Category: ADOPT THE SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH

Content structuring

Correct structuring of contents leads to considerable savings in terms of time and a great gain in the efficiency of business processes.

An important part of EKR Orchestra’s projects is the transformation of a part or all of the information contents previously managed in an unstructured way, into contents organized in a structured, ordered and centralized way. Like the transition from a bazaar with goods arranged in a chaotic way, to an orderly warehouse.

The general synthesis of an EKR Orchestra project is precisely that of transforming the company from a bazaar to an info-warehouse, making orderly and efficient what was previously messy and inefficient.

Content structuring is often a very challenging but extremely important phase of the process. In fact, it allows you to move from a documentary approach, with contents scattered in redundant documents, often inconsistent and whose ownership is not clearly defined, to an organized information structure. This allows you to obtain all the advantages of the disclosure and accessibility of information offered by EKR Orchestra.

In some situations, the content structuring activity takes the form of the creation of the first structured documents that will replace the latest edition of those built manually. An example of this is starting from a catalog of 1000 pages created in InDesign, using the result of the analysis – the label tree and the hierarchy tree – to follow the information structuring logic. Then there will be the transfer of all the contents present in the catalog within the information warehouse according to the order described in the two trees. Finally, a document qualitatively and aesthetically identical to the original one will be created with EKR Selector, integrated with InDesign, but produced by giving shape to structured contents in a complete and flexible way, neatly collected in a single centralized database.

In other cases, the content structuring activity is limited to the organization of the contents, the formalization of processes, and their implementation, as well as the possibility of accessing information organized through the PIM Portal. The company will thus have the guarantee of the correctness of the information contained in EKR, and of the effectiveness in terms of descriptive capacity. These organized contents, immediately accessible in the online mode of the portal, become the basis for the creation of all the offline tools gradually developed by the company from that moment on.

EPREL

EKR Orchestra Energy Label is a comprehensive platform to manage the company’s integration with the European Union’s EPREL product energy label portal.

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Analysis

It is a delicate phase and must be carried out with particular attention to understand who has the information and how to organize it to make the most of it.

In the analysis phase, it is essential that the company brings to the table of EKR analysts the broadest set of documents created in the traditional way up to before the start of the project. By analyzing them, it is possible to detect a large part of the data structure that will have to be organized, but it is even more important to understand the ownership of the information, and therefore highlight who is responsible for creating and modifying the information contained in the documents. In the analysis activity we get to build a map of the meaning of information and ownership, defining in an informal way and gradually more and more formalized which are the processes that through the owners feed the various domains of information.

The results of the analysis activity are typically three tools: a tree of labels, which becomes the map of the Info Warehouse, a tree of the hierarchy, which provides the cross reference structure of what the company produces, and a project document, in other sectors called Business Blueprint, BBP, which specifies the activities that will be carried out, the configuration or extension needs of the system, allowing to produce a guide for the realization of the following phases.

The EKR Orchestra Translation Partners are translation agencies that have shown that they are able to make the most of EKR Orchestra’s content organization to obtain translations at the highest quality.

They have already managed various projects and follow several clients who appreciate the benefits of EKR Orchestra.

Each EKR Orchestra Translation Partner has access to extensive training support and direct coaching from EKR Specialists in optimal management of integration with CAT systems and terminology management.

The idea of ​​EKR was born in 2007 when Marco Galiazzo presents his book ”Guide to cross-media publishing” to the board of Ethica Consulting to start a new company.

The experience in the world of static publishing accumulated over years of consulting and training activities, together with the experience gathered in the book mentioned above, as well as the structuring and presence in the market of Ethica Consulting, lead to an initiative to unite the world of the great SAP management systems to the world of great Adobe technology.

From the moment the founders (Marco Galiazzo, Ethica Consulting, Giorgio Saleri and Giampaolo Galiazzo, Lucio Bevilacqua, Claudio Marconato) see their project come to life, the years pass quickly and the original EKR Publishing Environment platform first transforms into EKR PIM and now in EKR Orchestra becoming more and more pervasive and complete.

In 2020, the number of days spent for the construction of the platform is far higher than the 35,000.

The number of client companies that use technology is more than 60 and the growth and dissemination of the EKR method becomes more and more widespread.

Few players in the Italian and European national scenario manage to make SAP and ERP dialogue with Indesign and its character and paragraph styles.

EKR has a heterogeneous team of people with transversal skills and is able to build scenarios in each company designed to grow together with the needs of the client company.

In the last 3 years, given the maturity and results obtained in the world of static documentation, both marketing and technical, the dynamic dissemination line has been added for integration with marketplaces and the creation of internal and external portals to the company in a content delivery Portal perspective.

To date, EKR is used both for static publication, without any complexity constraint or volume of documents to be created, and for dynamic dissemination, integrated with the latest Elastic Search technology that allows access to extremely complex information with almost response times. instant.

A solution that combines the highest quality of static documentation and the efficiency of dynamic documentation.

Adobe’s technology is fully exploited in Static off-line media. The Creative Suite is seamlessly integrated into the EKR Orchestra platform. In particular InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

Altova is the company that developed XMLSpy, one of the most popular tools for managing everything related to XML. EKR and Altova have been collaborating together for many years. EKR provides certified training and sells Altova products when needed. Altova’s instruments are used within EKR Orchestra projects.

EKR orchestra (HANAPIM) is the first certified PIM solution on the SAP HANA platform. Thanks to the skills of the developers of EKR and EKR Orchestra, it can exploit the SAP HANA database to obtain the maximum synergy with the SAP platforms based on this powerful database.

PEOPLE WORKING ON IT:

• Technical Office
• Product Documentation Office
• Marketing Office

WITH EKR WE CREATE:

• 260 User and Repair Manuals in 24 languages
• 84 Product sheets in 5 languages
• 36 Product brochures in 14 languages
• 3 Price lists on 7 markets
• 3 Catalogues in 7 languages
• 1 CMS Site in 5 languages

Industry:

Full Welding Solutions – Equipment, technology, software and know-how for welding.

Scope of Activities: International Market

Products:

• Coated electrodes
• Equipment
• Torches
• TIG welding
• Animated wire
• Continuous wire
• Submerged arc welding
• Finishing chemicals
• Personal protection
• Arc welding management
• 3D Printing

WITH EKR ORCHESTRA I ACHIEVE:

• Catalogues
• Product data sheets
• Website

Industry:

Padlocks, locks, safes and security systems

Scope of activity: international market

Products:

• Hardware
• 2Ruote products
• Armories
• Hotel products

Website

IN SIPA EKR INCLUDES:

• technical office

WITH EKR WE CREATE:

• manuals for use and maintenance of machines in different language variants
• spare parts catalogs in different language variants
• mold manuals in different language variants
• management of machine edge software glossary

Industry:

Production of plastic containers and filling

Scope of activity: international market

Products:

• Bottle production machines.
• Monobloc filling.
• Process.
• Secondary packaging.
• Complete lines.
• Molds.

IN VIDEOTEC EKR INCLUDES:

• marketing office
• technical office
• product manager

With EKR I achieve:

• technical manuals in X variants
• marketing catalogs in Y languages
• product technical sheets
• web site product navigation

Industry:

Products for video surveillance

Scope of activity: international market

Products:

• Integrated and self-managed positioning units
• Explosion-proof products.
• Stainless steel products.
• Camera housings.
• Pitch and telemetry.
• Illuminators.
• Digital video systems.
• Video management and control.
• Camera mounts.