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Articles

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.

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Case Studies

Meeting the Global Journals Publishing Challenge: Wolters Kluwer Health

Over the course of several months for the initial rollout and refinement phases that followed, 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.

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Data Sheets

About Flatirons Solutions Content Management Practice

A brief overview of Flatirons Solutions and it's core Content Management competencies.

Marketing Campaign Management Framework

Flatirons Solutions has developed an offering that provides organizations a set of powerful capabilities to
manage their marketing campaigns and digital assets in the same system. The Flatirons Solutions Marketing
Campaign Management Framework (MCMF) is built on the enterprise class, industry leading EMC Documentum
Digital Asset Management solution.

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Demos

Technical Publishing Solution (TPS) Overview

The Technical Publishing Solution, or TPS, is an extension to the Documentum platform that leverages DITA to transform the way technical documentation is managed, shared, accessed, and published. In this multimedia demonstration, you'll see how TPS applications, objects, and best practices help publishing organizations create and deliver information in a wide variety of formats including Online Help, HTML, PDF, and others.

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.

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Solution Briefs

Business Information Publisher (ECM)
This business information publisher needed to migrate existing CMS content from a legacy VAX system to a leading edge Documentum-based system while improving workflow efficiency.

Business Information Publisher (Workflow Solution)
This project required the automation of the journal workflow to improve time to market.

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White Papers

An XML Document Standards Interoperability Framework

Presentation from DITA West, October 2007.

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