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5 questions about DOCUFY Layouter

Interview partner: Holger Rath, Product Manager COSIMA and DOCUFY Layouter. What is DOCUFY Layouter and what can he do? DOCUFY Layouter is an easy-to-use cloud solution that allows editors to design their own output layouts. Once defined, layouts can be transferred to derived layouts via intelligent inheritance mechanisms. This not only ensures consistent, corporate design-compliant output, but also saves a lot of time and annoying coordination rounds. What benefits does DOCUFY Layouter have for me and how does the software…

1. October 2018

Chiron and DOCUFY

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DOCUFY has been around for 20 years. We have been a customer for almost half that time. This brief article is intended to show how we have fared. When mechanical engineers make documentation... We first made contact with the company from Bamberg in late 2008 when we were looking for a replacement for our existing content management system. At that time, XML-based systems were still in the development phase. DOCUFY’s first presentations won us over to the point that we…

14. May 2018

New in COSIMA: IGEL – the integrated callout editor

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Explaining complex issues in a simple way - often a very difficult task. Images can help illustrate what you want to say. Because you know: A picture says more than a thousand words! Especially in technical documentation graphics are used to put things in a nutshell. The reference of the graphics to the descriptive text is important. These references are created using item lines and/or item numbers, the so-called callouts. With COSIMA Release 7.0 you now have an integrated callout…

13. February 2018

COSIMA 7.0 or: How our Component Content Management System is now saving you even more time

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Is there a technical writer out there who wouldn’t want to concentrate exclusively on content while the content management system takes care of all of the (annoying) details such as layout corrections as if by magic? The latest release of COSIMA 7.0, which we also presented at the tekom trade fair in Stuttgart, now makes it even easier to work with our software, namely with three new features: IGEL makes it possible to write on graphics: quickly and easily IGEL…

29. November 2017

DOCUFY Layouter: create your own layouts

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Imagine there is a change in corporate design at your company. Maybe the change is only a general attempt to optimize existing layouts. Maybe it entails a completely new corporate identity with a new logo and different colors. Or maybe your company has a new division that makes new products. Any change, no matter what kind, will have a direct impact on your technical documentation. The cover page needs to be redesigned, and the way headers and footers look will…

21. November 2017

My Filter – filtered just for me

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Hello TopicPilot Users (and Soon-to-be Users), Searching and finding is exactly what TopicPilot was developed to do. Now you no longer have to start at the beginning every time you want to search for something. Faceted searches have always been a quick way of limiting the number of hits in TopicPilot. The solution also supports the use of QR codes and external links to help you access specific information quickly. Still, filtering can sometimes take a lot…

8. August 2017

A day in the life of an editorial department

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In 2015, the SIEMENS AG Locomotive Documentation department wanted to introduce a Component Content Management System (CCMS) to optimize its editorial process and chose COSIMA go! from DOCUFY. In this article, system administrator Tobias Zieringer describes the introduction of the system: ... I had only just arrived in the office when my mobile rang. The sales department wanted to know when the documentation for our new customer would be ready, oh, and they needed replies to the review comments from…

4. April 2017

Making space for information

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DOCUFY Guest post for the doctima blog Current trends like digitalization, industry 4.0, mobile computing, social selling and big data will influence the products of tomorrow and, ultimately, impact the future development of our entire society. Technical documentation is not immune to these changes, of course. On the contrary – information is increasingly becoming the lubricant of our digital world, and who is better placed to provide it than the technical documentation sector? It now has a…

9. February 2017

5 questions about COSIMA

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What is COSIMA and what can it do? COSIMA is the proven content management system for technical documentation from DOCUFY. Around the world, content managers and writers – from one-person operations to major corporations – work with COSIMA. COSIMA is available in the versions COSIMA go! and COSIMA enterprise. For whom is the COSIMA go! industry solution appropriate, and whom does COSIMA enterprise offer crucial added value? COSIMA go! is our ready-to-use, ready-to-go content…

16. November 2016

5 Questions about TopicPilot

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Interviewee: Christoph Beckmann, Product Manager TopicPilot What is TopicPilot, and what does the product offer? TopicPilot is our mobile publication platform that makes it possible for users to deliver content throughout a business and to all of a business’ customers. TopicPilot’s USP is its efficient way of finding and making individual topics, documents, videos, or Office files and PDFs available in the blink of an eye. But the best thing is that TopicPilot can be used immediately with existing data…

6. October 2016