2026 Participating Tools Vendors
The following companies are participating at ConVEx Pittsburgh. We encourage you to learn about what they do!
Antenna House, Inc. is a global software company that specializes in providing enterprise solutions for high volume, automated document formatting and conversion needs. Our signature product, AH Formatter, is based on the W3C recommendations for XSL-FO and CSS and has long been recognized as the most powerful and proven standards based formatting software available. Today, AH Formatter is used worldwide to produce millions of pages daily in a wide range of industries including financial services, aerospace/defense, government, automotive, telecommunications, and healthcare.
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- Publish high quality PDF and printed documents from XML, DITA, HTML
- Compliant with W3C standards for XSL-FO, CSS, MathML, SVG, Unicode, and supports over 70 languages
- PDF5-ML plugin for easy integration, more powerful, and easier to use than the default DITA-OT PDF plugin
- Excellent technical support with fast response time and ability to assist clients with any inquiry or request
General Info
- Website: www.antennahouse.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/antennahouseusa
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/antenna-house-inc
Company Overview
Adobe is transforming the world through digital experiences.
We help organizations scale intelligent content management for documentation, knowledge, and support. Global brands trust Adobe Experience Manager Guides—our AI-powered, cloud-native CCMS—to streamline content production and deliver consistent, engaging experiences across every touchpoint. Email us to learn more: [email protected]
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Company Overview
For over 35 years, Comtech Services has helped our clients design, create, and publish information products that meet their users’ needs. We offer a combination of training and consulting services to help you define and implement the infrastructure needed to meet the expectations of both your leadership and your users. At every point in the information development life cycle, we offer expert advice and guidance to help you improve your processes, get to know your audience, fine-tune your content, and use the latest standards and technologies. From process maturity assessments to information models to stylesheets, you’ll find the support and training you need from our knowledgeable consulting team.
Comtech also manages the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), a member organization that facilitates sharing information about current trends, best practices, and development within the industry. We provide networking opportunities, host conferences and events (like ConVEx), lead roundtable discussions, and publish newsletters.
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- We work with hundreds of organizations from various industries and authoring environments; whether it’s DITA or not, we help our clients improve their content, taxonomy, and processes.
- Our consultants conduct regular public and custom in-house workshops that expose them to a wide variety of companies, each having unique environments, challenges, and content strategies.
- As premier providers on minimalism and DITA training, we share our knowledge with hundreds of people a year – educating ~5000 in our 35-year history.
- Through CIDM, we gain unique insights into industry trends by running events and conferences, conducting annual surveys, and hosting monthly roundtable discussions.
- Being vendor agnostic, we provide non-bias support to our clients looking to adopt new tools or change platforms.
General Info
- Website: www.comtechservices.com
- Twitter: @Center4infoDev
- LinkedIn: CIDM Group and DITA Awareness Group
Overview
Congree is the solution provider for consistent, efficient and quality-assured content creation in companies of all industries and sizes.
Congree puts together what belongs together for the efficient creation of distinctive content: Linguistic intelligence and generative AI. Tools for authoring assistance, terminology management, quality assurance and system integration. For everyone who produces content in the company and their editors.
The result is unique content that makes a significant contribution to the identity of any company. Quality assured. Consistent in terms of content, language style, tone of voice and terminology. Legally compliant with copyright and intellectual property law. Unique Corporate Content.
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Company Overview
Since 1981, Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) has been a leader in helping organizations maximize the value of their content assets through digitization and semantic enrichment. DCL are experts in converting content to XML, DITA, S1000D, and other structured formats. Using the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, DCL helps businesses organize, structure, and process content for modern technologies and platforms. DCL’s highly automated processes improve content quality, eliminate redundancies, and expand revenue opportunities for customers.
DCL’s Harmonizer software identifies reusable and duplicate content in large collections. Once identified, DCL uses sophisticated automated technology to transform content sets to DITA or any structured markup your organization requires.
With expertise across many industries including financial, legal, government, publishing, manufacturing, technology and professional organizations, DCL uses its advanced technology and U.S.-based project management teams to solve the most complex data processing challenges securely, accurately, and on time.
DCL is a multi-year winner of EContent’s Top 100 companies.
More info at https://www.dataconversionlaboratory.com
DITA Strategies develops tailored information architecture solutions to help you future-enable your content and create new business opportunities.
Our DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) Specialists provide information architecture support for a wide variety of organizations across a range of industries, including:
• Training & education
• Technical publications
• Customer support
• Professional services, including coaching and consulting
• Marketing
Overview
Fluid Topics is an AI-powered Content Delivery Platform trusted by industry leaders for seamless publishing and exceptional customer experience. It unifies your content sources and streamlines personalized, multi-channel delivery. With Fluid Topics, your product knowledge reaches your users quickly and securely, with precision and impact, delivering outstanding user experiences and driving success for your products and services.
