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Competitive Documentation Analysis

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Project Owner

Martina Waller

Competitor Products

OpenOffice.org/StarOffice	Microsoft Office	WordPerfect Office	SoftMaker Office	GNOME Office	KOffice
Writer	Word	WordPerfect	TextMaker	AbiWord	KWord
Calc	Excel	QuattroPro	PlanMaker	Gnumeric	KSpread/KChart
Impress	PowerPoint	Presentations	Presentations	-	KPresenter
Draw	-	-	(vector drawing integrated in TextMaker)	(GIMP/Inkscape)	Karbon14/Krita
Base	Access	(Paradox)	DataMaker	Gnome-DB	Kexi
Math	-	-	Editor for math. formulas	-	Kformula
Windows, Unix, Linux, (OS X)	Windows, OS X	Windows	Windows, Linux	Windows, Unix, (OS X)	Unix, Linux

Other competitor products that were not analyzed are:

• iWork and Apple Works from Apple
• Ability Office from Ability Software
• Applixware from Vista Source
• ONE from e-press
• Lotus SmartSuite from IBM (Lotus)
• Papyrus from R.O.M. Logicware
• ThinkFree Office from ThinkFree Office
• Mariner Pak from Mariner Software

For further information look at Comparison of office suites in Wikipedia

Analysis Criteria

• Documentation types:

  to get an overview of how much documentation is designed for being printed and how much documentation is designed for online use and to see what different types of documentation are existing (help, manuals, tutorials, training courses, videos, tips and tricks ...)

• Search functions

  to have a closer look at the different search functionalities in online Help and printed documentation (index, glossary, chapter headings ...)

• Information types

  There are four different information types: instructional, conceptual, referential and examplary information.

• Visualization
• Navigation
• Contents organization

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