Astoria Software to Discuss Benefits of DITA and CMS Adoption at Technical Communication Summit.Event Sponsor Astoria to Exhibit and Speak on Process Efficiencies Realized by 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. , Teradata 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. -- Driving efficiencies in dynamic publishing, Astoria Software today announced the company will speak on the benefits of adopting 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:
(2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ) to simplify product documentation processes at the Society for Technical Communication's 54th Annual Technical Communication Summit being held May 13-16, 2007, at the Minneapolis Convention Center The Minneapolis Convention Center is a large convention center located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located one block off of Nicollet Mall near Orchestra Hall. , Minnesota. GE Healthcare and Teradata will be featured in the Astoria presentation, "Achieve Dynamic Publishing with DITA and CMS Adoption." Case studies of the companies will illustrate the benefits of dynamic publishing to create better product documents in less time, with less effort, and at lower costs. The session will be presented on Wednesday, May 16, at 10:30 a.m. by Astoria's Chip Gettinger, vice president, services & sales support, and Bill Kirk, senior business consultant. As an event sponsor, Astoria will also be exhibiting in booth 410 where it will demonstrate its latest 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. content management tools, showing end-to-end global information management. JustSystems, Inc. will join Astoria in its booth to highlight their recently-announced partnership and showcase the forthcoming, integrated XMetaL and Astoria Software solution. "This show emphasizes technical communication, which gives us a chance to show how we are making technical publications processes more efficient for manufacturers and advancing the state of the technical communication art," said Dan Ortega, vice president of marketing for Astoria Software. "The icing on the cake is that Bill and Chip have the opportunity to tell attendees about the real-world successes at companies such as GE Healthcare and Teradata." Case Studies Confirm Astoria Advantage During the presentation, "Achieve Dynamic Publishing with DITA and CMS Adoption," Astoria's Gettinger and Kirk will share how organizations are successfully adopting DITA and a CMS to make their technical publication processes more efficient. Their presentation will include case studies of the following companies: * GE Healthcare, the $15 billion unit of General Electric Company charged with providing transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care; and * Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (company) NCR Corporation - Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. and the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. and data warehousing services. GE Healthcare is able to better meet regulatory content requirements and strengthen its competitive stance through increased customer satisfaction. Teradata enjoys more control over and visibility into document creation and management. Both companies have managed to leverage content re-use to accelerate time-to-market, lower product documentation and 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, and optimize operational efficiencies to improve content quality and consistency. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.stc.org/54thConf/index.asp. For more information on Astoria Software, visit www.astoriasoftware.com. Related News For information on the JustSystems' partnership, see "Astoria Software Joins JustSystems' Partner Program to Expand Support for XML Authoring Tools" at http://www.astoriasoftware.com/news_events/press_releases/032607.asp. Related Links Technical Communication Summit: http://www.stc.org/54thConf/index.asp Society for Technical Communication: http://www.stc.org OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php DITA: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita JustSystems: http://www.justsystems.com GE Healthcare: http://www.gehealthcare.com/worldwide.html Teradata: http://www.teradata.com/t/ About Astoria Software Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. GE Healthcare, 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. |
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