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PG Bartlett, head of product management for Acrolinx, will give you an update on how we improved Acrolinx software since last year’s user conference. In particular, he will explain the reasons behind our development of SEO capabilities and demonstrate how it works. Ulrich Callmeier, Acrolinx’s CTO, and PG Bartlett, Acrolinx’s head of product management, will preview planned features of upcoming product releases and answer your questions about what’s in our plans (and what’s out of our plans) for the next twelve months.
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Product
Update
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Agenda
Releases since last conference (2.9 to 3.1)
• Server
• Plug-ins
Product roadmap
Feedback from 2012 User Conference
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Releases Since
Last Conference (2.9 to 3.1)
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Server – Areas of Focus
• Terminology
• Administration
• Language
• Checking
• Reporting
• SEO
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Terminology
Terminology Management
• Terminology import/export (ACTIF)
• MySQL support for terminology
• RSS feed of terminology changes
Term Browsing
• Customizable with CSS
• Added “print” button
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Terminology
Term Contribution
• Optional “no login” access
• “Enterprise license”
• Single sign-on
• Configurable visibility of Comment
• Fields configurable as required
• Full comment history
• Custom fields on “Add comment” page
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Administration
• Separate configuration files
(customer- & Acrolinx-specific)
• Improved detection of duplicate
user IDs
• Java Authentication and
Authorization Service support
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Language
Easier customization of rules based on
lexical lists (“gazetteer”)
Started work on terminology checking in
additional languages (NL, ES, PT)
Continuous enhancement of grammar &
spelling
More elaborate regression tests
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Language – Continuous Improvement
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Language – Frequency and Precision
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Checking
• “Quality Score”:
0 to 100 (best)
• Optional Flesch-
Kincaid
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Reporting
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New Infocenter
• Twitter notifications of
updates
• Searchable with Google
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Plug-ins Since
Last Conference
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Plug-in Development Since Last Conference
New
• Adobe Experience Manager (CQ)
• Serna
• Microsoft Outlook
Upgraded
• oXygen 14.1 and 14.2
• Word 2013, change tracking, 64-bit support
• FrameMaker 10 and 11
• XMetaL 7.0
• InDesign CS6
Service Releases
• 22 releases to fix customer-reported issues
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Third-party Development
New Third-party Integrations
• Alchemy CATALYST
• Alchemy integrated Acrolinx
authoring support into their standard
workflow for editing and localizing
software
Customer Integrations
• Code Collaborator
• Interactive Intelligence integrated
Acrolinx into their code review
workflow
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SEO Presentation & Demo
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Why Improve Findability?
Pre-Sales Information Post-Sales Information
Increase Revenue Improve Support
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How to Improve Findability (“On Page”)
Quality content
Keyword placement
• Title
• Description (meta tag)
• Headings (H1, H2)
• Links
• Most important keywords first
Keyword density?
• Don’t overdo it
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SEO Demo
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SEO from Acrolinx
SEO for “deep content”
Optimize before publishing, not after
Optimize all types (HTML, XML, Word, …)
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Product Roadmap 2013
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Plug-in Roadmap
New
• oXygen (Eclipse) (Q3 2013)
• Apache OpenOffice Writer (Q4 2013)
• IBM WCM (Q4 2013)
• Adobe InCopy (Q4 2013)
Upgrade
• XMetaL 8.0 (Q3 2013)
• PowerPoint 2013 (Q4 2013) – first on Windows 8
• Microsoft Word 2013 performance improvements (Q4 2013)
• Lotus Notes (Q1 2014)
• Adobe FrameMaker (Q1 2014)
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Language
Rule set
Term sets
Check settings
Extraction settings
Checking Profiles
Marketing
Author
Marketing
Editor
Techdocs
Author
Techdocs
Editor
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Checking Profiles
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Checking Profiles
Hands-On Demo Available
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Voice Scores
Configurable:
• Categories
• Rules
• Targets & ranges
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Acrolinx Analytics
Replaces & Enhances Reporting
• Add document & author metadata
to checking results
• Report results grouped by &
filtered by metadata
• Export data
• Scheduled email reports
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Report Example
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Report Example
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Release Plan – Subject to Change
3.2 planned for August 2013
3.3 planned for November 2013
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Auto-Correct Research Project
• ACCEPT consortium to enable
machine translation of user-
generated content
• Improve language of occasional
writers (e.g., forum contributors)
• Develop user interface to suggest &
correct
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Feedback from Last Year’s User Conference
Done
In next 12
months Not planned
Terminology 1 - -
Reuse - - 3
Plug-ins 6 2 4
Dashboard - 2 1
Reporting 2 7 -
Services 1 - -
Usability 1 1 3
Technology 2 - -
13 11 12
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Already Completed
Examples:
• Readability: added Flesch-
Kincaid
• Terminology: improved
interchange format; “ignore all”
• oXygen on Mac, FrameMaker 10,
XMetaL 7
• Microsoft Word: fixed change
tracking problems
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Planned for Next 12 Months
Examples:
• DITA enhancements (e.g., check
alt text)
• Reporting (“Analytics”)
• Search for Checking Reports
