Arbortext's Pharmaceutical Application Provides for Immediate Cost-Effective SPL Compliance.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich. -- Arbortext, the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, today announced it will release its Publishing Pack for Pharmaceutical Product Information in July 2005. Designed to maintain consistent product information across all package, label and promotional output, this new application from Arbortext enables life sciences organizations to address immediate SPL (1) (Systems Programming Language) The assembly language for the HP 3000 series. See assembly language for an SPL program example. (2) (Structured Programming Language) See structured programming. 1. compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). efficiently and cost effectively. Although various options exist for submitting SPL-compliant files, creating and managing labeling content in XML XML 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. has significant advantages over bolting an SPL solution on top of traditional authoring processes. With its SPL application, Arbortext standardizes and automates the process so that life sciences organizations can: --Reduce non-compliance risk by eliminating redundant sources of product information across the enterprise --Achieve and maintain compliance with emerging health authority standards --Improve quality of product information outputs and reduce the time and cost associated with managing product information by eliminating manual tasks associated with creation, review, approval and publishing of labeling content for multiple sources --Increase efficiency of labeling content management process --Improve overall time to market Life sciences organizations that purchase the Arbortext Publishing Pack for Pharmaceutical Product Information will receive: --Industry proven, mature XML authoring and publishing tools --Fully-supported application for creating and managing SPL content --Intuitive, user-friendly environment for creating both narrative content and structured data required for SPL --Ability to automate the conversion of existing labeling content to SPL "When life sciences organizations create content using XML, they are able to streamline additional processes beyond those that only support regulatory compliance mandates," said Joe Jenkins, Director of Marketing for Life Sciences at Arbortext. "It's very important for organizations to understand the difference between merely producing valid SPL content and building a cost-effective infrastructure to support long-term initiatives. Our application is a first step for organizations that are developing a forward-looking publishing strategy to improve control over the entire labeling content supply chain." Information about the Pharmaceutical Product Information application can be found at http://www.arbortext.com/Products/spl.htm. About Arbortext (www.arbortext.com) Arbortext is the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, enabling companies around the world to automate the assembly and publishing of product information, marketing documents, service instructions, maintenance procedures, technical publications, legal information and software documentation. Arbortext software allows companies to efficiently and cost-effectively publish to multiple audiences in multiple languages in multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. As a result, companies can dramatically improve authoring productivity, reduce translation and publishing costs, enhance information quality and speed time-to-market of new products. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide. Current customers include Abbott Laboratories Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has over 65,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, a neighborhood of North Chicago, Illinois. , American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. 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IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and the US Department of Defense including the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). 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