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Arbortext® Agenda
The Arbortext agenda will offer two concurrent presentation rooms and a dedicated Precision Learning classroom throughout the entire World Event. In addition, we'll have special general sessions devoted to the topics of great interest for the Arbortext community.
The schedule is timed so that, in most cases, you can choose from any session in any product family. Each product family agenda is comprised of a comprehesive selection of expert presentations from our members, product update briefings and roadmaps, product development sessions, learning center sessions, panel discussions, and PTC University Precision Learning courses.
Here are the presentations and abstracts for 2010:
| Ask the Experts Panel | Arbortext Formatter Shootout Join APP Man, his evil foe, and the FOSI Bear for a lively session on the various Arbortext formatting technologies. You'll learn how the capabilities of Advanced Print Publisher compare with those of the FOSI and XSL/FO engines. And don't forget to bring your toughest document formatting questions to the experts! |
| Ask the Experts Panel | Ask the Experts: Arbortext Always a favorite among conference attendees, this session provides a unique opportunity to put your issues about Arbortext products on the table. The exclusive panel of Arbortext product managers wants to hear from you. |
| Experts: Case Study | Automated Scientific XML Publishing with APP Over the last five years NRC Research Press has transitioned 15 scholarly journals to an XML-based system, using APP as the composition engine. This presentation describes how the press has been able to overcome many typesetting and formatting challenges by developing and implementing changes to its production template. |
| Experts: Case Study | Forging Links: How Toro Uses a Custom Application to Link Data and Systems Managing graphic/reference links is essential to content reuse in an XML content management system. In this session, you'll see how Toro is using an internal publications database and scheduling system, connected with the Arbortext systems and its content management system, to not only manage the links but also reduce administration of the workload. |
| Experts: Case Study | Preventing Superfluous Redundancy within Life Cycle Management Systems Your product technical data is becoming unwieldy. How do you develop technical data, track and reuse it from various repositories within your company? More than ever, reuse of technical data is necessary to meet initial product delivery and sustainment. This session will discuss the road to a Total Life Cycle Systems Management (TLCSM) Solution. |
| Experts: Case Study | Return on Investment from Modularizing Your Content: A Case Study This presentation highlights the cost savings and additional revenue potential that implementing a DITA-based Arbortext solution can generate. In particular, the case study details how one company was able to take advantage of the DITA architecture to improve and expand its personalized product offerings. |
| Experts: Case Study | The Successes and Pitfalls in XML Content Reuse (Single Sourcing) This session explores the pro and cons of the different types, formats, methods, and challenges of reusing content in Arbortext. In addition, the discussion will cover ways around some of the common pitfalls that information developers get themselves into when projects split, staff churns, CRs are raised, or rebranding occurs. |
| Experts: Case Study | Transforming Product Support Information Systems to Reduce Costs and Enhance Customer Value If your company is looking to maximize the value of its product support information, this presentation is for you. The session describes how Caterpillar is taking advantage of Arbortext technology to transform its product support information environment in 2010 and beyond, including information strategies, implementation of new technologies, and future IT support model. |
| Experts: Case Study | Virtual Parts Catalog Authoring: Business Process Optimization Join us for an overview of how Toro has successfully captured and repurposed its parts catalog data for distribution to paper, the web, and third-party data customers. The session focuses on methods to eliminate redundant process work, enhance software interoperability, and increase reusability of data throughout the enterprise. |
| Experts: Case Study | Wrapping Documents with Friendly Navigation Tools: Summary of Impact Tables Visa Inc. must notify banks and other institutions of upcoming technical changes six months in advance. This session demonstrates how the company is able to simplify the massive amount of detailed information it must deliver by creating tables that summarize the impacts of the changes on applications, programs, and products. Authors manage specific article metadata using XUI dialogs, while the FOSI stylesheet automates production of the impact tables. |
| Experts: Tips and Tricks | Arbortext User-to-User Panel Come meet the folks you've only seen on the Adepters mailing list. No matter whether your question is simple or complicated, code-based or conceptual, this is the place to get quick, direct answers from fellow members of the Arbortext user community. |
| Experts: Tips and Tricks | Javascript, Arbortext Editor, and You Javascript is a great complement to ACL for customizing Arbortext Editor. This session is your chance to get started with Javascript and to be introduced to some advanced features that make this a great little language. While intended for beginners, the tips presented here can make even seasoned developers more productive. |
| Experts: Tips and Tricks | The Path to Style: XPath in Styler, FOSI and XSL XPath is a powerful and intuitive way to retrieve information from, or apply style to, your document. In this session, you'll discover how to use XPath whether you're styling your documents with Arbortext Styler, FOSI, or XSLT/XSL-FO. Also presented will be the basics of writing XPath expressions, including examples of common use cases. |
