White papers, case studies, technical articles, Web content, blog posts and newsletters all go into your marketing mix. With good research, good interviews, good structure and good writing, you can educate, convince and land new customers.

You want your story out there, and you want it to be persuasive to your prospects. We help our clients tell their story through content that does the persuading for them.

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Representative Samples, by Vertical Market

[Open]  wireless and telecom
Qualcomm Incorporated

For Qualcomm's Employee Communications group, venTAJA has conducted interviews and written technical articles highlighting innovative technologies evolving in different business units. Topics include mobile commerce, product launches, spectrum usage, wireless technology in healthcare, corporate R&D projects and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

The One with the Coolest Toy WinsGetting to the Internet of ThingsNew Kids on the Wireless Block

Qualcomm Innovation Network

In the Qualcomm Innovation Center's (QuIC's) Web Technologies initiative, engineers have greatly enhanced the mobile Web experience for users through improvements to the open source WebKit browser and V8 JavaScript engine. They hired venTAJA to absorb the technology story, then turn it into a series of technology benefit white papers for several different audiences.

Handling Mobile Web Pages Better Developing Richer Web-based Apps



Xiam Technologies

Xiam's personalization technology allows wireless carriers to personalize the mobile Web experience for each individual subscriber. To lay out the business case for Xiam, the company engaged venTAJA to write a business-benefit white paper focused on carriers' need to please their wireless customers.

Make it Easy for Me

Xancom - VoIP School Notification System
"Xancom"

School systems are adopting notifications systems to automate the sending of messages home to students and their families, and  Xancom (pseudonym) has built a hybrid VoIP/TDMA notification system. The Sales team needed a paper that would address the frequently asked question, "How fast can your product call?" and they engaged venTAJA to write a technology overview for school district IT managers considering the service.

How Fast Can You Call?



[Open]  mobile applications
Brew Mobile Platform

In launching its Developer Network Web site, the Brew® Mobile Platform marketing team sought to reach two disparate audiences: developers unfamiliar with Brew or programming in general who need an introduction to the platform, and veteran developers ready to dive in and write code. The team hired venTAJA to write content for both audiences, including technical news articles for new developers, case studies to spotlight successes, and What and Why descriptions of new features and how developers can take advantage of them.

L&T Ports App to Brew Mobile PlatformWhat and Why - Remote Invocation


Qualcomm Developer Network

As part of its ongoing effort to build strong relationships with mobile application developers, Qualcomm and Brew Managed Services conducted a pricing study. With a major developer and publisher of mobile games, they analyzed the effect of pricing changes on volume and revenue, then engaged venTAJA to turn the results into a well-documented business overview that demonstrated the company's dedication to developers' financial as well as technical success.

"How Can I Price My Games to Get More Revenue?"

Intertek NSTL

Intertek NSTL provides testing services to mobile application developers. When it commercialized its own internal tool as appRELAY Test Center,the company hired venTAJA to write a hybrid, business- and technology-focused white paper on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. venTAJA also created Web and e-mail marketing content to roll out the service to new prospects and existing customers. In the first month of syndication, over 2,000 visitors downloaded the paper.

Making Mobile App Testing EasierWeb and E-Mail Marketing Content

Qualcomm Developer Network

Along with relaunching the Brew Mobile Platform®, Qualcomm relaunched the newsletter and portal for its developer community. The marketing team took advantage of John White's familiarity with the platform and his contacts on the Brew MP Engineering staff for Web and newsletter content that spoke to the main concerns of mobile app developers: how to use the tools, how to optimize apps and how to make money.

"Write app. Optimize. Publish. Get paid. Repeat." • Qualcomm-SouthEnd ilomilo Case Study"


[Open]  medical devices and life sciences
Qualcomm Incorporated

At the outset of its LifeCOMM initiative, Qualcomm engaged venTAJA for a technical article on the business model and market opportunity in wireless healthcare and telemedicine. Interviewee Paul Hedtke describes the need for a value chain of providers wireless connecting the patient to different levels of health care professionals .

