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Product RoadmapStructured Content Technologies

Frank Closset, CTOAndrew Trese, Chief Architect

Tom Smith, Product Marketing ExecutiveLaurens van den Oever, Director Structured Authoring

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Agenda

What’s new in GAMS Xopus Trisoft LiveContent

Future vision What we’re up to Demo Online Collaboration and Review

Towards 2012 Product Roadmap

Q&A

SDL SCT –Combined Roadmap ReviewWhat’s new in…

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The SDL Global AMS 2010 SP2 themes: Arbortext 6 support AutoSuggest for Arbortext and XMetal German Linguistic support Supporting all 2011 SDL Language Technology products Improved Unicode Support Enhanced stability and performance

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The SDL Xopus 4.3 themes: Support for Chrome and Safari IME input support (Japanese, Chinese, etc input) Enhanced stability and performance Copy – paste improvements Carbon theme

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The SDL Trisoft 2011 R2 themes: SDL Xopus integration in the Web Client Centralized User authentication User Provisioning API Redesign Event Monitor Dispatcher for load balancing publishing request Oracle 11.2 support Advanced DITA support: support for anchorref and conref

push architecture

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The SDL LiveContent DITA 5.1 themes: DITA 1.2 Support (conref, keyref, etc) Centralized User Authentication and Authorization (SAML) User Generated Content Enhancements (replies, threaded

conversations, workflow status) Searching Binary Data (PDFs, MS Office Formats, pluggable

architecture) Easy multi-media integration hooks Third-Party Application Server Support (Tomcat, Websphere) Streamlining and Strengthening Performance and Scability

Demo Online Collaboration and Review

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What We’re Up to

TODO

Our Vision Make the power of XML ubiquitous for authoring,

review and collaboration Accelerate XML adoption for non-technical writers

and new types of business organizations Empower organizations to create interactive

communities with their customers Simplify subject matter expert review processes

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Take AwayWhoStep

Targeting, Profiling & PersonalizationTom, as an end user, can select the features of his Buddy and their Buddy Skill LevelTom is making remarks on the documentation

Consult targeted information

Tom

Manage your publications

Frank

Enterprise Ready Engagement PlatformFrank, as a Publication Manager, is notified of comments through RSS. Based on the comments provided by the end user community, and analytics on how the content is used, Frank plans an update to the documentation.

SME review the final document

CollaborationAndrew, as a Buddy Engineer, needs to review to document and fix any of the mistakes that are still in the document.

Andrew

Engineering adds the actual content

Extreme Brand ManagementLaurens, as a Buddy Customer Support Engineer, is notified that procedure is missing. Because Laurens is not an experienced writer, he will be assisted in which terminology to use. Furthermore, reuse relationships will be detected and content will be suggested to him as he types away.

Laurens

Roadmap & Development ObjectivesTowards 2012

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Themes for SCT

DITA Strategy

Translation Management Connectivity

Focus on Authoring Experience

Open APIs

Customer Satisfaction

Housekeeping

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Open APIs

Repository API

Controlled Language API

In order to create enhanced applications more open, extended APIs are needed. These will also be the

foundation for strong new partnerships.

Metadata API

Authoring Bridge SDK

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Focus on Authoring Experience

Next Generation Collaboration

Improved OOB configurations

The best possible Authoring and Content Development Experience is key for both SDL and our customer’s

success and growth.

Xopus and Trisoft integration for SME’s

Multi-Browser Support

New Authoring Tool Support

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Translation Management Connectivity

WorldServer

Translation Management Connectivity is key ingredient in the overall GIM story. Ensure User Experience is consistent with

SDL WCM/Language Technology products.

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DITA Strategy

Friendly DITA

DITA is the core of our offering. Constant focus across the product lines are needed.

UI consistent with DITA

Partner Enablement

Keyrefs

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Customer Satisfaction

Improving customer satisfaction and user experience should be every products constant focus. We need to

make our users even more successful.

User Experience Focus

Search

Easier Batch Operations

Better OTB Configuration

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Housekeeping

DITA Open Toolkit and Output Formats

Latest XML Editor Version

Etc.

Some things we just need to do!!Housekeeping is never fun, but without it everything

would be a big mess.

Latest OS / Browser / DB Versions

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Demo-ware

Integration with SDL Media Manager

Mobile experience using NetBiscuit

Demos are a technology art form to gather feedback from your end user community

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