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Windows version of DeltaXML Core 6.2 proves a hit
When DeltaXML released its latest version of DeltaXML Core in October 2011 it provided the product in four specific platforms: Windows, .NET, MacOS X and Java. Over the past three months the Windows version has been downloaded 5 times more often than the standard Java version.
DeltaXML Core 6.2 brings existing and future customers the added benefits of an improved GUI interface and a new side-by-side visual representation of changes. OEM customers also benefit from an easier licensing method.
DeltaXML sponsors CGI Innovations Conference
November 2011 - DeltaXML was pleased to sponsor CGI's successful Innovations conference in Tuscon, Arizona earlier this month. CGI has been using DeltaXML for over five years, embedded in a growing number of its leading financial applications. The rich API of DeltaXML Core is well suited to embedding in applications such as these, and given the need for 100% accuracy, DeltaXML was the obvious choice for CGI.
About CGI: "At CGI, we’re in the business of satisfying clients by helping them win and grow. Since our founding in 1976, we’ve operated upon the principles of sharing in clients’ challenges and delivering quality services to address them. With a 9 out of 10 satisfaction ranking from 2,500 signed client assessments, CGI is committed to helping clients achieve superior performance and gain competitive advantage."
DeltaXML announces the release of oXygen XML editor plugin and API
October 2011 - DeltaXML is proud to announce these new products which provide document comparison for authors to see changes in Author mode as tracked-changes. The oXygen plugin gives easy access to the power of DeltaXML directly within the popular oXygen XML editor, and enables DITA and DocBook users to enhance their documents with change marker attributes in order to publish changes in electronic or printed formats.
Content Management System users and vendors can access the DeltaXML oXygen Compare API of this software to integrate the oXygen track changes functionality within their CMS.
DeltaXML chairs OASIS Committee for Change Tracking
January 2011 - Robin La Fontaine from DeltaXML was appointed Chair of the Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee for OASIS.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.
Members of this new subcommittee is sponsored by IBM, Microsoft, Novell and Oracle. DeltaXML has submitted a detailed proposal describing how to track any change to any XML document and so provide a full change history for any XML document. The work to develop this was funded by the NLnet Foundation.
The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC is developing OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an open XML-based document file format for office applications to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements.
The Statement of Purpose for this subcommittee says, "The initial and highest priority for the Subcommittee will be change tracking. Reliable and user friendly revision management is critical for professional document workflows in corporate and public sector environments, and as such an important feature of Open Document Format."
"We are very pleased to contribute to this standards work, using our experience of identifying and tracking change in XML documents," said Robin La Fontaine, CEO of DeltaXML.
DeltaXML wins Intellect Business Professional Certification
London, 23rd November 2010 - DeltaXML has been awarded the Intellect Business Professional Certificate – a recognised marker of quality and professionalism.
Developed by Intellect, the UK trade association for the IT, telecoms and electronics industries, the Business Professional Certificate demonstrates professionalism and commitment to quality across a company’s operations.
“We are delighted to recognise the work of DeltaXML by awarding them the Intellect Business Professional Certificate. The processes in place meet the challenging standards and we have been impressed by the company’s enthusiasm and commitment to see opportunities to improve. ,” says John Higgins CBE, director of Intellect.
The Intellect Business Professional Certificate was created by business people who are already developing and sharing best practice and who are motivated to improve their own standards and supporting the reputation of the industry. It is an assurance of professionalism to clients that want to work with suppliers committed to attaining high standards.
“We are very pleased to be amongst the first companies in the country to attain this industry recognition of our systems, processes and professionalism,” noted Robin La Fontaine, CEO of DeltaXML.
The scheme covers ten components: Information Security Policy, Business Continuity, Project Management, Proposal Review, Customer Care, Corporate and Social Responsibility, Human Resources, Customer References, Professional Indemnity and Escrow provision.
For further information please see the Intellect press release, or contact Lynn Robinson, BPC@Intellectuk.org or Phil Callan, VP Sales & Marketing, DeltaXML, phil.callan@deltaxml.com.
DeltaXML announces new product for DITA users
July 2010 - DeltaXML has today announced the release of its DeltaXML DITA Compare product. Designed for editors working on DITA documents, this new product allows the editor to compare two versions of the same document. If edits have been made to document A and the revision saved as document B, without the use of track changes, it is now a simple process for the editor to compare documents A & B. DeltaXML DITA Compare uses revision flags to identify which elements of the document have been changed.
A merged version of the document can be reviewed to see what has been added or deleted from document A to make document B. This process works not only with simple text but also with structured lists and tables. DeltaXML DITA Compare will identify any changes made to both lists and the contents of cells in a table.
DeltaXML DITA Compare is provided as a Java or .NET API for integration into a CMS (Content Management System) or publishing pipeline. Try out DeltaXML DITA Compare for yourself or view our YouTube video.
DeltaXML and Zuhlke help major US bank
June 2010 - Delta XML has recently been working with the Zuhlke group a medium-sized enterprise that delivers high-end development, consulting and integration services from seven offices across Europe. In its latest project Zuhlke advised a top-tier US bank on its need to produce documentation in PDF that can be updated using Acrobat Standard. Zuhlke Engineering designed an architecture for this documentation based on PDF forms and an underlying XML schema that encodes the content of the forms.
"For this client we needed a product which was 100% reliable," commented Dr Wolfgang Emmerich, CEO and Partner at Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. "Together with the client we examined a number of options but DeltaXML Core was clearly the best differencing engine when it came to accuracy, reliability and control of the result."
The architecture uses a number of third party components, including iText in order to extract and insert content from and into forms. In order to meet the requirement to compare different versions of PDF forms the underlying XML content needs to be compared. Following an evaluation of several XML differencing engines, the bank decided to procure the DeltaXML product because it provided the most precise differencing results. DeltaXML now calculates differences of the XML messages contained in PDF forms and invokes an XSLT stylesheet to translate these differences into RTF markups that are then used in the PDF forms to visualise the differences.
DeltaXML at XML Prague Conference
March 2010 - DeltaXML is presenting two papers at the XML Prague 2010 Conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 13-14 March 2010. Nigel Whitaker, Chief Architect, is presenting "XML Pipeline Performance", which describes advanced techniques for optimizing complex processing of XML. Robin La Fontaine, CEO, is presenting "Approaches to Change tracking in XML", an introduction and overview of change tracking in XML for documents, editing systems and general processing.