand for high-value communication.
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
8 Things to Consider as SharePoint Moves to the CloudChristian Buckley
A review of the changes happening inside the SharePoint platform and throughout the industry as more and more organizations begin to develop their cloud strategies. This presentation provides some guidance on how to develop your own cloud strategy. Initially presented at IT Pro Camp DC, Feb 2014.
OPEN'17_4_Postgres: The Centerpiece for Modernising IT InfrastructuresKangaroot
Postgres is the leading open source database management system that is being developed by a very active community for more than 15 years. Gaby Schilders is Sales Engineer at EnterpriseDB, supplier of the EDB Postgres data platform.
Gaby Schilders, Sales Engineer at EnterpriseDB, will be explaining why companies take open source as the centerpiece for modernising their IT infrastructure, thus increasing their scalability and taking full advantage today's technologies offer them.
This session, targeted at decision makers, consultants, and information professionals, introduces the concepts behind structured content and discusses the benefits and challenges to adoption.
Automating Complex High-Volume Technical Paper and Journal Article Page Compo...dclsocialmedia
SAE International is a global association of more than 138,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. Annually, SAE organizes and manages an industry conference, its World Congress and Exhibition, where thousands of technical papers and journal articles are presented as part of the conference program. Leading up to the Word Congress, the technical papers and journal articles are reviewed for compliance to SAE publishing requirements and published for print and made available online in a very short time-frame. This paper describes how SAE evolved the production cycle from a less than efficient XSL-FO based process to a highly automated process leveraging NLM XML, XSLT and Adobe InDesign resulting in productivity gains and higher quality output. This paper will take you through the evolution of this project and talk to future enhancements aimed at driving additional benefits.
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Valuable Content Transformed
• Document Digitization
• XML and HTML Conversion
• eBook Production
• Hosted Solutions
• Big Data Automation
• Conversion Management
• Editorial Services
• Harmonizer
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Experience the DCL Difference
DCL blends years of conversion experience with cutting-edge technology and the
infrastructure to make the process easy and efficient.
• World-Class Services
• Leading-Edge Technology
• Unparalleled Infrastructure
• US-Based Management
• Complex-Content Expertise
• 24/7 Online Project Tracking
• Automated Quality Control
• Global Capabilities
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Key Considerations
• Content structure
• More than likely, that structure will be XML
• Which XML schema is appropriate – DITA, DocBook, XHTML?
• Is one schema better than the others?
• What’s the plan for legacy content?
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• Multichannel publishing
• Content repurposing
• Content reuse
• Easier updating
• Avoiding multiple conversions
• Some/all of the above
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What Are Your Business Drivers?
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• Can’t just be moved from one format to another
• Non-XML sources embed formatting – not applicable to other
outputs
• Tool-specific formats make your content dependent on
functionality of that tool
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Content Reuse is Hard!
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So Why DITA?
• Works across all outputs
• Can be customized to different content types (educational,
financial, legal, etc.)
• Can produce both HTML5 and EPUB from DITA with open-
source tools
• Can do everything DocBook can, but reverse not true
• XHTML not a true schema
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DITA with Your CMS
• Your CMS should support several different output targets
• DITA provides the consistent structure and flexibility to do
that
• New content will be authored in DITA
• But what about…
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• Not as scary as it seems
• Prioritize and convert in stages
• Consider conversion before selecting a CMS
• Consider a pilot program before committing fully
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Converting and Integrating Your Legacy Content
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What Were the Business Drivers?
• Top answer was multi-purposing
– Ability for various teams to use content to suit their
particular needs
– Deploying chunks of content for multiple purposes
dramatically reduced costs, and improved overall reliability
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How Long Did It Take?
• Average implementation took three years
• Some took only two years; others five
• Some respondents believed implementation to be an ongoing
process (never completed)
• Across the board, however, it took far longer than planned
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When Did They Choose CMS?
• Half of respondents selected CMS at beginning of process
• Other half after running pilot programs
• Companies that implemented CMS later converted content
first then selected CMS based on data requirements
• Two companies switched to different CMS during testing
phase
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How Was Success Measured?
• Multi-purposing was top criterion, with these notable
benefits:
– Publishing content in multiple formats such as PDF and print
– Developing training and help systems
– Customizing marketing and sales collateral
– Changing styling, layout, and design while maintaining the copy
– Producing HTML and eBooks since content was standardized
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How Are You Maximizing Benefits of Content Reuse?
• Only two of the 12 companies actively reusing content
• Built extensive rewriting phase into plan
• Extended implementation time but critical to overall success
• Other companies cited size of project and drastic change to
authoring process as reasons for not implementing reuse plan
up front
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Do You Often Need Translation?
