A longer version of this piece originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of CIDM’s Best Practices Newsletter as “DITA Diversity in Technical Documentation”. The full version (PDF format) is available courtesy of IXIASOFT. While we are still far from seeing DITA as the default choice for technical documentation around the world, what is apparentRead More
One other thing that emerged from the job posting information was that it matches a pattern I have seen before, suggesting that DITA is a “one size fits all” solution. The same pattern is seen here, with very-large, large and mid-size firms being those who are seeking people with DITA experience the most: As youRead More
In the last couple of articles in this series we have looked at the continuing growth in the use of DITA across the States, and at what appears to be solid evidence that DITA has become a mature platform within many of those same companies. This third article in the series looks at the typesRead More
Today I am pleased to say that the Companies Using DITA listing has now hit a total of 400 firms and organizations world-wide that have in some way publicly-stated that they are using DITA XML in their documentation efforts. The information comes from a variety of sources, including conference listings, customer references by CMS manufacturers,Read More
One of the more eye-opening aspects of the first “So Who’s Using DITA?” article I posted here a year ago was the variety of firms that had adopted DITA in some part of their documentation process. While those results were dominated by the number of software firms using it, what I found most interesting wasRead More
It is one thing to produce graphs of the countries where DITA is being used, another thing entirely to look at a map and realize that you happen to live in a city where there are lots of other people are producing DITA-based content. When I originally did my survey of DITA worldwide usage aRead More
What originally started out as a modest project just over a year ago to find out which companies are using DITA for their technical documentation has evolved over the past year to become the most comprehensive listing of all-known firms that are implementing DITA. If you are using DITA XML, know you are far fromRead More
Currently I am working on updating the stats and images for my upcoming BatchGeo later this week, using the updated info from the Companies Using DITA listing. One of the things I wasn’t happy with was showing the worldwide and regional distribution of where the firms/organizations using DITA are located. I had been usingRead More
(This article was originally published in CIDM Information Management News for March 2012. It is an update to a previous article by the same name on this site). It all started innocently enough with a simple question asked in a LinkedIn forum. I was looking for more information on companies that were using DITA forRead More
As a teaser for the upcoming “Mark III” version of the Companies Using DITA page, which will not only be expanded from the current list but will also include the locations for the HQ of each company/organization shown, I thought I’d give a preliminary glimpse as to what the geographic distribution of DITA use isRead More
