MadCap Software is just a new name for a group of familiar faces that have been leading the technical writing community for over a decade. With its flagship product, MadCap Flare, MadCap Software is once again leading the documentation world into the future by providing complete end-to-end solutions for content development, delivery and management. Today 1,000's of companies are customers of MadCap's native XML software for content authoring and multi-channel publishing. MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the industry.
ComponentOne Doc-To-Help has been the premier authoring and publishing tool in the market since 1991. It enables technical communicators, policy writers, and other content creators to author in Doc-To-Help's XML-based editor, Microsoft Word or HTML, and publish to the Web, Help systems, or printed manuals with a single click. ComponentOne is the only vendor that gives you everything you need to create your documentation deliverables in one application. Its unique combination of editing, single sourcing, and publishing technology translates to significant time savings and the highest level of quality. Since Doc-To-Help is the complete documentation solution, your need for additional tools has been eliminated.
Looking for top creative talent? At Volt Technical & Creative Communication we specialize in delivering ideal candidates in Technical Communication, Design, Electronic Media, Marketing, Public Relations, and Technical Sales. Volt partners with clients to identify their company's unique culture and workforce requirements. We then identify direct-hire and temporary talent with the skills, experience and creativity to become vital members of the team. Our greatest satisfaction is launching successful careers for our candidates who choose Volt because we are committed to their career development, offering a wide range of employment opportunities and benefits. We connect talented people with respected companies. Contact Volt today: techcomm@volt.com.
ITR combines multilingual localization and translation services with technical expertise in handling help file formats. ITR delivers a managed translation solution:
- Online help localization - experience with all major help tools: MadCap Flare, Author-it, RoboHelp, WebWorks and Doc-to-Help.
- Software localization and testing - using advanced localization technology to ensure a cost-effective high quality end product.
- Website localization - ITR ensures that your target language website has the same impact as the original.
- Full quality assurance on all projects - quality is an integral part of all ITR's processes from initial translation to final sign-off.
- Professional project management - delivery on time and in budget comes as standard at ITR.
As an important provider of end-user support management systems, 4.ST founded in 1987 strives to leverage leading-edge technology to improve the quality of online user assistance and documentation.
HelpServer is their web-based enterprise content management system for help and documentation. This web-based team-authoring tool enables product and service providers to quickly and easily deliver audience based help and documentation via the web to their customers. HelpServer is equipped with an extremely easy to use editor and lets dispersed authoring teams easily contribute content over the web to a central server and database from where it can be browsed, exported and printed to PDF by end-users. For more information visit http://www.helpserver.eu
Originally established in 1993, EC Software started producing help authoring software in 1997 with the release of Help & Manual 1.0 - the first help authoring tool that could create online help and print documentation from the same source project, in one easy step. Today, Help & Manual is one of the best selling and most popular documentation tools worldwide. In addition to the program's features and famous ease of use this is due in no small part to EC's focus on providing outstanding support, which receives constant praise from its users. EC Software is located in Austria, near Salzburg.
Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) is a world leader in software for authoring, content management, publishing, and localization. Its flagship product, Author-it, is an end-to-end content management solution capable of publishing content to multiple deliverables. Today it is used in over 50 countries, by over 3500 clients, and chosen by Fortune 100 organizations for worldwide deployments, making it one of the world's most popular content management tools.
Adobe Systems Incorporated revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. We are driving innovation with powerful, compelling software solutions that meet the needs of customers and markets.
For companies that have large amounts of technical content, our consultants provide expert advice and collaborative development. Streamlining the publishing process results in cost reduction and quality improvements. Unlike some of our competitors, we do not resell software, so we are free to recommend the best alternative for each client and deliver comprehensive implementation services. We have expertise in all technologies required by our clients, and we transform abstract concepts into practical applications. If you are facing a difficult publishing challenge, we want to hear from you. Contact us at info@scriptorium.com or 919-481-2701 x105.
