DITA is complex. Paligo isn't.
While DITA XML and DITA-based CCMS solutions support single-sourcing, topic-based authoring and content reuse, Paligo does all of this without any of the complexity.
DITA often requires an understanding of rather complex concepts, like “ditaval” for conditional filtering, and obscure concepts like “keyref/conkeyref”. All just to emulate variables and other easy-to-use features that Paligo does out of the box.
What used to take the better part of a week for 3 versions of our documents, we are now creating 12 versions in under an hour.
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Multi-channel publishing where you need it today
Like Paligo, DITA solutions can of course publish to multiple outputs. But it can require a lot of time, money, effort, and patience in DITA to get it to where you want it.
In Paligo, you can easily publish to many different outputs like HTML5, PDF print, SCORM eLearning, and so on. But also out-of-the-box to Content Delivery Platforms like Fluid Topics and Zoomin, as well as directly hosting providers like Netlify and more.
But not only that, Paligo takes multi-channel publishing to another level, with the most powerful CCMS integrations on the market to publish directly to popular helpdesk platforms like Zendesk and Salesforce Knowledge.
Manage translations easily no more shuffling files
Paligo eliminates the need to manage translations as files, with smart features for automatically keeping track of all languages as dimensions of the same document object.
Topics, variables, and even images are all automatically managed without you having to think about it. It also ensures you’re always on top and making sure you can deliver your product to all the languages you need.
Localization of our content would not have been possible without Paligo. It would have been completely manual and a nightmare to manage.
5 reasons to choose Paligo over a DITA XML solution
Both Paligo and DITA provide true, robust XML-based authoring.
However, where Paligo makes it easy, DITA XML makes it hard. In Paligo, structured authoring in XML is accessible in a way you’ve never experienced before. With a more flexible content model and an easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor built in, coupled with seamless content management, you’ll get your team on board in no time.
With DITA just like Paligo, you can publish to a multitude of formats, but with Paligo you get modern output right out of the box. Also, you have direct publishing to other channels that DITA or a DITA CMS do not provide.
Apart from the main output channels like HTML5, PDF, and many others, Paligo also provides output channels that modern companies need. Paligo had the first and most powerful Zendesk integration for technical documentation on the market, and with a central cloud-based CCMS made for multi-writer teams its capabilities are unparalleled.
Not only that, if your company runs on Salesforce, you’ll also appreciate the ability to single-source your content right into Salesforce Knowledge, so your customer service team has the content they need at their fingertips.
Read more: ShipStation got the power of content management and single-sourcing in their Zendesk workflow.
Most DITA-based solutions require a dependency on managing files. When it comes to review workflows and especially translation, this can be a mess. Duplication of tons of files just to manage different languages.
In Paligo, this is not an issue. Paligo fully utilizes its smart database structure so that objects automatically keep track of translations and other dimensions of documents without you having to do so.
With DITA, you’ll often need to patch together a complex tool chain to get the functionality you need to support a documentation team. The DITA content model and the DITA Open Toolkit tend to force a file and folder-based structure (even with a DITA CMS). This makes features unnecessarily complex and not easy to use.
Paligo, on the other hand, provides an all-in-one CCMS platform where content is managed in a database, with structured authoring, content management, versioning, branching, release workflows, publishing, and translation management built in. Updates are continuously and automatically applied in the cloud. No more tool chain headaches.
As opposed to most traditional CCMS software and DITA XML solutions, Paligo is a truly native cloud CCMS from the ground up, which provides unparalleled integrations with tools modern companies need.
Publish your content directly to Zendesk, Salesforce, Freshdesk, Amazon S3, and many more, or get continuous integration support for GitHub and BitBucket. Send translations to Memsource. Get high end search with Algolia or Swiftype by Elastic. All seamlessly integrated into your own technical documentation CCMS software platform.
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