A collaborative, cloud-based environment for authors, translators, managers, and other experts allows companies to move away from the traditional office and introduce remote employment. It’s a great solution for companies who would like to use the expertise of employees from around the world. Here is how you can assemble virtual machines and remote desktop sessions into a collaborative environment for technical communicators.
Why private clouds make sense in tc
Why does a technical communication company need a private cloud more than any other organization, e.g. a furniture shop or a hospital? Consider these two factors:
- A surgeon, boxer, and any other person who deals with physical objects really has to get to his or her workplace every day. A technical communicator, on the other hand, deals with information. He can read and type without being in an actual office. Moreover, members of a project team may reside quite far from each other, posibly in different countries.
- In opposite to a journalist or a playwright, technical communicators share a lot of data with their colleagues. We use authoring tools and content management systems (CMS) based on database management system (DBMS) or complicated directory structures in file system. In case we create a set of software user manuals we have to launch the ...
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