Mackenzie Solutions Ltd area of business can be described as "Document Computing", i.e. projects, consultancy and development of systems that collaboratively author, review, manage, assemble and style information components and documents providing automation and quality validation throughout the content life-cycle. We create solutions which allow publishers to get the best value from their information by:
All of these projects contain "structured information" (often combined with other less structured sources) using the WWW consortium standard known as XML. This, (and associated processing technologies) is our prime area of expertise.
We also support companies and institutions outside of publishing who utilise XML as the ideal format for data interchange in Government and B2B systems. We have provided consultancy and development expertise to these "XML adopters" to ensure that they maximise the benefit that XML can provide.
We have also worked with those who create or consume data from MS Word by controlling template use, identifying and validating structure from styles and content and converting the DocX(Open Office XML) format.
Typically, customers who require such a service hold their information in high value and typically deal with either a high volume of data or data that is complex.
Work performed can broadly be broken down into:
For more information on what we do please see our recent projects or contact us.
- enabling re-use across publications;
- creating completely new publications by combining related information sources;
- publishing to many formats and devices; and
- allowing their users to find, tailor and interact with the information through pathways that best suits their needs.
All of these projects contain "structured information" (often combined with other less structured sources) using the WWW consortium standard known as XML. This, (and associated processing technologies) is our prime area of expertise.
We also support companies and institutions outside of publishing who utilise XML as the ideal format for data interchange in Government and B2B systems. We have provided consultancy and development expertise to these "XML adopters" to ensure that they maximise the benefit that XML can provide.
We have also worked with those who create or consume data from MS Word by controlling template use, identifying and validating structure from styles and content and converting the DocX(Open Office XML) format.
Typically, customers who require such a service hold their information in high value and typically deal with either a high volume of data or data that is complex.
Work performed can broadly be broken down into:
- Consultancy – Providing business and technical advice, evaluation of tools and technical designs, running requirement and design meetings, creating formal specifications, provide consultancy on use and specialization of DITA, reviewing implementations and approaches. Working with system architects to lead design on content aspects of any solution.
- Management – Developing project plans for customer projects and monitoring and controlling progress against plan or working within an Agile team. Taking a role as an interim team manager and helping hire a permanent replacement.
- Document and Data Analysis – Performing enterprise or document-specific data analysis, creation of analysis reports and logical models, creation of schema (including XSD, Relax NG and Schematron) or enterprise data models.
- Development – Developing prototype systems, developing system components, integration and tailoring of off-the-shelf tools, developing complex XSLT frameworks, XProc, XQuery and XSL-FO stylesheets to gather, convert and display or print the information, advanced customization of the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT).
- Training – Training in my areas of expertise or on the systems that are developed as part of the project and provision of coaching and mentoring.
- Testing – Supporting the testing of the system including recommended approaches for test-driven development and automated regression testing.
For more information on what we do please see our recent projects or contact us.