Press Center 2008

We already had award-winning software for customers in the service and support market, and we wanted award-winning documentation to go with it, said Dave Seman, ISOdx manager of business and channel operations. MadCap Flare allowed us to meet that goal, and now in sales calls, we promote our user manuals and online Help along with our software. Its a big competitive differentiator for us.
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The FOX Racing Shox Bicycle Division now uses Flare to deliver its online bike owner's manual in seven different languages, as well as power its online service site-providing a consistent look and feel for retail customers, dealers, and direct distributors. Flare replaces Adobe RoboHelp.
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The Search Optimizer extends MadCap's cutting-edge WebHelp search to legacy browser-based Help systems. Now authors that continue to build their Web or intranet documentation using legacy tools can still provide their users with the most advanced WebHelp search in the industry.
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"Based on the initial demonstrations of DITA support in the upcoming MadCap software, it is safe to say that the team continues to innovate and improve its offerings to be compatible with where the market is headed...By adding DITA support, we see another example of MadCap's dedication to the field of technical communications and structured authoring."
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Market Demand for MadCap Flare Surpasses Legacy Solutions as More Than 39 Percent of Surveys' Respondents Name Flare Their Authoring Application of Choice.
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MadCap Software Launches Capture 3.0 for Cutting-Edge Screen Capture and Graphics Editing MadCap Capture adds new system clipboard integration and significantly enhances text single-sourcing, image editing features, and output options.
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Leading Content Authoring Company Recognized for Innovation in Architecture, Customer Focus and Continuing Growth.
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"Flare was the best fit for the project with its topic-based authoring and ability to publish to multiple channels from a single source file... Flare allowed us to become heroes in the eyes of our client,"
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MadCap Blaze, X-Edit, Flare 4.0, and Analyzer 2.0 Enable Integrated State-of-the-Art Publishing Workflow. With these four new releases, MadCap delivers on the promise to provide a complete set of tools to support a full range of print and online authoring needs, empowering everyone from documentation professionals to technical support staff, IT professionals, business managers, and other casual contributors.
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Headlining the new features in Flare 4.0 are the extensive print functionality; the ability to single-source files across multiple projects; and tight integration with the new MadCap X-Edit toolenabling very streamlined document review and contribution workflow. Together, these features transform Flare from a leading-edge online authoring solution to the first application that provides comprehensive, best-in-class functionality for publishing both print and online content.
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MadCap Blaze, with its topic-based authoring, fundamentally changes the process of publishing large print documents, such as books or corporate manuals. "I thought I couldn't live without FrameMaker, and then I met MadCap Blaze," said Edward VanArsdall, founder of VanArsdall Information Design. "With the addition of Blaze, MadCap now has a complete and comprehensive single-sourcing solution. "The content reuse features, such as multiple outlines, will save so much time. It's really the future!"
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Using features in Flare, such as single-sourcing, reusable snippets, and conditional tags, basys also has significantly cut the time for maintaining its documentation completing some updates in minutes that once took hours. Flare replaces the Adobe RoboHelp content authoring tool.
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GPRO used the combination of MadCap Lingo and MadCap Flare to implement a completely integrated and efficient solution for content authoring, translation memory and publishing. Where it once took up to six months to deliver a documentation project, GPRO now uses MadCap Lingo and Flare to complete the project in just one month.
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"Microsoft is very excited with the Silverlight integration that MadCap Software has added to Mimic," said Tim Sneath, group manager for Client Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. "The combination of Silverlight and MadCap Mimic, which takes advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework, enables a rich, Web-enabled delivery vehicle for eLearning, technical support, online Help, and sales and marketing."
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Initial localization projects using Translations.com's services and content created by MadCap Flare, the industry's first native XML authoring software, have resulted in cost savings of up to 50 percent.
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MadCap's Online Support Recognized for Excellence in Design, Customer Experience, Usability and Interactivity — prestigious ASP award recognizes the ten companies that best exemplify excellence in online service and support.
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But that doesn't tell half the story of MadCap, an upstart software development company competing with the Goliath that is Adobe. MadCap has achieved acclaim from the March 2006 launch of its flagship content authoring product, MadCap Flare…
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"Technology Innovation and Financial Performance Played Key Roles in MadCap's Selection."
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"MadCap Brings Together Authoring, Collaboration, Analysis, Translation, and Multimedia Software into a State-of-the-Art Workflow Solution. The tightly integrated MadCap family will provide companies with an end-to-end solution for developing and delivering content in print, online, and on the Web—and in their language of choice."
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"Patricia Dear has joined the MadCap team as product manager for MadCap Mimic. In this role, Ms. Dear will build on Mimic's powerful, native XML capabilities for creating software simulation movies to evolve it into a robust application for eLearning."
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"When MadCap introduced its Feedback Server, it was the obvious choice. It is the only product we've seen that combines Web 2.0 community features with usage tracking. That unique combination has enabled us to improve documentation, enhance our products, and increase our productivity."
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"Citect's decision to move to Flare was the result of an in-depth review of more than half a dozen products. "We completed a very thorough evaluation that compared 30 different Help content requirements. In the end, Flare addressed more of those requirements than any other product we reviewed. It also has a modern, forward-looking architecture, which stands out from the older designs of other solutions whose older architectures have been updated for today's Web-based Help demands."
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"MadCap Analyzer takes it one step further." said Steve Salter, documentation specialist and trainer at Local Government System Inc. "We no longer need to worry about usability testing because Analyzer will examine our topics and suggest ways to take advantage of Flare's advanced single-source features. It also checks links and provides advanced reports. In fact, deploying Analyzer is like employing another member of our documentation team — one that handles all the mundane checking without a single complaint!"
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"Without any training, I was able to install it on one of our translator's computers, and in less than a day she was productive. True to its promise, Lingo enabled translation while preserving all of our document structure and formatting, and my translator reported back that this is going to make her job much simpler." Rowdy Bristol, technical communications manager of Gemcom Software Australia Pty. Ltd.
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Divestco, headquartered in Calgary, Canada, is a leading provider of software, data, and services to the oil and gas industry. Divestco chooses Flare over other Authoring solutions for its native XML architecture; support for Microsoft .NET, reusable components and more…
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