Advantages of component based content management

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Earlier this year, Adobe commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the role structured content management via a CCMS (component content management system) can play in addressing strategic and operational gaps. As a result, the report titled: ‘​​Component Content Management Systems: Supercharge Long-Form Content For Personalized And Consistent Experiences’ was published this August. XML-based authoring Since Fonto …

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Moving from documents to data in the Standards Publishing industry

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In a very informative and recently published report by Outsell, lead analyst Tatiana Khayrullina confirms what Forrester described earlier in its ‘Future of Documents’ report:    “Despite more than 30 years of mainstream use of office authoring tools, not much has changed. Increasingly, enterprises deliver documents to customers in forms that aren’t fit for purpose. The …

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The Future of Documents: the Fonto perspective

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At Fonto, our mission is to open up structured content authoring (SCA) for anyone.  By doing so, we help organizations make the strategic shift from traditional documents to structured content. We help them by engaging the people who are the most important stakeholders in any authoring process: the authors.  Fonto allows users to write, edit …

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Moving from documents to data

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“Despite more than 30 years of mainstream use of office authoring tools, not much has changed. Increasingly, enterprises deliver documents to customers in forms that aren’t fit for purpose. The next decade will reveal new cloud-native, data-driven, and structured approaches to document authoring.”  Forrester, The Future Of Documents, December 2020. Wow! At Fonto we fell …

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Structured content explained

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If you think it’s hard to explain something like TikTok to your 94-year-old grandmother, try explaining the subject of ‘structured content’ to your friends. It’s a struggle for all of us at Fonto. So here’s another try to shed some light on the likes of structured content and the way we make it possible for …

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Structured content: Life Sciences vs. other industries

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During the 2019 AMPLEXOR ‘Be The Expert’ meeting, we had the pleasure to present our views on the potential of structured content authoring for the Life Sciences industry. We did so by comparing the adoption of ‘structured content’ in Life Sciences with the state of adoption in other industries. We notably compared Life Sciences with …

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IDMP and the need for structured authoring

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How FontoXML helps pharmaceutical companies comply with future legislation In Pharma and Life Sciences structured content, or rather structured data, is a hot topic. Most, if not all companies in this industry are in the process of undertaking a multi-year cross-functional program to enable sustainable compliance with the upcoming IDMP requirements and to improve regulatory …

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Moving from unstructured to structured authoring

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The potential of structured content Content managers in the technical documentation business know what the advantages of structured content are: Content reuse; Multichannel publishing; Configurability; Adaptability; etc. Although, over the years, there has been a lot of talk about the potential of structured content, the creation of such content is still the domain of a …

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Structured authoring = Discipline x Enjoyable software

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If you’re thinking about the adoption of a structured authoring tool like FontoXML, you should read the article on this topic by Barry Schaeffer (2013). In this article Barry, a veteran of more than 45 years in the content automation industry, not only describes the ‘tortured relationship’ between Word and XML (we also wrote about …

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