Articles

Software-as-a-Service: Changing The Benefit Packages IT Organizations Offer

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

Prediction: Hosted software solutions (software provided as a service on the web—aka Software-as-a-Service) will introduce the need for new vacation and benefit packages, something many human resource managers have yet to realize. ...

Filed under: Software as a Service

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

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

Author IT Ditches The Desktop: New Hosted Solution Announced

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Author-it Live, a new version of the technical content creation and management software that now runs in a web browser. Responding to “major trend towards remote working, and outsourcing”, Author-it leaders asked their ...

Filed under: Content Management : Hosted Solutions : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Author-it

Google Gears Enables Web Applications To Work Offline

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Ever since the advent of the web-based software application, users have complained about the inability to use the tools while not connected to the Internet. Those days are gone. Enter Google Gears, an open source web browser extension (Windows, Macintosh and Linux) ...

Filed under: Software as a Service

Web Content Management: Is Your Data SaaSafe?

Friday, February 23, 2007

By Diane Wieland, special to TheContentWrangler.com

Shopping for a content management system (CMS) can be challenging. With hundreds of self-defined CMS vendors offering myriad solutions to choose from, it’s safe to say that selecting the right system for the job can ...

Filed under: Content Management : Software Vendors : Web Content Management : Security : Software as a Service

Save Time With Online Meeting Management Services

Saturday, November 18, 2006

If you’re like most, you try to use email as a productivity tool. You know the drill. You’ve got something important to communicate, so you whip off a quick email and shoot it out to your list. This is an excellent approach for sending out announcements, or for basic ...

Filed under: Software as a Service : Meeting Wizard