On Friday, January 11th, we officially announced the launch of SmartDocs Standard Edition. The official press release is below.

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ThirtySix Software Announces SmartDocs – Enabling Business Authors to Maximize Productivity in Microsoft Word Through Content Reuse.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David Williams, david.williams@thirtysix.net

Indianapolis, IN – ThirtySix Software, LLC today announced the availability of SmartDocs Standard Edition. The first in a suite of products, SmartDocs adds powerful content management and reuse capabilities to Microsoft Word previously only available in high-end and costly XML authoring solutions.

The Difficulty of Managing Content

If your organization is like most, nearly 80% of your content is unstructured. Your important business information is spread across documents on hard drives, LAN areas, and web sites throughout your company.

As a result, creating and maintaining documentation within your organization can be a significant challenge. Authoring new content is often redundant and inefficient. Existing documentation often contains inconsistent or out-of-date information and documentation updates require manual processes that are time consuming and error prone.

As the size and demands on your organization grow, so does your need to develop and manage content more effectively. In order to stay ahead of your competition, you need a smarter way of working.

Introducing SmartDocs Standard Edition

Empower your content authors with SmartDocs – an easy-to-use, powerful authoring solution that makes writing and reusing your organization's content easy and efficient. SmartDocs Standard Edition integrates the benefits of content reuse directly into your Microsoft Word authoring environment, bringing the benefits of reuse to your authors while minimizing the costs associated with implementation, training, and user acceptance.

Using SmartDocs, your organization can take advantage of a variety of powerful content reuse techniques to streamline the creation and modification of your documentation. For example, authors can utilize reusable text to reduce your organization's reliance on the inefficient and error prone task of using search-and-replace to update commonly used text. In addition, authors can take advantage of conditional text to author multiple variations of content within a single document, resulting in a reduction in the amount of documentation your organization needs to manage.

SmartDocs Standard Edition is the first step in taking control of your unstructured content and optimizing your organization's documentation processes. Empower your content authors with the benefits of content reuse today!

SmartDocs Standard Edition – Key Benefits

• Powerful content reuse features integrate seamlessly into your existing Microsoft Word authoring environment.
• Intuitive and easy-to-use interface makes learning SmartDocs quick and easy. Lower total documentation costs by streamlining documentation and improving content author productivity.
• Reduce inconsistencies, mistakes, and outdated content by managing shared content in a single location and automatically propagating changes across documents. Manage multiple variations of similar content in a single document.
• Works with your existing Microsoft Word documents and is fully compatible with content authors who do not have SmartDocs.
• Integrates with any existing document management system so you can continue to store your documents in the same repository you use today.

A Platform for the Future

SmartDocs is an extensible platform and can grow as your business grows. Scheduled for delivery later in 2007, SmartDocs Enterprise Edition will provide advanced features in support of collaborative authoring such as reusable content snippets, automated document assembly, change notification, and automatic updates. Benefit from the power of SmartDocs Standard Edition today and upgrade to SmartDocs Enterprise Edition as the size and demands of your organization grow.

System Requirements

SmartDocs Standard Edition requires Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista well as Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007.

Pricing and Availability

SmartDocs Standard Edition has a suggested retail price of $395 USD. It may be purchased directly from ThirtySix Software. Educational discounts, volume and site license pricing is also available. Please contact our Sales Department at sales@thirtysix.net for additional details.

About ThirtySix Software

ThirtySix Software is a privately held company founded in 2005. Located just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, ThirtySix Software specializes in innovative content management solutions for the Microsoft Office platform. More information may be obtained by visiting http://www.thirtysix.net.