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How to Introduce Authoring Assistance and Gain User Acceptance

How to Introduce Authoring Assistance and Gain User Acceptance

Many writers work with a style guide. This guide includes a comprehensive set of rules and guidelines to help writers…

Which CCMS Is Right for You? A Look at the CCMS Marketplace with Tony White

Which CCMS Is Right for You? A Look at the CCMS Marketplace with Tony White

On October 22nd, IXIASOFT’s Head of Marketing and Communications Sydney Jones interviewed ARS Logica founder Tony White about the current…

How to Power Up Your Content with Taxonomy

How to Power Up Your Content with Taxonomy

Finding the right information can be a nightmare for users in our increasingly digitized world. A simple solution is taxonomy….

ConVEx 2020… A New Kind of Conference

ConVEx 2020… A New Kind of Conference

As most of you know, DITA North America and DITA Europe are two of the premier conferences for content creators…

Demonstrating Information Development Business Value

Demonstrating Information Development Business Value

The value of information developers is increasing in businesses across the globe. Their work plays a central part in customer…

Automatically Generating Annotations in PDFs

Automatically Generating Annotations in PDFs

DITA includes the <draft-comment> element which many writers use to add comments for their Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). However, when…

Benefits and Challenges for Technical Writers in the Agile World

Benefits and Challenges for Technical Writers in the Agile World

Agile methodology emerged in the software development industry in the early 2000s. Many software development projects in the 1990s either…

How To Get the Best Out of Your Localization Processes

How To Get the Best Out of Your Localization Processes

Over the past decade, DITA, an XML-based open standard, has gained increasing popularity in technical communication. DITA enables businesses to…

Making Your Data Tell the Right Story: Analytics You Can Really Use

Making Your Data Tell the Right Story: Analytics You Can Really Use

Businesses decisions revolve largely around data and the ability to use it. Generating and upholding good data hygiene is critical…

Design Thinking: It’s Not Just for Software (It’s for Docs, Too!)

Design Thinking: It’s Not Just for Software (It’s for Docs, Too!)

Recent technological innovations have significantly facilitated the possibility to personalize user experience. The information required to provide them with the…

Modular Learning and Training Content with DITA XML and IXIASOFT CCMS

Modular Learning and Training Content with DITA XML and IXIASOFT CCMS

With IXIASOFT CCMS and DITA XML, training developers can reuse and repurpose learning objects and technical content in the training…

A Year at IXIASOFT: Looking Back at 2019

A Year at IXIASOFT: Looking Back at 2019

As we turn over into a new year (and decade!), it’s time to look back at 2019 from start to…