Articles

The New Recipe for Pharma Success

Monday, March 03, 2008

By Paul Wlodarczyk, JustSystems

One look at the numbers reveals the high stakes game that pharmaceutical companies play in their efforts to bring new drugs to market. In the United States, the numbers include:

$800 million to $1 billion—the average cost of moving a ...

Filed under: Content Management : Life Sciences : Structured Content : Technological Innovation : XML

Is XML a Prerequisite to a Content Management System? A Point-Counterpoint Discussion

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Reprinted with permission from DCL News

While most people would agree that a Content Management System (CMS) would be good to have, how best to implement and to use a CMS is still for many a topic of confusion. In this lively discussion, Don Bridges of Data ...

Filed under: Content Management : Component Content Management : XML

XML and Office 2.0

Thursday, January 24, 2008

By Eric Severson, CTO, Flatirons Solutions

Recently there has been a flurry of activity around a concept called “Office 2.0” - another offshoot of the term “Web 2.0” - in which all traditional office applications can be replaced by online services accessible through ...

Filed under: AJAX : RSS : Software as a Service : XML

The Document as Application: The Convergence of Document Publishing and Application Development

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

By Jake Sorofman, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, North America and EMEA JustSystems

The worlds of document publishing and application development are converging. Traditionally, publishing processes focused on static documents in print, PDF, ...

Filed under: Content Management : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Mashups : Service Design : XML

Overcoming Inefficiency And Increasing Productivity: Irish Government Moves 6,500 Workers To XML

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

By Scott Abel, TheContentWrangler.com

Note: In the Spring of 2007 I was invited to Dublin to learn how the government uses technology to create its laws and regulations, and to see, up-close-and-personal, how government ministers were able to move 6,500 civil servants ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Xpress Author for Word : XML

Creating DITA Content: Who Says You Can’t Use Microsoft Word?

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

It’s a fact: Microsoft Word is a word processor. Two more facts. Microsoft has not marketed Word as an XML editor. And, they don’t plan to. Why? Because MS Word is not an XML authoring tool, no mater what your IT team—or you—may ...

Filed under: DITA : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Xpress Author for Word : XML

The Real Promise of DITA is NOT Publishing Cookbooks

Thursday, December 06, 2007

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

Structured content gurus frequently cite the creation of cookbooks as an example of the power of XML. They use recipes because—we assume—nearly everyone is familiar with the recipe as a document type and such examples may make it ...