CTO Eric Severson's "Best Practices for Component-Based Authoring" from eWeek

In this third part of a three part series, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson outlines the history and benefits of component based authoring.

CTO Eric Severson's "Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy – Working with DITA: The Author’s Perspective" from Information Management Center

In this series of articles, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson de-mystifies the DITA standard by exploring best practices from three specific points of view: that of the author, that of the content manager, and that of the globalization manager.

Meeting the Global Journals Publishing Challenge: Wolters Kluwer Health

Flatirons Solutions and WKH implemented a comprehensive set of workflow, digital asset management, and reporting capabilities that allowed WKH to meet and exceed its goals for streamlining production processes, providing greater visibility for content stakeholders into journal and article status, and reducing production costs thanks to a decrease in manual labor and fewer costly errors. This system, which was deployed successfully to WKH’s global journals workforce almost three years ago, has since been adapted for use in other leading journal publishing environments.

DITA Case Study: The Joseph Smith Papers Project

Read how XML fit into the complex workflow associated with the scholarly encoding efforts of Brigham Young University to encode the historical papers of Church of Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith.

3-D Management for Marketing

Marketing teams are increasingly at the leading edge of product rollouts. Supporting these efforts in a rapid-fire, Web 2.0 world
requires capabilities like those described here.

About the Content Technology Line of Business

A brief overview of Flatirons Solutions Content Technology Line of Business and its core competencies.

Social Media Framework Demo

The Social Media Framework is a content publishing and asset interaction reporting framework built atop the EMC Documentum Enterprise Marketing Solution. This demonstration shows how the Framework can seamlessly publish content and gather actionable market intelligence.

Breaking Content Silos

This demonstration shows how organizations can leverage the power of Mark Logic Server, SharePoint, and tools like XMetaL and MS Office to create leverage content across the extended enterprise.

Automated Bank Examiner Documentation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) charters, regulates and supervises all member banks of the National Banking System. The Communications Division produces roughly 120 publications per year, and maintains an archive of more than 1,000. OCC recognized that the current publication process is inefficient, involving largely manual processes originally designed to produce printed products.

Automatic Site-Specific TRACON Documents
This initiative involved establishing a streamlined workflow for the Center TRACON Automation System.

User Generated Content – an Evolution in Social Learning

As social learning continues to rapidly take hold, organizations are witnessing a new normal, where the definition of competence shifts from simply applying knowledge and skills to continually acquiring and adapting knowledge and skills. As a result, social networks will soon be the de-facto performance support platform, and the venue of choice for many learners seeking flexible access to targeted information at or near the point of need. This white paper explores the impact of this change in the nature of social learning, and on learning organizations.

An XML Document Standards Interoperability Framework

Presentation from DITA West, October 2007.