DITA Testimonials tracks endorsements from organizations and individuals around the globe.

(Listed in alphabetical order by organization name.)

Blast Radius

"While DITA was conceived for tech pubs, its benefits make it well-suited for other types of content, particularly the kinds of granular, customer-facing content that we typically see on the web.   For example, product or services descriptions, reviews, and FAQs are inherently topic-oriented, but today are implemented in ad hoc or proprietary formats. Companies can benefit using DITA specializations for these types of content through streamlined flow of content within and across enterprises and between systems, and the lower costs of localization.  And because of these benefits, we expect to see DITA applied to a number of scenarios, such as e-Learning, CRM, and e-Service.  We may even see industry-specific DITA specializations for enabling unstructured content interchange between trading partners, such as the syndication of product descriptions between manufacturers and retailers."
-- Paul Wlodarczyk, Director, ECM Strategy, Blast Radius Inc.

Comtech Services
"At Comtech, we are pleased to support the development of OASIS DITA. As a topic-based information architecture, DITA provides a standard for the development of technical information. We rigorously promote DITA to the professional information-development community and to any organization that needs to communicate succinct, focused content to readers. In partnership with IBM, Comtech helped to promote DITA and found the OASIS DITA Technical Committee and the DITA XML.org Focus Area Editorial Board."
--Dr. JoAnn T. Hackos, President, Comtech Services, Inc. and director of The Center for Information-Development Management.

Gilbane
"The emergence of DITA as a horizontal, extensible architecture for information development is significant for the broader marketplace."
--Bill Trippe, Senior Consultant, Gilbane, Inc.

IBM
"With DITA, IBM has found leverage internally for DITA to enable collaboration and reuse across product families. Also, IBM and its OEMs can finally exchange product documentation interoperably, eliminating the expensive and time-consuming conversions that typically impede the business cycle for componentized products. DITA is the foundation for collaboration that enables companies to move ahead on commonalities in information. We're also evaluating the potential to extend those benefits to educational and research material as well as any other structured material."
--Dave Schell, IBM's corporate lead for User Technology Strategy and Tools, and management owner of IBM's internal DITA implementation

Idiom
"DITA 1.0 is an important step in the ongoing adoption of this important standard, both from a content development and publishing perspective. We believe strongly in the efforts of OASIS and the organization's ability to garner consensus around important XML standards like DITA. Idiom is committed to helping raise visibility of the significant advantages in cost, quality and time-to-market associated with this compelling architecture, especially the ability to accelerate the move to structured XML content architectures, and the simplification of content reuse on a global scale."
--Eric Silberstein, founder and CTO, Idiom Technologies

Innodata Isogen
"DITA is a solid architectural base for developing modular information systems for technical documentation. It provides many of the important features that SGML architectures were intended to provide, but in an XML-friendly way. We see DITA as leading to more robust and sustainable systems for managing modular, re-usable information assets. In addition, DITA can lower the cost of entry for modular information creation, management, and delivery in much the way DocBook does for more traditionally-structured books."
--W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Analyst, Innodata Isogen

Nokia
"Nokia is pleased to see the standardization of DITA since it supports the effective exchange and reuse of information. We have contributed to developing an open standard in this area since this will enable organization of information by topic for a broad community."
--Frederick Hirsch, Senior Architect, Nokia

OASIS
"DITA is a testament to the benefits of bringing an entire community together to develop an open standard. DITA was advanced by users of documentation, such as BMC, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, and the U.S. Department of Defense, working with product vendors like PTC (Arbortext) and Idiom, with input from consulting firms such as Innodata Isogen and others. A variety of perspectives on software development, application implementation, open source tools, training, and localization were incorporated into the open process. The result is that the DITA OASIS Standard delivers an end-to-end solution that meets the needs of the market."
--Patrick Gannon, president and CEO, OASIS

PTC (Arbortext)
"Arbortext enthusiastically participated in making DITA an OASIS Standard, and we started delivering support for DITA in our enterprise publishing software last year. We have high expectations for the widespread implementation and use of DITA."
--Paul Grosso, Vice President of Research and Co-founder, Arbortext