Intelligent Content for DoD Policies & Admin

One tool, One update, One solution – Empower yourself. Modernize and automate your document processes with ease.

Improved Publishing Times
Accessible and Compliant Documents
Consistent with DoD/GPO Style Guides
Reduced Costs & Training Needs
Increased Accuracy and Consistency
XML Editing in Microsoft Word
Automatically Format Publications
Enhanced Collaboration
 
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What is icTools for DoD Polices & Admin?

Publications must be compliant with the various mandated styles, XML standards and business rules including Department of Defense (DoD). icTools support the mission, providing significant automation to document workflows.

icTools software enables XML tagging, formatting, integrating and publishing of compliant documents from policies, procedures and directives, to memorandums, instructions and supplements - or any other publication that must comply with stringent regulations and style guides.

No expertise required! icTools for AdminPubs automatically publishes in XML format in compliance with standards generating metadata information. Team members no longer need to be experts in XML or the standard to collaborate effectively

Improved Efficiency. icTools saves policy analysts and technical writers hours of effort, both for creating new and sustaining publications. Organizations realize improved accuracy, efficiency and quality compliance with increased speed and ease of use.

What is ICS for DoD Polices & Admin?

ICS for Technical Documents is a cloud-based service for automatically adding DITA XML to your technical documents. Simply upload Microsoft Word documents and ICS for Technical Documents delivers both a tagged Word document, and a DITA XML document.

This software is also offered as an on-premises service.

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Benefits

 

Improved Publishing Times. Using the familiar Word environment, streamlines the document publishing process and improves publishing times.

Accessible Documents. Documents created using icTools are Section 508 Compliant – Born Accessible.

Reduced Costs. Editors can now complete complex publications on their own, without contractor assistance and by eliminating multiple products.

Reduced Training Needs. Multiple products required a greater amount of training to bring new editors up to speed. With icTools in Word – time to train is greatly reduced.

Increased Accuracy and Consistency. icTools catch errors, suggest improvements, and ensure that the content adheres to specific guidelines and style requirements.

Supports Round-trip between Microsoft Word and XML. icTools allows importing of XML files into Microsoft Word with preservation of structure.

Creates Metadata. icTools can automatically create metadata files based on content for delivery to other applications or for internal workflows.

Enhanced Collaboration. Authors, editors, technical writers, proofreaders, and others can edit the document in real-time and use track changes with XML!

By Using icTools -

The Army Publishing Directorate replaced Arbortext Editor & four legacy systems

icTools eliminated the need Arbortext Editor and four legacy systems.
icTools allows the Army to focus on their 17,000 active publications and over 3,000 publishing actions per year - not the software.
icTools is focused on APD publishing standards and is a time saver - improving the accuracy and quality of the APD’s publications.

The Air Force Publishing eliminated outsourcing & Adobe FrameMaker

icTools eliminated the need Adobe Frame Maker.
Ictect eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming outsourcing for publication checking, formatting, creating XML, and integrating changes.
On a 5-year basis, the Air Force saved over 60% cost using the software and reduced the average publishing time from 29 days to 11 days.