DITAworks - the right authoring tool

e.g. Online help

DITAworks contains proven best practices of software development and therefore fits online help solutions perfectly by becoming a proper base. It covers important characteristics of online help like versions and variants. The seamlessly integrated Open Tool Kit supports to publish online help content into different formats by a click of the button. The concepts of linking online helps to application are also inbuilt in DITAworks. The content once created for online help can be further re-used for printed manuals.

e.g. User manual

DITAworks supports you in planning and creating user manuals for all kind of products. There is a strict separation of editorial and formatting tasks which allows editors to concentrate on their editorial work and not to worry about the presentation of the content. Distributed authoring feature in DITAworks allows separation of work and delegation of responsibilities. It provides an efficient way for editors to work simultaneously on documents of the same domain.
DITAworks makes management of versions much more effective through decrease in amount of processed information and time needed for editing and allows comfortable work with media and easy access to pictures and graphics. Modeling feature offers the possibility to define decorations around the model that support your custom output transformation during publishing process. Content once created for user manuals can be re-used for online presentation.

e.g. Technical Documentation

DITAworks supports creation of technical and product documentation by covering complete documentation development cycle from modeling, through content creation, to publishing in different formats and editions. The usage of the Single Source Authoring Approach helps DITAworks to achieve the output with minimum efforts and quality results.