The Nurse Is In. (...Your Phone.) Wireless-enabled Health Condition Management

Tanner EDA

Tanner makes electronic design automation (EDA) software used to design, lay out and verify analog integrated circuits in applications including medical devices and optics. As part of an ongoing marketing effort, Tanner hired venTAJA to interview customers and write case studies around successful implementations of its tools for use as Web content and in trade publications.

Proteus (medical devices)MEMSIC (accelerometers)NoblePeak (optics)

Marco Ophthalmic

To summarize and promote the results of a study among 12 optometry centers, Marco engaged venTAJA for a paper highlighting the technical benefits of the increase in accuracy. The paper also explained the business benefits, including practice growth and EMR (electronic medical records), of implementing the ARK Autorefraction System.

  Variable Pupil Size Measurement and Accuracy Study Results (with Marco edits)

Tarari

In its critical first two years, Tarari's sales team faced the task of educating prospects on the benefits of accelerating high-performance computing applications. venTAJA wrote a series of "caselets" - brief, anonymous success stories describing real-world use cases of Tarari's technology - including applications in life sciences and telecommunications.

Life Sciences caseletTelecom caselet


[Open]  semiconductor
Tarari

Tarari, a fabless semiconductor company, develops software, FPGAs and ASICs that accelerate compute-intensive processes such as XML parsing and digital media encoding. For critical design wins, its sales teams required persuasive, detailed descriptions of the acceleration technology and benefits, so Tarari engaged venTAJA to draw the information from the heads of engineers and product managers and create technology-benefit white papers.

T9000 ASIC Family Architecture (2.1MB) Acceleration Algorithm Analysis

Tanner EDA

Tanner makes electronic design automation (EDA) software used to design, lay out and verify analog integrated circuits in applications including medical devices and optics. As part of an ongoing marketing effort, Tanner hired venTAJA to interview customers and write case studies around successful implementations of its tools for use as Web content and in trade publications.

Proteus (medical devices)MEMSIC (accelerometers)NoblePeak (optics)


[Open]  software
Tanner EDA

Tanner's line of electronic design automation (EDA) products faces stiff competition from entrenched, high-end, high-priced tool sets. To help its growing user base continue to use its software while transparently taking advantage of industry-standard verification features in a competing product, Tanner developed a plug-in around the competing tool's published interface. Tanner engaged venTAJA to write a technical article and e-mail to announce the new product to its customers and the press.

 • Interoperability article

Nik Software

Nik's Dfine product reduces noise and optimizes detail in digital images. In updating the documentation, the product manager wrote a draft of the user guide and quick start guide, then asked venTAJA to edit the documents professionally and take them to their final, production versions.

 • Dfine 2 User Guide (2.6MB)

Lindows

LindowsOS is a desktop Linux that prides itself on ease of use. Lindows.com engaged venTAJA to write and lay out the procedures required for the most common tasks faced by new users. The result was a successful fusion of FAQ and QuickStart with step-by-step descriptions of what users could do with LindowsOS and how they could do it. The guide accompanied all copies of LindowsOS sold at retail.

 • QuickStart Guide (1.3MB)

Stac

Stac's VP of marketing wanted to provide chronically understaffed journalists and evaluation teams with all the data needed to understand his product's advantages over competing products. He engaged venTAJA to flesh out these advantages, and the resulting reviewer's guide helped guide evaluators to conclusions favorable to Stac's technology.

Replica Reviewer's Guide


[Open]  video and digital media
Tarari

With IBM, Tarari developed an appliance featuring its Encoder Accelerator card and IBM's blade servers and workstations to perform high-speed encoding of digital media files. Tarari then engaged venTAJA to synthesize multiple information sources into a technical overview of the offering, including problems solved, component descriptions and benefits to the user.

Digital Media in a Box


Qualcomm Innovation Network

In the Qualcomm Innovation Center's (QuIC's) Web Technologies initiative, engineers have greatly enhanced the mobile video experience through improvements to HTTP adaptive streaming, HTML5 and operating-system-level optimizations. They hired venTAJA to absorb the technology story, then turn it into a series of technology benefit white papers for a developer audience.

