Enterprise Authoring Platform

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The Author-it Enterprise Authoring Platform is an enabling technology for achieving what most successful companies do in the 21st century: leverage information to meet business needs.

If your company authors, localizes, publishes, and manages business content, EAP increases productivity and reduces the associated costs across large and small teams.

Author-it EAP provides a powerful, user-friendly, collaborative authoring environment that promotes content reuse and repurposing, enables content to be reviewed in real-time, enforces corporate standards and security, and maintains detailed audit trails.

Whether your organization develops training materials, product user guides, online help, sales proposals, or policies and procedures, Author-it EAP simplifies and speeds the creation and management of this critical business content.

Improve your workflow

Author-it EAP empowers you or your team to:

  • reuse existing content as you type, prompting you with similar or identical phrases used elsewhere in the library
  • work in an optional web-based authoring interface, allowing staff anywhere with an Internet connection to log in and work
  • manage workflow to assign content tasks, track the results, and view overdue tasks
  • review and edit content in real-time
  • localize content as it's ready, reducing localization costs

Many of our customers double productivity. Those who localize their products see translation costs reduced by as much as 80%. You can too!

Powerful authoring with suggestive reuse

Reusing and repurposing content is significantly more cost effective than recreating it!

Best in class companies reuse and repurpose content to reduce content creation and localization costs.

As you type Author-it suggests similar and identical content that already exists in the library. The author selects from the existing content and moves on with authoring.

With Author-it, your organization can easily reuse content across all authoring efforts, leveraging proven content in future documents.

Reduce authoring time by up to 50%.

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Reviewing content in real-time

Traditionally, content reviews only take place once the whole document is completed, leading to long review cycles and delayed time to market.

Review allows multiple reviewers to work simultaneously in a live and interactive process.

Reviewing topic-based content is faster and more productive saving up to 70% of your time,

  • Review content in real-time in a browser, on any device
  • Discuss and evaluate suggestions with "agree" and "disagree"
  • Finalize suggestions with "accept" and "reject"
  • Set up notifications, reminders and news feeds
  • Simple 'social media-like' user interface with functionality that can be learned within minutes

 

Component Content Management

Author-it uses a central relational database library to store and manage your component document content. Workflow can be structured by means of "release states",is easily controlled and communicated to all team members, and can be secured and distributed to only those in the enterprise who need it.

With Author-it’s powerful library search utility, users easily find and reuse Content. Performing an audit or content roll back is simple using Author-it's revision tracking.

  • Centralized storage and management of all content.
  • Easily find and reuse content.
  • Full audit history with powerful content security.

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Updates to reused content cascade to every instance where it is used, insuring content accuracy for all deliverables.

The authoring interface is powerful and simple to use, allowing authors to add value creating content instead of fussing with formatting.

  • Familiar, user-friendly authoring interface.
  • Create and maintain content once for all deliverables.
  • Easily reuse content with simple drag-and-drop.

 

Easily import existing content from many common formats

Author-it makes it easy to import a wide range of file types. Using Author-it's import, you can easily transfer legacy documents written outside Author-it into your content library.

Documents are automatically separated into components ready for maximum reuse. No special skills or coding knowledge is needed.

Having all your content accessible and editable in one area provides substantial cost reduction and improved work efficiency.

  • Print, HTML, Help, RTF, FrameMaker™, RoboHelp™, XML.
  • Automatically separate your content into components.
  • Process large document sets in batches, using custom rules you create and save.

 

Localization and Translation

Localizing content can be more expensive that creating it. Author-it Localization Manager can reduce the costs associated with localizing by reducing the amount of content and reducing, or eliminating, DTP costs.

Author-it Localization Manager increases content reuse by leveraging content directly from Author-it's single-source database. This reduces repeated translations, so translators only work on new and changed content.

Real projects see substantial savings in localization costs and in translation word counts through automated processes and single-source publishing.

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Author-it Localization Manager seamlessly integrates with existing localization and translation processes, using XML to provide compatibility with popular translation memory tools.

  • Full translation memory integration
  • Substantial post-translation desktop publish reductions
  • Translate content one time, regardless of how many publications use it

 

Multi-Channel Publishing

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Produce your content in any number of popular deliverable formats, including PDF, Help, or DITA.

Publishing Profiles make publishing about the deliverable and not the file format. No post-publish reformatting, no additional DTP time.

Create an unlimited number of publishing outputs using the base formats or create your own with full XSLT support.

The entire publishing process can also be fully automated with command line options, including file zipping and sent to FTP and WebDAV.

  • One tool for all deliverables
  • No programming or coding required
  • Print. Web. Help. Presentations. XML. DITA. All at the click of a button.

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