IT: PTC launches Arbortext content manager

Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Published : 13 Nov 2006 21:28

NEEDHAM, MA. – November 13, 2006 - PTC today announced the availability of Arbortext Content Manager to expand the PTC Dynamic Publishing System.

Coincidentally, The Manufacturer visited PTC headquarters in Needham, MA earlier today, to see their offerings up close.

What is impressive is that the company takes a "demand-driven" approach to product and service offerings: if customers need a functionality, or wish they had it, then PTC develops or acquires it. PTC truly seems to align itself along customers' business needs versus along product lines, and takes the same approach to implementations.

With Arbortext Content Manager, PTC is answering customers' needs to create quality documentation. As VP of Solutions Marketing Robin Saitz described, a company may hold up a product release for months while the documentation catches up, but PTC believes with its functionality, documentation can develop in parallel with product, and launch quickly.

The Arbortext Content Manager is based on PTC Windchill® technology and was developed to meet the needs of organizations that face the challenge of authoring and managing the development of complex publications in a globally distributed and highly regulated environment.

PTC’s Dynamic Publishing System combines text authoring, graphics authoring, content management and configuration management, automated publishing and graphics visualization. PTC claims it is the industry’s first integral system explicitly focused on optimizing the publishing process for organizations in the pharmaceutical, financial services, government, transportation and process manufacturing industries.

"We like PTC's vision on dynamic publishing," said Tanya Lee, client service manager, Scotia Cassels Investment Counsel Limited. "At Scotia Cassels, we were manually publishing complex content under tight time frames and with fixed compliance requirements. The PTC Dynamic Publishing System has given us an integrated system that lets us reuse content, merge data from other systems, and automate the report publishing cycle, ultimately improving our content creation and publishing efficiencies by 50 percent."

Content management and graphics visualization are critical components of the PTC Dynamic Publishing System. The Arbortext Content Manager and PTC’s recent acquisition of ITEDO, the leader in the technical illustrations market, build on the vision to enable organizations to create, manage and deliver high quality publications consisting of both text and illustrations.

Traditional publishing systems are used to create and manage documents as monolithic objects, requiring users to recreate existing content and manually update each instance of the same information, and contribute to inconsistencies in the sequence and structure of information.

PTC believes its Dynamic Publishing System revolutionizes traditional publishing systems: it enables organizations to create content out of XML-based reusable components, create illustrations from scratch or automatically from design data, automate content management, review, and approval processes with powerful workflow and configuration management capabilities, and automatically publish information in multiple formats, languages and media. PTC’s integral system lowers deployment risks and support costs by ensuring interoperability and seamless integration of all components.

Additionally, the Dynamic Publishing System provides a significant opportunity for companies that offer products or services with multiple options or configurations, serve customers in multiple geographies, or frequently update their product, service or marketing documentation.

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