• Four of 12 companies doing heavy translation
• All reported significant saving from data standardization, even
without content reuse
• Rest of companies viewed translation as essential to future
plans
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How Did Conversion Go?
• All 12 companies felt it went smoothly
• Many didn’t do conversion at initial stages and opted for
extensive rewriting, which they regretted
• Same companies held off on legacy conversion until after
implementation, which like rewriting, wasn’t efficient
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Did DITA Work Out of the Box?
• All 12 companies reported that it did
• Only 3 reported using DITA specialization, mostly for minor
items
• All were working with technical documents, so specialization
wasn’t an issue in these cases
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Lessons Learned
• Consensus for more data clean-up before conversion
• Small pilot programs are useful
• Underestimated adapting to DITA authoring and training
needs
• Support from management crucial
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The Value of Structured Content
Increase Revenues
Improve customer service
Decrease time to market
Expand into new markets
Create data versatility
Enhance discoverability
Decrease Expenses
Increase authoring productivity
Reduce publishing costs
Increase information reuse
Reduce translation costs
Future-proof data
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Can your content keep up with changing technology?
Data drives every aspect of a business from engineering and development
to maintenance, repair and operations, sales, customer service, marketing,
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Documents are often converted in order to comply with law, industry
standards, or to support distribution partners and meet consumers'
expectations
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data easier to manage, update, reproduce, and syndicate
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Re-purposing
Searching
Component Reuse
Enforce Data Standards
Interchange with Vendors, Customers, & World
Creating new versions of data suitable for derivative uses
(e.g. the web, diagnostic equipment, hand-held devices,
voice devices)
Ability to find information through text searches and
through more advanced searches that depend on context
and “understanding”
Ability to reuse portions of data for different products and
different documentation sets
Ability to assure that the information produced is
produced consistently and meets corporate standards
Ability for others to use your information for
communications with others and to incorporate into
products belonging to other organizations
Various Uses for Structured Content
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• Plan… plan… plan
• Prepare your teams and manage attitudes and expectations
accordingly
• Phase your project for increased manageability
• Establish multiple checkpoints and test often
• DON’T GO IT ALONE!
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Key Takeaways
Good afternoon, everyone! Thanks for joining us for this webinar. Today we’re going to discuss the best formats and practices for content conversion when you’re migrating to a new content management system. I’m Greg Fagan, and I’m the Sales Director for the publishing and financial industries at DCL. Because you’re all busy people, I’ve tried to keep this presentation as concise as possible. I’ll talk for about 15-20 minutes and then open the floor to your questions.
Just some quick background information on DCL. We’re content conversion experts. We take content in any format you might have it and convert it to reusable formats for digital output such as XML, SGML, HTML5, DITA, and EPUB. We not only convert your content, but we can enrich it to make it more discoverable, usable, and deliverable to any output format or device. Aside from conversion, we offer a suite of services, including hosting, editorial services, and project management.
Our deep experience, sophisticated infrastructure, and ferocious commitment to quality are what set us apart from the pack.
We serve a broad range of clients. Myriad large, global companies from many different sectors entrust their content to us.
And our clients span a wide array of industries, which speaks to our familiarity and fluency with many different XML schemas. Publishers, societies, pharmaceutical companies, defense contractors, and government agencies are just a few of the types of clients and industries we serve.
So you’re implementing a new content management system. Or maybe you’re upgrading an existing one. This means that you’re serious about organizing your content to make it more searchable and retrievable, and that you’re probably keen to reuse and repurpose your content in multiple ways and to multiple outputs. That’s good business practice, and it’s something every organization that provides content should do. Delivering content to your users in the way that they want it is critical to your overall success. So now that you’ve decided to move forward with this new CMS, what’s next?
Any content management system requires content to be in some kind of structured format.
In most industries, from publishing to financial services to aerospace, just to list a few examples, that structure will likely be some flavor of XML.
But which XML schema should you use? Is one better or more appropriate than the others?
Sure, you have a plan for the new content that you’ll be entering into your CMS, and you very likely have an authoring tool designed to work with that system. But what about your legacy content? How many years’ worth of content do you have? How is it currently stored – mostly paper, PDFs, bound books – and what’s your plan for integrating it into your CMS? Do you need to convert all of your content now, or can you prioritize and do it in stages? These are all important considerations, and hopefully you’ve thought about them before you decided to implement a new CMS.
Think about your business drivers for developing a CMS.
Is the goal to publish to multiple channels – print, Web, mobile apps, streaming audio/video?
Is it to reuse your content across your enterprise from a single source so that you can streamline content creation and avoid redundancies?
Do you want to make updating your content easier?
Or maybe you’ve seen the inefficiency of converting your content multiple times for different outputs.
