Test Kitchens
Join our exhibitors as they demonstrate their tools and answer your questions about how to make best use of their capabilities.
Harmonizer: The First Step in Identifying
Datazone / Miramo
MiramoPDF Workshop
This Test Kitchen includes our demo highlighting just how easy it is to customize your PDF output, followed by a Q&A session – email your PDF formatting challenges in advance of the workshop to support@datazone.com and we will give a live demonstration of how it can be handled by MiramoPDF.
Meet the presenters
Joanne Hannagen, Business Development Manager. Joanne joined Datazone 5 years ago and has a background in business and project management.
Corinna Kinchin, CTO and Co-founder of Datazone. Corinna is a graduate in Computer Science from Cambridge University and one of the lead developers of the Miramo product suite.
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Xpublisher
Efficiently Create Structured Content With Xeditor
With Xeditor, structured, semantically correct content in XML format can be created intuitively, efficiently and without technical knowledge. This way, companies are able to take advantage of all the benefits of standardized content – such as automated further processing – without the need for costly training for authors.
Meet the Presenter
Thomas Werzmirzowsky is founder and Chief Technology Officer at Xpublisher GmbH, a leading software provider specialized in the area of XML publishing. Since 2009, the company has been advising numerous leading international companies and organizations from the aerospace, technology, education, publishing, public administration and many other industries in the area of multichannel publishing and accompanying them on their way to digitization.
Paligo
Authoring, Collaboration and CX – the Three Key Experiences that Paligo Delivers.
This is your opportunity to take a look inside the industry’s most lightweight and user-friendly component content management system (CCMS). Unlike traditional solutions, Paligo is fast, easy to collaborate in, and makes documentation management a breeze.
The number one reason your customers leave is because they can’t find the answers to their questions. Stop losing business by enabling your customer support and help center teams with consistent, accessible and up-to-date documentation – in the cloud.
Meet the Presenter
Steve is the Product Evangelist at Paligo, the industry-leading platform for documentation. With
over 20 years of experience in technical writing and documentation solutions, he has extensive insight
into what it takes to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Syncro Soft / Oxygen
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 George Bina is one of the founders of Syncro Soft, the company that develops Oxygen XML suite of XML editing, authoring, development, publishing and collaboration tools. He has more than 20 years of experience in working with XML and related technologies, bringing many innovative ideas to reality and contributing to XML-related open-source projects. |
Data Conversion Laboratory
Harmonizer: The First Step in Identifying Content Redundancy
Harmonizer, by Data Conversion Laboratory, is a software application that analyzes document collections and incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) into its text analysis, using natural language processing (NLP) to identify redundant and near-redundant content in the collection. Even with the wide adoption of componentized content management and standards like XML and DITA, there is still plenty of opportunity for copies and near-copies of content to appear throughout repositories. Manually finding these duplicates in even a modestly sized content collection is a real challenge.
Harmonizer simultaneously analyzes across any file format – XML, HTML, SGML, Word, FrameMaker, InDesign, PDF, and others – and is invaluable when planning a content reuse strategy or moving content to a new platform. The software produces reports in both HTML and Excel, providing content analysis and insight to consolidate content and eliminate redundancies.
Meet the presenter
Christopher Hill has 15 years of experience in working in publishing and content management. He started his career as a high school teacher, but moved into the world of corporate training teaching a range of software and XML courses. He has written and conducted many training courses, was a founding employee of one of the first hosted content management systems, and led the user experience redesign for an enterprise CMS. He now manages the Harmonizer product for Data Conversion Laboratory.
PTC
Americas: Exploring PTC Illustration Tools
Exploring PTC Illustration Tools – An overview and demonstration of PTC Arbortext IsoDraw and Creo Illustrate looking at linked, managed CAD data sources and BOM driven parts catalogs. Enabling illustrators for technical publications to utilize accurate 3D source material is a wonderful way to extend the digital thread.
- Arbortext IsoDraw CADProcess overview
- Creo Illustrate demonstration
- PLM managed CAD sources
- BOM driven Parts Catalogs
Meet the presenter
Scott Thompson is an application engineer, with PTC, who has been specializing technical authoring solutions for the past 7 years. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Bluestream
Generating revenue from DITA
When technical documentation is just about “how to do something” there is little tangible monetary value. But when it is part of a comprehensive data flow of information from manufacturing systems through to fulfillment, that changes. Bluestream will show how enhanced integration and new functionality can increase the value of your documentation.
Meet the presenter
Rik is Sales and Marketing Director at Bluestream Software and has been working with both component content and document management solutions since 2001. During this time, he has worked with custom DTDs and Schemas, S1000D, iSpec2200 and since 2005 DITA.
His practical experience ranges from data capture/content creation through to dynamic multichannel delivery, achieved in a wide range of industries including banking and finance, manufacturing, central government and education. A keen advocate of technology and innovation Rik has taken part in multiple consultancy projects and helped formulate solutions all over the world.
Away from the office Rik is a Scout Leader working with young people and helping them to develop new skills whilst having fun.
The Schematron Method: Eliminating fat from your content
Do you wish your content was slim and fit? Do you go back to unhealthy writing habits when under pressure? Are your time commitments keeping you from exercising more rigor in your editorial passes? Could you use a personal trainer to coach and encourage you during your day-to-day efforts? Look no further! Schematron could be your answer. In this test kitchen, Comtech’s Brianna Stevens will share base recipes for implementing a personalized Schematron plan to keep your content in tip-top shape. Let her show you how the Schematron method has helped hundreds of your peers in catching and purging common mistakes before they have a chance to take hold in published content.
