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acrolinx North America Corporation
3403 Stearman Lane
Crawford, CO 81415
Phone: (888) 227- 6188
Website: www.acrolinx.com

acrocheckT is the first and only truly effective Suite of Content Quality Management tools for creators, editors, and Managers of high-value content. Based on 15 years of research, and a sophisticated hybrid (statistical/rules-based) natural language processing engine, acrocheck brings straightforward, real-time performance support to the content development community, along with objective metrics across the entire content supply chain. Typical implementations of acrocheck have generated quick returns and substantial ROI through improved productivity and throughput, reduced translation/localization costs, error detection and correction costs, and service and support costs. It's the source that matters!

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Astoria
66 Bovet Road, Suite 280
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: (650) 357-7477
Website: www.astoriasoftware.com

Spawned from the document management birthplace of Xerox PARC, Astoria Software offers the first packaged software solution to make management of complex documents easy and affordable. A pioneer in Structured Document Management (SDM), Astoria's software suite has been natively designed for the specific purpose of providing the fastest, lowest cost, and easiest-to-implement packaged software applications for managing the authoring, review and publishing of complex, structured product content such as documentation. This powerful software is particularly well-suited for managing highly configurable, multi-component products.

The suite allows content to be reused and repurposed for use throughout all types of documents within your organization and throughout your supplier and customer documentation requirements.

Our products have helped more than 300 leading organizations in aerospace, manufacturing, military, defense, publishing, financial services to reduce costs and speed time-to-market by optimizing the value of their structured content assets.

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Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc.
61-18 190th St., Suite 205
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
Phone: (718) 357-8700
Website: www.dclab.com

Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) converts and organizes your content to create electronic documents, populate data bases, publish on the web, and get it ready for tomorrow's technology. DCL's services help you refine your document conversion strategy, identify document redundancy, extract metadata, and transform legacy and future documents for your real needs – today and in the future.

DCL converts from PDF, word processors, typesetters, any document formats, and even paper into XML, SGML, HTML, and other structured formats ... more than 200 million pages converted.

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Eurofield Information Solutions Pty Ltd
(ABN 91 003 383 506)
Level 3, 8 Help Street
CHATSWOOD NSW 2067
Australia
Phone:+61 2 9411 3711
Website: www.eis.com.au

eComPress is to electronic reference data what PDF is to paper or Google is to the Web!

Every reference publication is fully portable and instantly usable on receipt with a small built-in yet powerful viewer. Each publication is always compatible with its content.

eComPress is permanently compressed at a bit level to as little as 10% of it original size, and with its browser is ideal for secure on-line delivery and update.

Greener than green - eComPress is designed to be used electronically on screen, with very fast exhaustive searching, guaranteed to find precisely what you need every time, and tables and spreadsheets able to be copied with all the formatting preserved.

The new standard for electronic reference content - ideal for mission critical publications used in the Defence, Aerospace and Security industries.

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IXIASOFT
825 Querbes, Suite 200
Montreal Quebec H2V 3X1
Canada
Phone: (514) 279-4942
Fax: (514) 279-3947
Website: www.ixiasoft.com

Founded in 1998, IXIASOFT is a private company which provides XML content management software solutions to hundreds of organizations worldwide. IXIASOFT products and solutions are renowned for their scalability, flexibility and reliability.

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JustSystems
1146 Homer St
Vancouver, BC V6B 2X6
Canada
Phone: (604) 647-6500
Website: www.xmetal.com

JustSystems is a leading global software provider with a 27-year history of successful innovation in office productivity, information management, and consumer and enterprise software. With over 2,400 customers worldwide and annual revenues over $110M, the company is continuing a global expansion strategy that includes the launch of its new enterprise software offering xfy (pronounced 'x-fie'), and the acquisition of XMetaL, XML-based content lifecycle solutions. JustSystems has worldwide office locations including headquarters in Tokyo, Japan; Palo Alto, California; Vancouver, Canada; and London, England. The company currently employs over 1,000 people. Major strategic partnerships include IBM, Oracle and EMC.

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MarkLogic Corporation
2000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Ste 100
San Mateo, CA 94403
Phone: (650) 655-2300
Website: www.marklogic.com

MarkLogic Server is the industry's leading XML content server. It enables companies to load, query, manipulate, and render XML content, using the XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases.

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PTC
140 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
Phone: (800) PTC-3776
Website: www.ptc.com

PTC solutions for enterprise publishing enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. These solutions are made up of the Arbortext product family and are used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, publishing, government, insurance, and financial services industries.

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and enterprise publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government, and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices.

