Consistent and high-quality content is fundamental in protecting the image of the corporate brand. And yet, ensuring consistency across source content is a challenge faced by many organizations today. 

Authoring consistent, high-quality content for global markets

SDL Global Authoring Management System™ (SDL Global AMS™) helps companies improve brand consistency, increase the efficiency of the global authoring process and reduce time-to-market for global content. Through a centralized system which checks against corporate assets, it enables enterprise-wide consistency of terminology, style and linguistic best practices, as well as ensuring the reuse of previously written and translated content.

A key component of that system, the SDL AuthorAssistant client license, is the element of the system that sits inside the authoring environment. From within the authoring environment, authors can check for  style and linguistic issues, terminology inconsistencies and ensure that any changes they make do not incur additional translation costs.

Benefits

Enterprise-wide consistency and quality

• Enables consistent style, grammar, terminology and content reuse
• Central access enables quality and consistency across multiple users
• Enhances brand consistency and customer satisfaction

Productivity and efficiency in global authoring

• Applies terminology and translation memory earlier in the content creation process
• Reduces global content translation volumes
• Shortens time-to-market

Time-to-market and cost reduction in producing global content

• Helps create content suitable for automated translation, such as SDL Knowledge-based Translation System™, so that companies benefit from the time and cost reductions of automated translation
• Produces reports to help manage the time, costs and quality of global authoring
• Provides insights into the impact of style and linguistic changes on the costs of providing multilingual content 

Technical Details

• Adobe FrameMaker
• Arbortext Editor
• JustSystems XMetaL
• Microsoft Word