Meet the presenter
Brianna Stevens joined Comtech as a Consultant in 2015 and immediately became an expert in creating and implementing DITA constraints. Brianna’s design education gives her unique insight into visualizing the content challenges facing our customers. Her outgoing personality puts people at ease, making her an ideal consultant to involve in user and benchmark studies and competitive analyses. In addition to consulting, Brianna does graphic design for CIDM and Comtech websites, advertisements, and publications.
Adobe
I Bet You Cannot Do That! Adobe’s CCMS
Join Bernard, Chad, and Stefan for this fast and fun stage play of 40 minutes walking through the core functionalities of Adobe’s CCMS – XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager. Get a glimpse of the powerful feature set from legacy content migration to online and offline authoring, online review, translation, publishing. Stefan will challenge Bernard and Chad and try to bring them to their and the systems limit. Will he manage to do that?
Meet the presenters
Stefan Gentz is the Senior Worldwide Evangelist for Technical Communication at Adobe, headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.
Stefan’s mission is to inspire enterprises and technical writers around the world and show how to create compelling technical communication content with the Adobe Technical Communication tools.
He is also a certified Quality Management Professional (TÜV), ISO 9001 / EN 15038 auditor, ISO 31000 Risk Management expert, and Six Sigma Champion.
As a sought-after keynote speaker and moderator at conferences around the world, he travels around the globe half of the year. Besides that, he has been the European Ambassador for the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) for many years, a member of the tekom Conference Advisory Board for several years, and is now a member of the tekom iiRDS working group for Intelligent Information and member of the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee.
In 2016, Stefan Gentz was awarded by MindTouch as one of the Top 25 Leading Content Strategist Influencers in the world and as one of the Top 25 Content Experience Influencers in the world in 2017.
Chad Dybdahl is a Solution Consultant at Adobe, headquartered in San Jose, CA, USA.
Chad Dybdahl is a Solutions Consultant for Technical Communication at Adobe. Chad helps organizations around the world craft a vision for their content strategy with an eye towards future delivery platforms. Chad lives in Wisconsin with his wife, daughter, and two dogs. In his spare time, he enjoys tinkering with home automation, restoring vintage hi-fi equipment, and gardening.
Bernard Aschwanden is the CEO at Publishing Smarter, a service provider specialized in content creation, management, and distribution, headquartered in Barrie, Canada.
Bernard Aschwanden and his company Publishing Smarter help clients reduce costs and improve the quality of content. A past President of the Society for Technical Communications, he trains, writes, and presents on communications, publishing, and single-source reuse. Publishing Smarter helps companies automate content processes to publish better, faster, and smarter and provide a maximum return on investments.
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Nolwenn Kerzreho is IXIASOFT’s technical account manager for EMEA and has over a decade of experience in the technical communication industry. An international speaker and author, Nolwenn helps documentation teams industrialize, rationalize and automate their documentation production to publish to web, mobile and print faster, enhance content consistency, reduce time-to-market and costs within controlled processes.
You can usually find Nolwenn behind her desk, at the IXIASOFT booth or speaking at various industry events, visiting customers around Europe or teaching at University Rennes 2, where she introduced the new curriculum for technical communication in 2012. Based in France, Nolwenn has international work experience in the chemical, Telecom, language, and high-tech industries.
Robert Bredlau is a strategic business professional with over 20 years of experience. Before joining IXIASOFT, he was a member of the executive team at companies like Acrolinx, e-Spirit, and Day Software (acquired by Adobe), and led the international business transformation across Europe and the United States.
Nolwenn & Robert present in a European Prime Time session.
Sharon Figueira has worked in the technical communication domain for about 20 years, primarily working for global tier one enterprise level companies. I played a leading role in two major migrations into DITA/CCMS, first at Kodak, and secondly at Ericsson. For the last two years, I have worked for IXIASOFT as a pre-sales consultant. I live on an organic farm on a tiny island in beautiful British Columbia. Sharon presents in North America Prime Time session.
Paligo
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GlobalLink
Turn CCMS Topics into Video Experiences
Our presentation will show how the power of videos increases the adoption of and utilization of CCMS Platforms.
Specific Use Cases in the Pharma Medical Device and other verticals will be discussed in terms of instructional animated and live videos.
The unique benefit of the TXTOmedia product in conjunction with the Astoria CCMS repository is that it utilizes structured content from XML and DITA and turns the content into live video. The tech writer can utilize familiar XML to create content reuse benefits and translate into multiple languages .Users appreciate instructional videos with maximum ROI.
Meet the presenters
Michael Rosinski has lead a successful career as a technology executive in the enterprise software industry.
Presently, Michael is President of Astoria Software which is the premier CCMS – Component Content Management System in the Technical Product Documentation Vertical. At Astoria, he was first to market to launch the Enterprise SaaS Model and Mobility Platforms. Michael merged the Goldman Sachs venture to TransPerfect, the largest private translation company in the world.
Wouter Maagdenberg (1975) started his first tech company, during his BA studies at Erasmus University in 1996. Sold his former company Calamares (Enterprise Video Content Management) to SDL plc in 2011. Left SDL in 2016 in his role as VP Media world-wide to start TXTOmedia. TXTOmedia technology transforms structured content into rich media in an automated way; i.e. procedures become interactive how-to videos on-the-fly. Wouter’s role combines product management with business development.
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