References by parson

Maintaining Specifications Across Several Industry Standards for Energy Traders Europe

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) was rebranded as Energy Traders Europe at the beginning of 2024. With now 150 members, the organization continues to develop and maintain contractual terms and data exchange standards for the energy trading industry.

Since 2016, parson has accompanied EFET on their standardization journey and now continues to support Energy Traders Europe with technical writing and data model development services. To mark the occasion, we’ll take a more detailed look at our cooperation. more...

Energy Traders Europe 

Can software developers and technical communicators write documentation together? How parson supports Siemens in setting up a collaborative authoring process

The Siemens division "Digital Industries, Factory Automation, Information Management" wants to make its technical documentation fit for the future and has therefore developed an authoring process for joint documentation by software developers and technical communicators. parson has evaluated the proof of concept. more...

Siemens, "Digital Industries, Factory Automation and Information Management"

Restructuring the documentation landscape at Finnova. Orientation workshop

parson is supporting Finnova during the process of restructuring the documentation landscape and digitalizing technical documentation. Existing technical documentation solutions, work and collaboration processes, and delivery to target audiences will be put to the test during this transformation. A detailed analysis of the requirements will then form the basis for a continuous improvement. more...

Finnova AG Bankware

Customize the PDF plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit

Nexperia wanted to improve its product data sheets and align them with market needs. The data sheets are written in DITA XML, the PDF version is generated using the DITA Open Toolkit. To implement the changes, parson customized the PDF plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit.  more...

Nexperia

Digitalization of technical documentation

GS1 Germany provides its customers with standards for the efficient exchange of article master data. The processes for creating and delivering the specifications and documentation of GS1 standards will become more digitalized and partially automated. As an expert in digital technical documentation and content delivery, parson is advising GS1 Germany on this project. more...

GS1 Germany

Maintaining the XML-based authoring framework

After successfully migrating the developer documentation to DITA XML, parson has taken over the long-term maintenance of the XML authoring frameworks for NXP. Several teams and groups at NXP collaborate, both in Europe and the US . more...

NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH

Reshaping technical communication towards content delivery

Thanks to parson's support, we could quickly and successfully complete this phase of the project. parson's consulting service and their expertise as well as their support with the agile project management helped us select the most suitable provider for implementing the content-delivery concept. more...

Endress+Hauser AG

Online documentation for HR software. Author training and implementation of an authoring system

„We have accomplished a great deal and achieved a great result: a well-structured 1300-page manual in a uniform design. We've been given software that enables us to continue the project. parson not only provided its workforce, all employees were not only involved with their minds, but also with their hearts. We always had the feeling that we were well looked after and supported." Karin Ladiges, Project Management Processes more...

ZPD Hamburg

Revising the specification for the OpenDRIVE standard for road networks of driving simulators

"I would like to thank parson for the good and uncomplicated cooperation. With the expertise or parson, we were able to give ASAM OpenDRIVE a powerful boost and I am convinced that we have developed a good standard with ASAM OpenDRIVE 1.6. In my opinion, the information architecture turned out particularly well. This architecture will help readers navigate through the standard. In the name of ASAM, I would like to sincerely thank all participants in this project." Nicco Dillmann, Global Technology Manager, ASAM e.V. more...

ASAM e.V.

iiRDS consulting and agile project management for intelligent chatbot

To demonstrate the practical application of iiRDS, the international standard for intelligent information request and delivery, tcworld GmbH wanted to develop a demonstrator (proof of concept) for an iiRDS-based chatbot. Project partner was the industrial company Endress+Hauser, which provided the technical documentation as the basis for intelligent information. The chatbot was named iiBot. more...

tcworld GmbH

Project management for agile software development

We support the development team of the Bucerius Law School in three main areas: Implementation of agile development processes, improvement of software usability, and optimization of communication with software users. more...

Bucerius Law School

Migration of Development Documentation to DITA/XML

All NXP products pass through long development and life cycles. For this reason, NXP needs to write and maintain documentation for old and new product versions and for different product development phases in parallel. Also, the documentation for the various versions of a product family is largely identical. For these reasons, the Identification department of NXP wanted to fundamentally renew its documentation processes. They decided to switch to XML-based documentation, which would let them professionally reuse content and create several variants of documents coming from a single source. more...

NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH

Documentation for a Campus Management System

Because there was no user documentation for the campus management system, which was developed by Bucerius Law School, the goal of the project was to create a guide to cover selected topics for users who work in campus management. more...

Bucerius Law School

Wiki-based Documentation for Logistics Software

The goal of the project was to develop a concept for end-user documentation for customer-specific software that manages business and logistics processes. The documentation was to be written in an existing company wiki based on MediaWiki. more...

Fr. Meyer's Sohn (GmbH & Co.)

Specification for the Standardization of Navigation Databases

To enable various manufacturers and navigation systems to work with the same map data, all databases have to use a standardized format. For specifying this standard format as well as the associated update and certification processes, NDS requires a set of documents that all members of the consortium can access online. more...

Navigation Data Standard (NDS) e.V.

Specification for Standards in the Commodity Trading Industry

parson maintains and updates the specifications for the CpML standard and the various process specifications. We work closely with the project manager and the software developers to document the relevant business and mapping rules, and describe the processes from start to finish. more...

EFET - European Federation of Energy Traders