Content Delivery Platforms for Technical Documentation
Market overview of content delivery platforms and solutions that are especially designed for providing access to technical documentation and user assistance
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General content delivery solutions
Dedicated tools for creating mobile user assistance apps
Fluid Topics Web solution for publishing online documentation produced with structured content authoring tools. Provides advanced search, navigation, and analysis. Price: not published DITAweb Adds personalization and collaboration features to published DITA content. Price: not published Zoomin docs Provides content based on user profiles via one central hub. Allows users to search across all publications with full-text search and faceted search. Can also be used to provide intelligent context-sensitive help. Users can share, comment, and rate the content. Price: not published https://www.zoominsoftware.com/zoomin-docs/ Titania Delivery Solution for dynamically publishing personalized content. Price: not published https://www.titaniasoftware.com/website/ Queri Makes it possible to browse, search, and annotate collections of information stored in Word, HTML, XML, structured FrameMaker, DITA, and PDF files. Price: not published https://lexum.com/en/products/qweri/ tekReader Publishes XML content as an HTML5 web site. Users can add notes to individual paragraphs within a document. Price: not published Schema Content Delivery Server Price: not published https://www.schema.de/en/software/schema-cds/ EasyBrowse Price: not published https://www.gds.eu/en/content-delivery i-views content Price: starting at approx. €999 per month Cobrili Windows-based help viewer with several advanced features. Price: not published |
IntraFind Various products for elastic and faceted search. Price: not published https://www.intrafind.de/index_en algolia Advanced hosted search engine. Price: starting at approx. $35 per month; (free for open source projects) Zoom Search Engine Can be used to add full text search to browser-based online help files and web sites. Also works for locally installed help. Price: approx. $119 (“Professional”); there’s also a free version for up to 50 indexed topics available https://www.zoomsearchengine.com Swiftype Site Search Can add powerful search and search analytics to online Webhelp. Price: starting at approx. $79 per month Apache Solr Scalable enterprise search platform with advanced full-text search capabilities. Price: free (open source) http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ SeekQuarry Search engine software. Price: free (open source) |
Epilogue Runs in the background, tracking a user’s place in the application. When the user requests help, the program delivers the most relevant supporting content. Users can also mark their favorite training and help content so that they can quickly access the help topics that are most relevant to them. Price: not published https://www.epiloguesystems.com Apache PredictionIO Machine learning server to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Price: free (open source) |
TopicPilot Ready-to-use mobile documentation solution. Price: not published https://www.docufy.de/en/products/topicpilot/ TechCommApp Compiles mobile technical documentation from various sources. Price: depends on various factors (see price list published on the web site) |
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