Medical device manufacturer cuts documentation costs with XDocs
The Company
VivisonicThe Situation
A medical device manufacturer, with technologies that deliver audiology diagnostic solutions, was in the Research and Development stage. They were preparing to get their product to market.
The Challenge
As many start-ups discover, making submissions to the FDA is long, tedious, and costly. As well, the document accuracy is critical to expedite FDA acceptance. The author discovered that the expense of managing documentation in traditional publishing tools was significant, and the ability to re-use content was virtually impossible.
The Solution
The company decided to adopt XDocs as a way to publish five types of documents from a single content source. By combining the single-sourced document with conditional publishing, and using the DITA open toolkit with out-of-the-box bookmap styling, the company was able to produce the entire set of manuals required for submission. In a single-author environment, the successful delivery of multiple documents from a single source provides to be an easy-to-maintain, affordable solution.
Our Clients Say...
XDocs has provided us the managed environment we needed as we undertook the process of moving our content from unstructured Word documents to DITA-compliant XML. We are now able to effectively track our single-sourced documentation, and thanks to the intelligent source control, we are working in a multi-author environment without any headaches! The user interface is intuitive—clearly displaying file status and other relevant information.