2022 Participating Vendors
The following companies are participating in ConVEx Europe.
We encourage you to learn what they do and visit with them in the Exhibition Hall, attend one of their sessions, and join them in the Technology Test Kitchen.
Founded in 1989, 4D Concept offers a range of solutions, products and services in the field of editorial and technical content management, to help you create, use, publish and distribute all your cross-media content.
Today, it has more than 100 references around the world, 3 software packages, more than 15 solutions and services, 10 training courses, more than 20 partners and more than 100 projects all over France and around the world. The DITA Factory software suite, based on a powerful and customizable XML base, brings you all the benefits of the DITA standard: quality gain, ROI in localization, and unique features in ergonomics, control and interface functionality with your partners.
The suite streamlines the processes for creating, managing, validating, and translating your regulatory, user, or maintenance documentation through its business tools designed for writers and technical documentation managers.
It lets you get started quickly with turnkey installation for customers. As a web based application, it lets you configure profiles and validate workflows for different user business lines.
XDocs DITA CCMS is the leading single vendor solution for companies who want to improve and enhance their information workflow. A standards compliant single-sourcing solution XDocs enables everyone within the organization to create, manage, store and intelligently publish large volumes of both XML and non-XML content.
XDocs has powerful metadata management, flexible workflow and advanced localization control. Bluestream’s own delivery platform enables the instant delivery of content to any platform/device. As a result, XDocs is the leading ‘single vendor’ solution for organizations looking to improve and enhance their information workflow.
Unrivalled functionality and open APIs enables XDocs to solve any technical content challenge. As a result, teams of authors create powerful user-focused content and deliver it to every device and platform. Also, XDocs CCMS is ‘Parts Aware’ and links to ERP and PLM systems. This enables the creation of Bills of Material and Illustrated Parts Catalogues for multichannel delivery.
Overview
The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) brings together the most highly skilled and talented managers in the field of information development from across the US and internationally to facilitate the sharing of information about current trends, best practices, and developments within the industry, from information development to training and support. Comtech Services manages CIDM.
CIDM is an organization dedicated to helping advance the profession of information development worldwide. Through CIDM, information professionals can communicate with each other regularly and learn about each other’s successes, problems, and innovations.
Membership benefits include:
- Management round table discussions
- Conference passes and discounts
- Workshop discounts
- Members-only Slack workspace
- Subscription to the Best Practices newsletter
- Access to information development advise
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- CIDM is the only member organization focused on both management and technical issues associated with information-development.
- Our member diversity is amazing! We have teams with less than five members to teams with almost two hundred — teams using DITA and team who do not — teams writing about medical devices, medical software, networking components, semiconductors, industrial equipment, consumer products, financial software, financial policies, software-as-a-service and much more.
- CIDM is an essential forum for staying connected to industry leaders and peers in other organizations and provides vital information that helps you to stay on top of best practices and trends.
- CIDM enables knowledge-sharing and professional collaboration that spans all aspects of technical communication, from writing and development processes to user experience, change management, performance, academic research, and fostering innovation across a global workforce.
A sampling of Members
- Dell EMC
- John Deere
- Master Card
- Sony Playstation
Representatives attending ConVEx
- Dawn Stevens, President and Director of CIDM: [email protected]
- Brianna Stevens, Senior Consultant: [email protected]
- Dana Aubin, Senior Consultant, [email protected]
- Lisa Lambert, ConVEx Event Coordinator, [email protected]
- Lovonya Thomas, Workshop & Events Coordinator: [email protected]
- Kathy Madison, CIDM Member Liaison and Consultant: [email protected]
- Kristi Bullard, Business Manager, [email protected]
Questions Attendees Should Ask us when Visiting our Booth or Slack Channel
- What topics covered in the monthly managers’ roundtable sessions?
- Tell me about your fall Best Practices conference and how does it differ from ConVEx?
- Why should I join CIDM? Is there an ROI I can show my management to justify the membership?
- Are there membership levels based on the size of my organization?
- What’s the difference between CIDM and Comtech Services?
Promos & Raffles
- TBD
Interesting Trivia
- Dawn has a collection of over 3000 Christmas ornaments and has visited every Disney park in the world.