Visit www.fluidtopics.com
General Info
- Website: https://www.fluidtopics.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/fluid-topics/
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/fluidtopics
Company Overview
Heretto is a Component Content Management System (CCMS) that helps enterprise organizations create, manage, and publish technical documentation at scale. Built on DITA XML, it enables structured, reusable content for audiences, formats, and distribution channels.
Designed for user-friendly collaboration, Heretto allows teams to write, review, and manage content in real time, reducing silos and improving consistency. Its advanced content reuse capabilities ensure a single source of truth, enabling seamless distribution across websites, PDFs, chatbots, and more.
Heretto is ideal for enterprise companies looking to enhance customer self-service by delivering structured, searchable documentation. By streamlining workflows and automating content management, it helps reduce support costs and improve user experience.
Trusted by industries like software, finance, and manufacturing, Heretto provides robust integrations and automation features to accelerate content creation. With Heretto, teams can deliver accurate, high-quality documentation faster, ensuring users get the right information when they need it.
Intuitive Stack is a distinguished professional services firm dedicated to modernizing tools and practices for content-rich teams. Our mission is to empower organizations by enhancing their strategies, improving efficiency, and reducing friction in user assistance content creation. We provide a comprehensive suite of services, including individualized coaching, workshops, assessments, and expert guidance, spanning content strategy, user experience, information architecture, taxonomies, and content operations. With a commitment to staying up-to-date in an ever-changing landscape, we offer both ongoing consulting and project-based support.
Our team’s firsthand experience as practitioners uniquely positions us to understand your teams’ needs. We firmly believe that user assistance content is an organization’s most significant untapped asset. We have successfully supported companies from various sectors, including manufacturing, high-tech, retail, electronic health records, financial, enterprise software, security, and SaaS. We prioritize building strong relationships and educating you to ensure your long-term success.
Partner with Intuitive Stack, and let us elevate your content practices, making your organization more efficient and effective. Together, we will reduce friction in content creation and help you unlock the full potential of your user assistance content.
www.intuitivestack.io
Company Overview
At MadCap Software, we help leading companies create and manage technical documentation and learning content at scale. Our solutions streamline content creation, management, delivery, and syndication, keeping critical knowledge accurate and up to date. By structuring content for reuse and AI readiness across the enterprise, organizations reduce costs, improve efficiency, and accelerate productivity. Discover how MadCap helps modernize content operations and support what’s next. See how MadCap Software helps you harness AI and modernize your content strategy.
Website: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/madcap-software/
Overview
Metapercept is an information technology company based in India providing end-to-end DITA-XML-based technical writing solutions and services.
Metapercept has an excellent team of Technical Writers, Information Architects, Web Developers, Software Programmers, Software Testing Engineers, and Graphic Designers to execute any complex technical projects.
Metapercept has rich experience in migrating unstructured content to structured DITA-XML format, and also offers services in Web Portal, XSLT, XSL Plugin, Knowledge Management System, and Web-Based Admin Dashboard development.
Overview
Syncro Soft provides a comprehensive suite of XML authoring, developing, publishing, and collaboration tools. The products are designed to accommodate a large variety of users, ranging from non-technical users to XML experts, and integrate all the major XML-based technologies, with a special focus on DITA. Available on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc. and as desktop applications, Eclipse plugins, or browser-based tools.
The Oxygen product suite includes Oxygen XML Author for user-friendly visual XML authoring, Oxygen XML Web Author for in-browser editing and reviewing, the easy-to-use and flexible Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform, Oxygen PDF Chemistry for obtaining PDF using CSS styles, Oxygen WebHelp for responsive HTML5, Oxygen Feedback flexible commenting platform, Oxygen Publishing Engine and Oxygen Scripting for automating publishing, validation, and other tasks. Customizing XML applications can be done with Oxygen XML Developer and Oxygen XML Editor, provides an all-in-one comprehensive XML authoring, publishing, and development tool.
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- Cross-platform and cross-device tools for all aspects of working with DITA and XML including authoring, collaboration, publishing, and development.
- Transparent pricing (generally available on our website).
- Great technical support.
- Complete DITA editing support.
- Support for connecting to many version control systems and CMSs, and integrated by all major DITA CCMSs.
General Info
- Website: oxygenxml.com
- Twitter: @oxygenxml
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oxygenxml/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/syncro-soft/
ProSpring’s mission is to connect thriving, expanding organizations with highly qualified candidates so both are happy with the match.
As a Computer Engineer leading a development team in a Fortune 100 tech company, ProSpring’s founder saw the need for a staffing agency that has recruiters who really understand the positions they fill and who excel at submitting only highly-qualified candidates.
For the past 28 years, ProSpring has been doing just that.
Need highly qualified candidates for your contract or perm positions?
Contact us, we can help!
