acrolinx product retrospective - sept 2014

Acrolinx Product Retrospective

Ashish AgrawalJames Longbotham

Olivia Voils

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

The following is intended to outline our generalproduct direction. It is intended for informationpurposes only, and may not be incorporated into anycontract. It is not a commitment to deliver anymaterial, code, or functionality, and should not berelied upon in making purchasing decisions. Thedevelopment, release, and timing of any features orfunctionality described for Acrolinx’s productsremains at the sole discretion of Acrolinx.

Agenda

Acrolinx 4.0 Release

Acrolinx 4.1 Release

Acrolinx Integrations

ACROLINX 4.0 RELEASE

Acrolinx 4.0 Highlights

Voice Scores

Acrolinx Analytics

Terminology

Rule Contexts

New “Scorecard”

Voice ScoresCreate More Engaging Content

Voice Scores: Create More Engaging Content

Measure tone of voice

Show writers where they fall short

Consistently maintain your “brand voice”

Deliver more engaging content

Acrolinx shows writers how their content

ranks against targets.

DEMO: ENGLISH VOICE

Acrolinx AnalyticsEnterprise-Class Reporting

Acrolinx Analytics: Meet Executive Needs

New enterprise-class reporting capabilities– Metrics that executives

expect & demand

Improved user experience & performance

Replacement for “Reporting” functionality– If you’re licensed for

Reporting, then you get Analytics

– If you’re not, please talk to your Acrolinx account manager

Twelve Standard Reports

New reports on cost savings, quality, usage

Assess results against goals

Calculate cost savings / ROI

Identify problems for translation

Report Details (1 of 2)

Distribution of checks by document type, language, plug-in, rule set, user

Metrics (words & sentences per document, flags per 1000 words, avg. sentence length, avg. score)

Checks performed per hour

Checks performed per hour

Number of flags for each rule

Top spelling issues

Report Details (2 of 2)

Quality improvement over time

Quality improvement by document

ROI (cost savings) by category

ROI (cost savings) by time period

Terminology usage grouped by status

Number of checks per month

Simple Report Generation

Choose report type

Select report parameters

TerminologyEasier & Faster Management of Terminology

Terminology: Easier & Faster

Terms displayed in infinitely scrolling list (no longer paged)– Easier to work with

long lists

Grouping and in-place editing– No need to leave list

view, which reduces picks and clicks

Can “group” terms in list view– Can easily see related

terms, which simplifies mass changes

Rule ContextsEasily Adapt Acrolinx to Parts of Your Content

Rule Contexts

With administrative privileges, you can enable/disable rules for specific portions (“contexts”) of document– Example: use

imperative in procedures

Enable/disable rules through Dashboard– Quick & simple

Previously, only Acrolinx Professional Services could set up rules for specific contexts

ScorecardReplaces Checking Report & Results Dialog

Scorecard

Tabs brings you quickly to

area of interest.

Hover to see list of most

frequent issues.

ACROLINX 4.1 RELEASE

German Voice

Measure tone of voice

Show writers where they fall short

Consistently maintain your “brand voice”

Deliver more engaging content

Terminology Management

Simpler Tabbed Layout

Instant Saving

Ability to customize layout of Term Edit Page

Add/Delete Comments on Term Edit Page

Term Aggregation

Web based UI

Combine harvested terms into a single file.

Automatic removal of duplicate and variant terms

Import into Excel

Other Features

SEO – Check for variants

Voice Scores in Scorecards

Terminology Backup

Platform Additions

– MS Windows Server 2012

– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64)

– MS Windows 8.1

DEMO: TERMINOLOGY UI

ACROLINX INTEGRATIONS

Roadmap - Integrations

Q1 2014 Q2 2014 Q3 2014

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

IBM WCM .

Serna 3.8

CORENA Studio 4.1 CK Editor

Adobe CQ

ArborText

MadCap Flare.

SDL LiveContent

LiveContent2013 SP4/ 2014

Editors supported:

– ArborText

– XMetaL

– oXygen

SDL World Server

Re-use of existing translations

Requires Enrich 2.0

TMS integration coming later in year.

DEMO: FrameMaker12 + SDL WORLDSERVER

Q&A Thank You!