On-Demand Solutions for High Technology
The world's most sophisticated and industry-leading technology companies rely on Astoria On-Demand to provide seamless integration of global content management and documentation support focused on complex technical publishing requirements. By accelerating and seamlessly integrating the resources and processes needed for complex product support, Astoria On-Demand not only speeds up time to market, but provides an unprecedented level of visibility and control into mission critical initiatives that not only span multiple divisions, but integrate across our customer's entire supply chain.
KEY COMPONENTS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY:
Astoria On-Demand :
the industry's most comprehensive on-demand solution for building, managing, and assembling DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) content. Astoria On-Demand combines a very fast XML content engine, automated workflow and review and collaboration features, in a single, Internet-accessible, hosted solution.
Astoria Content Integrator:
state of the art and patent-pending differencing engine automates the time consuming and resource intensive process of manually accepting and integrating content from OEMs, regulatory agencies and suppliers
Astoria Filtered Publisher:
enables organizations to generate operations manuals dynamically and customize them to a specific semiconductor, EDA tool or other component specific to a customer's unique need
FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS INCLUDE:
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Benefit |
| Enhanced Quality |
Fast searches and reliable cross references ensure content re-use and integrity |
Improve content integrity and accuracy |
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| Increased Productivity |
Includes all traditional change page capabilities with added Astoria element level controls to support a wide variety of printed and digital output requirements |
Lower printing and distribution costs by producing change packets with each revision cycle |
| Incorporates updated and third-party content, and automatically identifies content, structure and attribute changes |
Minimizes the number of 'changed pages' for publications, and automatically generates table of contents, indexes, list of affected pages |
| Integrates and identifies updates/revisions to existing documents issued from third-party partners/suppliers using Astoria Content Integrator |
Maintain the most current content automatically, even from suppliers and partners |
| Integrates workflow, e-mail, and assembly management of change page process |
Frequent revision cycles can be managed simultaneously, regardless of complexity |
| Provides the ability to create change packages for a specific, customized product configuration (Astoria Filtered Publisher) |
Flight and maintenance manuals customized by tail number provide ease-of-use |
| Single source publishing from the Astoria repository makes all content available for re-use and repurposing on an automated basis |
Maximize content re-use, while minimizing effort to create and update content |
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| Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Higher ROI |
Easy to install, use, and maintain |
Eliminates the need for DBAs or technical IT specialists, saving valuable engineering time |
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