GALA 2010 is an advanced educational and networking event that brings together localization vendors, buyers, technology providers, academics and more to share ideas and discuss the future of global content delivery. The GALA 2010 theme, The Global Community: Capturing Customers Worldwide, reflects the work shared by GALA members and their customers in communicating global content locally. The conference will include practical information on building a global content strategy to serve local customers worldwide as well as relevant ideas for helping language service providers build their businesses. Hosted by the Globalization and Localization Association. For more information, visit www.gala-global.org/conference.
XML Press was founded in 2008 to publish content that helps technical communicators be more effective. We are a small publisher that works closely with authors to create timely, practical, and concise publications.
Current titles include Managing Writers: A Real-World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation and Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. Forthcoming titles address such topics as documentation management, social media, wikis, accessibility, DITA specialization, DocBook, and XML tools. For more information visit: http://xmlpress.net
Achieve more confidence and consistency in your team’s content with IRREVO®! Achieve higher quality content through team calibration and the consistent application of your best practices. Minimize risky content, realize higher quality, and protect the ROI on your content/knowledge investments. IRREVO works with your existing systems and processes by providing a robust content quality assurance function. Whether you are performing a baseline assessment of an existing body of content, or you would like tighter controls around content before it is published, you can gain more control of your content with IRREVO! Sign-up for a free 30-day trial today, visit www.irrevo.com/trial.asp
Tedopres, with offices in Europe, the United States and Asia, has been offering professional technical documentation services since 1974. We have an outstanding reputation of providing our customers with cost-effective, high-quality service that meets industry-specific standards. Tedopres has extensive experience in implementing Simplified Technical English (also known as Controlled English), helping our customers to ensure compliance while saving cost at the same time. The implementation comprises dictionary building, training and the use of HyperSTE, the leading quality assurance software for technical content. Tedopres also specializes in technical translation services in over 40 languages, technical illustration and animation as well as software development to support the creation and management of technical documentation. Because Tedopres focuses on maintaining the quality and accuracy of documentation, industry leaders including Boeing, Black & Decker, Philips, Rolls-Royce and Siemens trust us to handle their most complex documentation projects. More than 500 additional multinational corporations have done the same.
TutorPro, a business of 20 years standing in the eLearning industry, will debut their Live Content Studio at the upcoming WritersUA Conference. Live Content Studio will enable you to create context sensitive performance support materials from full interactive tutorials to online documentation all embedded in any Windows or Web application the user has running on their desk top. No need to edit any source code and simple deployment make Live Content Studio a maximum value add to your products and services.
Sajan is the leading provider of global language services and cloud-based translation management software. Through our two operating units, Sajan Global Language Services and Sajan Software, we deliver people, process and technology to help enterprises mature their localization programs and global content lifecycle. At the center of Sajan’s offerings is our translation management system, GCMS, used by over 650 clients to date.
Indigo Byte Systems LLC provides tools to software developers, as well as business and home computer users. Our flagship product is Dr.Explain, a unique software tool that lets software developers and technical writers dramatically reduce the time needed to produce help files and manuals. By analyzing the structure of a program's graphical user interface, Dr.Explain automatically generates the necessary help topics for the program's documentation. The program captures snapshots of live application screens and recognizes and annotates all significant controls: buttons, text fields, menus, options, and other ones. Dr.Explain produces professional help files and manuals in CHM, RTF, HTML, or PDF format that can be printed or loaded on-line.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
Axure (ak shûr) Software Solutions, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, CA, provides solutions to help the design and development community offer more useful and usable applications. Axure's flagship product Axure RP Pro is the leading wireframing, prototyping and specification tool on the market. Axure RP is used by industry leading user experience professionals, business analysts and product managers to design applications for over half of the Fortune 100 as well as thousands of small to medium size companies.
HAT-Matrix.com is a new representation of an old standard (the Help Authoring Tool Comparison Matrix). Use the searchable database to see which HATs include the features you need from a list of over 300 features, and compare up to four HATs side-by-side.
The Conference Exhibition provides you with a great opportunity to see the latest user assistance products and services. All of your favorite authoring tool representatives will be on hand as well as employment agencies, trainers, and consultants. Come equipped with your toughest questions, your business cards, and your appetite for food and fun!