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Agenda
Releases since last conference (2.9 to 3.1)
• Server
• Plug-ins
Product roadmap
Feedback from 2012 User Conference
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Releases Since
Last Conference (2.9 to 3.1)
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Server – Areas of Focus
• Terminology
• Administration
• Language
• Checking
• Reporting
• SEO
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Terminology
Terminology Management
• Terminology import/export (ACTIF)
• MySQL support for terminology
• RSS feed of terminology changes
Term Browsing
• Customizable with CSS
• Added “print” button
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Terminology
Term Contribution
• Optional “no login” access
• “Enterprise license”
• Single sign-on
• Configurable visibility of Comment
• Fields configurable as required
• Full comment history
• Custom fields on “Add comment” page
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Administration
• Separate configuration files
(customer- & Acrolinx-specific)
• Improved detection of duplicate
user IDs
• Java Authentication and
Authorization Service support
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Language
Easier customization of rules based on
lexical lists (“gazetteer”)
Started work on terminology checking in
additional languages (NL, ES, PT)
Continuous enhancement of grammar &
spelling
More elaborate regression tests
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Language – Continuous Improvement
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Language – Frequency and Precision
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Checking
• “Quality Score”:
0 to 100 (best)
• Optional Flesch-
Kincaid
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Reporting
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New Infocenter
• Twitter notifications of
updates
• Searchable with Google
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Plug-ins Since
Last Conference
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Plug-in Development Since Last Conference
New
• Adobe Experience Manager (CQ)
• Serna
• Microsoft Outlook
Upgraded
• oXygen 14.1 and 14.2
• Word 2013, change tracking, 64-bit support
• FrameMaker 10 and 11
• XMetaL 7.0
• InDesign CS6
Service Releases
• 22 releases to fix customer-reported issues
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Third-party Development
New Third-party Integrations
• Alchemy CATALYST
• Alchemy integrated Acrolinx
authoring support into their standard
workflow for editing and localizing
software
Customer Integrations
• Code Collaborator
• Interactive Intelligence integrated
Acrolinx into their code review
workflow
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SEO Presentation & Demo
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Why Improve Findability?
Pre-Sales Information Post-Sales Information
Increase Revenue Improve Support
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How to Improve Findability (“On Page”)
Quality content
Keyword placement
• Title
• Description (meta tag)
• Headings (H1, H2)
• Links
• Most important keywords first
Keyword density?
• Don’t overdo it
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SEO Demo
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SEO from Acrolinx
SEO for “deep content”
Optimize before publishing, not after
Optimize all types (HTML, XML, Word, …)
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Product Roadmap 2013
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Plug-in Roadmap
New
• oXygen (Eclipse) (Q3 2013)
• Apache OpenOffice Writer (Q4 2013)
• IBM WCM (Q4 2013)
• Adobe InCopy (Q4 2013)
Upgrade
• XMetaL 8.0 (Q3 2013)
• PowerPoint 2013 (Q4 2013) – first on Windows 8
• Microsoft Word 2013 performance improvements (Q4 2013)
• Lotus Notes (Q1 2014)
• Adobe FrameMaker (Q1 2014)
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Language
Rule set
Term sets
Check settings
Extraction settings
Checking Profiles
Marketing
Author
Marketing
Editor
Techdocs
Author
Techdocs
Editor
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Checking Profiles
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Checking Profiles
Hands-On Demo Available
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Voice Scores
Configurable:
• Categories
• Rules
• Targets & ranges
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Acrolinx Analytics
Replaces & Enhances Reporting
• Add document & author metadata
to checking results
• Report results grouped by &
filtered by metadata
• Export data
• Scheduled email reports
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Report Example
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Report Example
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Release Plan – Subject to Change
3.2 planned for August 2013
3.3 planned for November 2013
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Auto-Correct Research Project
• ACCEPT consortium to enable
machine translation of user-
generated content
• Improve language of occasional
writers (e.g., forum contributors)
• Develop user interface to suggest &
correct
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Feedback from Last Year’s User Conference
Done
In next 12
months Not planned
Terminology 1 - -
Reuse - - 3
Plug-ins 6 2 4
Dashboard - 2 1
Reporting 2 7 -
Services 1 - -
Usability 1 1 3
Technology 2 - -
13 11 12
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Already Completed
Examples:
• Readability: added Flesch-
Kincaid
• Terminology: improved
interchange format; “ignore all”
• oXygen on Mac, FrameMaker 10,
XMetaL 7
• Microsoft Word: fixed change
tracking problems
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Planned for Next 12 Months
Examples:
• DITA enhancements (e.g., check
alt text)
• Reporting (“Analytics”)
• Search for Checking Reports
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