Calculate your DITA ROI

Will DITA bring enough value to your content operations to justify the investment costs? Calculate your DITA ROI to decide.  The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML standard widely used for technical, product, and learning content. A move into DITA is a significant effort. Learning the tagset isn’t too difficult, but DITA is designed to support: Topic-based authoring Structured content Extensive reuse Text variants Automated formatting Each of these items can be a significant shock to content creators. This article outlines some of the common business justifications for moving into DITA.