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What is Quark Author?

Enable subject-matter experts (SMEs) to produce well-structured content effortlessly within the intuitive Microsoft Word environment, removing the barrier of needing to understand intricate markup languages such as DITA or XML. Meet specific demands, especially in regulated industries, by enhancing accuracy, consistency, and productivity through the implementation of modular content designed for reuse. Streamline the production process and cut costs by automating cumbersome, error-prone manual tasks suited for different content types. Guarantee that updates are consistently reflected across essential content components, such as legal text and disclaimers. Encourage seamless collaboration among SMEs and other stakeholders for the development, review, and management of content assets and their various elements. Avoid unnecessary repetition of text, visuals, graphs, and other content components. Maintain cohesive branding and messaging throughout multiple documents and platforms while cultivating a collaborative environment that yields higher content quality. This approach not only enhances the overall efficiency of content creation but also promotes innovation and adaptability within the organization.

What is Author-it?

If your team is maintaining the same content across multiple documents, reformatting outputs by hand, or sending the same paragraphs back to translators every release cycle - you're paying the hidden cost of unstructured content management. Author-it solves this at the source. It's an enterprise CCMS (Component Content Management System) with over 25 years of proven deployment in industries where accuracy, compliance, and scale aren't negotiable: manufacturing, software and technology, utilities, medical devices, aerospace and defence, financial services, and government. The platform centres on a single Library - a relational content database where Topics (content components) are assembled into Books (deliverables) and published to any format from one source. Update one Topic, and every Book containing it reflects the change. No manual updates. No version drift. No missing the footnote that just changed your liability exposure. Key capabilities include structured authoring without DITA or XML expertise, component-level content reuse (customers regularly hit 60–90% reuse rates), built-in translation workflow with XLIFF export and intelligent change-tracking to reduce translator word counts, multi-stage Review & Approve with compliance audit trails, variant and conditional content for multi-product and multi-market publishing, and output to HTML5, PDF, Word, SCORM, XML, DITA, and AION. AION is Author-it's structured JSON publishing format - designed for direct ingestion by LLMs and RAG pipelines. It mirrors the full content hierarchy: books, sub-books, topics, metadata, resolved variables. This is what makes Author-it an AI Content Foundation, not just a content management tool. Your existing structured content becomes queryable, retrievable, and AI-ready without any additional transformation layer. Deployment is cloud SaaS. Implementation is services-led, with expert information architecture guidance included. Contact us @ author-it.com

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Amazon Bedrock
Claude
Cornerstone Content Anytime
Elastic Cloud
Fluid Topics
Gemini
Honeycomb
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Word
Moodle
OpenAI
Trados Studio
XML

Integrations Supported

Amazon Bedrock
Claude
Cornerstone Content Anytime
Elastic Cloud
Fluid Topics
Gemini
Honeycomb
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Word
Moodle
OpenAI
Trados Studio
XML

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided.
Free Trial Offered?
Free Version

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided.
Free Trial Offered?
Free Version

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Company Facts

Organization Name

Quark

Company Website

content.quark.com/l/650323/2021-12-06/713yn/650323/1638803089AAjm60z1/Quark_Publishing_Platform_Data_Sheet.pdf

Company Facts

Organization Name

Author-it

Date Founded

2000

Company Location

New Zealand

Company Website

www.author-it.com

Categories and Features

Categories and Features

Content Management

Audio Content
Customizable Templates
Document Indexing
E-forms
Full Text Search
Image Editor
SEO Management
Text Editor
Version Control
Video Content
Website Management

Help Authoring Tools

Collaboration Tools
Content Library
Drag & Drop Editing
Image Library
Import HTML / Word
Multi-Format Output
Offline Editing
Preview Output
Screenshot Tool
Search
Templates
Text Editor / Word Processor
Translation Tools
Version Control

Software Documentation

Access Roles / User Permissions
Automatic Documentation Generation
Collaboration Tools
Docs Web Hosting
Feedback Capture
Markdown Support
Multiple Formats Support
Multiple Versions Support
Version Control
WYSIWIG Editor
Webhooks
reStructured Text Support

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