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Does your content support your business goals or obstruct them? Is your content a business asset or a costly liability? Scriptorium Publishing offers content strategy services to help customers solve business problems and achieve strategic goals. Our mission is to transform content into a business asset.

The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), a Comtech Services’ membership organization, facilitates the sharing of information about current trends, best practices and developments within the industry. CIDM hosts three face-to-face conferences and two online conferences each year and provides many networking and training opportunities for the industry. For over 35 years, Comtech has helped clients design, create, and publish information products that meet the needs of their users. At every point in the information development life cycle, Comtech offers expert advice and guidance to help you improve your processes, get to know your audience, fine tune your content, and use the latest standards and technologies.

Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) is the industry-standard tool for authoring and publishing multilingual technical content across mobile, web, desktop, and print. Easily work with unstructured and structured content in the same documentation. XML Documentation Add-on for Adobe Experience Manager is a powerful, enterprise-grade DITA CCMS. Dynamically deliver DITA content directly to Experience Manager, thereby offering highly interactive and personalized experiences to end users.

oXygen XML Editor offers ready-to-use DITA support, including visual editing, DITA-OT integration, DITA maps manager, and much more. Its change tracking and annotation support, along with its cross-platform availability and the possibility of creating simplified user interfaces, makes it an ideal tool for reviewing DITA documents or capturing content from subject matter experts.

easyDITA is an all-inclusive, cloud-based DITA authoring tool and component content management system (CCMS) that makes it easy for organizations to create, share, and reuse information. Everything you need to author, manage, translate, and publish your content is combined into one solution. Content is stored in a web-based, single-source repository where both authors and subject matter experts (SMEs) can access it and collaborate using easyDITA's intuitive tools. easyDITA was developed by Jorsek LLC, a Rochester, NY based software development company dedicated to creating the next generation of documentation and information management tools.

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Ovitas provides consultancy, expert design, development, and deployment of DITA-based content lifecycle solutions. We build solutions to fit your needs, using proven software products including Ovitas CMS, Ovitas Workflow Portal, Ovitas Publishing Bridge, Ovitas Translation Management System (TMS) Bridge, and the Ovitas Content Portal Framework. These highly configurable tools for component content management, workflow, search & retrieval, and content integration let us build cost-effective solutions targeted at your highest priority business issues.

Bluestream XDocs CCMS is the leading single vendor solution for organizations looking to improve and enhance their information workflow. With a unique rapid-to-deploy methodology, coupled with unrivaled functionality, Bluestream are inspiring teams of authors to create powerful user-focused content that can be flexibly delivered to any device or platform. Bluestream’s global customers range from Fortune 100 organizations seeking complex cross departmental documentation solutions to small businesses containing single author teams.

LavaCon is a gathering place for content strategists, documentation managers, and content professionals who are willing to share their best practices and lessons learned—both what worked, and what didn’t. Be prepared to network, share your best practices and lessons learn, and enjoy some amazing food and hospitality events in the process.