Enabling topical authoring with SharePoint, Word, and MarkLogic Server

Airlines accommodate a wide variety of content types, including flight manuals, operations manuals, bulletins, forms, logs, and corporate policy. Management and delivery of this content is a significant challenge because of the sheer diversity, volume, and volatility of the documents. The need for regulatory approval exacerbates these challenges because of increasing pressure from agencies such as the FAA, EASA, and DoD who are demanding greater efficiency in the review and approval process and want updates to be rapidly produced and delivered to airline crews.

Traditionally airlines have approached their operations documentation with an inefficient mix of tools and delivery mechanisms with a “one size fits all” approach that is complex and hard to manage. However, as this white paper will show, by combining Microsoft Office 2007 and the power of Mark Logic Server, airlines can provide a flexible, agile model for creating operations documentation. This decreases the cost and complexity of dynamic enterprise publishing and leads to greater operational efficiency, easier demonstration of compliance with regulatory agencies, and a lower total cost of ownership.