The industry is in the process of digital transformation. This digitalization makes every step of the value chain transparent. The factory of tomorrow is faster, more efficient and more flexible: machines communicate with each other, inform each other about errors in the production process, identify scarce material stocks and reorder. The technological possibilities for linking objects, data and processes pose new challenges [...]
There are a considerable number of providers on the market for content management systems (CCMS) and the range of services offered by the systems is constantly increasing. Who wants to keep track of it all (tecteam, for example)? The vast landscape of content management systems Perhaps you feel the same way: at the relevant conferences and trade fairs, you almost get dizzy in the face of [...]
Automation not only ensures high documentation quality, it also guarantees efficient and time-saving working methods. To make working with a content management system a success story, tecteam supports the entire process. Initial situation An international mechanical engineering group sells around 140 products with countless variants, whose operating manuals are translated into 25 languages. For each [...]
At the 2019 tekom annual conference, the creative "non-linear thinking allowed" in our event "Filling intelligent systems intelligently - preventing stupid results" was very well received by many participants. Creativity techniques were presented, practiced and then used in a playful way to find and collect classification systems and their properties (taxonomies and metadata). There was just as much interest in using the creative [...]
In addition to its presence at the trade fair, tecteam will once again be taking part in lectures and workshops on various technical communication topics this year. Dr. Roland Gleißner awaits you on Tuesday, 12.11. at 11:45 am in room C4.2 for the lecture "Hereingefallen - Stolperfallen bei der Recherche umgehen". Also looking forward to [...]
Working with content management systems (or component content management systems, CCMS for short) is often disparagingly referred to as "industrialized text production". As with industrial products that are practical but come in a boring and loveless design, documents from a CCMS are said to be squeezed onto the pages in a "one-size-fits-all" look in order to maximize paper [...].
What do you do when the management sets a strategy for which you are not prepared? A globally active company was confronted with this challenge. It was not an easy task to master, but not an impossible one either. A practical report from our day-to-day editorial work. The initial situation The company is a global player with a diverse [...]
What can modern product documentation look like in the age of digitalization? This question occupied the interested audience at the tecteam System Day on Thursday, September 27, 2018. Rainer Börsig, CTO of Fischer Information Technology AG, highlighted the topic in a presentation from various aspects: from information acquisition to management to the use of information. The audience [...]
Now it's getting exciting - the tekom metadata standard iiRDS was published in time for the spring conference in Koblenz. Software manufacturers will probably start implementing it now at the latest, as they can now "rely" on a standard. The consortium is growing and industry customers are joining - this is important and good, as it is the only way to ensure acceptance and [...]
A first day packed with presentations and a second day with workshops - that was the UA Reloaded in St. Leon-Rot. The conference on user assistance is a joint event organized by tekom and software manufacturer SAP. This year, everything revolved around user experience, videos, automation, virtual reality/augmented reality and artificial intelligence [...]
