SDL Global Authoring Management System

Consistency and Quality in Global Authoring

Consistent and high-quality content is fundamental in protecting the image of the corporate brand. And yet, ensuring consistency and quality across source content is a challenge faced by many organizations today, impacting customer satisfaction and brand consistency.

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SDL Global Authoring Management System™ (SDL Global AMS™) helps companies improve brand consistency, increase the efficiency of the global authoring process and reduce time-to-market for global content. Through a centralized system which checks against corporate assets, it enables enterprise-wide consistency of terminology, style and linguistic best practices, as well as ensuring the reuse of previously written and translated content.

Enterprise-wide consistency and quality

Enables consistent style, grammar, terminology and content reuse
Central access enables quality and consistency across multiple users
Enhances brand consistency and customer satisfaction

Productivity and efficiency in global authoring

Applies terminology and translation memory earlier in the content creation process
Reduces global content translation volumes
Shortens time-to-market

Time-to-market and cost reduction in producing global content

Helps create content suitable for automated translation, such as SDL Knowledge-based Translation System™, so that companies benefit from the time and cost reductions of automated translation
Produces reports to help manage the time, costs and quality of global authoring
Provides insights into the impact of style and linguistic changes on the costs of providing multilingual content

The system comprises both a server and a client license, the SDL AuthorAssistant Client

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SDL AuthorAssistant for Adobe FrameMaker

SDL AuthorAssistant is the client software component of SDL Global Authoring Management System. If you use Adobe FrameMaker, you can now download SDL AuthorAssistant for free, so you can immediately start improving the consistency and quality of your technical documentation.

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Bring your Style Guide to Life and Create High-Quality Content from within Adobe FrameMaker 9

Discover how you can write high-quality, consistent content from within your Adobe FrameMaker environment with the help of the SDL AuthorAssistant client

Case Studies

Helping Avaya Deliver Localized Content Consistency

Localized content consistency is the watchword at Avaya. As one of the world’s great communications companies,
Avaya faces the challenge of providing localized content (in up to 35 languages) across numerous product lines—
all delivered to a seamlessly consistent and accurate standard.

White Papers

Global Ideas and Global Information - How Adobe Systems and SDL Help You Create Content for a Worldwide Audience

Together, SDL and Adobe Systems are revolutionizing how the world engages with global ideas and global information. This SDL and Adobe White Paper examines how organizations can rapidly author, manage, and publish high-quality, consistent technical content for multilingual audiences, using the Adobe Technical Communications Suite integrated seamlessly with SDL Global Authoring Management System.

Product Brief

SDL Global Authoring Management System

Global organizations need to provide consistent corporate communications, across all the markets and languages they address. A global authoring strategy must integrate centralized global information assets into the content creation process, to improve the consistency and quality of communications for international markets.

Industry White Papers

SDL Research - Global Authoring Survey 2009

SDL recently conducted the 2009 edition of its annual Global Authoring Survey, which has been running since 2006 with the goal of exploring the trends in authoring and technical documentation across the globe. The particular focus is on the tools used for authoring, the dynamics of authoring teams and departments as well as the trends and shifts in XML, DITA and content management.