What Decision Makers Will Like about DITA: Translation Costs can be Reduced Dramatically

One of the most expensive elements of any documentation release (new or updated), is the localization involved with making sure you can release your product globally. Conversely, one of the most tangible advantages that a company can feel relatively quickly is reduced translation costs. With a document-oriented approach that considers an entire document a single indivisible unit, there are at least two main challenges: 1. As companies continue to develop new and existing products, they have to constantly…

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DITA Frequently Asked Questions

I second Paula’s post and say the 3rd Annual Techshoret conference went extremely well. Thank you to everyone who participated. The presentation of how we’ve implemented DITA at RADVISION, jointly given by Andy Lewis, documentation team leader at RADVISION and myself, Alex Masycheff, gathered a lot of interest. We received many questions during the session and afterwards. As DITA is increasingly attracting interest in recent years, I’d like to summarize here the most frequently questions and answers. What…

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5 Things Some Technical Writers Don’t Like about DITA

In one of my previous posts, I explained what’s so cool about DITA when it comes to formatting. You are probably familiar enough with the topic and concept to know about the tremendous advantage DITA offers in terms of content reuse and single sourcing capabilities. So why are there technical writers who are not keen to move to DITA and even resist adopting DITA in their companies? Based on our experience with implementing DITA for various companies, I…

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