We Can Help IBM Partners

As an IBM partner, your company sells software under both the IBM brand and your own brand. You also create lots of technical content including user guides, online help, and marketing collateral. In creating and publishing this content, you likely face challenges in managing:

• Multiple brand images: The published versions of the IBM-branded content that you produce are formatted to IBM’s specifications –and as a result they’re probably different in appearance and format from content that bears your own brand.
• Multiple tools: Your technical writing staff uses one set of tools (the ID Workbench) to develop and publish IBM-branded content and another set to develop and publish your own content.
• Duplicate content: You might be maintaining two sets of documentation – for example installation manuals or online help – that are essentially the same: one for the IBM-branded content and one for your own content.
• Partnership costs: Although your IBM partnership makes good business sense, there are added costs to maintain parallel processes and invest in multiple tools for developing, managing, and publishing content.

SDI has helped IBM and its partners design, develop, and publish technical content for more than two decades. We’ll work with you to streamline your processes so that your partnership with IBM works as efficiently and economically as possible.

We’ll advise you in areas like content management, information architecture, and publishing. Additionally, our consultants are supported by a team of talented writers so that you get end-to-end solutions for technical content. SDI enables its clients to capture efficiencies through an improved system for technical communication and workflow management.

SDI has designed and developed content using the DITA standard almost since IBM developed DITA in the early 1990s. Recognized as experts in the international DITA community, our consultants will help you tap into the power of DITA for increasing efficiency and reducing costs—for example, by reusing content and publishing it to multiple formats.

We know that every situation is different, and we never take a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we’ll listen to you and then tailor a solution that’s based on your unique needs.

Fill out the form below to read our white paper to discover how SDI helped a company like yours realize greater efficiency and cost savings in its partnership with IBM.

Want to talk with us? Contact us at partners@sdicorp.com