- Brianna earned a Master’s Degree in Interior Architecture & Product Design without getting an undergraduate degree.
- Lisa is a woodworker (creating small furniture and home décor items) and a licensed manicurist.
- Lovonya enjoys cooking. Her specialty is seafood, i.e., crabcakes, seafood pasta, honey lemon salmon. Friends and family also really enjoy Lovonya’s Lasagna and Chili. Lovonya’s maternal great-grandparents are Bermudian, so she has visited has Bermuda 4 times for family reunions and vacation.
- Kathy started her career as a computer programmer working on Marine One’s navigational software. She’s been at Johnson Space Center for a NASA shuttle launch and Kennedy Space Center for a shuttle landing.
- Kristi has been at Comtech the longest, currently at 31 years. She is a 2nd generation Norwegian, has traveled to all 50 states and has a twin brother. Her favorite pastime is boating and reading.
General Info
- Website: www.InfoManagementCenter.com
- Twitter: @Center4infoDev
- LinkedIn: CIDM Group and DITA Awareness Group
Componize is a DITA content management system that optimizes the authoring, management and publishing of high-volume product information. Used by thousands of technical writers and content contributors across Europe, North America and Asia, Componize has a proven track record in the automobile, software, high-tech, medical, education and publishing industries. Today, Componize is optimizing content strategy on an enterprise scale for SAP, Toyota, Kaplan and Merck, among others.
Overview
For over 35 years, Comtech Services has helped our clients design, create, and publish information products that meet their users’ needs. We offer a combination of training and consulting services to help you define and implement the infrastructure needed to meet the expectations of both your leadership and your users. At every point in the information development life cycle, we offer expert advice and guidance to help you improve your processes, get to know your audience, fine-tune your content, and use the latest standards and technologies. From process maturity assessments to information models to stylesheets, you’ll find the support and training you need from our knowledgeable consulting team.
Comtech also manages the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), a member organization that facilitates sharing information about current trends, best practices, and development within the industry. We provide networking opportunities, host conferences and events (like ConVEx), lead roundtable discussions, and publish newsletters.
Needs Met, Strengths, or Differentiators
- We work with hundreds of organizations from various industries and authoring environments; whether it’s DITA or not, we help our clients improve their content, taxonomy, and processes.
- Our consultants conduct regular public and custom in-house workshops that expose them to a wide variety of companies, each having unique environments, challenges, and content strategies.
- As premier providers on minimalism and DITA training, we share our knowledge with hundreds of people a year – educating ~5000 in our 35-year history.
- Through CIDM, we gain unique insights into industry trends by running events and conferences, conducting annual surveys, and hosting monthly roundtable discussions.
- Being vendor agnostic, we provide non-bias support to our clients looking to adopt new tools or change platforms.
A sampling of Customers
- Ericsson
- Swiss Re
- Texas Instruments
- Nokia
Representatives attending ConVEx
- Dawn Stevens, President and Director of CIDM: [email protected]
- Brianna Stevens, Senior Consultant: [email protected]
- Dana Aubin, Senior Consultant, [email protected]
- Lisa Lambert, ConVEx Event Coordinator, [email protected]
- Lovonya Thomas, Workshop & Events Coordinator: [email protected]
- Kathy Madison, CIDM Member Liaison and Consultant: [email protected]
- Kristi Bullard, Business Manager, [email protected]
Questions Attendees Should Ask us when Visiting our Booth or Slack Channel
- What advice can you provide on how to create content my customers really want?
- How do I know if my information-development practices are on par with other organizations?
- Why DITA?
- What’s your most popular online training class and how do I know which of your 12+ workshops is best for me?
- What’s the difference between CIDM and Comtech Services?
Promos & Raffles
- TBD
Interesting Trivia
- Dawn has a collection of over 3000 Christmas ornaments and has visited every Disney park in the world.
- Brianna earned a Master’s Degree in Interior Architecture & Product Design without getting an undergraduate degree.
- Lisa is a woodworker (creating small furniture and home décor items) and a licensed manicurist.
