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About Author-it is an enterprise Component Content Management System (CCMS) with 25+ years in the structured authoring space. It helps regulated industries - manufacturing, software, utilities, aerospace, medical devices, financial services, and government - create, manage, review, translate, and publish content from a single source library. Write a topic once. Reuse it across manuals, portals, training, compliance docs, and localised outputs - automatically. No DITA required. No XML expertise needed. Author-it includes built-in translation workflow management, multi-stage review and approval, variant and conditional content, and AION - a structured JSON output format designed for direct LLM and RAG pipeline ingestion. Your content becomes your AI foundation, not just a document archive. Proven ROI: $3M+ annual savings in manufacturing, 90% content reuse in enterprise software, and compliance-ready documentation across heavily regulated environments. author-it.com	About Content heavy organizations need to maximize the possibilities for content reuse, multi-channel publishing, team productivity and improving content quality. This not only requires DITA XML management and publishing capabilities, but also enterprise-class collaboration. Streamline the production of your business documents, maintaining, translating, and multi-channel publishing has never been easier! Componize is a DITA CMS that optimizes the authoring, management, translation and publishing of business documents at the enterprise scale, and for any level of expertise. It’s an enterprise platform that allows anybody to securely create and collaborate on high-volume documents, such as: technical documentation, training content, contracts. Open architecture, with a strict adherence to standards - and unlike the others we never modify your XML. Neither a niche solution nor a content silo, we are an all-encompassing solution!
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Audience Technical publications managers in manufacturing, Compliance and regulatory documentation teams, Utilities operations and safety documentation teams, Software documentation leads scaling across releases, Global content teams managing 5+ languages, Enterprises replacing Word/SharePoint-based workflows, Aerospace and defence documentation teams, Medical device regulatory writers, Government and education content operations teams, Financial services policy and procedure owners	Audience Companies looking for a DITA CMS for documentation solution
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Pricing Author-it Cloud is priced on a modular, per-seat basis. Contact for a tailored quote. Core platform includes the Library, structured authoring, and publishing. Additional modules are licensed separately: Translations module — Full translation workflow management, XLIFF export/import, locale variant management, change tracking to minimise retranslation costs Reviews module — Multi-stage review and approval workflows, SME collaboration, deadline management, full audit trail AION publishing (Included in all with no extra charge) — Structured JSON output for LLM and RAG pipeline ingestion (AI Content Foundation) Honeycomb eLearning — SCORM-compatible course authoring and publishing Magellan web portal — HTML5 help portal publishing with search integration Professional Services — Information architecture consulting, implementation, onboarding, and migration support Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
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Company Information Author-it Founded: 2000 New Zealand www.author-it.com	Company Information Componize Founded: 2008 France componize.com
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Integrations Amazon Bedrock Supported Claude Supported Claude Duet Supported Claude for Legal Supported Cornerstone Content Anytime Supported Elastic Cloud Supported Fluid Topics Supported Gemini Supported Honeycomb Supported Microsoft Copilot Supported Microsoft Word Supported Moodle Supported OpenAI Supported Trados Studio Supported Show More Integrations View All 14 Integrations	Integrations Amazon Bedrock Not Supported Claude Not Supported Claude Duet Not Supported Claude for Legal Not Supported Cornerstone Content Anytime Not Supported Elastic Cloud Not Supported Fluid Topics Not Supported Gemini Not Supported Honeycomb Not Supported Microsoft Copilot Not Supported Microsoft Word Not Supported Moodle Not Supported OpenAI Not Supported Trados Studio Not Supported Show More Integrations
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