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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.
  • Product Overview
  • Benefits
  • Features
  • Demo
  • Free Software

Product Overview

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.

Benefits

Enterprise-wide consistency and quality

  • Enables consistent style, grammar, terminology and content reuse

  • Centralized assets and user profiles enable 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 so that companies benefit from more accurate automated translation output

  • Produces reports to help manage the time, costs and quality of authoring content

  • Provides insights into the impact of style and linguistic changes on the costs of providing multilingual content

Features

  • Apply style, linguistic and grammar rules to your technical documentation from within multiple  authoring applications.
  • Apply consistent terminology by automatically removing forbidden terms and inserting preferred terms stored from within SDL MultiTerm.
  • Check content against translation memories to ensure consistency at the content source and reduce downstream translation costs.
  • Generate reports on the quality improvement and translation cost reduction that SDL Global Authoring Management System brings to your technical documentation.
  • Set up and manage user profiles to configure rules and settings to specific users.

Demo

Free Software

Download the desktop client version of SDL AuthorAssistant for FREE for users of Adobe® FrameMaker 9.

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.