| Experts: Tips and Tricks | What the @%#~! Is Wrong with This Thing: Tips and Tricks for Debugging Arbortext Applications Developing custom applications with Arbortext can be fun, but it can also be maddening to track down bugs. This presentation will demonstrate some tips and tricks learned over the years to help you identify and fix pesky problems. |
| Experts: Tutorial | Managing Complex Print Deliverables with Arbortext 5.4 One of the key features of Arbortext 5.4 is that the new APP print composition engine is now embedded as a core part of the software platform. Be sure to attend this session to discover how you can leverage this new capability to help manage your most complex print requirements. |
| Experts: Tutorial | Standardize Formatting Across Documents and DTDs with Modular FOSIs While requirements for standardized formatting can be incorporated into FOSIs, DTDs and formats inevitably change. Modular FOSIs offer the best way to ensure standardized formatting over time. In this demonstration, you'll learn how to develop and use modular FOSIs so that making a change to a single module affects all FOSIs that reference it. |
| Product Roadmap | Arbortext Illustration Update See what's coming with the new release of Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1 and Arbortext IsoView 7.1. Demonstrations will include examples of performance enhancements for 2D and 3D handling, new support for additional CAD formats, and Windchill-PDMLink integration to manage the entire associative illustration process from CAD to publication. |
| Product Roadmap | Arbortext Roadmap Get a look at what's ahead for Arbortext product releases. Along with the strategic roadmap for Arbortext, this informative session will cover future enhancements to Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Publishing Engine, Arbortext IsoDraw, and Arbortext CSDB for S1000D. You'll also hear exciting details on new products supporting the Arbortext Service Solution discussed during this morning's Strategy Session. |
| Product Roadmap | Arbortext Strategy Session Come listen to the Arbortext senior management team discuss PTC's exciting strategy for the Arbortext product suite. Hear about PTC's growing Arbortext investment, our on-going commitment to PTC's end-to-end dynamic publishing solution, and the increasing focus on Arbortext as a Service Information Solution and how that fits into PTC's overall product portfolio. Also hear directly from an Arbortext customer how this exciting new strategy is addressing their challenge of increasing aftermarket revenue with reduced resources. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Content Manager Arbortext Content Manager optimizes management of XML document components by supporting collaboration and such critical processes as configuration management of publications. Come to this session to discover what's new in Arbortext Content Manager, including improved usability for technical publishing and greater integration with Arbortext Editor and Arbortext IsoDraw. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Editor This product update session is your chance to see the latest enhancements to Arbortext Editor in action, including a demonstration of improved DITA support. You will also be introduced to expanded capabilities that include Arbortext Editor as an ActiveX control and added support for hotspots, as well as many new usability features for improved authoring. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Publishing Engine Arbortext Publishing Engine is a powerful system that automatically profiles, assembles, and publishes structured multi-language content and illustrations to multiple formats. This session will provide an in-depth look at the robust capabilities now available in Arbortext Publishing Engine, including new Digital Media Publisher enhancements. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Publishing Engine Tips and Tricks PTC's Arbortext technical staff is responsible for thousands of Arbortext Publishing Engine implementations. Take this unmatched opportunity to learn from their experience as a PTC expert presents a compilation of the best tips and tricks around. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Software for Aerospace and Defense The Arbortext for S1000D platform provides an exciting new capability for organizations to achieve S1000D compliance in record time. Attend this session to hear a full product overview and roadmap for S1000D, S2000M, and SCORM compliance, including Issue 4 support. |
| Product Update Briefing | Arbortext Styler Update Take this opportunity to find out about the powerful new features available in Arbortext Styler 5.4. During this demonstration, you'll learn about Arbortext Styler's key capabilities, including multichannel output using a single stylesheet, contextual and conditional formatting, formatting of tables of contents, indexes, and cross references, and more. |
| Special Topic | Arbortext Service Information Solution: Moving Forward to Dynamic Information Delivery Don't wait to get started delivering more value to your aftermarket support organizations. You'll hear how you can get started today with the help of Arbortext products to deliver better product information to the people who need it the most. We'll give you more details on some of the exciting product enhancements coming in the future, show a demo of what's possible today, and talk about what some of our customers are doing right now. |
| Special Topic | Arbortext Training Solution Discover how the implementation of a Reusable Content Strategy, using Arbortext and Windchill technology, helps PTC University build training content. Learn about this solution and its benefits to anyone looking to move their training deliverables to a dynamic and single source solution! |
| Tips and Tricks | Arbortext Editor Tips and Tricks Discover how you can the most out of Arbortext Editor. In this session, an expert on PTC's Arbortext technical staff is on hand to deliver tips and tricks that you'll be able to put into action immediately. |
| Tips and Tricks | Arbortext Styler Tips and Tricks Want to be a power user of Arbortext Styler? Don't miss this session to for valuable tips straight from the PTC experts. |
