Astoria and In.vision Bring Content Management to Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word users working for Forbes Global 2000 manufacturing companies will soon have access to Astoria On-Demand, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for structured content management. Thanks to a technology development agreement announced between Astoria Software and In.vision Research Corporation, engineers, technical documentation users, and other Word users will be able to author structured content to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard and participate directly in the product documentation process managed by Astoria On-Demand. Together, In.vision and Astoria address the content authoring experience, the schema, and the content management system. In.vision simplifies the creation of XML and DITA-based content via Word. DITA simplifies getting started with the schema. And Astoria On-Demand simplifies content management with its turnkey, SaaS solution. In.vision and Astoria collaboration brings native XML and DITA support to Word documents, which can be managed without modification using Astoria On-Demand. The In.vision and Astoria solution for Word is currently under development and will be available soon. http://www.invisionresearch.com, http://www.astoriasoftware.com/