CTO Eric Severson's "Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy – Working with DITA: The Content Manager’s Perspective" from Information Management Center

In this series of articles, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson de-mystifies the DITA standard by exploring best practices from three specific points of view: that of the author, that of the content manager, and that of the globalization manager.

CTO Eric Severson's "Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy – Working with DITA: The Globalization Manager’s Perspective" from Information Management Center

In this series of articles, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson de-mystifies the DITA standard by exploring best practices from three specific points of view: that of the author, that of the content manager, and that of the globalization manager.

Aerobahn Evaluation: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

Flatirons Solutions was tasked by the FAA’s System Operations to conduct an evaluation of the Aerobahn’s TaxiView, OpsView and QuickView products at JFK and other related facilities. This case study outlines how Flatirons Solutions' independent evaluation of Aerobahn allowed the government to have an unbiased recommendation of the software’s functionality and its' suitability for meeting the goals of the users.

Approach Lighting System with Sequenced Flashing Lights (ALSF): U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

The FAA required an evaluation of the costs and benefits of sustaining ALSF-2 service (used for lighting for ground-based navigation and landing systems) for the next twenty years. In response to this challenge, Flatirons developed a flexible model to evaluate the tradeoffs between cost and benefit of service provided under several alternative scenarios.

Marketing Campaign Management Framework

Flatirons Solutions has developed an offering that provides organizations a set of powerful capabilities to
manage their marketing campaigns and digital assets in the same system. The Flatirons Solutions Marketing
Campaign Management Framework (MCMF) is built on the enterprise class, industry leading EMC Documentum
Digital Asset Management solution.

Streamlining the Production of MRO Content

Flatirons Solutions, EMC, and Right Hemisphere offer technical publishers a set of powerful capabilities that
far go beyond those of traditional MRO tools. Our offering is a modular one, allowing marketing teams to
leverage existing infrastructure investments (particularly 3-D engineering content), or add modules to augment
existing capabilities.

TPS Multilingual Content Management and Delivery

This multimedia demonstration highlights the way in which TPS integrates with leading localization / globalization platforms such as Idiom WorldServer (and soon, others) to improve the timeliness, cost, and quality of translation for content managed by the Technical Publishing Solution platform.

Breaking Content Silos

This demonstration shows how organizations can leverage the power of Mark Logic Server, SharePoint, and tools like XMetaL and MS Office to create leverage content across the extended enterprise.

Business Information Publisher (ECM)
This business information publisher needed to migrate existing CMS content from a legacy VAX system to a leading edge Documentum-based system while improving workflow efficiency.

Business Information Publisher (Workflow Solution)
This project required the automation of the journal workflow to improve time to market.

Designing Flexible XML Information Objects

Dynamic Content Delivery Using DITA

This whitepaper defines a new publishing paradigm, which we will call dynamic content delivery. Dynamic delivery changes the rules, putting the reader in charge. It transforms publishing to an audience of many to publishing to an audience of one.