A new standard for Standards.

Oct. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- “Standards Development Organizations Working Together to Create a New standard of Standards” is Citation Technologies’ theme for World Standards Week October 5th to 8th, 2009, in Bethesda, MD.   By raising the bar and creating a new presentation standard for Standards, SDOs are able to create value and earn additional revenue.  

PDFs are a thing of the past.  Today’s savvy standards purchasers are expecting more than flat, dumb pieces of paper.  They want to link directly between all referenced standards, see how documents change, make notations alongside the standards, and share that analysis with others.  Users expect immediate updates, robust search and bookmarking capabilities, and the capability to communicate with peers while in the document.  They need access to the right information to make the right decisions, right now.

A perfect example of four SDOs working together to create a new standard for Standards is the Medical Device Standards portal powered by citation®.  This is the first true cooperative effort bringing together U.S. standards developers and European alongside of the ISO and IEC content and hosting this information on a dynamic, Web-based portal.  Participants include AAMI, ANSI, ASTM, and DIN. To learn more visit http://www.MedicalDeviceStandards.com

SDO benefits to a powered by citation portal:

*   Create a resource that better fits the needs of your  consumers
*   Improve image … go beyond PDFs to the next generation of the presentation of documents
*   Add value to your proprietary information by enhancing document usability and searchability
*   Enhance customer experience with robust feature set
*   Set a new standard for Standards access and presentation
*   Shorten document revision cycle
*   Earn additional revenue with a new product line
*   Create collections/compilations with live, inline links to referenced documents
*   Convert PDF documents to XML, RTF, and HTML
*   Develop incremental products with XML outputs
*   Embed access to your documents in 3rd party products

Kevin Spence, Citation Technologies' CFO, will be demonstrating the Medical Device Standards portal to World Standards Week attendees.  Spence says, "The big benefit to portal subscribers is they'll be able to find, cross-reference, share, and apply information faster, more conventiently than ever before.  While SDOs can enhance user experience and earn additional revenue."  Sounds like a win/win situation.  

World Standards Week is an international celebration commemorating the efforts of experts who develop voluntary standards within Standards Development Organizations.   The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry, and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy. Citation Technologies is proud to be a Gold Sponsor.

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Citation Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the field of online document management solutions for the environmental, health and safety industry. Products include CyberRegs, (http://www.cyberregs.com/pub/cr/inside-cyberregs/ehs.htm) SDO portals such as ANSI, ASTM, and ICC, and the newly created Applicability Review Tool (ART). Citation Technologies' Compliance Continuum is a cost-effective, high quality comprehensive process that enables organizations to efficiently maintain a compliance management system for 65 countries. http://www.citationtechnologies.com/global-compliance.html