More than likely, your business drivers involve some combination or even all of these reasons. After all, the whole point of implementing a CMS is to get your content into a structure that provides greater control and flexibility.
In addition to the financial challenges of converting content from one source to another multiple times, the content cannot simply be “moved” from one design to another.
Content for books is written to be read from beginning to end. This approach creates dependencies that make it difficult to use the same content in a different order or for a different purpose, such as a mobile app. For example, wording such as “in the previous chapter” is not appropriate in a non-book experience.
Non-XML sources embed the formatting into the content. When an author applies a format in a source file, such as an InDesign file, the styling is embedded into the content. Because this styling is not usually applicable in another deliverable, the formatting must be updated for each deliverable type.
Tool-specific files lock your content into a dependency on the functionality, including output generation, for that tool. All of these factors contribute to limiting the delivery possibilities for your content.
For the most flexibility across all content types, my recommendation would be DITA, which, if you’re not familiar with it, stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA is an open standard for creating, managing, and publishing modular content, which is what will be stored in your content management system. It supports the definition of new content types within a comprehensive content ecosystem, and it has been increasingly adopted across a wide range of content disciplines and industries.
A few years ago, the common wisdom was that if you were developing narrative content, you should use DocBook, and if you were developing modular or topic-based content, you should use DITA. That was true to an extent but was always somewhat misleading, in my view. Books can be written with DITA and modular content can be authored with DocBook. DITA has really advanced in the last couple of years, to the point where I think it’s superior to DocBook, especially when implementing a CMS.DITA can be published to all outputs, and it can be easily customized (or specialized, to use the preferred terminology of DITA advocates) to many different content types, such as educational, financial, and legal, just to name a few. That’s important for the development of mobile content, apps, and enhanced ebooks.
You can produce both HTML5 and EPUB with readily available open-source tools from DITA.
And while both have their strong points, DITA is the more flexible schema of the two: it can do everything DocBook can, but the reverse isn’t always true. For example, DITA is better-suited to granular storage of content that you see in a most content management systems.What about XHTML? Although it’s often thought of as one, XHTML is not a true schema; it’s really a document styling format and thus not structured enough for a CMS.
One of the essential functions of any content management system is that it should support most if not all output targets,
and DITA provides both a consistent XML structure and the flexibility of specialization to do that.
How many of us foresaw the advent of all the current deliverable types five years ago? Can you predict the quantity or variation of the deliverables your company will need to create to meet changing user needs in the next five years? If you separate your content from its delivery now, which is what a good CMS does, then you don’t have to try to predict the future; instead, you can future-proof your content so that it’s ready to be transformed into whatever outputs your customers need.
Now it’s one thing to do that with new content. Piece of cake, right? You simply set up templates and tools that integrate with your CMS.
But what about…
That’s a different challenge. So let’s talk about that.
Integrating your legacy content with a new CMS is no easy task, but with a logical, well-planned approach, it’s not as daunting as it might seem. A phased approach makes a lot of sense, as it helps you to avoid costly mistakes, like realizing you’ve implemented a system that doesn’t work before you get too far down the road.
Prioritizing and converting your content in stages, doing some conversion and learning more about your content requirements before choosing a CMS, and running small pilot programs before getting locked into a CMS, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, are all good examples of a phased approach.
With that in mind, let’s discuss some relevant DITA and CMS lessons in detail. DCL recently conducted a series of interviews with DITA implementers at twelve companies. The intent of the study was to better understand the reality of live implementations vs. the perceptions that exist in the industry. We promised anonymity so we could ensure the results would be representative of the group’s actual findings.
The three most popular answers were:
Reduced need for composition
Content reuse
and reduced translation costs.
All three resulted in cost savings, decreased time to market and improved internal efficiencies. This isn’t surprising. We know from our own years of experience that having content in a structured format in a content management system has many benefits, with these three among the most cited.
The top answer to this question was the ability for various teams to multi-purpose content to suit their particular requirements. Utilizing chunks of content for multiple purposes dramatically reduced costs and improved overall reliability. I referred to multi-purposing in an earlier slide, and it’s highly likely that it’s at or near the top of any organization’s list for moving to a structured content format within a CMS.
[Read bullets.] This one came as a surprise to us. But there are ways to speed the process. After all… time is money!
Half of the respondents selected their CMS at the beginning of the process.
The other half followed after running various pilot programs.
The companies that selected a CMS later started doing conversion and getting comfortable with the data first, then selected a management system when they had a better understanding of their own data requirements.
Two of the companies had switched from their initial selection to another CMS during the testing phase, which highlights the value and wisdom of running small pilot programs before full implementation. Absent that testing, they might very well have continued down their respective paths with content management systems that weren’t meeting their needs. That would have meant large sums of money spent for poorly implemented solutions. And it also would have resulted in walking papers for those decision makers.
