Documentum Expands Use of Arbortext Software; Moves From Manual to Automated Publishing of Software Documentation.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003 Documentum (Nasdaq:DCTM) spent as long as three months per software release to localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. and publish its software documentation. With two software cycles scheduled each year representing 9,000 pages per cycle of localized content in six languages, this was becoming an inefficient, costly process. Arbortext today announced that Documentum is expanding its use of Arbortext software by implementing Arbortext's Enterprise E-Content Engine (E3) publishing server. E3 will enable Documentum to move from manual to automated publishing of its software documentation in order to decrease publishing times, increase authoring efficiencies and reduce publishing costs. Documentum expects its investment payback during the first year. Documentum initially began using Arbortext in December 1999 to provide its authors with an intuitive, easy-to-use XML-based authoring software to create its software documentation. Since that first deployment, Documentum has streamlined its authoring processes and has reduced the overall time of creating and publishing documentation from several months to several weeks. "Arbortext software works very nicely with the Documentum ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. platform, which was a key reason we decided to expand the use of their technology to address our publishing requirements," said Robert Carel, Senior Manager of Technical Publications for Documentum. "Arbortext continues to provide the flexibility and scalability we require as our needs evolve." "We are pleased to have Documentum join our growing list of leading technology companies that are leveraging Arbortext to automate their publishing processes," said Raymond Schiavone, 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 Arbortext. "Increasingly, customers demand solutions that can reduce publishing costs and increase time to market, while providing a very rapid payback on their investment. We are pleased to support Documentum in these efforts." Technology Companies Rely on Arbortext Many leading technology companies have selected Arbortext for its XML-based authoring and automated publishing software, including Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. 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) , National Semiconductor, Novell, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Rational, Ricoh, SAP, SAP Institute, Software AG and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . About Documentum Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at www.documentum.com. About Arbortext Arbortext is the leading global provider of automated publishing software that enables organizations to provide more personalized, dynamic and easily searchable content for Web, mobile and print usage. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,300 organizations worldwide. Current customers include 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. Financial Services, Audi, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM, International Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen and Volvo. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the 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. 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). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , USA, Arbortext has offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.arbortext.com. |
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