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SDL Structured Content TechnologiesMay 2011

Development Status & Roadmap

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Agenda

Looking back at SDL Trisoft 2011

Towards SDL Trisoft 2011 R2 and beyond

Looking back at

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Persistence, Enthusiasm and FocusProduct Goals Summarized

Productivity

Usability

Interoperabilty

Performance Compatibility

Standards

Adoption

Innovation Focus

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SDL Trisoft 2011 Themes Support for DITA 1.2 Make Information Easy to Find Involve User Community by providing a closed loop

between SDL Trisoft and SDL LiveContent Meet High-end Publishing requirements by SDL XPP

integration Prepare expansion into the Japanese Market Improve User Experience Technology Innovation and support for the latest

releases of Platforms, Databases and Authoring Tools

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Support for DITA 1.2

DITA 1.2 configured out-of the-box including support for Training and Learning / Machine Industry

Support for conref ranges Keyref support Validation of keyrefs during publishing Support for new elements Automatic conversion from DITA 1.1 navtitle

attribute to DITA 1.2 navtitle element DITA-OT 1.5.1 configured

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Make Information Easy to Find

New search platform based on Solr and Lucene Search for XML elements and attributes Easier to find where conditions and variables

are used Ability to search for last edits of someone Ability to filter results for specific user groups Display folder information in result list Embedded extensibility in terms of language

support

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Involve User Community

Publish rich content from SDL Trisoft into SDL LiveContent

Use xml and metadata to filter on-the-fly Community can comment on documentation Comments are visible in SDL Trisoft in real-time Act on comments and improve your

documentation

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Meet High-End Publishing Requirements

Integration with SDL XPP Set the stage for the future, and allow people to

modify generated PDF interactively

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Prepare Expansion into Japan

Localized UI Desktop Client into Japanese XMetaL-6J Supported

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Improve User Experience

Highlights are: Improved and Rebranded Web Client Ability to save a publication opened in PM as

a new publication Ability to check in / out from Browse

Repository dialog Most Recently Used menu items Carry output formats forward to new version

of Publication In Context Preview Improved Where Used Reports Ability to configure additional fields to

baseline tab Autobaseline objects when building a

publication Improved synchronization between SDL

Publication Manager and SDL Authoring Bridge

Flash Support in SDL Publication Manager

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Improve User Experience

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Technology Innovation

Transparent Data Encryption in SQL Server 2008

Client Tools Scripting Support (R&D ONLY) Tuned Perfomance for Oracle Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit SQL Server 2008 64-bit Support Desktop Clients based on

Windows 7 IE8 support for Web Client Support for Adobe FrameMaker 9.0 Bridge,

Arbortext Editor 5.4 and XMetaL 6.0 New APIs (Folder25, Search25, and functions

to support Where Used reports)

Towards 2012

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Roadmap Focus Areas

Enterprise Readiness and Scalability

Enabling adoption of XML and DITA throughout the organization

Integrating the products

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The SDL Trisoft 2011 R2 themes: SDL Xopus integration in the Web Client Centralized User authentication & User Provisioning Redesign Event Monitor Dispatcher for load balancing publishing request Oracle 11.2 support Advanced DITA support: support for anchorref and

conref push architecture

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The SDL Global AMS 2010 SP2 themes: AutoSuggest for Arbortext and XMetal InDesign support (German Linguistic support)

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The SDL Xopus 4.3 themes: Support for Chrome 10 and Safari 5 Xopus UI for Global AMS, depends on new Global AMS

Server architecture. IME input support (Japanese, Chinese, etc input) (Collaboration)

Strikethrough deleted text Commenting / Discussions Track Structure Changes Accept / Reject Structure Changes

Carbon Theme

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The SDL LiveContent DITA 5.1 themes: DITA 1.2 Support (conref, conref push, keyref, etc) Enhancements User Generated Content (replies,

threaded conversations, workflow status, RSS feeds) Searching Binary Data (PDFs, MS Office Formats, plug-

in architecture to allow for additional format support) Support for Third-Party Application Server Support

(Tomcat, Websphere) Streamlining and Strengthening Performance and

Scalability Packaging content for distribution to laptops or kiosks Enhanced multimedia support, including support for

Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems

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Planning and Timeline

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