Test Drive DITA with Stilo Migrate

Presenting The Business Case for Single-Source Publishing

The prospect of single-source publishing has for a long time been the Holy Grail for managers of technical information publishing services.

The business benefits are compelling:

• Content re-use leads to massive productivity gains (up to 80%) within the authoring team, and helps realise the value of an organisation's content assets. It's undoubtedly a well-kept secret that an organisation's content assets can be worth many millions of dollars.
• Content can be published to the web instantaneously, eliminating previous publishing bottlenecks, and reducing time to market for new products.
• Compliance and legal requirements can be readily adhered to, with global publishing changes rapidly implemented.
• Demands for content exchange with supply chain and trading partners can be quickly met.
• Timescales for the localisation of products can be significantly reduced, and new market opportunities better exploited.

The problem for many managers is that making the business case to executive management, and proving the case with a well-constructed pilot programme, can be a daunting and costly exercise. It is often impossible to realise in parallel with the daily demands of meeting challenging production deadlines and keeping operating costs to a minimum.

Historically it has involved extensive use of specialist consultants, migration of legacy content, selection of specialist component content management systems, trialling and development of content models, author training, integration with corporate IT, etc. It can be easily understood why such an undertaking can readily take one or two years to accomplish, with considerable associated costs involved.

With Stilo Migrate, we can help customers prove the case for single-source publishing in a matter of months rather than years, and at a fraction of the costs otherwise involved.

Using Stilo Migrate, it is possible to generate a substantial return on investment within a 12-month period, with ongoing annual savings contributing significantly to improved bottom line performance.

You will likely be pleasantly surprised at how quickly the case can be proven, and how relatively little it will cost you.

Introducing Stilo Migrate and DITA

Stilo Migrate is the world's first on-demand content migration service, enabling users to upload source documents via the web, and through a series of easy-to-follow steps, generate high quality XML DITA components.

The Migrate Content Repository is at the heart of the migration process, and following successful content migration, can be used to host an integrated DITA authoring environment, where users can rapidly begin to test-drive DITA using their existing documentation and preferred authoring tools.

The Stilo Migrate service enables all of this to happen online, avoiding the need for major upfront investments in software, training and consulting services. Why spend time re-inventing the wheel, when Stilo can distil almost two decades of leading content processing experience, into a low-cost, easy-to-access service which can be utilised immediately?

Migrate will enable you to:

• Migrate existing documents to DITA components
• Test Drive the system using an integrated DITA authoring environment
• Refine DITA content models to suit your particular use
• Publish Test Results
• Integrate with corporate publishing systems
• Prove the DITA business case

What are the costs involved?

If you engage with us on our Migrate beta test program, we will, in return, provide the Migrate service free of charge for a limited period of time, migrating up to 200 pages from either Word or FrameMaker formats into DITA content components.

In parallel, you may choose to use your own resources for completion of the pilot steps outlined above. Alternatively, you can engage with Stilo consultants to assist you in your migration process.

Apply to join the Migrate beta test program

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