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SDL Contenta Functionality

Capability Description Benefit

Multi-lingual support
  • Identifies changed components in source language, distributes translation package, tracks translation progress and manages translated results in the repository
  • Focus translation process only on changed components
  • Repurpose global content and ensure consistency across the enterprise
  • Reduce translation costs
  • Faster time to market for all languages
  • Streamline the data translation process

Tracking and versioning
  • Full revision and history tracking, with the ability to roll back to earlier versions of a content component
  • Minimize confusion and error
  • Provide audit trail

XML out-of-the-box
  • Out-of-the-box support for DITA, S1000D and other XML Schemas and liDs
  • Dynamically imports XML data into a repository, manages content through editing cycles and easily assembles for delivery through multiple channels
  • Faster implementations
  • Ease of use promoting rapid adoption
  • Ability to reuse and repurpose content

Open API
  • Object-oriented API integrates with common development platforms
  • Fully documented COM, CORBA and Java APIs provide programming consistency and allow for code reuse that promotes economy in application and tool development
  • Supports commonly used programming and scripting languages
  • Allows for development of client-customized applications and tools
  • Supports integration with third-party applications

Scalability
  • Support for today’s content repository requirements, including data storage for gigabytes to terabytes, and millions of XML components
  • Support for individual workgroups to entire enterprises
  • Supports organizations of any size
  • Solution can scale to fit departments, workgroups and the entire enterprise
  • Meet your requirements as your business changes

Standards
  • Leverages standards such as XML, Web Services, SOAP, Java, COM and CORBA with out-of-the-box offerings for both DITA and S1000D
  • Native XML support
  • Also supports standard delivery solutions such as XSL-FO
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of integration
  • Compliance
  • Faster implementations

Single-source content repository
  • Object-oriented database approach promotes reuse of content
  • Role-based access to content ensures appropriate policies are followed
  • Capable of managing multiple data types in a single repository
  • Increase revenue with new publications
  • Ensure content integrity and regulatory compliance
  • Eliminate redundant authoring
  • Promote content reuse and repurpose
  • Faster ROI managing legacy and new data types

Multi-channel delivery
  • Simultaneous delivery to multiple publishing channels and formats: Print, PDF, Web, Online Help and IETM/electronic books
  • Integration with SDL publishing tools including XPP, automated XML publishing engine and LiveContent, a portable, XML database driven, multi-media platform for intelligent content delivery.
  • Reduce costs associated with accessing and distributing information
  • Accelerate delivery of content to multiple media
  • Increase revenue opportunities
  • Promote content reuse and repurposing

Multiple user interface
  • User access to content via the desktop, editorial tools or the Web
  • Remote authoring, approval and workflow project management
  • Faster training and adoption
  • User efficiency
  • Global access

Content access
  • Search using metadata, full text search
  • Find appropriate content faster