Ixiasoft Crafts New Partnership
November 23, 2009
XML repository technology continues to intersect with traditional search and content processing systems. I was reading a news item about Ixiasoft’s deal with an outfit unfamiliar to me when I got a call from a person looking for information about XML. I thought XML was like a circus pony: understood and relatively easy to handle once the equine was shaped to meet the trainer’s expectations.
Ixiasoft’s new dance partner is XML-INTL. The idea is to offer licensees the ability to localize and translate content in the Ixiasoft system. The article “Ixiasoft Announces Strategic Partnership with XML-INTL to Streamline Global Content Delivery” provides this description of the tie up:
By integrating the IXIASOFT DITACMS with the XML-INTL XTM Suite, IXIASOFT customers will benefit from a fully integrated translation management suite which will further enhance their control over the localization process. The DITA CMS is a content management system aimed at technical communicators for the efficient authoring, management and publishing of DITA-based technical documentation. XML-INTL is the developer of the XMT Suite, a leading translation set of tools. The tight integration between the two offerings will allow users to seamless move their content from the CMS to the translation management tools and always have access to updated localized content. As a result, organizations will be able to maximize their reuse strategy and continue to drive down localization costs. Organizations are feeling the pressures of globalization and one of their main challenges is to produce localized product documentation that is consistent, on-time and on-budget. Combined to the DITA CMS system, the XTM Suite will facilitate this process, resulting in direct cost savings and shorter localization cycles.
Ixiasoft has a number of partners. You can find a list here. Some of the tie ups were surprising; for example, nStein, a company also in a similar business. Others struck me as interesting because I was not aware of these hooks; for example, Ektron and Stellent. The company lists almost two dozen resellers for its software and systems.
Ixiasoft is a vendor of XML content management software. One of the company’s products is the TEXTML Server, a native XML database and search engine used to store, index and retrieve large volumes of XML content. he firm sells the DITA CMS, which is designed to author, manage, review, localize and publish DITA-based technical documentation. The company provides a white paper, but you have to go through a registration process. My dog is the proud possessor of this document because he is the vice president of his tech firm and needs this information. I think he is looking forward to a sales call because Ixiasoft wanted his phone number.
The company’s most recent release of the DITA CMS product includes a number of enhancements. These range from a new interface for its native search functions to a more functional table editor. I had in my files the article “Modulo Using Ixiasoft XML Technology”, which is a basic description of how one information company uses the firm’s TextML Server product.
The company is based in Montréal, Québec, and is privately held. The firm lists some of its customers here. I try to steer clear of anything that includes the acronym CMS. That’s a field fraught with litigation, confusion, azure chip consultants, failed projects, and cost overruns. Every once in a while a rose will boom, but in most cases CMS reminds me of Flanders fields where the crosses stand “row on row,” CMS implementation managers dead projects.
Stephen Arnold, November 23, 2009
The Government Printing Office is hereby notified that I was not paid to write this article with its opinions about content management. No compensation but I did include a poetic metaphor in honor of Lt. Col. John McCrae.
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