The Truly Mobile Web - Streaming Multimedia More Smoothly



MediaFLO USA

MediaFLO delivers television content to handsets and cell phones across the USA from a broadcast operations center in California. Executives and engineers conduct tours to showcase the operations center, and MediaFLO engaged venTAJA to record, standardize and write a combined technology overview/operations center tour script that reconciled the technical nature of the tour with the diversity of audiences.

MediaFLO USA Operations Center Tour Script



Nefsis Corporation

Nefsis combines the high quality of boardroom video conferencing products with the ease of use and SaaS-based collaboration tools of Web conferencing products. As the company ramped up its content effort for a product launch and public relations push, it engaged venTAJA to write technical articles, how-to's, papers, customer success stories and positioning statements around the business advantages of using video conferencing.

When is HD not High Definition? (User Education)Sharing Media Files in a Video Conference (How-To)Video Conferencing and HIPAA (Technical Article)Understanding Video Conferencing Latency (White Paper)




[Open]  industrial, manufacturing and supply chain
Moog Industrial

As part of a shift in focus towards broad, deep, partner-style engagements with its customers, Moog turned to venTAJA Marketing to perform hours of interviews and write a thought-leadership paper followed by a series of application-specific papers. The campaign generated leads among machine designers in power generation and flight simulation.

 • A Collaborative Approach to Motion Control Solutions (1.4MB)

Lionbridge Technologies

Facing a spike in interest from manufacturing companies, Lionbridge engaged venTAJA to write a business-benefit white paper explaining how managers can fit the translation function into their already tight supply chains. The paper includes industry research, data and examples of how managers can use Lionbridge Web-based tools to mix manufacturing and translation successfully.

Translation and Manufacturing: How Managers Can Successfully Mix the Two  


[Open]  financial services and real estate development
Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle is a global financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate services and investment management. When a senior vice president in JLL's consulting group launched a campaign around the notion of the "value manager," she worked with venTAJA to articulate the concept in a thought-leadership paper published by Emerald Group. The resulting piece helped the company define the new role and explain how existing corporate real estate managers can become value managers.

 • Value Management: Raising Strategic Relevance of CRE

Intuitive Analytics

While financial analysts and bond specialists spend much of their careers factoring risk into bond investments, Intuitive Analytics offers some of the first tools to marry risk management to bond structuring. They drafted a white paper describing a number of hypothetical case studies, including graphics and figures, then engaged venTAJA to edit the white paper, improving layout, readability, structure and flow.

 • Risk Management and Bond Structuring

Lionbridge Technologies

Lionbridge has developed a following for its translation and localization services among finance, banking and insurance companies. To explain how they cater to these customers, they engaged venTAJA to write a business-benefit white paper that also detailed the company's use of cloud computing and SaaS to follow the sun in the translation process.

Local Content, Global Control: Simplifying Translation in Insurance and Financial Services  


[Open]  web/IT infrastructure and management
Tumbleweed Communications

Financial networks, healthcare providers and government agencies rely on Tumbleweed's SecureTransport for the safe file transfer of billions of dollars in sensitive transactions daily, often in clustered environments. To standardize Tumbleweed's recommendations on why and how best to cluster its servers, they engaged venTAJA to interview internal subject matter experts and write a proprietary technical overview piece (internal use only) that explained dominant clustering technologies and implementation choices.

 

Coradiant

Coradiant's network appliances offer real-time visibility into the user's experience of web applications. In the evolution of their partner program, Coradiant worked with venTAJA to develop a partner quick reference guide, placing valuable product information at the fingertips of its channel partners. Coradiant also engaged venTAJA to write case studies on customers in its education segment.

Partner Program GuideCase Study - Educational

MediaFLO USA

MediaFLO delivers television content to handsets and cell phones across the USA from a broadcast operations center in California. Executives and engineers conduct tours to showcase the operations center, and MediaFLO engaged venTAJA to record, standardize and write a combined technology overview/operations center tour script that reconciled the technical nature of the tour with the diversity of audiences.

MediaFLO USA Operations Center Tour Script



Alphablox

Alphablox sells infrastructure software that helps decision-makers identify and take the most profitable action. Then engaged venTAJA to write a technology-benefit white paper to supplement their corporate presentation on the role of their InLine Analytics in delivering profitability to front-line decision-makers in real time.