- Lovonya enjoys cooking. Her specialty is seafood, i.e., crabcakes, seafood pasta, honey lemon salmon. Friends and family also really enjoy Lovonya’s Lasagna and Chili. Lovonya’s maternal great-grandparents are Bermudian, so she has visited has Bermuda 4 times for family reunions and vacation.
- Kathy started her career as a computer programmer working on Marine One’s navigational software. She’s been at Johnson Space Center for a NASA shuttle launch and Kennedy Space Center for a shuttle landing.
- Kristi has been at Comtech the longest, currently at 31 years. She is a 2nd generation Norwegian, has traveled to all 50 states and has a twin brother. Her favorite pastime is boating and reading.
General Info
- Website: www.comtech-serv.com
- Twitter: @Center4infoDev
- LinkedIn: CIDM Group and DITA Awareness Group
Congree helps writers create great, consistent and compelling content. Our linguistic intelligence software provides writing guidance and feedback according to your company’s unique style, branding and terminology guidelines.
In addition, our Authoring Memory alerts you to opportunities to reuse existing content instead of creating new, similar content. As you write, our software shows you similar sentences that have already been written, reviewed and translated.
This saves time for your writers and can significantly reduce your translation costs.
Congree seamlessly integrates in your authoring tool and works within the most popular editors on the market, so there’s no need to switch your writers to a new environment.
With over 3800 specialists and 80+ offices worldwide, we are rapidly growing and developing expert company specializing in software and embedded solutions, engineering solutions, and technical documentation solutions who are working towards positive change. We believe that solving tomorrow’s challenges will require a different, more structured, and focused approach. We want to let you concentrate on your core business. Based on our insights in varied industry sectors, we provide innovative solutions in all of our service areas. Our specialists provide unique engineering expertise and service products covering the entire product life cycle.
One of our solutions includes HyperSTE, a content quality checker that helps elevate the customer experience through clear and concise content, while resulting in more efficiency and cost savings.
Fluid Topics turns your technical content into engaging user experiences.
User guides, reference manuals and knowledge bases aren’t merely product documentation – they are also tools for winning business, fostering product adoption, and boosting operational efficiency.
Fluid Topics is a leading Content Delivery Platform for technical documentation. It collects content from existing sources, transforms it into actionable information, and makes it accessible to users, applications and processes when and where it’s needed.
Our Dynamic Content Delivery solution is trusted by worldwide industry leaders to provide a 5-star content experience.
For more information, visit www.fluidtopics.com
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TransPerfect’s GlobalLink CCMS solutions provide the world’s best digital foundations for helping companies deliver superior customer experiences with personalized content at scale. Procter & Gamble, Xylem, Merck, Kohler, Fidelity Investment Services, GE Healthcare, Lexmark, Schlumberger, and many more Forbes Global 2000 organizations rely on the Astoria CCMS and Vasont CCMS to increase returns on their marketing investments by a factor of five or more, thereby anchoring digital transformations across global markets. GlobalLink CCMS solutions extend to web-based portals and to mobile-device apps, forming a content supply chain that includes authoring, content management, translation management, and rendering systems, fully integrated and delivered on public or private clouds. GlobalLink CCMS solutions have received numerous awards, including several appearances on the EContent 100 list of “best and brightest digital content companies.” For more information, visit www.GlobalLinkCCMS.com.
Founded in 1998, IXIASOFT is a trusted global leader in the XML content management software industry. Its signature product, IXIASOFT CCMS, is an award-winning, end-to-end component content management solution (CCMS) used to create, manage, and deliver DITA structured technical documentation. IXIASOFT CCMS has been deployed by industry leaders like Abbott, ARM, Ericsson, Komatsu, Mastercard, Qualcomm, SAP®, and Toyota.
The CCMS is effective in decreasing localization costs, improving collaboration between SMEs and reviewers, and producing coherent, personalized technical content to customers. Our solution is accessed by thousands of users in a variety of vertical markets, including software, semiconductors, and medical device manufacturing. IXIASOFT CCMS is one of the only 100% DITA-compliant CCMSs among the market’s leading platforms.
Mekon is dedicated to improving the way you create, manage and deliver content, in turn maximising your customer experience. Our team of consultants and developers have the insight and experience to offer strategic guidance and training, but also the technical capabilities to deliver the solution you need.
