PTC Arbortext Content Delivery (ACD)

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PTC Arbortext Content Delivery (InService)

Trustworthy, Accurate, Contextual Content — Anytime, Anywhere

Make it simple, smart and accessible. PTC Arbortext Content Delivery is a powerful scalable foundation which provides a single web portal to access your content, regardless of where it is created or stored across your enterprise.

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Key Benefits

With a modern, adaptive and responsive user interface framework, Arbortext Content Delivery supports keyboard and touch-screen preferences across PCs and hand-held devices, providing access across the mobile workforce and customer base.

Arbortext Content Delivery Efficiency Delivery

Rapid and Efficient Delivery of Your Content by

  • Publishing approved content directly from PTC Content Management, or 3rd party solutions
  • Delivering technical and non-technical product documentation
  • Including dynamic, interactive 3D and 2D illustrations that improve comprehension
  • Ability to include your PDF legacy content with similar User-Experience
  • Providing the same data updates to online and offline users

Improves End-Users Efficiency by

  • Shortening navigation and search time through a combination of intuitive textual and graphical navigation
  • Selecting your content in your language of choice
  • Option to create document bookmarks
  • Ability to personalize your content by adding or sharing notes on your content, for increased productivity
  • Capability to print individual documents, or custom specific pdf books with navigation links
  • Providing a feedback mechanism enabling a closed loop process for your technical pubs group
Arbortext Content Delivery End-User Efficiency

Improve Service Revenues

  • Outperform for parts identification
  • Improve first-time fix rates
  • Shopping cart to support OEM and eCommerce distribution
  • Integrate to customer/dealer management system for brand recognition

Improve Technician Efficiency

  • Increase service and parts accuracy
  • Precisely relate and filter service and parts information
  • Shorten repair and maintenance resolution time
  • Deliver interactive 2D and 3D illustrations and animations

Single Enterprise Architecture

  • Aggregate multiple sources of content into a single delivery platform
  • Scale to the largest service operations, with no-downtime content updates
  • Deliver information in flexible formats to multiple platforms/devices
Arbortext Content Delivery Service Revenue
Arbortext Content Delivery Technician Efficiency
Arbortext Content Delivery Enterprise Architecture

Key Features

EASE-OF-USE

  • Intuitive and easy-to-use web-based user interface.
  • Adaptive and responsive design.
  • Supporting multiple browsers and mobile platforms – IE, Chrome, Safari, iOS.
  • Leverage rich 2D/3D graphical illustration and PDFs on plugin-less environments (Chrome, iOS).
  • Product-based navigation.
  • Filter content by product instances, product attributes and effectivity dates.
  • Intelligent free text and advanced search with smart auto-suggest.
  • Bookmark your content or product.
  • Access your recently generated searches.

HIGHLY SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE

  • Web-native architecture for ease of integration.
  • Parallel processing and loading.
  • Easy to setup and update the deployment configuration using intuitive high-end “Deployment Configurator” GUI, and out-of-thebox templates.
  • Synchronized deployment to multiple sites – clustered servers.
  • Support for clustering for large scale deployments and data sets.
  • Cloud compatible architecture with efficient interoperability with PTC Windchill® Service Information Manager™ cloud deployment.
  • Easy to deploy customization using Arbortext Content Delivery Installer framework.

PART OF THE PTC SLM LANDSCAPE

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  • Customizations upgrade tools provided to streamline the upgrade process, and reduce costs of ownership.
  • Installer process for Hot-Fixes.
  • Data and Software upgrades while maintaining 24×7 availability for the end-users.

DYNAMICALLY DELIVER SERVICE AND PARTS INFORMATION

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END-2-END SOLUTION FROM PUBLISHING TO DELIVERY OF TECHNICAL CONTENT

  • End-2-end compatibility with PTC and Arbortext applications suite: PTC Arbortext® Editor™, PTC Arbortext® Styler™, PTC Creo® Illustrate™, PTC Arbortext® IsoDraw™ and and PTC Arbortext® Publishing Engine™.
  • Content publishing module integrated with PTC Windchill® Service Information Manager™.
  • Full publishing support for Cloud, with an ability to transfer and load zip file bundles via SFTP.
  • Scalable CSV loader for third-party content loading.
  • Incremental data loading to online and offline instances.

ENTERPRISE CLASS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

  • LDAP integration.
  • Single sign-on (SAML 2.0 industry standard solution, using PingFederate).
  • Compatible with Oracle J2EE.
  • Various APIs for interfacing with external systems such as ERP, diagnostic and parts management.
  • Integrations with PTC® Performance Advisor for system usage and monitoring.

Value of PTC Arbortext Content Delivery for Service Content

Benefits

REDUCES CONTENT DELIVERY CYCLE BY

  • Ensure that customer service, technical support and field service operations have access to the most up-to-date information
  • Aggregating multiple sources of content into a single delivery platform via PTC Windchill® Service Information Manager™
  • Scalable CSV loader for third-party content loading
  • Scalability via clustered servers supporting 24/7 uptime with no-downtime when performing content updates
  • Efficient incremental processing of service content

IMPROVES TIME USER EFFICIENCY BY

  • Increasing service accuracy by dynamically filtering the content for the users
  • Shortening repair and maintenance resolution time
  • Access and synchronize your content while connected or offline

Features

Dynamically delivers service technical documents information across a comprehensive range of formats

  • Supporting DITA XML formats and others
  • Interactive parts lists
  • Product as configured
  • Service procedures
  • Operating instructions
  • Bulletins
  • Schematics
  • Animations
  • Maintenance guidelines

Value of PTC Arbortext Content Delivery for Service Parts

Benefits

IMPROVES FIX EFFICIENCY BY

  •  Product specific parts look-up
  • Increasing service parts accuracy
  • Shortening repair and maintenance resolution time
  • Precisely relating and filtering service and parts information
  • Delivering dynamic, interactive 3D and 2D illustrations that improve parts identification
  • Visual indication of parts added to cart
  • Seamless link to related service content

IMPROVES SERVICE PARTS REVENUE BY

  • Optimizing revenue through easy to use parts catalog
  • Shopping cart integrations with ERP for Parts pricing, parts availability and shopping cart submission
  • Related parts options: Recommended, Alternative, Superseded, Cross-Reference parts

Features

END-2-END SOLUTION FROM PUBLISHING TO DELIVERY OF SERVICE PARTS CONTENT

  • Content publishing module integrated with PTC Windchill® Service Parts™
  • Scalable CSV loader for third-party content loading

QUICK AND ACCURATE SERVICE PARTS IDENTIFICATION AND ORDERING

  • Easily create and manage your shopping carts or wish-lists in the shopping center
  • View real-time price and availability
  • Illustration and parts-list interactive linking

Insights: Arbortext Content Delivery Release 7.2