For decades we have been talking about 'information at your fingertips' as a brilliant and easy to grasp concept. Unfortunately this concept is not that easy to implement in the normal working life...
The problem is often two-fold:
We don't know how to find the information we are looking for. Search is OK, but does not help much because I'm looking for a specific tabel on page 37 in document 356...
The next problem is (once I've found the information) "is the the current version of the content, or am I now forwarding in-accurate information to the customer, partner, vendor or...?"
DITA Exhange TopicPicker solves both problem 1 and problem 2 in a very elegant way:
DITA Exhange TopicPicker (a) presents the current and corporately approved information to the user in a Word add-in pane and (b) allows the user to quickly find the piece of relevant information needed via metadata filtering.
Once the information is found, the user can simply click the information and it will be inserted in Word. From here it can be copy/pasted to an email, a document, a PowerPoint slide, a sales proposal, a legal contract or...
But don't take our word for it! Test it out yourself by downloading the DITA Exhange TopicPicker from here.