Blurring the Lines between ECM and CCMS

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Blurring the lines between ECM and CCMS

Abhishek Jain | Product Manager | Adobe Tech Comm

Who’s talking?

Manage the Adobe Technical Communication products

Responsible for • Product strategy/roadmap• Partner ecosystem• Customer relationship

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@abhi_AdobeTCabhishekj@adobe.com

Abhishek Jain

AgendaMarComm vs. TechComm

Challenges

Solution and benefits

Demo

Q n A

MarComm vs. TechComm

Where’s the dividing line?

Technical Communication Marketing Communication

Post sale, for end-users

Objective, detached style

Primary goal: inform the reader

Example: Configuration guide

Pre-sale, for decision makers & influencers

Personal (or personable), engaging style

Primary goal: inspire the reader to take action

Example: Solution brief

Some defining traits:

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Joseph_P/transition-to-marcomm-webinar

Where’s the dividing line?

Technical Communication Marketing Communication

Post sale, for end-users

Objective, detached style

Primary goal: inform the reader

Example: Configuration guide

Pre-sale, for decision makers & influencers

Personal (or personable), engaging style

Primary goal: inspire the reader to take action

Example: Solution brief

Some defining traits:

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Joseph_P/transition-to-marcomm-webinar

Challenges

• Both reach out to each other once in while

• They work towards a common goal i.e. “Customer Success”

• Marketing requires access to detailed descriptions

• Both want to leverage each others assets (videos)

• Reuse content – what’s new

• Both want to optimize SEO

• Different organization• TC: CTO, Support• MC: Product, CMO

• Different tools and systems• Content reuse not easy• No simple way to use common

templates, taxonomy, assets etc.

• Marketing has more budget -analytics solutions

Reality WhyChallenges

Solution & Benefits

• Common content format – DITA• Common Content Management System

Solution

• Content reuse• Common assets and templates• SEO optimization – common metadata, taxonomy• Uniform targets and personalization• Save translation cost• Consistent pre and post sales experience• Investment in a single CMS

Benefits

XML Documentation Add-on for AEMAn end-to-end enterprise content management solution for DITA-based content creation and delivery

Extends the capabilities of AEM turning it into a component content management system (CCMS) for DITA content.

Helps authors to create content using any offline authoring tool such as Adobe FrameMaker and also enables subject matter experts to contribute using a built-in lightweight web editor

Leverages existing AEM workflows (collaboration, review, approval and translation) for technical content and also enables additional functionalities such as search, reporting etc.

Facilitates publishing of DITA based technical content to AEM Sites, AEM Mobile, PDF and other offline formats ensuring that pre-sales (marketing) and post-sales (customer support, help) content is consistent

XML Documentation Add-on for AEM

Authoring Authoring / Repository

Search Search

Review & ApprovalReview

Translation

Reports

Publishing

Subject Matter Experts

(In the browser)

Personalization

XML Documentation Add-on for AEM

Demo

Q & A

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