Systematic Documentation Lifecycle Management

I would like to announce that on 1^st of March 2009, we are officially starting beta-testing phase for DITAworks product.

Beta-testing will be done by a group of interested parties from technical documentation service provider companies, end-customers and documentation professionals.

Main targets for beta-testing phase include:

• Verifying the design and usability of product features with prospective real users, before the production release
  
• Reducing inhibitors to new product (DITAworks) and technology (DITA) adoption
• Finding any issues which were not previously identified by internal QA
• Ensuring that the technical support operations will be prepared and functioning well to support the product upon its production release
• Rolling out a competent and reliable software product which caters to the needs of the customers well
  

Main benefits for participating parties include:

• Accessing a new and innovative product for evaluation
  
• Providing inputs directly to Product and Development Managers for future enhancements and improvements
  
• Possibility to influence priorities in functional development
• Devising a technology/marketing strategy in advance with a foresight of new software in market, thereby staying a step ahead of competitors
  
• Verifying the workability of product features in their environment
• Attractive incentives including discounts or/and a “special treatment” clause for production releases
  
• Reducing lead time in the roll out of the product in production environment

To enable beta-testing a special intermediate product version has been released: 0.9 beta. See detailed list of included functionality here.

This version will be available to parties participating in beta-testing phase only. Additionally support and feedback channels will be provided to beta-phase participants.

If you are interested in taking active part in beta-testing, please email to info[at]instinctools.com