
Company Name: acrolinx
Location: Berlin, Germany and Crawford, CO
Primary activity: Information Quality/Controlled Language/STE Tools
Years in STC's CVP: since December 2007
acrolinx provides Information Quality Tools that help ensure conformance to corporate and/or industry standards for spelling, grammar, style, and terminology. A sophisticated Natural Language Processing engine analyzes text the same way as a human copy editor, with real-time feedback to authors in an intuitive "spell check" format in Word, FrameMaker, XMetaL, Arbortext Editor, AuthorIT, and InDesign. Formal metrics and reports are also generated to close the Quality Control loop. By controlling the quality of the source language content, our customer routinely realize translation cost and time savings of 15% to 25%.

Company Name: Adobe Systems
Location: 345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110
Web: http://www.adobe.com/solutions/technicalcommunication/
Primary activity: Software Development and Sales
Variety of technical communication positions within your company: Mostly aligned around product lines for documentation of product manuals, user guides etc.
Date your company joined STC's CVP: 2008
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime.

Company Name: Autodata Solutions
Location: London, Ontario
Primary activity: Provider of automotive content, research, software tools and technology implementation services that enable that automobile companies to understand their market more effectively, develop market and sell their products.
Variety of tech comm positions: 2 technical writers, 1 editor, 1 creative writer, 1 marketing writer
Years in STC's CVP: Since January 2007
Autodata Solution is the largest provider of eCommerce tools, data and services to the North American auto industry. For over 15 years, Autodata has helped auto manufacturers, web portals, fleet companies, and dealers to develop and sell their products more effectively and profitably. Autodata enables automobile OEMs to understand and effectively develop and sell their products through their diverse suite of products and services. Autodata is a division of Internet Brands, Inc. http://www.internetbrands.com/ib

Company Name: BMC Software, Inc.
Location: Headquarters are in Houston, TX, with offices in Sunnyvale, CA, Waltham, MA, Tel Aviv, Israel, Pune, India, and a number of locations across the world.
Primary Activity: BMC provides IT with the solutions it needs to drive business value through better management of technology and IT processes.
Variety of tech comm positions: information developers, editors, information development specialists, graphic designers
Years in STC's CVP: since February 2007
Web: http://www.bmc.com
BMC Software is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and posted fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion.

Company Name: CPSL
Location: Headquarters in Barcelona (Spain) with offices in Madrid and Ludwigsburg (Germany) as well as sales representations in Dallas (USA) and Exeter (UK).
Web: http://www.cpsl.com
Primary activity: CPSL provides integrated language and documentation services that cover the complete lifecycle of multilingual documentation and content.
Variety of technical communication positions within your company: 2 technical writers, 4 technical engineers, 3 DTP specialists in house + global net of more than 3.000 freelance resources with specific expertise in DTP, localization engineering, translation, interpretation etc., industry knowledge and cultural expertise.
Years in STC's CVP: since April 2008
CPSL enables international companies from different industry sectors to effectively communicate their products and services to global audiences. Our services cover the full lifecycle of multilingual general and technical content, starting with its creation, the linguistic and cultural adaptation through to publishing in different formats and means of communication.
Among our services are: Consultancy on content optimization; technical writing; multilingual translation of general and technical content including layout formatting and graphics creation; software localization and testing; website and multimedia localization as well as electronic publishing and distribution logistics.

Company Name: Doc-To-Help
Location: Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A.
Primary activity: content authoring software development
Variety of tech comm positions: 4 Technical Writers, 1 Information Designer, 2 Marketing Communicators, 4 Knowledge Managers, 12 Knowledge Authors
Years in STC's CVP: since February 2007
Web: http://www.doctohelp.com/
Doc-To-Help has been the premier authoring and publishing tool in the market since 1991. It enables technical communicators, policy writers, and other content creators to author in Doc-To-Help's XML-based editor, Microsoft Word, or HTML, and publish to the Web, Help systems, or printed manuals with a single click. Doc-To-Help is the only vendor that gives you everything you need to create your documentation deliverables in one application. The unique combination of editing, single sourcing, and publishing technology translates to significant time savings and the highest level of quality. Free trial available at www.doctohelp.com

Company Name: Dassault Systèmes
Location: Headquarters in Suresnes, France with offices located worldwide
Web: http://www.3ds.com
Primary activity: Dassault Systèmes is the world leader for Product Lifecycle Management software solutions. Our SolidWorks, CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA & 3DVIA solutions empower users to create, share and experience in 3D. 3DVIA Composer is a desktop content authoring system that revolutionizes the way enterprises of all sizes create, update, and distribute rich product documentation. Non-engineering staff can easily reuse existing 3D product definition data (e.g. 3D design data and Bills-of-Material information) to create a powerful series of "always current" interactive product documentation, animations, and technical illustrations. Before 3DVIA Composer, any change in the product required expensive redo of the documentation. Now, by using 3DVIA Composer, users in customer service, manufacturing support, training, sales, and marketing can quickly and easily automate their deliverable production processes while reducing costs and improving quality.
Years in STC's CVP: since March 2008

