Content Development/Maintenance
The structured nature of XML documents makes them ideally suited for automated tracking. SiberSafe includes the following features for managing XML content:
Chunking
Index & search
Index By specifying which document types will be indexed, and which elements in XML documents, the administrator can tailor the indexing process to meet the operational needs and experience level of their users. Search Based on criteria such as keyword, phrase, author, creation date range, attribute/value pairs, etc., the search function will locate content in the latest version of all files in the repository, or all historical revisions that provide a match.Search results include information about each XML fragment that matched the criteria and its place in the content hierarchy of the parent document, enabling the user to locate the precise content required.
Conditional inclusion
Conditional inclusion produces structurally identical variants of the same content, useful when different audiences need content that differs only in some parts. This functionality is implemented via conditional fragments, which are fragments of XML content labeled with one or more audience interest tags. The combination of a fragment's audience interest tags and their respective values determines the audience for which the fragment is intended. Thus, SiberSafe offers not only single source publishing to different formats (such as PDF, HTML, CHM Help, and many others), but also single source content for different target audiences (such as user types, hardware platforms, etc.).
See the demo on conditional inclusion
Link management
Context-aware linking
Prolog management
Virtual document management
Audience modeling and variant generation
Index term management
Document sets often require a common index term catalog so readers can find specific content more easily across the entire set. SiberSafe enables authoring teams to define and use terms in a central index term catalog. The user marks content for inclusion in the index via an easy-to-use GUI, navigating the index term catalog and automatically inserting the selected index term hierarchy (e.g. baking, pastry, jelly filled) in the document, using the elements and attributes for index term specified in the DTD or Schema associated with the document being edited.
See the white paper on Index Term Management
Release Management
Release management enables parallel development on projects that share common content. SiberSafe allows the documentation manager to branch a project, so that a new project team can start a parallel development effort while the original team continues towards their original delivery schedule. This situation often arises when a product is released. It may be necessary for one team to deal with documentation issues on the released product, and another team to start work on the documentation and training material for the next version of the product. Release management tracks the divergences and integrations of changes between different projects and project branches.
See the white paper on Release Management
See the Release Management demo
Supported variants assignment
Integrated Task Analysis
SiberSafe Integrated Task Analysis – available for both SiberSafe XML CMS and SiberSafe DITA Edition – streamlines the entire task analysis process. The linked items in its integrated repository make it easy to identify reusable content and to determine the structure of required information deliverables, even before product development is complete. It’s an innovative and highly efficient approach to documentation development and maintenance.
Download the Integrated Task Analysis datasheet.
Maintenance utilities
Stream Deletion
The SiberSafe Stream Deletion utility makes it possible to remove repository streams that are no longer in use, optimizing the database and freeing disk space.
History maintenance utilities
The new History Compression and Inheritance Elimination utilities help minimize history-related performance degradation. You can choose the date from which to keep information about object changes and remove all preceding history records. The Inheritance Elimination utility enables history compression for databases initially created in SiberSafe 5.0 or earlier.
What our customers say:
Barbara J. Reeder, President, SDI Government Solutions:
"The unprecedented flexibility of the SiberSafe solution and the responsiveness of SiberLogic’s team help us to successfully manage the conversion of technical manuals into any of the evolving standards of the Department of Defense Community.”
Cactus May, Manager, Technical Publications, Tokyo Electron:
"We use SiberSafe in a highly collaborative and complex global environment where it has proven to be both a reliable and flexible CMS. Streamlining the workflow from concept to deliverable with features such as conditional and multi-channel publishing has made us better at what we do. We've run SiberSafe through the paces, but SiberLogic have always been ready to turn whatever was hanging us up into the next great, new feature."
Mike Bayley-Sanderson, Project Manager, VME Centre of Excellence, Fujitsu:
"... thanks to you and the support team for all the efforts you have made over recent months to improve your service and SiberSafe."
William Gill, Solutions Architect, Innovatia:
"Our experience with SiberLogic during our implementation has been very good. The quality of responses we receive go beyond simply correcting any issue but also provide alternatives and best practice suggestions."
Philip Vallone, Manager, Technical Documentation, SDI Government Solutions
SDI has been using SiberSafe CMS/CSDB for over 5 years to manage and automate its technical documentation development, maintenance and conversion processes. SDI's business is project-driven and every project comes with its own set of standard compliance requirements. SiberSafe has helped SDI to successfully comply with multiple technical publication standards, including S1000D, MIL-STD-2361 and DITA for our commercial and US DoD clients' projects. SiberSafe has tremendously evolved over the years, helping us meet our diverse project requirements. SiberLogic’s technical support and consulting services have helped us meet the project deadlines in our documentation development and conversion projects.
Open Ratings, Dun & Bradstreet
Open Ratings (Dun & Bradstreet) has independently surveyed multiple SiberLogic's customer accounts and gave SiberLogic high marks for its past performance in a number of business related categories, based on the quality of its products and services. Download a copy of the Open Ratings evaluation report from our website
Product Information Line
If you have a specific question about our technology, please call our product information line at 905-761-6116 from 9am to 5pm EST.
News
Zynx Health engages SiberLogic for knowledge management
Dec 10, 2011
Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, engages SiberLogic to help improve and further automate their content and knowledge management business processes.
Ericsson signs an enterprise license agreement for SiberSafe CCMS
Nov 30, 2011
SiberLogic signs an enterprise license agreement for its SiberSafe CCMS with Ericsson, the market leader in telecommunications technology.
SiberSafe S1000D CSDB selected by a European NATO Armed Force
Oct 15, 2011
SiberLogic has been engaged to supply its SiberSafe S1000D CSDB to one of the NATO European Armed Forces for all their S1000D projects and activities.
Innovatia deploys SiberSafe DITA CMS
Sep 15, 2011
Innovatia deploys SiberSafe DITA CMS in a telecom documentation development project
SiberSafe S1000D CSDB customer base doubles in China
Aug 25, 2011
SiberSafe S1000D CSDB customer base doubles in China in the first 6 months of 2011
US Army engages SiberLogic to support MIL-STD-2361D and MIL-STD-40051
Jul 21, 2011
US Army engages SiberLogic to provide MIL-STD-2361D and MIL-STD-40051 standards support for technical documentation authoring, maintenance and publishing
Managing DITA content Whitepaper Benefits and challenges of the DITA content model that can be faced by technical documentation teams dealing with complex, long-lived, and evolving material. |
SiberSafe integration with the FrameMaker Application Pack for DITA, and the DITA Open Toolkit Flash Demo Includes insertion and navigation of conrefs and links from within FrameMaker; and DITA map publication to PDF via the DITA OT with conrefs etc. resolved and rendered. |
SiberSafe/FrameMaker integration Flash Demo See SiberSafe run from FrameMaker to deliver an effective content management environment for technical documentation. |
Authoring with SiberSafe XMetaL Integration Flash Demo Using SiberSafe XMetaL integration allows increasing significantly convenience and effectiveness of authors work. |
SiberSafe S1000D Edition with XMetaL Integration Whitepaper This white paper provides a detailed overview of the challenges of S1000D and how SiberSafe and XMetaL address them. |
SiberSafe DITA Edition Whitepaper This document describes the various features included in SiberSafe's DITA solution |
The Underwater Rocks of S1000D PowerPoint Presentation SiberLogic delivered this presentation at the S1000D 2010 International User forum. We outlined the most typical hurdles in the adoption of S1000D standard and suggested how these can be overcome. |