Pricing
Author-it is one of the most scalable and affordable products available. Whether you are an individual user or buying for a small, medium or large organization, there is an Author-it product to suit your needs and budget.
Pricing will vary depending on specific requirements, such as the number of full time and part time contributors, the number of web based authors and whether documentation is created in multiple languages. The following examples therefore provide indicative pricing only.
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Example Small Team Solution
This solution is ideal for small organizations or departments with a reasonable volume of documentation. It includes implementation, training and first year of annual maintenance. Enables a team to collaborate, create, reuse, manage and publish a range of content. With features including:
- Concurrent work environments for team members enabling full content management, collaborative authoring and publishing facilities
- Content stored in a SQL Server relational database
- Publishing to Print, Help, Presentations and Web formats
- Importing from Word, RTF, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, WinHelp, CHM, HTML, and XML
- Extensive XML facilities
- Edit history and audit trails
- Document release controls
- Workflow and review systems
- Full security and integration with Active Directory
Investment: US$5,000 - US$25,000
Example Medium Distributed Team Solution
This solution is ideal for a medium sized geographically dispersed team with a reasonable volume of documentation and includes implementation, training and first year of annual maintenance. It enables the team to simultaneously collaborate, create, reuse, manage, translate and publish a range of content. With features including:
- Full content management, collaborative authoring and publishing facilities
- Content stored in a SQL Server relational database
- Supports both full time and casual contributors
- Publishing to Print, Help, Presentations and Web formats all with the one tool
- Importing from Word, RTF, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, WinHelp, CHM, HTML, and XML
- Extensive XML facilities
- Edit history and audit trails
- Document release controls
- Workflow and review systems
- Creating and managing multilingual content
- Author-it Xtend Automated content discovery and authoring memory.
- Full security and integration with Active Directory.
Investment: US$25,000 - US$100,000
Example Large Distributed Team Solution
This solution is ideal for a large geographically dispersed team, consisting of both full-time and part-time authors, with a reasonable volume of documentation and includes implementation, training and first year of annual maintenance. It enables the team to simultaneously collaborate, create, reuse, manage, translate and publish a range of content. With features including:
- Distributed work environments for team members enabling full content management, collaborative authoring and publishing facilities
- Content stored in a SQL Server relational database
- Supports both full time and casual contributors
- Publishing to Print, Help, Presentations and Web formats all with the one tool
- Importing from Word, RTF, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, WinHelp, CHM, HTML, and XML
- Extensive XML facilities
- Edit history and audit trails
- Document release controls
- Workflow and review systems
- Creating and managing multilingual content
- Author-it Xtend Automated content discovery and authoring memory.
- Full security and integration with Active Directory.
Investment: US$100,000 - US$250,000
Example Large Multi-Departmental Distributed Solution
This solution represents a large, multi-departmental, geographically dispersed implementation consisting of many full-time and part-time authors who collaborate, create, reuse, manage, translate and publish a range of content and includes implementation, training and first year of annual maintenance. This solution also includes both web-based and fat client access methods.
- Distributed work environments for team members enabling full content management, collaborative authoring and publishing facilities.
- Supports both full time and casual contributors.
- Content stored in a SQL Server relational database.
- Publishing to Print, Help, Presentations and Web formats.
- Importing from Word, RTF, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, WinHelp, CHM, HTML, and XML.
- Extensive XML facilities.
- Edit history and audit trails.
- Document release controls.
- Workflow and review systems.
- Creating and managing multilingual content.
- Author-it Xtend Automated content discovery and authoring memory.
- Full security and integration with Active Directory.
- Project management.
Investment: US$250,000+
To obtain quote specific to your organization and requirements, please follow the link below and complete the form and provide as much information as possible. Our sales team will then provide you with a comprehensive quote.
Services
Author-it recommends our support services to ensure smooth implementation. These include consulting, onsite or web based implementation and a full range of training options which can be tailored to ensure your organization is able to make the most of Author-it's extensive capabilities. Please see our Services page for further details.