ANN: Why Your VP Fears Product Documentation

[Grant Hogarth]

Just got this -- I've no association with Astoria Software (at the
moment I don't even know who they are/what they make), but JoAnne Hackos
is always worth paying attention to.
 
Grant

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Founder and Director,
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Management (CIDM), a membership organization focused on
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leading the adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
(DITA), an open source XML based architecture used for dynamic
production and publication of technical documentation, and is a member
of the international consortium OASIS (Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards).	
 	 Your company's new product is ready to ship-but where is the
documentation? If you are like most managers, you can't scale your staff
to match aggressive release dates, nor do you have mechanisms in place
to handle obstacles like seamless translation into multiple languages.
And, you and your VP are painfully aware that every day the product
doesn't ship is a loss of revenue!

During this Webinar you will learn what drove NCR/Teradata to adopt the
latest product documentation advancements to: 

*	Reduce time-to-market by leveraging existing content resources 
	
	
*	Gain more control and visibility into document creation and
management 
	
	
*	Create better documents in less time, with less effort, and
lower production costs 

Leading product documentation experts-including information architecture
guru Dr. JoAnn Hackos-will share their insights into dynamic publishing
best practices and solutions adopted by other F500 companies, including
how to adapt DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) to your
company requirements for the production and publication of technical
documentation, and identify key issues your company should be
considering when trying to control operational efficiencies and costs.

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