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#Indigo sdl trados studio software#
This includes software that falls into the following categories:Īll prices are in $US except where noted. The following is an updated list of all of the DITA-related tools (not editors, not CMSes) I could find. In the work I have done as a consultant for Yellow Pencil, I often find that organizations require more sophisticated output features than the DITA-OT natively offers, while others need localization tools designed to further reduce translation costs, as well as more DITA-specific utilities like xref-to-keyref converters, DITA-specific plug-ins and add-ons for those writing DITA content using FrameMaker, being able to track and produce publication metrics and more. In addition to DITA-capable Component Content Management Systems (CCMSes) and DITA-optimized XML editors, there are various other tools available to help documentation teams and individual technical writers who are working with DITA. Yellow Pencil (provides DITA training services along with information architecture and content strategy services for firms looking to move to structured content for their technical writing and web content teams. In the meantime, keep watching this space for more DITA news and analysis. Let’s meet back in a year and see how many of these predictions pan out. Continued growth of DITA outside of its software/IT core.
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DITA becoming the de facto choice for documentation within software/IT firms.The DITA tool market will likely begin to see signs of consolidation with select players taking the lead, though there is still room for firms who can bring strong and compelling products to DITA authors.More firms will enter the mature phase of DITA adoption.DITA adoption will continue to grow slowly but steadily.Where will DITA adoption be a year from now? While I hesitate to pull out my crystal ball (after all, those things are fragile) I think I can safely make the following predictions based on the trends observed: DITA still dominates in the software/IT sectors, but it is increasingly seeing usage outside of those two “core” sectors, and the relative sizes of firms looking for those with DITA experience follows a continuing trend. The industry as a whole appears to have entered a more mature phase, though there are still a sizable number of firms seeking to migrate to DITA, so there are still jobs out there for people looking to help with the transition, but that type of opportunity is getting smaller over time. While there are other technical writing standards out there, it is by far the most popular, and may have help kill off DocBook. So Where is DITA Now and Where is it Going?ĭITA continues to be a sought-after skill among technical writers, with increasing demand. If anyone has any other thoughts on this why this reoccurring pattern exists, please leave your comments below! I am guessing that firms at these sizes are themselves going through a maturation process where old-school/brute-force methods of doing documentation still hold sway.
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I suspect that very small firms (1-10 employees) adopt DITA because of the relatively low-cost of the tools involved, but I have a harder time explaining the relatively low adoption pattern that exists with medium-to-large (201-1000 employee) and medium-large (5,001-10,000) firms. In these cases it just “makes sense” to do things using DITA.