Our coaching and collaborative approach has been refined through 25 years in business, incorporating established project management methodology, risk management and ROI-led planning. This holistic methodology empowers companies of all sizes and sectors to benefit from their strategic asset, turning content into information.
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- Decades of expertise in publishing technologies: XML, DITA and S1000D
- Consulting and coaching clients in component content management, workflow analysis,information architecture and taxonomy
- Cross-industry experience: bringing ideas together from multiple industries and disciplines
- Track record of technical excellence paired with a collaborative and realistic approach.
Datazone is the developer of MiramoPDF, the intuitive, GUI driven PDF formatter for the automated publishing of XML, DITA, S1000D or any structured content. Easily integrated with any Content Management System (CCMS) or editing environment, MiramoPDF delivers all the formatting power and sophistication in one tenth the time of programming-based PDF formatters.
Miramo software is standards based and used worldwide in the financial, manufacturing, government and healthcare sectors.
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Syncro Soft provides a comprehensive suite of XML authoring, developing, publishing, and collaboration tools. The products are designed to accommodate a large variety of users, ranging from non-technical users to XML experts, and integrate all the major XML-based technologies, with a special focus on DITA. Available on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc. and as desktop applications, Eclipse plugins, or browser-based tools.
The Oxygen product suite includes Oxygen XML Author for user-friendly visual XML authoring, Oxygen XML Web Author for in-browser editing and reviewing, the easy-to-use and flexible Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform, Oxygen PDF Chemistry for obtaining PDF using CSS styles, Oxygen WebHelp for responsive HTML5, Oxygen Feedback flexible commenting platform, Oxygen Publishing Engine and Oxygen Scripting for automating publishing, validation, and other tasks. Customizing XML applications can be done with Oxygen XML Developer and Oxygen XML Editor, provides an all-in-one comprehensive XML authoring, publishing, and development tool.
Stilo provides exceptional tools to help organizations implement structured content solutions using XML. Our tools help automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions.
Products include OmniMark, a specialist programming language for developing high-performance XML/SGML content processing applications; Migrate, a unique cloud service that enables technical authoring teams to automate the conversion of their content to DITA and custom XML, and OptimizeR, a content optimization tool that enables users to automatically identify reuse potential across their DITA content and publish more consistent content, faster.
RWS is the global leader in content management and translation technology and services. 90 of the top 100 global companies work with RWS. Tridion Docs provides streamlined end-to-end component content management. It includes easy web-based authoring, reviewing, versioning, translation, and publication management, underpinned by the DITA XML standard. As a true collaborative environment with a familiar Microsoft Word-style interface, subject matter experts (SMEs) in your organization can contribute their knowledge.
Authors and reviewers can work simultaneously in the same document providing comments to each other, tracking and merging changes. Tridion Docs supports global enterprise use cases including single sourcing, product documentation, learning and training, policies and procedures, and efficient translations with delivery to multiple end points such as documents, PDFs, knowledge portals, Intranet, customer facing websites, apps, chatbots, and IoT devices.
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Contact RWS
| Website: tridion.com | Twitter: @rwsgroup | Linkedin: RWSGroup
The Video Automation Company: TXTOmedia delivers technology to automatically create and localize training, instruction, and how-to videos at scale, to speed up time-to-market, improve customer and employee experience while decreasing cost and carbon footprint.
Publish any content to any format. Faster.
In our information-driven world, publishing processes are being pushed to the limit. How do you get your content to your customers faster and more cost-effectively, without compromising on quality? How do you easily bridge the gap between current and emerging formats for print, web, and mobile?
This is how. Introducing Typefi—the world’s only single-source publishing platform that fully integrates print, online and mobile production in a seamless end-to-end automated workflow.
Since 1994, our linguistic services have helped growing technology companies to become global content and software publishers. We design and deploy the most advanced technology and processes to make our customers’ localization simple and dependable. Our priorities are subject matter expertise, techno-enabled efficiency, and on-time delivery.
Beyond localization, customers rely on our expertise in DITA, software, and e-learning to make their content future-ready. We help them become more agile, more competitive and increase the quality of what they publish.
WhP localizes all output and file formats and delivers launch-ready technical documents, software, training material, websites, and customer support.
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