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Reva Solutions and JustSystems have jointly created XMetaL Author Enterprise for Alfresco, the premier authoring tool for creating DITA content that can be managed natively by Alfresco.

Since its adoption as an OASIS standard in 2005, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has become a leading XML standard for organizations needing content reuse, flexibility, high-quality tools, and strong community support. DITA is the gold standard for improving document consistency and significantly reducing costs and time-to-market, while meeting the challenge of providing information in multiple formats, for multiple audiences, and in multiple languages.

Content Efficiency Drives Your Competitive Advantage

The pressures documentation departments face in today's content-filled world isn't just about reducing costs, it's also about generating more with what you have. XMetaL Author Enterprise for Alfresco allows organizations to do more with their content. It provides a foundation for creating, storing and sharing high quality and consistent product information so organizations can reduce costs and time-to-market, while meeting the challenge of providing information in any language or format.

XMetaL Author Enterprise, an award-winning XML solution, makes it easy for staff in different departments, to create, share, reuse, and deliver XML-based content, including less frequent content contributors such as engineers, managers, subject matter experts, marketing, professional services and more. Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system, which provides organizations a high quality solution with benefits including low cost, rapid deployment and low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Together, XMetaL Author Enterprise and Alfresco provide a single seamlessly integrated interface for more effective authoring, searching, and managing of valid XML content across teams and departments.

Features

• Connect natively to Alfresco
• Link to and reuse shared images, DITA topics, DITA reusable components, and multimedia files, as easily as if they were on your own hard drive
• Browse DITA maps in XMetaL using the graphical DITA map editor side panel, accessing referenced topics in Alfresco by double-clicking topic titles
• Add new or existing DITA topics to your DITA map directly from your repository, through XMetaL dialogs
• Edit in an easy to use WYSIWYG environment enabling DITA component-based authoring
• Increase productivity with simple drag-and-drop actions and check-in/check-out operations

Benefits

• Accelerate time to market for documentation-dependent products and services
• Reduce the cost of content creation and maintenance
• Dramatically lower content translation costs
• Reduce risk by publishing more accurate consistent and regulatory compliant content
• Reduced costs by 20% or more through automation
• Reduced localization costs by 40-70%
• Customized, consistent content for a superior customer experience
• Reduced errors, and reduced costs of inaccurate information
• More control over your global brand