Create, collaborate, review, manage, reuse, translate and publish content – all on one platform.
Author-it is a single-source, collaborative component authoring, content management & multi-channel publishing solution designed with authors in mind. With a focus on Technical Documentation and eLearning & Training solutions, our products help organizations across the globe create, manage, and deliver content with ease.
Unlike DITA and XML solutions, Author-it makes importing and authoring content a snap. And with no coding expertise required, collaborating in real time with SMEs and non-technical writers breaks down silos and increases productivity. Manage large content libraries easily without losing control, create modern, personalized courses, reuse and translate content without leaving the platform, and publish to multiple outputs, including HTML5, mobile, PDF, print and more. Save time and eliminate content chaos with Author-it.
Executive Sponsor in Semiconductors
Advanced user of Author-It
★★★★★
Good tool - I want more people to use it
What do you like best?
Love it. I've loved it for years. Superb tools with forgivable compromises. We use the Cloud version for a globally distributed team. We have authors in the US, UK, Germany and India so far... I love the way you can throw yourself in as a team, be productive immediately, and tidy up using the tools as you evolve your solution. The nicest thing about implementing it this time around is how outstandingly positive my whole team have been about the tool and the experience.
What do you dislike?
Minor things that haven't been sorted out for years but make a huge impact on their target users, like hyperlinks in Word documents or not having table numbering without customization. These days we also want tagging and taxonomy but these are not explicitly supported and need workarounds. Final snag is no internal baseline feature; you can export the whole book as XML and re-import it later though. These little things that have a big effect and prevent more widespread adoption. Overall though, these compromises do not invalidate the huge benefits of having a global, Cloud-based, relational database of content that can be reused so easily and managed so effectively.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be brave and throw yourself it. Author-it will catch you!
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
- globally distributed teams can start working as soon as you switch on the Cloud solution
- management of multiple brands from the same content through variants
- management of multiple editions through fall-back variants
- translation management
- online reviews
- easy CSS3-based PDF publishing through Antenna House
Review source: G2.com