Ryffine is a full-service structured content consulting firm helping to modernize the business of technical communications, one team at a time. We help develop and deploy the best techniques for delivering a state-of-the-art customer experience, whether you are just starting your business case or are optimizing and maturing your processes. The result is a modern, scalable, and sustainable content infrastructure that adds value for customers and company, and grows careers.
Overview
RWS is the global leader in content management and translation technology and services. 90 of the top 100 global companies work with RWS. Tridion Docs provides streamlined end-to-end component content management. It includes easy web-based authoring, reviewing, versioning, translation, and publication management, underpinned by the DITA XML standard. As a true collaborative environment with a familiar Microsoft Word-style interface, subject matter experts (SMEs) in your organization can contribute their knowledge.
Authors and reviewers can work simultaneously in the same document providing comments to each other, tracking and merging changes. Tridion Docs supports global enterprise use cases including single sourcing, product documentation, learning and training, policies and procedures, and efficient translations with delivery to multiple end points such as documents, PDFs, knowledge portals, Intranet, customer facing websites, apps, chatbots, and IoT devices.
General information:
Website: tridion.com
Linkedin: Tridion
Twitter: @rwsgroup
Overview
Stilo provides exceptional tools to help organizations implement structured content solutions using XML. Our tools help automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions.
Products include OmniMark, a specialist programming language for developing high-performance XML/SGML content processing applications; Migrate, a unique cloud service that enables technical authoring teams to automate the conversion of their content to DITA and custom XML, and OptimizeR, a content optimization tool that enables users to automatically identify reuse potential across their DITA content and publish more consistent content, faster.
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- Conversion Automation: With the use of our unique rules editor you can modify and refine your conversion rules, ensuring high quality & consistent conversion results each time.
- Secure Migration: Using our self-serve migration portal, you can ensure that your information remains safe & secure during the migration process.
- Pay-As-You-Use: Maintain better control over your budget & expenses when converting to DITA using our credit-based payment system.
- Deduplication: Significantly reduce the amount of content that needs to be maintained or translated on an ongoing basis by deduplicating your DITA using our OptimizeR tool.
General Info
- Website: www.stilo.com
- Twitter: @StiloInt
- LinkedIn: Stilo International
- YouTube: StiloInternational
Overview
The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) brings together the most highly skilled and talented managers in the field of information development from across the US and internationally to facilitate the sharing of information about current trends, best practices, and developments within the industry, from information development to training and support. Comtech Services manages CIDM.
CIDM is an organization dedicated to helping advance the profession of information development worldwide. Through CIDM, information professionals can communicate with each other regularly and learn about each other’s successes, problems, and innovations.
Membership benefits include:
- Management round table discussions
- Conference passes and discounts
- Workshop discounts
- Members-only Slack workspace
- Subscription to the Best Practices newsletter
- Access to information development advise
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- CIDM is the only member organization focused on both management and technical issues associated with information-development.
- Our member diversity is amazing! We have teams with less than five members to teams with almost two hundred — teams using DITA and team who do not — teams writing about medical devices, medical software, networking components, semiconductors, industrial equipment, consumer products, financial software, financial policies, software-as-a-service and much more.
- CIDM is an essential forum for staying connected to industry leaders and peers in other organizations and provides vital information that helps you to stay on top of best practices and trends.
- CIDM enables knowledge-sharing and professional collaboration that spans all aspects of technical communication, from writing and development processes to user experience, change management, performance, academic research, and fostering innovation across a global workforce.
Representatives attending ConVEx
- Dawn Stevens, President and Director of CIDM: [email protected]
- Brianna Stevens, Senior Consultant: [email protected]
- Dana Aubin, Senior Consultant, [email protected]
- Lisa Lambert, Events Coordinator, [email protected]
- Trish Grindereng, CIDM Member Liaison, patricia[email protected]
- Sam Thomas, Consultant, [email protected]
Questions Attendees Should Ask us when Visiting our Booth or Slack Channel
- What topics covered in the monthly managers’ roundtable sessions?
- Tell me about your fall Best Practices conference and how does it differ from ConVEx?
- Why should I join CIDM? Is there an ROI I can show my management to justify the membership?
- Are there membership levels based on the size of my organization?
- What’s the difference between CIDM and Comtech Services?
Interesting Trivia
- Dawn has a collection of over 3000 Christmas ornaments and has visited every Disney park in the world.
- Brianna earned a Master’s Degree in Interior Architecture & Product Design without getting an undergraduate degree.
- Lisa is a woodworker (creating small furniture and home décor items) and a licensed manicurist.
- Kristi has been at Comtech the longest, currently at 34 years. She is a 2nd generation Norwegian, has traveled to all 50 states and has a twin brother. Her favorite pastime is boating and reading.
General Info
- Website: www.InfoManagementCenter.com
- Twitter: @Center4infoDev
- LinkedIn: CIDM Group and DITA Awareness Group
If you are interested in Exhibiting at this event or others, please contact us.