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Your need
Do you need an authoring tool to write technical documentation (manuals, online help, software demos) yourself? Or are you no longer satisfied with your current tools?
Decisions at this point have a strategic impact:
| ▪ | on the quality of the output |
| ▪ | on the efficiency of creation, production and translation |
| ▪ | on the process reliability in times of tight deadlines |
Should it turn out later that the decision was wrong, things will get expensive: new investment into different software, repeated training of all colleagues involved, repeated setup of templates and production processes, and possibly also the conversion of documents already created with the old tools.
My service
With a background of many years of experience in planning and writing technical documentation, combined with the required foresight, I can analyze your specific requirements. Based on these requirements I can then present a pre-selection of authoring tools which meet these requirements as best as possible, and I can explain the specific advantages and disadvantages to you.
This gives you a well-founded basis for you decision. Other than many competing documentation service providers I am absolutely free of any sales motives of a specific tool, so my advice will be totally neutral and vendor independent. For the same reason, I will not procure any tools for you. To buy a specific tool, please contact the maker or an according distributor directly.
In addition to consulting I can also assist you hands-on with creating the required templates and setting up the generation processes for the chosen solution.
See also
Templates
Writing Style Guides and DTDs
Workshops / Coaching / Mentoring
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