The Life Science Industry is challenged by improving time-to-market, improving the quality of the submissions, decreasing redundant work, reusing information across the drug life cycle and presenting the right information to the right audience at the right point in time etc.

The vast majority of Life Science companies are therefore pursuing XML as the foundation for their information strategies, but they are – as most other companies – struggling with the complexity and the organizational resistance involved in introducing XML internally.

Microsoft has developed a complete framework for de-mystifying the implementation of DITA with the ‘Intelligent Content Framework’ (ICF), based on SharePoint, DITA Exchange and MetaPoint by SchemaLogic. Please click the link in the right hand pane to download the Microsoft ICF Fact Sheet.