One major advantage of converting your business or product support data to digital format is the reduced cost of change management. We can develop your core content into a framework that supports customization, a wide variety of output formatting, and centralized authoring.
Customized Publishing
Interactive documents and multimedia publications can’t be edited like a traditional document because they are not linear. They blur the line between code and content because decisions are often made based on user input that may impact the sequence or appearance of the publication. Authors need to manage both so they can control what the audience sees; somehow your writers have to know when to change a script, when to change a paragraph, and when to write a new, alternative paragraph. Good content management strategies can help your writers and editors through this transition.
Antech pulls from a repertoire of content management tools and techniques, integrating where practical and developing where necessary. The trick is to tie it into your enterprise and to establish repeatable publishing processes like we did with a radio communication system operator’s manuals way back in 1995. For more than 15 years, we have produced tech manuals every month, customized to the configuration of each ship but based on a common structure.
Single-Source Electronic and Print Media
It’s always nice to get out more than you put in, isn’t it? We may not be able to double your money in the stock market, but we can double your output from a single electronic data source! Centralized content management is well-suited to propagating changes to multiple formats, each optimized for publishing on a different media platform like a desktop computer, website, mobile device, or even printed to paper.
XML/ Data Frameworks
One hot industry standard for storing, managing, distributing, and transforming content is Extensible Markup Language (XML). Antech speaks XML fluently, and it’s always nice to have a translator along when in foreign territory. As consultants to industry and Government customers, we have helped to define XML data architectures for directories, catalogs, schedules, radio systems, helicopter tech manuals, air traffic control components, shipboard maintenance management… you get the idea. And we put our money where our mouth is: we use XML extensively in our own products and solutions. We can do it for you too.
