setting up technical documentation workflow from scratch

[Studio Smalbro]

  I am about to author a small report on setting up a technical 
documentation workflow from scratch.
I need to devise a setup where a group of author can write tech docs, 
another group maintain and translate the docs and publish them as pdf. 
It is vital that the process can be thought within a technogy which 
allows for later integration with publishing to web as well.

I have taken a look at Woodwings serverbased solution which uses 
InDesign as publishing frontend, but I would like to see whether I can 
accomplish the same using FrameMaker. I suppose I must look for a kind 
of database drive solution where the authors write into a database.

I have taken a look on a couple of database publishing solutions: 
Patternstream, Sabern, FrameMaker Server but some of these solutions 
looks strangely dated when one merely looks at their websites. Sabern 
uses product images from FrameMaker 5.5. Patternstream recommends in 
FrameMaker 8 in a news release dated 2007. Adobes documentation for 
FrameMaker Server seems to be non existent - even a tutorial links to 
some very quaint and useless course on a server not even belonging to 
Adobe.

My question is: Am I looking in the wrong places? Can somebody 
reccommend products which will help me streamline the process?

regards
Jakobsen