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Astoria Software webinars provide our customers, prospects, and channel partners with insight and thought leadership on mission critical trends in XML content management and DITA enablement. Webinars are scheduled approximately every 6 to 8 weeks. If you would like to be notified of the next webinar, please click here to register.

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Globalization Meets Content Management: A Best-of-Breed SaaS Approach
Learn How ITT Uses Content Management to Remain Competitive

Globalization has put a huge demand on manufacturing resources. Manufacturers are scrambling to find a way to produce multilingual product documentation that meets customer demands for simplified information. If these expectations are not met, you can quickly lose clients to global-ready competitors.

During this informative Webinar featuring Bjorn Von Euler, Director of Corporate Communications for ITT-a leading global engineering and manufacturing corporation- we will examine the business drivers that lead ITT to a globalized SaaS solution that allowed them to:

  • Implement a sensible, scalable solution
  • Leverage SaaS solutions to control global content
  • Reduce production costs while increasing customer satisfaction
  • Speed time to market

Bjorn will be joined by a panel of industry experts including Frank Miller, senior consultant for Comtech Services and specialist in the design, development and implementation of enterprise content management and DITA solutions. The panel will share helpful insights into attainable, fast documentation solutions that meet the increasing need for globalized product documentation and simplified, straight-forward customer communications.

Don't miss this valuable chance to learn how you can help your management team solve the pains of globalized content management and positively impact your organization's bottom line.

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Where Do We Go From Here? A Roadmap to CMS Success
Expert Advice to Get You & Your Organization in the Single-Source CMS Fast Lane

You already know the value of migrating content to XML, the benefits of structured authoring and writing to the DITA information standard to make your organization's technical publications processes more efficient. You've even spent time investigating content management systems and tools.

But how do you engage your organization to actually start the process and implement change so you can reap the benefits?

Gain the key milestones you need for a fast, successful CMS project:
  • How to get executive buy-in and ROI metrics
  • Strategy considerations around a CMS
  • Best practices on organizational change
  • How new information standards like DITA make sense for technical publications
  • How to utilize new "software as a service" solutions that eliminate long, costly CMS projects

Join The Gilbane Group's Mary Laplante, a 20-year industry expert in change management and publishing solutions, along with Astoria Software, the leader in structured content management solutions, to get a real-world practical perspective that will keep you moving towards your goal of automating and accelerating your CMS project.

Learn how content professionals get buy-in by tying content management investments to corporate objectives, such as improving time-to-publish so products get to market faster, with better content quality and consistency across your global documentation.

Mary and Chip will provide a roadmap of practical, proven considerations to accelerate your structured CMS to ensure your organization and team members have the support and information they need to get you to your goals fast and efficiently.

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Turning Promises into ROI with Enterprise Collaboration:
Why Micron Adopted Content Re-use to Lower Product Documentation Costs and Speed Time-to-Market

Join a panel of leading product documentation experts-including information architecture guru Dr. JoAnn Hackos-and gain insights into dynamic publishing solutions adopted by Fortune 500 companies to control operational efficiencies, improve production cycles and reduce overhead.

John Waddell from Micron Technology-the world's leading provider of advanced semiconductor solutions-will examine the causes and conditions that drove the semiconductor giant to adopt a single-source information model and outline the benefits of content re-use, including:

  • Faster time-to-market by leveraging content re-use across the enterprise
  • Lower product documentation and localization costs
  • Optimal operational efficiencies to improve content quality and consistency
  • Improved review and approval cycles via global collaboration

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Why VPs Fear Documentation

Your company's new product is ready to ship - but where is the documentation? If you are like most managers, you can't scale your staff to match aggressive release dates, nor do you have mechanisms in place to handle obstacles like seamless translation into multiple languages. And, you and your VP are painfully aware that every day the product doesn't ship is a loss of revenue!

Join Astoria, NCR Teradata, and Dr. JoAnn Hackos to hear how DITA, an information standard adopted by leading organizations for technical documentation, is allaying these fears and improving time-to-market for products.

During this Webinar you will learn how to adopt the latest product documentation advancements to:

  • Reduce time-to-market by leveraging existing content resources
  • Gain more control and visibility into document creation and management
  • Create better documents in less time, with less effort, and lower production costs

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Using XML for Global Product Information Publishing: The Road to Success at Siemens Medical Solutions

Astoria, SDL, and guest host Frank Gilbane, publisher of The Gilbane Report, presented:
  • The latest trends in information management
  • Why standardize on DITA
  • How to leverage XML for global information management
  • How an effective information architecture can help you reach global markets

Siemens Medical Solutions Case Study--Follow the road to success from strategy to publishing solution for 2,200 product documents in over 22 languages.

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Contact an Astoria representative to learn more at 650-357-7477, or complete a web inquiry form.

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