"Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand" Guides Manufacturers to Bring Products to Market Faster and At Lower Cost.Astoria Astoria (ăstôr`ēə). 1 Commercial, industrial, and residential section of NW Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; settled in the 17th cent. as Hallet's Cove. It was renamed for John Jacob Astor in 1839. Software Market Brief Reveals How Process Innovation, New Standards and SaaS Enable Manufacturers to Harness the Power of Product Documentation SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- In response to global market pressures on manufacturers, Astoria Software today released a market brief defining "Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand On-Demand refers to a service or feature which addresses the user's need for instant gratification and immediacy of use. In most cases the value proposition for an on-demand service is wrapped up in the fact that the user or consumer of the service avoids a significant up-front ," a new methodology for organizations to harness the full power of their product information through process automation, adoption of new information standards, and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. The complete market brief, "Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand: Extending the Information Revolution to Manufacturing" is available at http://www.astoriasoftware.com/forms/whitepaperForm.asp?id=16. The market brief defines Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand and explains how Forbes Forbes , B(ertie) C(harles) 1880-1954. American publisher and businessman who founded and edited (1916-1954) Forbes magazine. His son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers can bring complex, information-rich products to market faster and at a lower cost. "Today, manufacturers face relentless pressure to quickly build and ship increased volumes of products to new global markets simultaneously," said Alan A`lan´ n. 1. A wolfhound. Fraser, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Astoria Software. "Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand confronts the pressures of Information Age manufacturing by streamlining the documentation process required to support increasingly complex products." "Manufacturers selling similar products must rely on value-adds such as high-quality product documentation to differentiate themselves in their markets," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst for Interarbor Solutions. "The SaaS model for creating and maintaining documentation -- where manufacturers can author, revise and distribute documentation content quickly and broadly -- offers a significant competitive advantage. Going on-demand for documentation lifecycle management provides authoring benefits to the product or service provider, but more importantly, brings improved customer service, support and satisfaction." Delivering dramatic, across-the-board improvements, the Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand methodology enables process automation benefits across the entire product documentation lifecycle -- content creation and content re-use, review and approval cycles, translation into multiple languages, and publication to print and digital delivery formats. In general, manufacturers witness: * Sharp reductions in the time it takes to deliver products and services to new markets, adding weeks or months to their revenue-generating opportunities. * Reduced costs associated with creating, translating and publishing product documentation for global markets and automation of multi-channel publishing for print and electronic delivery. * Enhanced customer experience that results in improved loyalty, retention and profitability with consistent product information accessible across all touch points -- from in-package documentation, to customer support databases and online-help. Global Market Trends: Technology Innovation Invoking Shift to Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand Discussed in detail in the market brief, Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand supports the following tenets: * Component Content Management -- Managing content components within a document, page or paragraph as discrete, independent objects allows trouble-free content re-use, repurposing and historical change tracking. * Format Neutrality -- Separation and management of content from its output structure enables flexibility in how content is repurposed for multiple publishing formats and delivery channels. * Single Sourcing -- As defined by Wikipedia, single source publishing Writing documentation and information in one format and publishing it in multiple formats. For example, the source text could be written in a word processor and converted to a variety of different formats such as PDF, HTML and XML. , also known as single sourcing, allows original source content to be used in different documents and in various formats. * Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The name of the architecture can be explained as follows:
in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. standards board, enables simplified content reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. . * SaaS -- As defined by Wikipedia, a model of software delivery, in which the software company provides maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for the software provided to their client. Concluded Fraser, "Ultimately, Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand tightly aligns product documentation with organizational priorities. To be successful, manufacturers must look at product information as a corporate asset equal in value to the product itself." In conjunction with the release of the market brief, Astoria Software has announced results of a study that estimates the total available market for Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand solutions within discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. to be $4.4 billion annually. See the related news release, "Astoria Software Study: Discrete Manufacturers Comprise $4.4 Billion Market for Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand" at http://www.astoriasoftware.com/news_events/press_releases/051407.asp. For more information, visit www.astoriasoftware.com. About Astoria Software Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. , Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , 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 San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . For more information, visit www.astoriasoftware.com. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : For a copy of the Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand: Extending the Information Revolution to Manufacturing market brief, please contact Elena Annuzzi below. [TABLE OMITTED] |
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