Author-it News & Articles

Anyone who has ever combed through the help files provided with many software programs knows that it can often be a frustrating experience. The search results are usually too generic or it takes too much trolling to finally pin down the answer you’re looking for.

Author-it Software Corp. (news, site) is now offering a solution called Author-it Assist, designed to help users help themselves.

Lionbridge (news, site) and Author-it (news, site) get together to reduce the costs and complexity of worldwide content translation and management. 

Author-it (news, site) is a popular tool in the content component space, ensuring your company documents maintain a consistent message. With partner Syrinx, it can now tie into SharePoint, which could make it even more popular.

Seems everyone’s adding a DITA authoring tool to their content management systems these days. The latest one -- for today at least -- comes with the release of v5.3 of Author-it’s (news, site ) web content management system.

It comes with the promise of bringing consistency to your content and documentation and all for a fraction of the cost of implementing other tools that require costly migration and systems integration.

In October 2007, New Zealand’s Author-it Software released version 5.0 of their Author-it component content management system. Less than a year later, they have released Author-it 5.1, concentrating on making content components easier to manage and publish.

Author-it, which specializes in authoring, publishing, localization and web content management, has released Author-it 5.0, which includes a strange new product called Author-it Xtend.

In short, Xtend is an “interactive authoring memory” tool that enables collaborators to reuse and share knowledge in an organization.

New Zealand’s Author-it Software, which specializes in authoring, publishing, localization and web content management, has released Author-it Live, which takes all the characteristics Author-it is known for and puts them into a neat little authoring package.