product content evolution the structured phase
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Product Content Maturity Model Series. Product Content Evolution The Structured Phase. Agenda. Introductions Product Content Maturity Model Overview The Autodesk Story SDL Trisoft. Our Presenters. Andrew J. Thomas Director, Product Marketing SDL. Marie Salet Principal CMS Engineer - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Product Content EvolutionThe Structured Phase
Product Content Maturity Model Series
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Agenda
IntroductionsProduct Content Maturity Model OverviewThe Autodesk StorySDL Trisoft
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Our Presenters
Andrew J. Thomas
Director, Product Marketing
SDL
Marie Salet
Principal CMS Engineer
Autodesk
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Product Content Maturity Model Overview
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Current Pressures
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• Deliver Product Content on demand• Content created and filtered for Customer Profiles
• Interactive and dynamic, while still versioned and controlled
• Incremental Updates• Analytics beyond page hits to capture “content utility”
• Enable social interactions between community and authors
• Crowd Authoring through easy WYSIWYG interface
• Branding and terminology maintained, regardless of who creates the content
• Content re-used consistently at every creation point
The Engaged Vision
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Product Content
PRODUCTCONTENT
MARKETING
SUPPORT
ENGINEERING
FIELD SERVICEPERSONNEL
TRAINING& LEARNINGPARTNERS
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Product Content Maturity Model
Structured
ContentModel
Beginning to structure Content for Product Categorizations
ProcessStructured ContentEfficiency gains in content develop and localization
ToolsXML AuthoringComponent Content Management
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Phase 2: Structured
Company Overview• Investment in structure has begun and older unstructured
content is being migrated into DITA• New writing tools are being deployed and content creators are
focused on learning new creation methods
Best Practices• Choose team evangelists that can help others with learning
curve issues• Deploy a component content management system during
migration to increase operational efficiency• Develop a content re-use/sharing methodology • Allow new roles to emerge – information architect, shared
content lead
Next Steps• Finish conversion of legacy documents• Reach out to other departments involved in product content to
determine what content can be re-used across
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• Content locked in context• Information can’t easily appear in multiple
context and can’t be tailored readily to audience
• High costs of formatting• Content gets out of synch and is difficult to
refresh• Customers can’t find what they need
• XML Topic Methodology• Content can be reshuffled for deliverable• Same content can live in multiple outputs• Content can be delivered easily as web
pages to consume• Metadata and conditions can allow content
to be tailored on the fly • Content can be easily refreshed
Traditional Book MethodologyTopic Based / DITA Methodology
Benefits of DITA
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Contracting Product Life Cycles
Research & Development
Market Life
PRDInternational
ReleaseEnglish Release Shelf Life
Trad
ition
al
Research & Development
Global Revenue & Market Capture Life
Mod
ular
writ
ing
LocalizationAuthor Review Publish
Author Review Publish Localize
Key:
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© 2009 Autodesk
The Autodesk Story: The Road to DITA
Marie SaletPrincipal CMS Engineer
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© 2009 Autodesk
The Road To DITA
About Autodesk Deciding to Move Unstructured to Structured Structured to DITA Lessons
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© 2009 Autodesk
AutodeskAutodesk is a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software.
The broadest and deepest product portfolio in the design world10 million+ users in over 800,000 companies
3,500 development partners1.2 million students trained on our products every year
6,800 Employees in 95 Locations Founded 1982
Fiscal year 2011 revenue US$1.95 billion
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Product Documentation at Autodesk
Our products are complex and require extensive documentation
Autodesk documentation regularly wins awards
Product documentation localized into up to 19 languages
High volume of source content (12 million words)
Technical writing groups decentralized
Localization is a (mostly) centralized organization
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© 2009 Autodesk
Show and Tell
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© 2009 Autodesk
Even for the web
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© 2009 Autodesk
Once upon a time, a long long time ago…
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© 2009 Autodesk
Documentation Localization
Decentralized Tech Pubs departments created documentation in many formats: RoboHELP HTML, created in Dreamweaver, HomeSite, NotePad Unstructured FrameMaker converted to HTML using WebWorks Proprietary tools
Localization challenges included: Managing manual handoffs between writers and translators Investing heavily in Tech Pubs engineering to handle diverse formats,
technical challenges Spending substantial $$ for desktop publishing
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© 2009 Autodesk
Getting Our Feet Wet
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© 2009 Autodesk
Localization Proposes Buying a TMS/CMSGOAL: Reduce localization costs and improve efficiency
Winter 2003: Start of pilot project Spring 2004: Pilot project completed Fall 2004: First major product releases in WorldServer Spring 2005: First WS cycle completed for all major products
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© 2009 Autodesk
Migrating Content to Structured
Migrating unstructured content to XML was not a trivial effort
Automated scripts and programs were developed to migrate content, but…
Extensive manual cleanup was required after content was in XML. Writers needed to do much of cleanup because they were the ones who knew the content.
