XTM International, the creator of the leading translation management systems (TMS) XTM, has announced that the DITAworks content management system (CMS) will be integrated into XTM version 8.8. This integration is aimed at achieving the technical communicators’ goal of saving time when managing the translation process. The joint solution seamlessly integrates the translation process and provides control for documentation managers to track the translation status from within DITAworks in real time.

Integrating the XTM translation workflow into DITAworks makes the task of translating thousands of DITA topics effortless. Documentation managers can automatically or manually assign tasks from the CMS interface and view the progress of the translation without bothering the translators or their internal localization department.

XTM has been designed with DITA localization in mind. Projects containing multiple files are easily managed and organized according to the structure in the DITA map. XTM uses the DITA Open Toolkit to create real-time previews showing the context of the translation to translators, editors and reviewers.