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# What is DITA, anyway?
Have you ever read through a 60-page PDF just to find a few scattered comments from a reviewer? Are most of your technical content processes completed with the cut and paste function? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) could be the solution to the problem.
## What is DITA and how can it help me?
### What is DITA?
DITA XML is the best way for businesses to publish smart and captivating technical content. DITA stands for Darwin Information Type Architecture, and is a generic and adaptable XML-based open standard to manage, create, and publish content. Defined and maintained by the  DITA XML uses topics, maps, and output formats to generate technical documents. Simply put: it helps companies streamline technical writing and documentation processes.
### Why go with a structured content standard?
There are several sound business reasons for wanting to work with an open, structured-content standard. One of the obvious benefits is that an open standard that has successfully been deployed by other organizations for at least a decade has already been vetted from a business perspective. In other words: all the hard work has already been done by other companies. Your company can gain the benefits of the business “smarts” already built into the standard. These benefits include:
* Consistency across all content types
* Faster creation of content
* Better understanding from end users due to predictable structure
* Reusable and unified content
Other key reasons for choosing an open, structured content standard include:
* Interoperability between systems
* No vendor lock-in: off-the-shelf tools
* Ability to easily exchange content in a common format between vendors
* Access to a wide range of dynamic delivery software
In addition to these points, a structured content standard future-proofs content, paving the way for new interactive technologies like chat-bots that are being built on open structured content standards.
### Maximum Content Reuse
Within Darwin Information Typing Architecture, each piece of content represents a unique XML file. The XML-based open standard allows for maximum content reuse across multiple platforms, including tablets, mobile phones, and for desktop. Unlike a Word document, where content simply exists (like a rock), DITA content is dynamic. In an instant, you can publish a document to PDF, PowerPoint, RTF, or mobile—without ever using cut and paste! A  lets you standardize and leverage different types of content with effective reuse, publish to multiple platforms, and translate large batches of content with ease.
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## What is a CCMS?
CCMS stands for “component content management software.” Instead of managing content at the document level, a CCMS manages content on a granular scale. Words, photos, phrases, chapters, and even entire procedures are stored in a central repository for maximum content reuse. Components are only stored once. This creates a consistent and trusted source that can be published across all different types of platforms, including web, mobile, and print.
### Simplified Content Retrieval
Within a DITA content management system, you can search for a word, group of words, or phrase in a certain version of a document. You will get a result containing the search term. Unlike other systems where you must manually locate the file and link to its path, this happens at the press of a button, making content reuse easy.
Inside a component content management system, document versions are traced and recorded. Components can be tracked individually or as an entire documentation set. This ensures full transparency when it comes to the edit and review process.
### The Benefits of DITA
Content consistency and predictability
Enhance content quality with consistency across content types and better understanding from end users due to predictable structure.
Clear documentation hierarchy
Ensure easy navigation and comprehension with the ability to easily exchange content in a common format between vendors.
Reusable and unified content
Boost productivity by managing reusable content and promoting consistent messaging.
Reduced Translation Costs
Translate large batches of content with ease.
Publishing in multiple formats
Create a consistent and trusted source that can be published across all platforms, including web, mobile, and print.
Easy branding updates
Streamline branding updates by seamlessly incorporating external elements such as copyright notices, logos, and branding information during output generation.
Interoperability between systems
Provide seamless workflow efficiency and information-type consistency, all while avoiding vendor lock-in through the use of off-the-shelf tools.
Single-source Content
Efficiently automate parallel deliveries, maximize content reuse, and maintain a single, trusted content source across various publications, products, and languages.
AI Readiness
Leverage DITA’s structured format to prepare content for AI applications, making it easier to integrate into AI-driven processes and platforms.
## The Benefits of Adopting a DITA-focused CCMS
Link Management
Efficiently oversee and maintain links ensuring accuracy and accessibility across your documentation ecosystem
Security and access rights
Organize your users in specific security groups to give them the appropriate permissions and rights.
Content findability
Enhance content findability through advanced search capabilities and intuitive navigational tools.
Controlled localization processes
Streamline controlled localization processes with efficient management and automation solutions.
Improved team collaboration
Foster improved team collaboration through collaborative content management features and tools.
Version Control
Ensure content accuracy and traceability by systematically recording and tracking changes made to technical documents over time.
Automated publishing
Publish smart and captivating technical information or content with streamlined content delivery.
Taxonomy term maintenance and application
Simplify content categorization and ensure consistent classification.
## Why should my company use a CCMS?
For example, let’s say your company manufactures cell phones on a mass scale. Like most products, cell phones come with a user manual (that thing you so often toss out and three months later wish you hadn’t).
In preparation for the release of phone X, your technical documentation teams work towards creating and publishing a user guide. This manual will be delivered in multiple formats, including: as a printed booklet, an online document on your website, and as a PDF embedded on the phone itself. It will also be translated into Japanese, German, and French.
Next quarter, you will go through the same process for phone Y.
Is your head spinning yet?
A CCMS simplifies the process by offering a solution that covers technical documentation from A to Z. IXIA CCMS provides an easy-to-use interface guaranteed to improve collaboration at all levels, and is the only leading 100% DITA-compliant component content management system.
Now, team members can contribute to reviewing, creating, and publishing technical documents. Not only is content available for print, it is also available to your end-users on the web, their mobile app, or through a QR code.
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### Manage Multiple Product Releases at Once
IXIA CCMS allows one to manage and automate parallel and multiple deliveries, or even continuous deliveries, while maximizing reuse. All bits of content are stored in a central repository, and can be re-purposed for publishing in several publications, products and languages. This provides a single, trusted source of content (referential). The CCMS is designed with an easy-to-use interface that can easily be adopted by anyone—even non-DITA format users.
What’s more, you can filter and create targeted content depending on the product options! This creates*slimmer but more targeted deliverables.* End-users won’t need to skim through non-applicable or unnecessary content.
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> IXIASOFT is patient, they went in assuming that I had experienced an issue (some support folks at other companies seem to doubt I have a problem), and they were persistent until the root cause was found. The fix IXIASOFT came up with was fast, and worked the first time. No one could ask for anything more than that!
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### In-House Experts
MadCap Software boasts a skilled team of in-house DITA experts, IT specialists, experienced project managers, and multi-stack developers. Our extensive content management expertise makes us well-equipped to assist you from start to finish.
We’ve helped multinational companies like SAP, BlackBerry, and Komatsu save money and streamline their content creation process. We’ve also connected talented writers, editors, and subject matter experts from across the globe to create powerful content creation teams.
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Our in-house DITA experts dedicate time and energy to help craft the future of DITA. MadCap Software encourages employee involvement at international conferences to help spread knowledge of DITA best practices and processes.Our experts have contributed to academic publications on technical communications, conducted research on worldwide use of DITA, and crafted case studies of successful DITA deployment strategies.
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Our IT team has the technical knowledge and practical experience to help build an efficient, fault-free infrastructure for content creation across your company. Responsiveness is key when it comes to content management software. Our IT team works tirelessly to ensure content creators work in an efficient, no-fail environment.
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Our system can be customized to work with pre-existing tools or to match existing workflows. Some examples of custom development include:
* Developing custom style sheets for output, such as creating professional PDFs to incorporate your company’s branding and look-and-feel
* Customizing DITA-OT plug-ins to better fit with existing toolchain
* Tie in to other third-party tools, such as automated connections to bug tracking systems
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