Multi-Channel Publishing On-Demand
Keeping technical and product information up-to-date in multiple languages in a global market driven by shortening sales cycles is a serious challenge. Manually updating complex information including product specifications, data sheets, application briefs, design manuals, and troubleshooting guides is time-consuming and expensive to the point of being impractical. In an effort to cut printing and distribution costs while increasing information quality and team productivity, manufacturers need a cost-effective way to deliver to multiple formats-both print and electronic.
Astoria On-Demand's industry leading Dynamic Product Documentation solutions dramatically reduce the burden of publishing to multiple formats. Using Astoria On-Demand, product documentation teams can edit, review, and approve changes to discrete, logical document components. Using Astoria On-Demand, users can author content components once, manage them centrally, repurpose them into multiple documents and publish in either electronic or hard-copy formats.
KEY COMPONENTS OF ASTORIA ON DEMAND'S MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING SOLUTION INCLUDE:
Astoria Filtered Publisher:
enables organizations to generate operations manuals dynamically and customize them to a specific set of requirements for each unique customer
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Feature |
Benefit |
| Enhanced Quality |
Any change made to a document or content element can be applied across all media, making changes fast and accurate. |
Provides consistency across media whether content is delivered via paper, PDF, CD-ROM, or Web format |
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| Increased Productivity |
Supports publishing on Web sites through Web-based applications, to mobile electronic devices (such as PDAs, aviation cockpit information displays, or manufacturing maintenance aids), to composition engines such as Arbortext E3 or as PDF documents. |
Easily repurpose content to multiple media channels as frequently as needed without requiring editorial or manual rework to reduce printing and distribution costs |
| Re-use and repurposing of any content element including sentences, paragraphs, values within tables, and illustrations |
Single sourced content is available to any author and can be reused across any output format, reducing time to market for initial creation and ongoing edits |
| Provides global access via a Web browser for organizations with geographically dispersed documentation teams |
Workgroups complete projects simultaneously and in parallel across geography and time zones |
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| Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) |
Integrated authoring, repository, and publishing applications provided out of the box |
Ongoing maintenance is handled by power users rather than IT |
| Publish only the content which has changed |
Reduces printing and distribution costs |
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