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Product

Update

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Agenda

Releases since last conference (2.9 to 3.1)

• Server

• Plug-ins

Product roadmap

Feedback from 2012 User Conference

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Releases Since

Last Conference (2.9 to 3.1)

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Server – Areas of Focus

• Terminology

• Administration

• Language

• Checking

• Reporting

• SEO

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Terminology

Terminology Management

• Terminology import/export (ACTIF)

• MySQL support for terminology

• RSS feed of terminology changes

Term Browsing

• Customizable with CSS

• Added “print” button

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Terminology

Term Contribution

• Optional “no login” access

• “Enterprise license”

• Single sign-on

• Configurable visibility of Comment

• Fields configurable as required

• Full comment history

• Custom fields on “Add comment” page

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Administration

• Separate configuration files

(customer- & Acrolinx-specific)

• Improved detection of duplicate

user IDs

• Java Authentication and

Authorization Service support

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Language

Easier customization of rules based on

lexical lists (“gazetteer”)

Started work on terminology checking in

additional languages (NL, ES, PT)

Continuous enhancement of grammar &

spelling

More elaborate regression tests

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Language – Continuous Improvement

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Language – Frequency and Precision

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Checking

• “Quality Score”:

0 to 100 (best)

• Optional Flesch-

Kincaid

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Reporting

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New Infocenter

• Twitter notifications of

updates

• Searchable with Google

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Plug-ins Since

Last Conference

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Plug-in Development Since Last Conference

New

• Adobe Experience Manager (CQ)

• Serna

• Microsoft Outlook

Upgraded

• oXygen 14.1 and 14.2

• Word 2013, change tracking, 64-bit support

• FrameMaker 10 and 11

• XMetaL 7.0

• InDesign CS6

Service Releases

• 22 releases to fix customer-reported issues

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Third-party Development

New Third-party Integrations

• Alchemy CATALYST

• Alchemy integrated Acrolinx

authoring support into their standard

workflow for editing and localizing

software

Customer Integrations

• Code Collaborator

• Interactive Intelligence integrated

Acrolinx into their code review

workflow

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SEO Presentation & Demo

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Why Improve Findability?

Pre-Sales Information Post-Sales Information

Increase Revenue Improve Support

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How to Improve Findability (“On Page”)

Quality content

Keyword placement

• Title

• Description (meta tag)

• Headings (H1, H2)

• Links

• Most important keywords first

Keyword density?

• Don’t overdo it

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SEO Demo

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SEO from Acrolinx

SEO for “deep content”

Optimize before publishing, not after

Optimize all types (HTML, XML, Word, …)

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Product Roadmap 2013

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Plug-in Roadmap

New

• oXygen (Eclipse) (Q3 2013)

• Apache OpenOffice Writer (Q4 2013)

• IBM WCM (Q4 2013)

• Adobe InCopy (Q4 2013)

Upgrade

• XMetaL 8.0 (Q3 2013)

• PowerPoint 2013 (Q4 2013) – first on Windows 8

• Microsoft Word 2013 performance improvements (Q4 2013)

• Lotus Notes (Q1 2014)

• Adobe FrameMaker (Q1 2014)

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Language

Rule set

Term sets

Check settings

Extraction settings

Checking Profiles

Marketing

Author

Marketing

Editor

Techdocs

Author

Techdocs

Editor

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Checking Profiles

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Checking Profiles

Hands-On Demo Available

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Voice Scores

Configurable:

• Categories

• Rules

• Targets & ranges

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Acrolinx Analytics

Replaces & Enhances Reporting

• Add document & author metadata

to checking results

• Report results grouped by &

filtered by metadata

• Export data

• Scheduled email reports

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Report Example

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Report Example

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Release Plan – Subject to Change

3.2 planned for August 2013

3.3 planned for November 2013

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Auto-Correct Research Project

• ACCEPT consortium to enable

machine translation of user-

generated content

• Improve language of occasional

writers (e.g., forum contributors)

• Develop user interface to suggest &

correct

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Feedback from Last Year’s User Conference

Done

In next 12

months Not planned

Terminology 1 - -

Reuse - - 3

Plug-ins 6 2 4

Dashboard - 2 1

Reporting 2 7 -

Services 1 - -

Usability 1 1 3

Technology 2 - -

13 11 12

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Already Completed

Examples:

• Readability: added Flesch-

Kincaid

• Terminology: improved

interchange format; “ignore all”

• oXygen on Mac, FrameMaker 10,

XMetaL 7

• Microsoft Word: fixed change

tracking problems

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Planned for Next 12 Months

Examples:

• DITA enhancements (e.g., check

alt text)

• Reporting (“Analytics”)

• Search for Checking Reports

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ulrich.callmeier@acrolinx.com

pg.bartlett@acrolinx.com

christian.hansel@acrolinx.com