Benefits of Web authoring tools [go:xDoc]

GateOne Product [go:xDoc] is a web-based authoring and publishing platform which forms a consistent infrastructure for creation and maintenance of complex documentation arrays. Below is the list of benefits which [go:xDoc] offers:

• Minimization of efforts spent on managing documentation variants
  If information is saved in monolithic documents there will be a need to copy files in order to support variants. This leads to high editing efforts and inconsistencies. [go:xDoc] helps to compile different document variants based on a set of publishing parameters from one set of source-content parts. This significantly reduces support costs of different documentation variants.

• Minimization of costs and time of translation processes
  [go:xDoc] helps to save on translation by reusing existing content and avoiding redundant quality assurance. It optimizes translation process by translating only content parts which have been changed since last translation. It also saves time by distributing translation work between internal and external translators.

• Improvement of quality by enforcing editing process
  In case of "manual" processes quality of result depends very much on skills of single editors. With introduction of automated editorial and approval processes higher quality can be archived by enforcing certain process steps and QA.

• Permit high availability and ease of use
  Due to the central content repository [go:xDoc] eliminates problem of inconsistencies between central file storage and local installations Being web-based it provides with easy search for text pieces in central storage through using metadata and full-text search. Web-based interface enables editors to access the content even when they are away from the work/office infrastructure.

• Provide comfortable WYSIWYG editing
  Separation of content and presentation helps to minimize different media variants production costs of the same content/documents. At the same time content editors will need to learn to enter content in presentation independent way using functional mark-up. [go:xDoc] simplifies this transformation for editors by providing easy to use WYSIWYG visual XML content editorial tools.

• Enhancement of collaborative authoring
  [go:xDoc] is a collaborative authoring tool where authors and other contributors work together as a team. [go:xDoc] provides real-time multi-user collaboration with version control, complete edit history, difference comparison and rollback, security control. Using [go:xDoc] will complete your jobs faster, improve accuracy, increase productivity, ensure standards, and maintain control of your documentation.

• Enabling of Faster Time to Market
  Authors spend far less time creating and recreating the same content, reviewers spend less time reviewing, translators spend less time translating. Publishing to print, help and web formats is fully automated. This is achieved by controlling standards, eliminating duplication and effectively managing creation, localization, and publishing of content.

• Integration of editing processes inside other business processes
  Reduce time and cost in manual re-entering of data, which are managed in other enterprise systems (ERP, design software and s.o.). GateOne framework – the foundation of [go:xDoc] – provides the possibility to connect to various backend systems and reuse content and data supported by them (f.e. product parameters). Elimination of manual data transfer minimizes human mistakes.

• Achieving higher consistency
  

  Due to high automation of all authorizing and publishing processes, dependency on human factor is decreased significantly. Single storage, well-defined tested working processes and comfortable infrastructure help to overcome the challenges of working with documentation and decrease number of possible errors. Documentation becomes more consistent, reliable and timely.