Product documentation

Scale content creation and deliver a rich, rewarding experience (consistent across pre- and post-sale) for product documentation, information manuals and more.

Meet the growing demand for high-quality documentation

Product documentation, be it help, support or technical, is often the first thing that customers look at when using a product. As organizations create more product variants and SKUs, the demand for associated documentation keeps rising. But, more often than not, documentation teams are either understaffed or lack appropriate solutions to do this effectively. Not only can scaling content creation become a challenge but managing content efficiently and providing a rich, consistent content experience across channels also takes a massive effort. Organizations face various challenges across the content lifecycle:

High total cost of operation

Piecemeal, disjointed solutions from multiple vendors drive the total cost of operation higher, posing a massive challenge for IT teams. This problem is compounded by the fact that technical and support content is generally managed using a different CMS from the web CMS used for marketing purposes.

Poor documentation experience

Most documentation portals are not easily searchable, the experience isn't interactive, and often just have static, monolithic PDFs.

Inconsistent content experience

Providing a content experience which is consistent across channels, especially with marketing content, is a big challenge. This is primarily due to the silos between marketing and technical content teams.

Inefficient review and collaboration

Organizational content workflows often lack robust review and collaboration capability. They fail to keep authors and content contributors informed of the multitude of changes and/or versions. In fact, most solutions can’t even provide an easy way to involve subject matter experts in the review process.

Frequent product updates

Organizations are constantly evolving their products. While the core documentation might remain the same, a lot of it can get enhanced compared to earlier versions. There can be new workflows, features, steps, error fixes, new branding, or regulatory changes. The task of keeping so many documents up-to-date can be overwhelming, especially without an efficient content reuse capability.

Soaring translation costs

Inefficient content reuse leads to content duplication, resulting in higher translation time and costs.

Multichannel publishing

Consumers today want personalized experiences, tailored to their needs, across devices and formats. Without an enterprise-class multichannel publishing capability, that can be difficult to deliver.

Inefficient content workflows

Over a period, the content technology stack can become cluttered with complex workflows which require manual intervention. This increases time, costs, and maintenance overheads.

Creating long and complex documentation

Technical documentation, especially in high-tech and manufacturing sectors, tends to be long and complex which mandates the need for a robust, scalable solution built on a structured content management approach.

Migrating from unstructured to structured content

Moving legacy unstructured content to structured can be a daunting task requiring huge investments in terms of time, cost, and effort. This can also severely impact business continuity.

Getting stuck with a proprietary content format

Organizations are always wary of getting stuck with a proprietary format that makes them vendor dependent. An open standard helps future proof their content and migrate easily if need be.

Lack of integrated analytics

An inability to track technical content consumption reduces the ability of content teams to deliver personalized marketing content based on usage patterns.

Overcoming these challenges can go a long way in delivering an exceptional customer experience.

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Adobe can help

With a robust, scalable CCMS like Adobe Experience Manager Guides, documentation teams can create future-ready content with a great customer experience. Adobe provides an end-to-end content management platform for streamlining enterprise content workflows and improving business agility, performance and reliability. With Adobe’s easy and efficient solution, managing product documentation becomes simple and painless. It results in:

Lower total cost of operation

Having a single CMS solution, like Adobe Experience Manager, for managing the entire content stack can eliminate the time and cost associated with managing multiple CMSs including deployment, maintenance, and training.

Rich documentation experience

Managing marketing and technical content on a single CMS also makes it easy to deliver a rich, rewarding content experience that is consistent across pre- and post-sale content, at every touchpoint of the customer journey.

Powerful review and collaboration

With powerful review and next-gen collaboration, authors can do more in less time and increase their productivity. Collaboration with casual contributors and subject matter experts (SMEs) becomes effortless with a web-based review.

Higher content reuse

Advanced capability to reuse content across documents, departments, and formats eliminates duplication and ensures more accurate documentation. By tagging individual snippets of content, updating just the source instance can propagate changes across all documents.

Faster time-to-market

Agile publishing workflows mean quicker content updates for enterprise content, even for last minute or incremental changes, with minimal IT support.

Lower translation costs

Effective content reuse helps drive down translation time and costs by eliminating costly retranslation of complex documents containing only incremental changes.

Publish across channels

With Adobe’s enterprise-class multichannel publishing, content can be made accessible across devices and easily published to Experience Manager Sites, print, PDF, HTML5, knowledge bases, CRM platforms, mobile apps, EPUB, Kindle, and more.

Easily manage complex documentation

Technical documentation is generally long and complex. With the structured content management approach of Adobe’s CCMS, content is managed in smaller chunks, which makes handling volume and complexities much easier.

Increased website traffic

A consistent structure with organized management of metadata dramatically improves search engine optimization (SEO), leading to easy discovery of content.

Future-proof your content

With an open standard like XML/DITA, organizations don’t have to worry about being stuck with a vendor-driven proprietary format.

Leverage integration with Adobe Marketing Cloud

Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target allow granular-level tracking of content consumption and help to retarget consumers with contextually relevant marketing based on the technical information being consumed most.

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