Content Management
Flatirons Solutions led the industry in championing a Component-Based Authoring model and leveraging the flexibility of Dynamic Content Delivery. Flatirons actively participates in industry standards groups, conferences, training workshops, and webinars and has authored numerous white papers, articles, and blog discussion threads that speak to the value achieved in:
- Gaining control of content at a granular level
- Dynamically delivering relevant content to each unique customer via multiple channels
Not only does Flatirons evangelize these principles and codify best practices through standards committee work, Flatirons has a proven track record in applying these approaches in solutions for clients. Flatirons clients experience the value of these visionary approaches in achieving reduced cycle times and production costs as well as realizing new revenue streams through personalized publishing channels.
As a long-recognized visionary in the industry, Eric Severson contributes to a number of content technology blogs. These seminal discussions continue to challenge any “status quo” mentality in the industry and move the discussion to new break-through thinking among those with a passion for better managed and delivered content.
Industry Involvement
IDEAlliance
As a board member and officer, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson provides leadership to this industry consortium that supports XML and publishing industry conferences, certifications, and training. Fellow board members include executives from Time, Inc., Microsoft, McGraw-Hill, Wolters-Kluwer, R.R. Donnelly, and Conde Nast.
OASIS DocBook Technical Committee
As the Chair for DocBook for Commercial Publishing subcommittee and a standing member of the technical committee, we provide leadership in developing and maintaining the DocBook family of specifications.
OASIS DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) Technical Committee
As a member, we further the industry by supporting this technical committee's initiatives. This OASIS DITA Technical Committee is chartered to define and maintain the Darwin Information Typing Architecture and promote the use of the architecture for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies. In addition, we serve as members and leaders on the following subcommittees:
- DITA for Enterprise Business Documents technical subcommittee chartered to advance a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process.
- DITA for Learning and Training Content technical subcommittee chartered to promote best practices for applying standard DITA approaches to learning content (serve as secretary).
OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee
As a member, Flatirons supports the efforts of this technical committee chartered to standardize Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information sharing across content management repositories from different vendors