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© 2009 Autodesk
Developed the CPM Data Model
Developed the CPM (Common Pubs Model), a corporate-standard XML model for technical publications in 2002/03
Supports specialization of a base element set, and makes use of the class attribute value to define specialization inheritance
CPM specialization is "additive" rather than "restrictive", however, which is more flexible but precludes content sharing via "generalization"
Can share content authored using the "base" model amongst specializations however, as is done for the I&L books
Single-sourcing managed via XML attributes (e.g. product-exclude, product-include, units, mediaExclusions)
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© 2009 Autodesk
Getting Support…and Facing Resistance Authoring Tech Pubs teams could not agree on a single data model
(DTD) Teams had to invest time and money to convert unstructured docs to
XML format Authoring teams had to learn structured authoring and drastically
change way of working
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© 2009 Autodesk
Success
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© 2009 Autodesk
Success
We can output HTML or PDF from any of our source with the click of a button or on a scheduled basis
Documentation localization costs go down on projects year over year Throughput has increased dramatically Translation memories are managed centrally and are very high
quality Localization workflow is highly automated
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Help and PDF Automation
XML repositor
y
XSLT XSL-FO
HTML PDF
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© 2009 Autodesk
Never Satisfied
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Challenge
Create an environment that provided better performance and stability for our authors. Provide better authoring tools which will enable them to focus on content development rather than fighting with the tools. Resulting in faster time to market.
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© 2009 Autodesk
Separate CMS and TMS
WorldServer is a TMS not a true CMS Versioning Link Management Assembly
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© 2009 Autodesk
Custom DTD or DITA
Supporting a custom DTD Authoring tools Rendering CMS
DITA Industry Standard Out of the Box Tools
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© 2009 Autodesk
Déjà vu
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Trisoft
Component Content Management System Versioning Workflows
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XMetal
Integrated with Trisoft DITA
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Customizations
Importer Set Metadata Publishing Environment World Server/Trisoft integration Autodesk Branding
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Support and Training
SharePoint blogs Yammer Train the trainers
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Lessons Learned
Get an Executive sponsor Manage change Don’t do everything at once Ensure a front to back strategy (including localization) Set expectations Communicate!
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© 2009 Autodesk
The Eco System
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Machine Translation
(LS-trained or LS-supported)
Translation CMSSDL
Worldserver+ TMs
Translators’ Review & Post-
editing
Content CMSSDL Trisoft
*Any* Autodesk Content
LS T
rans
latio
n Ec
osys
temCommunity
Content
Web-Based Help (WBH)
or HTML Help
Autodesk User Assistance Content
The CMS Ecosystem
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SDL Trisoft
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Stru
ctur
ed C
onte
nt In
frast
ruct
ure
Structured Product Content Suite
Content Quality Checking
Intelligent Product Content Dynamic Delivery
Reviewers / SMEs / Casual Contributors
DITA
Component Content Management
Global Customer Engagement
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Most companies adopting component content management (CCM)
Content Management Focus to Handle XML “Component Content Management”
Vision of single CMS for every business maturing to specialized systems Web CMS , Source Control, Component Content all driving specializations CMS’s that are not developed to specialize with DITA can’t meet requirements Companies with standard CMS’s are adopting CCM to handle DITA (Dell, VMware, Nokia, + others)
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Increase Productivity
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The Problem of DITA Management
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DITA Plus Translation
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Differences of CMS and Component Content Management
Non DITA Solution
Specialized DITA CCM
Business Impact
Versioning Yes Out of the box Tracks backups
Link management in DITA No Out of the box Reduces manual tasks 30% and increases reuse 30-50%
Variable management in DITA No Out of the box Increases reuse and reduces
manual tasks and scripting
Publication Management Scripted by technical resource Out of the box
Manages releases, allows fallback and quick updates.
Tracks history. Makes updates and mistakes 50% easier
Condition management Scripted by technical resource
Out of the box Increases reuse / reduces costs. Today managed in scripting
Translation reuse No Out of the boxReduces translation costs
Speeds time to global markets. Increases quality
Reuse management NoOut of the box Reduces costs of content and
translation
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Publication Object
Publication Object=> output
Master Document (e.g. DITA Maps)=> assemblage/ structure
Components(e.g. Topics, illustrations...)=> content
Electronic output format
BaselineContextVariable definition
Layout template
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Baselines
Thirdedition
Secondedition
Firstedition
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V1
V2
EN
DE
EN
Target languages (eg FR)
Released
Released
ReviewedReleased
DETo be translated
updated block
non modified block
Pre-Translation of non modified blocksIn Context of the module!
Pre-Translation
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Trisoft Physical Architecture
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Major SDL Trisoft Differentiators
Release Management / Publication Object and Baseline Increased productivity and ease of use (no link to version!!!) Business Benefit: More manageability for releases and reuse
Universal Topics / Conditions Increased component reuse Business Benefit: Higher Levels of Reuse
Multilingual Content Management / Translation Integration Increased savings (higher ROI) Reduced Translation Costs and Overhead
End to End Structured Content Solution Already integrated components for authoring, contribution, print, smart
intelligent docs Long Term ROI on Extending the Solution
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CMS Watch Report: Strengths of Trisoft
What Analysts Are Saying …
“Extraordinarily good DITA support, including specializations and managing concurrent versions of documents”
“Provides support for highly-granular, complex customer content variations through enhanced condition support”
“Very good multilingual content support”
“Authors can work with content offline”
“Offers some translation matching, potentially saving money in localization scenarios”
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Some of Our Customers
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Questions?
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Thank You for Joining Us
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