Adobe Announces Major Updates to Technical Communication Solutions
January 31, 2017 at 11:55 am EST
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Adobe announced the 2017 release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite, the next-generation of its end-to-end technical content development toolkit. Technical Communication Suite enables companies to create, manage and publish standards-compliant, multilingual content for global audiences. The latest version of the multichannel publishing toolkit enables writers, information developers and instructional designers to deliver discoverable, consumable and socially-enabled content to users on any device. Adobe also announced a major update to the XML Documentation Add-on for Adobe Experience Manager, an enterprise-grade component content management system (CCMS) for DITA based technical content, built on top of the leading content management system, Adobe Experience Manager. Enhanced integration between the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker and Experience Manager delivers more engaging experiences for those that consume technical documentation on the web. Adobe Technical Communication Suite, FrameMaker, RoboHelp and FrameMaker Publishing Server are immediately available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and Adobe.com. Estimated street price for Adobe Technical Communication Suite is $1,699 (upgrades from $699). FrameMaker and RoboHelp are available as standalone products for an estimated street price of $999 each (upgrades from $399). FrameMaker Publishing Server is also available as a standalone product for an estimated street price of $14,999 (upgrades from $5,999), respectively. All products are also available via annual subscription/membership plans.
Adobe Inc. specializes in the development of software for content design, publication and visual distribution. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- digital media software (73.3%): primarily creation, illustration, viewing, conversion and digital contents broadcasting;
- online marketing and business process management software (25.2%): web publishing, information security, business resources planning, document production management, application automation software, etc.;
- other (1.5%): software for high-definition printing, online training, etc.
Net sales break down by source of income between sales of subscriptions (94.2%), sales of services 3.4%; consulting, training, maintenance and technical support services) and sales of products (2.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (53.9%), Americas (6.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (25.1%) and Asia/Pacific (14.8%).
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