Best Practices for Creating & Translating Global Content

Today, life sciences companies are experiencing tremendous pressure from regulatory bodies to conform to mounting numbers of industry standards. At the same time, they must always look to improve cost and time efficiencies and maintain the highest levels of quality and safety. All of these pressures present a daunting challenge for companies who then need to translate and localize critical information into multiple languages around the world. They can no longer rely on paper-based, manual business processes that are time consuming and error prone. Fortunately, new technologies are revolutionizing the functionality of translation management systems, improving a company's ability to manage and translate information into multiple languages through a set of seamless business processes and best practices.

In this presentation, we discuss globalization best practices to help your organization scale your global reach, growing your business and your bottom line.

Best Practices for Creating & Translating Global Content was presented by Steve Billings & Bill Rabkin, Idiom Technologies and aired on 2007-11-29. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

SPL & Beyond: XML in the Life Sciences

As Structured Product Labeling (SPL) continues to evolve and become adopted throughout the FDA, organizations must ensure their original approach to SPL compliance is the best strategic fit for the enterprise. Initially, the goal for most organizations was focused solely on implementing systems and/or processes to achieve SPL compliance. Depending on your approach, SPL compliance can either result in additional time and cost to the overall submission process, or provide long-term value across the enterprise.

With additional XML-based standards under development, and the ability for structured content to drive efficiencies throughout an enterprise, it is prudent to review your overall approach to structured content authoring and publishing. This presentation looks at how XML can be used to manage content for SPL submissions to the FDA, Product Information Management (PIM) submissions to EMEA, as well as other uses such as standard response letters for customer contact centers.

SPL & Beyond: XML in the Life Sciences was presented by Don Bridges & Joe Jenkins, Commercial Technical Documents Manager, Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) & Life Sciences Market Director, RWD Technologies and aired on 2006-04-06. For more details, or to download this conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

State of Readiness? XML in the Life Sciences

The life sciences industry is being thrust into the world of XML. FDA's recently mandated Structured Product Labeling (SPL) initiative as well as private initiatives with Standard Response Letters, Clinical Data, and Product Information Management (PIM) for EMEA labeling have made it clear that the use of XML is on the upswing. But how do you benchmark your organization with your peers? What are the biggest problems in working with documentation?

ForeignExchange Translations, RWD Technologies, and Data Conversion Laboratory asked these questions to a broad cross-section of the life sciences industry through a comprehensive survey. In this presentation we unveil the results, looking at where the industry stands on XML initiatives, and where it needs to be. You learn how your peers are tackling the issues associated with SPL, Standard Response Letters, and Clinical Data Reports. You hear what they report as the biggest problems, and what they are doing to solve them.

State of Readiness? XML in the Life Sciences was presented by Don Bridges, Commercial Technical Documents Manager, of Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) & Joe Jenkins, Life Sciences Market Director, of RWD Technologies and aired 2006-11-30. For more details or to purchase a download, please visit our site www.fxconferences.com

What You Need to Know to Get Started in XML

So you've heard about XML, and now you are trying to decide whether or not to start using it at your company. Or, perhaps you are just curious about what XML is and whether it lives up to the hype. Maybe your boss has made noises about converting to XML, and you need a crash course on the subject.

This presentation is aimed at giving those with little or no knowledge of XML an overview of what exactly XML is, and what it is -- and is not -- good for.

What You Need to Know to Get Started in XML was presented by Kit Brown, Principal, of Comgenesis LLC, and is now available for download. For more details or to download this audio conference, please visit our site www.fxconferences.com

Workflow & Version Control: Taming the Documentation Tiger

Take a look at your email inbox. Chances are someone has sent you a working document as an attachment because they are finished with it and now it's your turn. It's also a good bet bet that the folder containing your current project has file names like Operation-v1.doc and Operation-v2.doc. Every document goes through some kind of workflow and version control. Many companies do this using email attachments and file naming conventions. A true document management environment will include workflow and version control, but these systems are usually too costly for the small documentation shop.

In this audio conference, Brian Travis discusses the shortcomings of current document management practices, and ways to streamline and improve the process.

Workflow & Version Control: Taming the Documentation Tiger was presented on 2007-05-10 and is available for download. For more details or to download this conference, please visit our site www.fxconferences.com

SPL & Beyond: XML in the Life Sciences

As Structured Product Labeling (SPL) continues to evolve and become adopted throughout the FDA, organizations must ensure their original approach to SPL compliance is the best strategic fit for the enterprise. Initially, the goal for most organizations was focused solely on implementing systems and/or processes to achieve SPL compliance. Depending on your approach, SPL compliance can either result in additional time and cost to the overall submission process, or provide long-term value across the enterprise.

With additional XML-based standards under development, and the ability for structured content to drive efficiencies throughout an enterprise, it is prudent to review your overall approach to structured content authoring and publishing. This presentation will look at how XML can be used to manage content for SPL submissions to the FDA, Product Information Management (PIM) submissions to EMEA, as well as other uses such as standard response letters for customer contact centers.

This audio conference is co-presented by Don Bridges of Data Conversion Laboratory and Joe Jenkins of RWD Technologies. To learn more, visit www.fxconferences.com.