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WEBINAR: Topic-based Authoring: Is it Worth It?

July 31, 2012
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. EDT
3:00 - 3:45 p.m. EDT

The Top 6 Reasons Companies Adopt Topic-based Authoring

How can your company keep up with the ever-increasing demand of customers to provide more information, more frequently and in more output formats? Many organizations have adopted topic-based authoring as a strategic approach to respond to these demands. Oberon Technologies presents the webinar, Topic-based Authoring: Is it Worth It?, in which we will discuss how topic-based authoring is helping companies:

Expand documentation offerings without expanding resources.

Learn how you can develop more documentation products, including "one-off" documents, without increasing staff, production time, or budget.

Provide tailored and personalized content for customers.

Learn how you can provide documentation that is tailored to the needs of specific customer segments.

Support a greater variety of output media.

Learn how you can automatically publish to a variety of output media while positioning yourself to support new media as it is introduced.

Reduce content maintenance effort and cost.

Learn how you can create a source of reusable topics that can be shared among multiple documents to enable updates in a single location.

Reduce content translation effort and cost.

Learn how you can eliminate translation costs of duplicate content through the use of topics.

Shorten document production cycles.

Learn how you can automate document assembly and publishing to multiple document types and media.

While topic-based authoring does provide significant benefits to companies, there are also challenges and pitfalls of which companies should be aware before implementing a topic-based authoring process. In this webinar, we will also identify these challenges and present best practices for implementing topic-based authoring.

In this webinar, you'll learn:

Why companies move to topic-based authoring
How topic-based authoring is implemented
The standards, such as DITA, that enable topic-based authoring
The challenges and potential pitfalls
How to determine whether the benefits are worth the effort

Join us on Tuesday, July 31, at 11:00 AM Eastern or 3:00 PM Eastern for the webinar, Topic-based Authoring: Is it Worth It?, to help determine if topic-based authoring could be a good fit for your organization.