Astoria Software Reveals Tactics for Medical Manufacturers to Strengthen Competitive Advantage.Astoria Highlights Customer Successes -- 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. and Siemens Medical Solutions Siemens Medical Solutions (Siemens Med) is a supplier to the healthcare industry, and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Its U.S. division, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. -- at Medical Design & Manufacturing West ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Driving efficiencies in dynamic publishing, Astoria Software will highlight how medical manufacturers can gain competitive advantage with technical product documentation at Medical Design & Manufacturing West (MD&M West), February 13 - 15, 2007 at the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. in Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. . As an exhibitor at MD&M West, Astoria will demonstrate how medical manufacturers can: * Speed Time-to-Market - Using Astoria, medical manufacturers 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. existing product content, decreasing time spent on the authoring cycle. * Reduce Costs - For organizations striving to reach new markets, Astoria minimizes costs associated with language translation, enabling medical manufacturers to deliver products on a global scale. * Improve Compliance Processes - By supporting technical publication industry standards like the 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 the heavily regulated medical manufacturing industry, poor product documentation can result in a host of liability issues," said Dan Ortega, vice president of marketing for Astoria Software. "As manufacturers seek competitive advantage, these organizations can rely on Astoria to help them create and deliver accurate, globally consistent information to healthcare professionals and patients using new medical products." Medical Manufacturer Success Story Examples Two examples of large-scale medical manufacturers that have been able to boost competitive advantage by using Astoria include: GE Healthcare: As the world's largest medical manufacturer, GE Healthcare needed to meet increased pressure to bring products to market quickly with supporting documentation in over 20 languages. By deploying Astoria, GE Healthcare successfully reduced translation costs from $3 million to $300,000 annually and shortened the translation publishing cycle from three months to three weeks. Siemens Medical Solutions: Operating in more than 120 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions had the goal of streamlining its product documentation process to improve ease-of-use among the company's 60,000 end-users and field service personnel worldwide. By standardizing on Astoria, Siemens Medical Solutions reaped the benefits of content reuse which saved 30% on language localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. costs. In addition, the company transitioned from expensive and cumbersome paper manuals to a variety of convenient digital media formats, thus decreasing the need for printed manuals by 90%. For additional information on MD&M West, please visit http://www.devicelink.com/expo/west07/index.html. To learn more about Astoria Software, go to www.astoriasoftware.com and pay a visit to booth #856 at MD&M West. About Astoria Software Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. GE Healthcare, NCR/Teradata, 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. Related Links Medical Device & Manufacturing West http://www.devicelink.com/expo/west07/index.html Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita Press Release: GE Healthcare Saves Millions with Dynamic Publishing from Astoria Software http://www.astoriasoftware.com/news_events/ press_releases/111506.asp Case Study: Siemens Medical Solutions http://www.astoriasoftware.com/pdf/resource/ cs_siemens_medical_solutions.pdf (Some URLs in this press release may need to be copy/pasted into your internet browser's address field. Delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. the extra space if one exists.) |
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