MAIDENHEAD, England, Dec. 14,
2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SDL, (LSE: SDL) the leading
provider of Global Information Management solutions, today
announced the new release of its award-winning structured
content suite for S1000D, the XML standard for technical
documentation, to help accelerate time-to-market for mission
critical information in the aerospace and defense industries.
The new suite includes significant enhancements to both SDL
Contenta®, SDL's common source database (CSDB) for managing
S1000D content, as well as SDL LiveContent™, SDL's application for
managing Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM). The
enhancements were developed through interaction with focus groups
made up of writers, project managers and publication managers who
work with and support S1000D projects. The result of this
collaboration is an automated and streamlined user experience that
delivers increased productivity and accuracy throughout the content
creation, publication and delivery process.
The new release of SDL Contenta S1000D 5.0 puts unparalleled
quality assurance tools directly in the hands of the authors and
editors who work with the content at the earliest stages of the
content lifecycle. These capabilities allow writers to identify and
correct missing or invalid references, non-compliant Business
Rules, and configuration information which is not correct. A new
SDL application called Applicability Assistant reduces the
complexity of creating and managing product configurations while
empowering technical writers and managers to easily create,
preview, and deploy both Data Module level and content level
configurations.
The release also includes SDL's BREX Checker, the industry's
first tool for validating multi-layered Business Rules. This new
version of the BREX Checker is now available from within the SDL
Contenta S1000D 5.0 editor application and has reporting features
to help ensure compliance with contract Business Rules.
Responding to market demands, SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.0 expands
delivery capabilities for interactive electronic manuals (IETM)
with:
- iPad® support to offer flexible, mobile access to critical
content
- The ability to suspend and resume an IETM session in context,
providing an effective and convenient mechanism for system
operators and maintainers to work in tandem on procedures, as well
as suspend procedures while waiting for replacement parts
"The openness of the SDL LiveContent API and the unique tracking
capabilities inherent in its audit trail functionality not only
address our customer's needs for Type II S1000D IETMs, but also
offer a flexible platform to integrate with other mission critical
business information systems, providing the ability for us to
automatically capture software quality assurance metrics," said
Gloria Dennard, site manager, Upper
Mohawk. "SDL LiveContent has opened up a world of possibilities
that we hadn't even dreamed of previously."
Both SDL Contenta and SDL LiveContent offer a consistent and
intuitive user interface that produces faster navigation, enhanced
sorting and filtering, and labor saving one-click actions. These
cross- platform interface enhancements assure a uniform user
experience and include common functionality that decreases user
training requirements.
For additional information about these product releases, or to
learn how SDL can help you with your S1000D programs, please visit
www.sdl.com/s1000dresources.
About SDL
SDL is the leader in Global Information Management. Global
Information Management enables companies to engage with their
customers throughout the customer journey –from brand awareness, to
sales and after-sales support– and across languages, cultures and
channels.
SDL's best-of-breed Web Content Management, eCommerce, Structured
Content and Language Technologies, combined with its Language
Services drive down the cost of content creation, management,
translation and publishing. SDL solutions increase conversion
ratios and customer satisfaction through targeted information
across all customer touch points.
Global industry leaders who rely on SDL include ABN-Amro, Bosch,
Canon, CNH, FICO, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, KLM, Microsoft,
NetApp, Philips, SAP and Sony. SDL has over 1500 enterprise
customers, has deployed over 170,000 software licenses and provides
access to on-demand portals for 10 million customers per month. It
has a global infrastructure of more than 60 offices in 35
countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com.
SDL Europe and Corporate Headquarters - Amy Hall
+44 (0)1628 410120
amyhall@sdl.com
SDL Americas - Mary Parsons
+1 781 756 5454
mparsons@sdl.com
SDL ASIA Pacific - Richard
Delanty
+81 90 6695 5313
rdelanty@sdl.com
SOURCE SDL