Content Management

Are you reusing and managing content?

In today’s knowledge-based economy, the organizations that capture, communicate, and manage information most efficiently gain the competitive advantage. 

Structured authoring—or the process of systematically organizing information into independent units that can be easily accessed, managed, and reused—helps organizations grow revenue, reduce costs, and minimize risk.

Making the Shift to Structured Authoring
But making the shift from traditional writing to structured authoring can be challenging.  To streamline the content creation, management, and publishing process, both authors and managers need

• new tools
• new skills, and
• a new understanding of their roles and the nature of the information they produce.

Creating and Managing Structured Content
Storing and managing structured content in a central repository and publishing it from a single source will help you

• minimize content development, customization, translation, and maintenance costs
• increase operating efficiency
• reduce performance errors, and
• ensure safety, security, quality, and compliance.

How We Can Help
We can help you

• define and implement your content management and reuse requirements, architectures, and standards
• create metadata models, model documents, and templates to guide authors
• create or restructure your content to meet your new standards and requirements
• teach your authors what they need to know to create and maintain your reusable, structured content, and
• implement a content management system that
  • lets authors create structured content in a familiar, Microsoft Word-based, environment
  • provides a central content repository to safeguard documents
  • guides content through the development and approval process, and
  • publishes content form a single source so that it is easily accessible for different audiences in multiple formats

Learn More
To learn more:

• Sign up for our free 1-hour Webinar Structured Authoring and Information Reuse: What Authors and Managers Need to Know
• Download and read our white papers:
  • It's All in the Swing: Golf & Information Management
  • The Top 10 Things the DITA People Aren't Telling You and the Truth about DITA and Information Mapping
  • Information Mapping’s Solution to Optimizing Content Management: Or, What We Learned From DBMSs
  • Content Management System Survey
• View our Structured Authoring Solution Sheet that describes our content development and management tools, professional services, and training
• Schedule a “get acquainted” session with one of our consultants and get a free review and assessment of a sample of your content , or
• Contact us to discuss your specific challenges and requirements.