Texas Instruments

Case Study

Terry Hayes, Products Publication Manager

Corel DESIGNER helps
the Documentation Teamat Texas Instruments
streamline its workflow®

OVERVIEW
NAME:

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a world leader indigital signal processing and analog technologies, thesemiconductor engines of the Internet age. With morethan 35,000 employees worldwide, it is a leader in thereal-time technologies that help people communicate.
Terry Hayes is the Application Specific Products
Publication Manager for one of the TechnicalInformation Solutions teams at TI. His team is
responsible for creating the documentation that
supports the company's custom semiconductor
product lines. The Technical Information Systems (TIS)
organization includes four additional teams that
produce a wide variety of documentation including
product data sheets, user manuals, programming
guides, application reports, and technical referencemanuals.

“Corel DESIGNER was ideal for us because
we needed a tool that would let us work witha single source file and output to multiple fileformats. Complete with support of SVG,
Technical Suite is definitely part of ourlong-term roadmap.”— Terry Hayes, Texas Instruments

The Technical Information Solutions group at Texas
Instruments has selected Corel DESIGNER to play a
critical role in the development of its semiconductor
documentation.
The TIS organization needed a tool that would
integrate into the documentation workflow. The teams
rely on a XML-based content management system

Terry Hayes

OCCUPATION / PROFESSION: Products Publication Manager
COMPANY:

Texas Instruments

LOCATION:

Dallas, Texas

INDUSTRY:High Technology

PRODUCT:

CorelDRAW® Technical Suite(includes Corel DESIGNER®)

to publish, version, and repurpose productdocumentation. They needed a software package that
could easily edit and convert graphics into the various
file formats required for their publishing processes.
Corel DESIGNER was the ideal tool to meet thisrequirement.
The TIS teams receive source graphics from theengineering teams and repurpose this information tocreate the company's semiconductor productdocumentation.
The source graphics arrive in a variety of formats
including AutoCAD, Visio and WMF which need to beconverted for use in both print and Web documents.
The teams needed a tool that could be used to importa variety of graphic file formats, edit the graphics tobring them up to production standards, and theneasily export the final files to EPS and GIF
for print and Web publishing.
They also knew that in thefuture they will bestandardizing on a single fileformat, SVG, to meet theirTexas Instruments
publishing needs. As a result, any solution thedocumentation team picked today must also support
this powerful open standard graphics format.

better advantage of theircontent management
system.

“Corel DESIGNER was ideal for us because we neededa tool that would let us work with a single source fileand output to multiple file formats. Complete withsupport of SVG, Technical Suite is definitely part of ourlong-term roadmap,” says Terry.

In addition to theseworkflow efficiencies,
the TIS group at Texas
Instruments has also
enjoyed a reduction in theiroverall software licensing
costs by standardizing on asingle technical graphics solution that meets all theirconversion needs. Terry says he and the TIS teams
have been pleased with the entire process of working
with Corel and selecting Corel DESIGNER.

To support the TIS team's move to Corel DESIGNER asits standard graphics solution, Corel offered online
product Webinars and sent members of its professional
services group to provide on-site support and training
for Texas Instruments employees. “Corel was reallyattentive and gave us great support here in the office
to help us get our employees up to speed on the newsoftware. For example, when the Corel trainer realizedthat there was a macro for Corel DESIGNER could help
automate one of our processes, he sent it to me within
an hour of leaving our offices. It's things like this thatshow we made the right decision to go with CorelDESIGNER Technical Suite [now CorelDRAW TechnicalSuite] that over any other software or vendor,” says
Terry.
Corel DESIGNER is the right tool for the TIS group atTexas Instruments because it easily converts graphics
to all the file formats they need for their publishingprojects, including SVG. Now, the TIS group hasstreamlined its publishing processes and is taking“Of course, the affordable cost and export capabilities
were definitely attractive to us. But as an added
bonus, we've found Corel to be extremely flexible andeasy to work with. In fact, we've really felt like we've
had a true partner through this entire process.”

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