[p4] OT: Content Management Systems for technical communications

[Al Garay]

Have you found a CMS system to support your technical
writing needs that has:
* a central repository
* XML authoring client
* can generate/output PDF (for printed docs)
* output html for website
* output HELP in .hlp, .chng, .rtf or .html

Our writers are using RoboHelp (became Flare) and have
struggled in using Perforce as a central repository. A
P4 API for RoboHelp would help simplify their workflow
(checking in and out from the IDE similar to MS Visual
Studio). However, they would not have the searching
capability they need on the repository. 

Thus a CMS system like PTC Arbortext makes sense to
allow other teams such as TechSupport, Training,
Marketing to search the content and leverage existing
information. Plus it would tie directly to a
translation vendor reducing localization costs
(hopefully, but that's another topic in leveraging a
central translation memory-database).

Anyways, I'm hoping to find a content management
system that has similar philosophy (light, flexible,
performance, ez, good value) as Perforce brings to
configuration management. 

Thanks for your opinion,

Al Garay
Engineering Operations Manager
Captaris, Inc
Bellevue WA  98004


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