Functional Solutions
Bluestream XDocs is a good solution for a department or cross-functional area that is looking to solve a specific content problem. Bluestream XDocs enables you to create flexible documentation, build content-rich, personalized Web sites, and topic-based knowledge bases that ensure the content in your organization is accurate, relevant, easy-to-find, and tailored to meet customer needs.
Some of the ways include:
- Support for multiple authors and concurrent users
- Flexible content editor configuration for XML content
- The ability to manage attachments, such as graphics or PDFs
- Dynamic link management
- Ability to export content to multiple formats (web, PDF, or other XML formats)
- Ability to exchange content with other systems
- Support for reviewers, who can comment on, but not change, the content
- Web previews through real-time content generation
- Web-based file management
- The ability to launch non-XML files in their native applications - for example, clicking a CAD file allows you to edit the file without leaving the CCMS
- Full text-search capability
For some of the ways that customer have implemented XDocs to handle a specific need, read some of our case studies.
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.