Company Name: Eaton Corporation
Location: Raleigh, NC
Website: www.eaton.com
Primary activity: Eaton is a global leader in electrical control, power distribution, uninterruptible power supply and industrial automation products and services. Eaton products provide customer-driven PowerChain Management® solutions to serve the power system needs of the industrial, institutional, government, utility, commercial, residential, IT, mission critical and OEM markets worldwide.
Date your company joined STC’s CVP: 9 September 2009
Variety of technical communication positions within your company: The CVP Membership is shared between the Technical Publications Team and the Servuice Documentation Team, both in Raleigh, NC. The Technical Publications Team consists of 2 Technical Writers, 1 Technical Editor, 4 full-time contractors and 4 part-time editors and graphic artists. The Service Documentation team consists of 2 Technical Writers. There are Technical Writers located in PA and other Eaton locations globally.
Eaton is a diversified power management company and have been doing business for nearly 100 years. Eaton helps customers manager power, so buildings, airplanes, trucks, cars, machinery and entire businesses can do more while consuming less energy. As an integrated global company, we are unified in our commitment to powering business worldwide.

Company Name: Globalization Partners International
Location: 1600 Tysons Blvd, 8th Floor, McLean, VA 22102
Primary activity:
Date your company joined STC's CVP: July 11, 2010
Web: www.globalizationpartners.com
Globalization Partners International, LLC provides document, software and website globalization services into over 100 languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Company Name: Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
Location: 1400 La Concha; Houston, TX 77054
Primary activity: Medical - We collect, test and distribute blood and blood products
Variety of tech comm positions: 4 instructional developers and 3 tech writers
Years in STC's CVP: since February 2008
Web: www.giveblood.org
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center's mission is to partner with the community to help save and sustain lives by providing a safe supply of blood, blood components and related services. The Blood Center began operations on January 1, 1975 and has grown to serve more than 220 hospitals and health care institutions in a 25-county area.
25-county Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas regions
Regional patient blood needs require that The Blood Center collect more than 308,500 units of blood and blood components from volunteer blood donors in 2008.

Company Name: Innodata Isogen
Location: 3 University Plaza, Hackensack, NJ 07601
Primary activity: Innodata Isogen provides technical authoring and editing services to leading companies across the globe.
Date your company joined STC’s CVP: February 2010
Web: http://www.innodata-isogen.com
Innodata Isogen provides technical authoring and editing services to leading companies across the globe. Our technical writing teams possess extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines -including electrical and mechanical engineering, information and life sciences, aerospace, defense, consumer products, high-tech manufacturing and telecommunications - and are composed of experienced technical writers, editors and specialized systems experts based in the United States and Asia. Recognized for our ability to scale quickly and handle the most complex projects, we can help you scale-up to meet demand, especially during critical stages in the product lifecycle.
Please visit our website at www.innodata-isogen.com/services/technical_writing for more information.

Company Name: Innovatia
Location: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Primary activity: Technology OEM and NSP Knowledge Services
Variety of tech comm positions: 150 Technical Writers, 2 Instructional Designers, 4 Information Architects, 8 Editors
Years in STC's CVP: Since May 2007
Innovatia Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Aliant, accelerates our customers' business productivity throughout the product lifecycle by creating and delivering innovative Knowledge Management Solutions. The solutions encompass documentation, eLearning, technical support, and professional services.
Innovatia leverages knowledge and training to drive enhanced employee performance and to increase sales and operational efficiencies for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Network Service Providers (NSP) in the telecommunications and IT industries.

Company Name: Ken Cook Co.
Location: Headquarters located at 9929 W Silver Spring Dr. , Milwaukee, WI 53225, with warehouse facility in Menomonee Falls, WI
Primary activity: Single source solution provider for product support documentation and programs.
Web: www.kencook.com
Ken Cook Co. is an ISO-certified provider of technical publications and training programs for manufacturers and businesses around the world. We offer concept-to-completion management of product information for web, new media, video and print applications. Our services include technical writing, illustration, desktop publishing, translation, printing, bindery and distribution. Our products include installation, operation and service manuals, parts catalogs, training programs and web publications.
Years in STC's CVP: since December 2006. Kenneth J Cook is a STC Fellow and past President.

