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Sybase Selects IXIASOFT’s DITA Content Management Solution to Manage Technical Documentation

Solution chosen to support DITA-based technical documentation process

Montreal, Canada – April 7th, 2008 – IXIASOFT, the XML content management market leader, announced today that Sybase, Inc., the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, has chosen IXIASOFT’s DITA CMS Framework solution to author, manage and publish its DITA-based technical documentation.

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Bob Doyle

DITA Presentations at CMS/DITA 2008 next week

Last month I promised JoAnn Hackos I would list the DITA presentations in Santa Clara in the April DITA Newsletter.

I forgot, so here they are in my blog...

Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy
Eric Severson
Flatirons Solutions

Successful Implementations of DITA and a CMS
Chip Gettinger & Fred Lass
Astoria Software

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DITA Newsletter 1.9

DITA Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 9, April, 2008

Features in this issue

(see the web version at www.ditanewsletter.com)

  • DITA Adoption Growth Rate
  • DITA Conferences - Discounts and Free Tickets
  • Justsystems Documents as Applications
  • Leximation DITA-FMx 1.0 in Public Beta
  • Inmedius DITA Storm Developer 2.0
  • Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML Editor 3.6

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Resources for Beginners

DITA in a nutshell:

An easy tutorial at the level of "what you need to know to get started:"
* http://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/DITA/index.html 

A high-level intro:
* http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2005/10/going_dita.html

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SCHEMA: SCHEMA ST4

SCHEMA ST4 is a standard software application which you can use to create, organize and produce product information efficiently and securely. SCHEMA ST4 covers the full range of requirements and manages pre-sales information such as catalogs, as well as post-sales documents such as product documentation, training documents and contract texts.

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