*instinctools and SDI form a strategic alliance

21.06.2010

*instinctools and SDI have joined hands to bring information solutions to the market by leveraging each other’s competences.

This alliance has been forged to achieve the common goal of providing customers with a complete information solution for their needs.

*instinctools and SDI, a global provider for expert DITA and XML services and solutions have announced that they have entered into a partnership where in they will be able to utilize each other’s competences to deliver the appropriate solutions to the information market. This partnership ensures that the information market can benefit from both the depth and breadth of knowledge of SDI, along with the documentation industry’s innovative tools in the form of instinctools’ DITAworks and Visual DITA Specialization Manager under one roof.

*instinctools has been catering to the information market by supplying solutions in the areas of Eclipse, single-sourcing and DITA. Their products DITAworks and Visual DITA Specialization Manager are geared to provide a pure DITA authoring platform and innovative visual DITA Specialization tooling respectively. Visual DITA Specialization Manager can be procured free-of-cost for developing and managing open source specializations. SDI has been providing information management solutions for over 30 years to commercial, government, and defense-related clients in United States, Europe, and Asia. They have been offering expert services in the areas of DITA and XML consulting, implementation, and development.

“SDI fits our strategic goals quite well, enabling us to provide our customers in US, Canada and Scandinavia added value by being able to offer a complete solution set,” said Gunthilde Sohn, Managing Director, *instinctools GmbH. “It also helps us in leveraging the substantial knowledge and experience which SDI brings to this alliance. This important relationship with SDI marks the opportunity for us to achieve our common goals of providing the customers quality documentation solutions, with decreased time and cost to realize their documentation goals. We are really glad to have a global company with professional approach like SDI as a partner.”

“We are delighted to form this strategic alliance agreement with Instinctools as DITAWorks enables us to enrich our offering to our information consultancy clients, to whom we deliver DITA solutions”, said Tamas Rasch, Senior Vice President of Business Development, SDI.

“Instinctools is a welcome addition to our portfolio of information communication tools providers who contribute significantly to our ‘Management of Enterprise Information as a Strategic Asset’ Practice and are convinced that we will mutually realize the strategic benefits we based our alliance agreement upon,” said Joseph Clements, Execute Vice President, SDI.

Both *instinctools and SDI are quite confident of the positive results which this alliance might help them achieve and they are equally confident of maximizing the customer satisfaction through this relationship by delivering complete documentation solutions in an efficient and productive way.