Case Study: Actel Corporation reduces documentation production time by 50% with MadCap Software

Actel Uses MadCap Flare to Reduce Production Time by 50 Percent and Enhance Customer Experience

Actel Corporation, a semiconductor company based in Mountain View, California, needed a better way to manage product documentation across print and online formats. Its legacy Help authoring tool lacked single-source publishing, which created version control problems, required redundant work, and made collaboration with engineers and other co-workers harder.

Actel chose MadCap Software’s MadCap Flare native XML software for single-source, multi-channel publishing. The company cut production time by 50 percent, saving 40 to 60 man-hours with each release, eliminated the need to outsource documentation projects to meet tight deadlines, and reduced hardware Help file size by almost 75 percent. MadCap Software also helped Actel produce consistent content in multiple formats and let co-workers contribute in Microsoft Word without extra training.

Actel Corporation

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