Once again, the ability to multi-purpose content was the number one criteria for measuring success and return on investment. Some of the notable savings came from the improved ease and efficiency of the following: [Read bullets 2-6.]
Only two of the twelve companies we interviewed were actively taking advantage of content reuse. Yes… we were surprised by this as well.
Those two companies had decided upfront to build an extensive re-writing phase into their implementation plan.
While this additional phase extended the implementation time, the upfront planning was critical to the success of their overall project.
The most common reasons for not implementing a reuse plan up front included projects being too large for anyone to manage or requiring too much rewriting. Notably, many also mentioned the drastic change that would be required for their writers to move to a more modular writing mode and to work more collaboratively and with more guidelines than typically they were accustomed to.
Four of the twelve companies were actively doing a lot of translation.
All four reported major savings. Even without content reuse, the savings of standardized data in terms of translation were vast and long-lasting.
The eight companies who did not translate their data stated that it was a likely future endeavor but that right now, even with globalization, they were able to get away with English alone. All of the respondents said that translation was definitely a future requirement.
All twelve companies felt that the conversion went smoothly.
However, many didn’t do much conversion in their initial stages. Several had decided, to their later regret, to rewrite most materials from scratch, which simply took way too much time.
These organizations ultimately left most of their legacy data unconverted until after the CMS implementation. Two companies initially thought that having the writers do it themselves would be good training, but noted that, in retrospect, this wasn’t a good idea.
A major reason for attraction to DITA was that it works out of the box, at least for most. Others can expand its benefits by applying specializations when necessary. The companies we interviewed all agreed that for their materials DITA pretty much worked out of the box, and that standard composition software was for the most part suitable for their needs.
Only three of the companies reported using specialization, and those were for minor items like customized document covers.
Of course, these organizations were all working with technical documents of one kind or another, which are the type of documents DITA was originally designed for. Other kinds of documents would likely need more specialization, although there are a number of emerging standardized “specializations” for different document types.
Let’s talk about lessons learned.
When asked what they would do differently, the most common response was “more cleanup of data before conversion.”
Many wanted smaller—and simpler—pilots, as well as more time to experiment. They felt they had focused too much on the complex outliers in their pilot, and jumped into production too quickly without enough time to adjust for lessons learned in the pilot.
Underestimating the human factor was a common note. Allowing more time for people to adapt to the new system and the philosophy of DITA, as well as earlier training, were also prominent suggestions in hindsight.
Finally, buy-in and support from upper management was viewed as critical by all respondents.
Here is a table of common content pain points and how DITA implementation solves them.
So what are the benefits and drivers for content conversion, specifically when converting to a new CMS?
Well-structured content has many benefits, with the most important being that it can increase revenue by decreasing time to market and enabling new product development. It also decreases expenses, such as publishing and translation costs, over time, which makes it a smart investment.
Often legacy content is more complex and difficult to manage than new content. In many cases, it was designed for one specific output and not much thought was given to proper storage, retrieval, or reusability. There are also different document types, formats, and levels of complexity, like heavy math and tabular material that was never meant for digital output. This is where the help of a trusted partner can be invaluable in helping you identify, categorize, and convert your content to a well-structured format. Your content should drive your business strategy.
But you can’t structure your content and think your work is done. It’s an ongoing process to keep up with industry standards, compliance, and constantly evolving outputs. Once the major work is done, however, the changes are much easier to manage, and your content is ready for delivery to any output. Content drives every aspect of your business, so make sure yours is ready to take you in the right direction.
Structured content has many uses, with reuse and repurposing the most important in my mind. Why? Because they generate revenue. The others are important, too. Different industries have differing degrees of importance, but money talks in all of them. When your content is structured at a granular level, you can assemble the different components into new products and new revenue sources.
So the key considerations for conversion when implementing a CMS are as follows: You must plan thoroughly and then be prepared to adjust once theory turns into practice. To quote General Dwight Eissenhower, “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever one without one.”
Prepare your teams and manage expectations. Try to anticipate problems before they occur. That’s easier said than done sometimes, but it’s the key to good project management.
Implement your conversion and your CMS in phases. Pilot projects are a great way to discover and head off potential problems before you head too far down the wrong path.
Establish multiple checkpoints and milestones and test your system often with real users and real content. The people who will have to use the CMS every day are the people who will provide the most valuable feedback.
And finally, we give this advice often, but it’s always worth repeating: Don’t go it alone! For a project of this scope, you’ll need outside expertise. Bringing in the right expertise is almost always more cost-effective than trying to manage every aspect of a large-scale project inhouse.
I’d like to thank you for tuning in today. Feel free to contact me directly anytime; my contact information is there on the screen. Now I’m happy to take your questions.