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Really Strategies/DocZone
Bronsteeweb 49b
Heemstede, 2101 AB
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0) 23 548 48 84
Website: www.doczone.com

DocZone is a division of Really Strategies, Inc., a privately held company that was founded in 2000 to provide world-class content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. The company is headquarted in Audubon, Pennsylvania with direct employees in the Netherlands, USA, Spain and Columbia, as well as a close network of development and integration partners located throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

Company Mission
DocZone provides the benefits of distributed authoring, component content management, and single-source publishing, without the typical overhead associated with large capital software expenditures or months of analysis. Our solution is built on a foundation of proven, production-ready technology; built on open standards and integrated into a seamless delivery environment, available on a hosted basis for a low subscription fee. We strive for rapid deployment, with an objective to move our clients into a production environment within 30 days.

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Right Hemisphere
3825 Hopyard Road, Suite 150
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Phone: (925) 460-8133
Website: www.righthemisphere.com

Right Hemisphere is the leading provider of enterprise product communication and collaboration solutions enabling manufacturers to optimize their global product development launch and support processes.

Right Hemisphere's software is available worldwide from the company's direct sales force as well as from its strategic channel partners and network of value added resellers. Right Hemisphere's target markets include Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Transportation, Construction & Agricultural Machinery, Industrial Equipment, and Medical Devices.

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SDL
5700 Granite Parkway, Suite 410
Plano, TX 75024
Phone: (214) 387-8500
Website: www.sdl.com

SDL offers a complete suite of software and outsourcing solutions that accelerate the success of global business. Through our solutions, our customers get their products, and all their product-related content, to market more quickly, at lower cost and at higher quality. With SDL, your global brand is enhanced through clear and consistent communications that are sensitive to local cultures and regulations.

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SDL Structured Content Technologies Divison
101 Edgewater Drive
Wakefield, MA 01880-1296
Phone: (781) 756.4400
Website: www.sdlxysoft.com

SDL Structured Content Technologies Division is the worldwide leader in Component Content Management (CCM) and Dynamic Publishing solutions. The company's software empowers large organizations to create, share, and publish technical information that is tailored to the knowledge, experience, and language of their global customers.

SDL Structured Content Technologies has proven success helping global companies accelerate the time to deliver information to global markets, drive down the cost of content development and translation, provide more agility for the overall business and increase customer satisfaction through access to relevant and fresh information. The XySoft solutions have a tight integration into SDL's Global Information Management technologies, providing the industry's only end-to-end solution for moving technical and consumer information through the entire lifecycle - from content creation through translation and out to publishing. With unmatched XML expertise, and support for standards such as DITA and S1000D, SDL XySoft remains committed to providing innovative solutions that deliver the highest possible performance and value to customers.

SDL Structured Content Technologies customers include a number of large consumer electronics, mobile communications high tech and life sciences companies, as well as several government agencies, including: Atlas Copco, BMC Software, Boeing, Bureau of Labor Statistics, DAF Trucks, A Paccar Company, ESRI, Océ, HACH, FICO, Lexus Nexus, Linde Material Handling, McKesson, Micro Focus, NetApp, Mitsubishi, U.S. Navy, and VMware.

SDL Structured Content Technologies is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachussets, with European operations in Mechelen, Belgium. For more information visit www.sdlxysoft.com

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Simply XML
25 Grant Street
Waltham, MA 02453
Phone: (781) 209-5451
Website: www.simplyxml.com

Simply XML provides simple solutions for creating and publishing XML content.

Our goal is to allow enterprises to take advantage of information standards like DITA, DocBook, S1000D and Information Mapping by providing authors with simple tools for creating valid, high-quality XML from Microsoft® Word.

We believe that standards adoption will accelerate when the vast majority of authors who use Microsoft Word can easily contribute content and documents to the corporate publishing system.

Achieving this goal will allow efficient and effective reuse of information, single source publishing, document control, and publishing to multiple media.

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Tedopres International BV
P.O. Box 336
5680 AH Best
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)40 84 84 050
Website: www.simplifiedenglish.net

Tedopres, with offices in Asia, Europe and the United States, has been offering professional technical documentation services since 1974. We have an outstanding reputation of providing our customers with cost-effective, high-quality service that meets industry-specific standards.

Tedopres has extensive experience in implementing Simplified Technical English (also known as Controlled English), helping our customers to ensure compliance while saving cost at the same time. The implementation comprises dictionary building, training and the use of our checker tool HyperSTE.

We also specialize in technical translation in over 40 languages, technical illustration and animation as well as software development to support the creation and management of technical documentation.

Because Tedopres focuses on maintaining the quality and accuracy of documentation, industry leaders including Boeing, Embraer, Eurocopter, BAe Systems and Rolls-Royce trust us to handle their most complex documentation projects. More than 500 additional multinational corporations have done the same.

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Vasont Systems
15 Busser Road
Emigsville, PA 17318
Phone: (717) 764-9720
Website: www.vasont.com

Headquartered in Emigsville, Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a leading provider of content management software and data services backed by more than 50 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its flagship Vasont® content management system enables organizations of all sizes to create, manage, and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM, and web formats. Fortune 1,000 companies and organizations from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, publishing, government, and healthcare, use Vasont to manage and produce multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and reference materials.

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