Webtrends Julia Pond
Julia Pond
Information Architect
Webtrends
“We used Migrate for a small project to convert an 800 page document from FrameMaker to DITA. The output we received was just beautiful – to get our content back so quickly and in such a polished state was fantastic, better than I ever thought possible.”
STMicroelectronics Sheila D’Annunzio
Sheila D’Annunzio
Head of Technical Documentation
STMicroelectronics
“Unlike conventional conversion services, Migrate gives technical authors hands-on control over how and when they convert their content. Documents can be converted in a matter of minutes, thus avoiding the traditional content freeze – a definite plus for ST which has a large quantity of content to convert.”
Extreme Networks, Inc. Christina B. Brunk
Christina B. Brunk
Manager, Information Development
Extreme Networks, Inc.
“Our biggest challenge was time. We could not give up our files for several weeks during the ongoing product development process. When we learned about Migrate, it sounded too good to be true. Our previous conversions were not only incredibly long and expensive, they required several back-and-forth iterations to finalize output, which made the process even longer. In the end, we still ended up with quite a bit of manual clean-up to do. With Migrate, we delivered files and had them returned within 2 days. We found a few small tweaks so we ran them through the automated tool again and we have a finished XML delivery that works well with our CMS. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
TOA Technologies Will Claxton
Will Claxton
Product Manager
TOA Technologies
“We were only looking to convert a small number of user guides from Word format to DITA. We considered undertaking the conversion in-house, but the overall time and cost of performing the conversion would have been too high. So we approached Stilo to manage the conversion using their Migrate service. Stilo analyzed our documents, provided sample conversion results, and during a one hour review meeting, we were able to assess the output and specify our precise requirements. Stilo then reconfigured Migrate, converted our user guides, and provided us with our final DITA output in a matter of hours. Having struggled ourselves for some two weeks, with much manual effort and frustration, to convert just one short Open Office document to DITA 1.2, we were only too aware of just how long the conversion would have taken, and how we would all have been affected, had we not gone with Stilo’s Migrate.”
GLOBALFOUNDRIES David Brown
David Brown
Technology Development Manager
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
“Stilo worked collaboratively with our technical documentation team in the United States and used its online Migrate tool to convert our documents for us. These documents were rich in terms of content, incorporating tables, images and equations. Stilo’s support has enabled us to begin our migration to a new authoring and production environment on schedule, helping us to resolve any technical issues that arose during the transition. We enjoyed working with the Stilo team and look forward to working with them again in the future.”
WEBINAR | Converting Complex Table Structures to DITA XML
Recorded on Wed, Feb 19, 2020
Our Presenters:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager, Stilo
Webinar Description:
Converting tables to XML can be a challenge. We use tables to represent tabular information, sometimes in a complex way. But we also sometimes use them to lay out content on a page in a way that makes it easier for the reader to understand the purpose of the content. So while we often need to convert complex tables with merged cells, we also often need to convert the tables to something completely different, while still preserving the context that conveys part of the meaning of the words. Fortunately we can do these types of conversions automatically, using Stilo’s Migrate.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled time, we’ll be sharing the recording with everyone who registers following the live broadcast.
IBM Case Study
Case Study
IBM Sterling Commerce
IBM Sterling Commerce successfully converted over 200 FrameMaker books (20,000 pages) to DITA over a 6-week period. Migrate enabled them to deliver high-quality content more rapidly than other approaches, while reducing conversion costs and ensuring product release schedules were met. The chart is taken from IBM presented metrics that illustrate the average hours taken per FM book, per conversion method.
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LavaCon UX 2020 | October 23-28, Virtual
We're exhibiting virtually at LavaCon UX 2020 this October 23-28, 2020.
Join Stilo at LavaCon 2020 in New Orleans by pre-registering now! LavaCon's 18th annual conference will take place on the 25-28th of October 2020 in New Orleans. The 2020 theme: Connecting Content Silos Across the Enterprise.
The 2020 Featured Speakers include:
- Meridel Walkington, Senior Content Strategist, Firefox UX, Mozilla
- Eeshita Grover, Manager of Technical Documentation, Cisco Systems
- Tim Sandfort, Senior UX Content Strategist, ExxonMobil
- Hilary Marsh, Chief Strategist, President, Content Company, Inc.
- David Dylan Thomas, Principal, Content Strategy, Think Company
- Sharon Burton, Content Management Specialist, PointClickCare
- Keith Mahoney, Technical Publications and Training Manager, Artificial Intelligence Platform Group, Intel
- And more!
Visit the conference website for further information and to register.
CIDM ConVEx | September 21-23, Virtual
CIDM and Stilo International invite you to be a part of innovating the future as we announce ConVEx – a virtual experience for content developers: September 21-23, 2020.
ConVEx will air live across global time zones to give everyone, regardless of location, an opportunity to participate in this new learning experience. ConVEx is not an online simulation of an in-person conference, but an immersive experience designed from the ground up.
ConVEx has something for everyone, including sessions on:
• Collaboration
• Content Strategy
• DITA
• Management & Metrics
• Use Cases
• User Focus Strategy
Find more information and register online at https://convex.infomanagementcenter.com/.