SDL products help corporations manage the complex process of delivering content to global audiences. Starting with the process of authoring, their products help drive effective communication through the application of corporate style guides, consistent terminology management and efficient translation using the worldwide network of the translation supply chain. Whether you are looking to build state-of-the-art web sites, or delivering help systems and product marketing literature to a global market, SDL can help. 

The SDL mission is to help corporations drive global brand consistency and accelerate time-to-market by providing software and services to manage the delivery of all corporate information into different languages.

Technology has always been at the heart of Mekon and integrating technology into our customer’s businesses to make them even more efficient has always been our aim. Over the years we have been fortunate to work with some of the leading companies across the world on a broad range of projects.

This experience, combined with our developer’s focus on and knowledge of our customers needs, has lead to Mekon launching a number of highly successful applications, plug-ins and add-ons to deal with common issues often over-looked by the major product vendors, who take a more broad view of the market place.

PTC solutions for publishing enables companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. The integrated solutions have enabled PTC to help customers optimize their product development processes and realize greater business value. These solutions are made up of the Arbortext product family and are used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, publishing, government, insurance and financial services industries.

Ovidius is based in Berlin, Germany, with offices in the UK and specialises in XML and SGML software solutions for creating, managing, and publishing of technical and scientific information. Ovidius help companies with complex documentation requirements, e.g. automotive, mechanical engineering, software “manufacturers”, aviation and defence (S1000D, ATA 2200), medical engineering and IT companies. Current customers are for example: Bosch, Eurocopter, MAN Trucks, BMW, Siemens, Biotronik and Bundesdruckerei Germany.

JustSystems is a leading global software provider with three decades of successful innovation in office productivity, information management, and consumer and enterprise software. Corporate headquarters are located in Tokushima, Japan, with regional offices in: Palo Alto, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Vancouver, Canada; London, England; and China and over 2,500 customers worldwide.

Absolute Data Group (ADG) is a software provider that helps Aerospace, Defense and Heavy Industry to create, manage and leverage information vital to the operation and maintenance of their mission critical assets.The company provides off-the-shelf software products include the ASD S1000D compliant publishing suite, Asset and Resources Management tools and competency based On-line Learning.

ADG’s single source R4i Server System provides S1000D Content Management, Print Publishing (with change packages) and IETP Production. Logistics teams using ADG’s R4i BuildPoint MRO software for Through Life Support (TLS) can link to the R4i S1000D repository and automatically create and deploy job cards for asset maintenance. Integrated access to the same S1000D content empowers training developers that need to write courseware.

Corena is a provider of product support solutions to help companies manage their mission- and safety-critical information and has been recognized as a leading provider to the maintenance and engineering areas of the aerospace and defense industries for nearly two decades.

Corena provides a wide range of applications, but the partnership with Mekon mainly focussed on the content management of S1000D data. Mekon’s Eclipse Create S1000D is integrated with the Life*S1000D CSDB, allowing the end user to import content from the CSDB into FrameMaker and insert image references directly from database content.

Adobe is one of the world’s leading software vendors providing a wide range of content solutions, from static to dynamic. Mekon is not only a training provider for a wide range of authoring tools, but also develops in a wide range of Adobe tools to increase the product capabilities to aid the end user requirements.

Adobe FrameMaker is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators. For the Mekon A&D products, Adobe FrameMaker is widely used to leverage the print capabilities and the structured WYSIWYG environment of FrameMaker to create output according specifications.

As a vendor-independent consultancy, Mekon has spent years accumulating expertise on all the market-leading content tools, and keeping on top of the latest niche developments. All our main products are standards/specification based and staff maintain a close observation of the direction of these. Some clients require specialised projects which may be based on our mainstream products to enable them to carry out a specific task. Other clients ask us to create application to specifications which are similar to the main focus of or department.