Company Name: LugIron Software
Location: Austin, TX
Primary activity: Software development - We build products to help companies get more out of their documentation investment.
Variety of tech comm positions: Technical writers, information architects, user experience designers, social media experts
LugIron helps companies grow happy users by ensuring that users can find the answers they need when they need them. Our unique combination of wikis, social media, online communities, and a customer support involvement takes online documentation to the next level and transforms a company's documentation into a strategic asset that can help reduce the support burden, encourage user involvement with the company's community, and provide unique marketing insight into how the company's users are using the product and searching for answers to product specific problems.
Years in STC's CVP: since May 2009

Company Name: Madcap Software, Inc.
Location: 7777 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
Website: www.madcapsoftware.com
Primary activity: Computer Software - Develop, market and sell XML based authoring software tools
Variety of technical communication positions within your company: Private
Date your company joined STC’s CVP: 2007
MadCap Software, headquartered in La Jolla, CA, is just a new name for a group of familiar faces that have been leading the technical writing community for over a decade. With its flagship product, MadCap Flare, MadCap Software is once again leading the documentation world into the future by providing complete end-to-end solutions for content development, delivery and management. Today more than 1,000 companies including Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are customers of MadCap’s native XML software for content authoring and multi-channel publishing.

Company Name: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Location: MS·PTC @ NJIT, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, Phone: 973-596-3266, Fax: 973-642-4689, ptc@njit.edu
Primary activity: Education—Graduate Level
Date your company joined STC’s CVP: September 2009
NJIT offers an exciting completely online master's program in Professional and Technical Communication that combines the latest research and applications in technical communication with emerging applications in digital media. Students receive hands on experience with the latest developments in visual design, hypertext design, information architecture and the technologies that support this new means of corporate communication.
The MS in Professional and Technical Writing is located within the College of Science and Liberal Arts and supported by the Division of Continuing Professional Education. NJIT is a nationally ranked research university. For three consecutive years, US News & World Report's 2009 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges named NJIT a top-tier research university. Many online classes are taught by professors who are also leading-edge researchers in their fields. One distinguished professor at NJIT was even named best online instructor in the country - a coveted award - by the Alfred F. Sloan Foundation. Having research professors teach your class assures that you'll learn the most advanced subject matter in whatever field you chose to study.
NJIT's online programs are also student centered. Optimally, online classes turn into virtual-learning communities, in which students interact and learn from each other, and their professors, more than they could in face-to-face classes. Perhaps that's why some online NJIT students have such high praise for its programs.
Know, also, that NJIT has affordable tuition. This year, the Princeton Review named NJIT one of the nation's Best Value Colleges. And this fall, NJIT introduced an online tuition rate that will help online students who live outside New Jersey save on tuition.

Company Name: Perceptive Software
Location: Shawnee, KS
Primary activity: Enterprise Content Management
Web: www.perceptivesoftware.com
Variety of tech comm positions: 11 Technical Writers in R&D, 11 RFP Writers in Marketing
Perceptive Software is a leading creator of enterprise content management (ECM) software products, committed to organic product development and superior engineering. In 1995, we introduced our flagship product- ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow suite—used today by more than 2,000 customers across 45 countries worldwide.

Company Name: SDL International
Location: Headquarters in the UK - Offices Worldwide
Primary activity: Provider of Global Information Management Solutions
Web: www.sdl.com
Years in STC's CVP: since November 2006

Company Name: Westinghouse Electric Company
Location: Headquarters are in Pittsburgh, PA; Westinghouse has additional locations throughout the world in the countries of Belgium, Bulgaria, China, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, Republic of South Africa, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Primary activity: Commercial Nuclear Energy
Variety of tech comm positions: Technical Writing, Technical Editing, Internal Communications, Public Relations, and Graphic Design and Illustration
Years in STC's CVP: Since January 2007
Web: http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/index.shtm
Westinghouse Electric Company develops, starts up, and services nuclear power plants around the globe. Fifty years ago, Westinghouse Electric Company helped build America's first nuclear power plant. Today, nuclear power provides 16% of the world's electricity, without emitting greenhouse gases. Westinghouse technology is the basis for nearly half of the nuclear power plants producing this clean energy.
Westinghouse is a provider of whole, advanced plants; systems and components; nuclear services, including field services, engineering, and automation/modernization; nuclear fuel supply and operational services, including fuel production, fuel analysis, and fuel management software; and training services for nuclear plant personnel. Westinghouse is proud to be in the forefront of nuclear energy technology - providing clean, safe, and environmentally sound electricity production.

Company Name: Writing Assistance, Inc.
Location: 3131 Fernbrook Lane, Suite 200, Plymouth, MN 55447
Primary activity: Staff Technical Writers for contract and direct-hire opportunities
Variety of tech comm positions: All specialties and locations
Date your company joined STC’s CVP: 23 October 2008
Web: http://www.writingassist.com
Writing Assistance, Inc. is a leading staffing firm specializing in the placement of contract and direct-hire technical writers on a national and international basis. With over 18,000 writers we are able to assist clients with writers for any location, specialty or industry.