XMetaL Reviewer

Accelerate documentation cycles with collaborative XML document reviewing.

Documents—from product documentation to contracts and proposals to patent applications, financial reports and operations manuals—are the collective front line that determines your organization’s success in dealing with customers, investors, regulators and employees. At all times, these documents must be accurate and consistent to match growing demand and the accelerated pace of business.

• Enables rich collaboration and editing, even for contributors who have no knowledge of XML
• Speeds up the approval process and eliminates redundancy with real-time comments from all reviewers
• Preserves audit trails to ensure compliance and address the heightened need for process oversight
• Blends into and enhances your enterprise’s existing infrastructure and processes

Unified Authoring and Reviewing Approach

The new capabilities of XMetaL Reviewer 6.0 when combined with XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0 form the foundation for a unified XML authoring and reviewing platform. New to this release is the capability of XMetaL Reviewer to allow the review of any number of documents together as a single project. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Projects and large documents based on DITA Maps
• Multi-document projects allowing the author to decide and distribute XML documents as a single project for review
• Project bundles which allow the author to send not only the XML documents or topics requiring review, but also any associated images, content references (conref’s), maps or other linked content. In addition, any material or associated content that is not necessarily part of the review can be sent by the author for reference.

These significant new features form the core of a powerful and flexible multi-user collaborative authoring and reviewing environment.

XMetaL Reviewer 6.0 Feature Highlights

• Reference PDF Generation. XMetaL Reviewer 6.0 can create a PDF that illustrates the final output of a document and allows direct navigation to the topic or portion of the document that is under review. This allows users to quickly place the topic or content in context of the final product during the review cycle.
   
• Administration and Tracking. Authors have significantly upgraded capabilities to initiate and manage reviews. Once a review is initiated authors may assign reviewers and co-authors, provide additional metadata around the review such as comments or timelines, complete the review cycle and retrieve reviewed materials, and view at any time what projects he or she is authoring and what components of the projects are under review. These capabilities allow organizations to easily manage large complex documents across multiple authors and reviewers with a minimum of effort or conflict.
   
• Enhanced communications and reporting. The XMetaL Reviewer Home page allows real-time monitoring of projects that an author or reviewer has in progress. Improvements have also been made to the reporting engine including support for multi-document reports and summary reports that include all an author or reviewers in progress projects.

Collaborative Content Across the Enterprise

XMetaL Review & Collaboration can be applied to collaborative content across the enterprise, including:

• Regulatory filings
• Policies & procedures
• Operations
• Technical documentation and publications
• Proposals & contracts
• Research & development records and more

Enable Web-based Content Creation for Business Users

As the only technology for developing and integrating a web-based solution that works directly with native XML files, it can be adapted to:

• Give contributors, domain experts and reviewers across the enterprise a convenient, web-based environment to provide feedback on critical pieces of content in real-time and in context.
• Encourage reviewers or subject matter experts without any understanding of the mechanics of XML or underlying markup and tags to participate and provide comments.
• Capture and preserve comments across drafts to eliminate miscommunication, backtracking, multiple versioning and process delays.
• Merge comments and revisions back into source XML documents.
• Preserve document history and meet regulatory requirements by retaining an audit trail of the feedback, decisions and progress made towards final approval.

Download the XMetaL Reviewer datasheet to learn more.