AAS Distributed Servers White Paper


[Open]  cloud computing
ServiceNow

ServiceNow's novel SaaS-based approach to architecture and pricing has made it stand out in the landscape of IT service management (ITSM). To capitalize on audio content, the company engaged venTAJA to edit webinar transcripts into customer success stories for use in lead generation, advertising, Web copy and blog posts.

No Training Needed (REI)Sleeping Better at Night (Juniper Networks)

RightScale

RightScale's Cloud Management Platform automates the process by which companies manage their applications and data in the cloud. RightScale engaged venTAJA to create case studies and draft technical articles highlighting its customers' technology objectives and how they solved them with RightScale technology.

Pearson Manages Digital Learning in the CloudMOL Global Manages Friendster in the CloudDo-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management - Is It Worth It?



Intertek NSTL

Intertek NSTL provides testing services to mobile application developers. When it commercialized its own internal tool as appRELAY Test Center,the company hired venTAJA to write a hybrid, business- and technology-focused white paper on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. venTAJA also created Web and e-mail marketing content to roll out the service to new prospects and existing customers. In the first month of syndication, over 2,000 visitors downloaded the paper.

Making Mobile App Testing EasierWeb and E-Mail Marketing Content


[Open]  education and professional development
Cleveland State University - Reading First Ohio

A joint effort by Cleveland State University, University of Akron and John Carroll University, Reading First Ohio is a literacy improvement program for students in kindergarten through third grade. Funded by the federal Reading First initiative in No Child Left Behind, Ohio's program focuses on "teaching teachers how to teach reading" and on scientifically based reading research (SBRR). Reading First Ohio engaged venTAJA to write a white paper debunking several myths about its methods and requirements.

 • Reading First Ohio - Overcoming Common Myths

Apperson Education Products

Apperson's education products include scanners for grading standardized test forms. Among their customers are hundreds of school districts tasked with aggregating student test scores and reporting on them for No Child Left Behind. They engaged their public relations firm, Purematter, to help position their optical mark recognition (OMR) technology against that of their competitors. Purematter engaged a former journalist to write a lead-generation piece, but the resulting paper fell short of Apperson's expectations, so venTAJA rewrote the white paper to focus on the problems of Apperson's customers: the flow of assessment data from classroom- to district-level.

Data-Driven District Administrators Use OMR to Enhance Accountability

The University of Akron - e-Read Ohio

As part of its role in Reading First Ohio, the center at University of Akron has created content for professional development (training) of literacy teachers. The courseware takes eLearning to new heights, helping instructors statewide apply scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in assessing, planning, and teaching in accordance with Ohio's English-Language Arts standards. The Akron center engaged venTAJA for an organization backgrounder and annual report.

 • e-Read Ohio Organization Backgrounder

St. Augustine High School

The school's monthly newspaper, Saints Scene, goes out to all students' families, alumni, neighboring businesses and residents. Its mission is to report on campus events, developments and personalities. John White of venTAJA has written several feature newspaper articles, press releases and development/advancement pieces for editorial staff and school administrators, including articles picked up by the local press.

It's a Cross Country Thing Intersession: Dozens of New Ways to Learn Freshman Salsa Lessons in the Gym 2009-10 Annual Report Volleyball: How's Our Wood Taste? Student Internships Paying Off (San Diego Union-Tribune)


[Open]  localization and translation
Lionbridge Technologies

As Lionbridge's sales team identified several industries of strategic interest, it needed persuasive marketing pieces to demonstrate its expertise in localization in those vertical markets. The company's marketing team drew on venTAJA's long experience in managing localization projects to commission a series of business-benefit white papers around the Lionbridge translation solution.

  Translation in Hospitality, Travel, Tourism and Leisure (HTTL)

Qualcomm - Brew Mobile Platform

Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform allows developers to build apps for mobile devices. Since many of these apps have a worldwide audience, the company engaged venTAJA to write a technology overview that explains the technical aspects of localizing (translating) them for users in other languages.

Localizing a Brew MP Application

Venga Corp

Venga Corp builds custom localization teams dedicated to each client's international Web, software and documentation projects. The company engaged venTAJA to convert its presentation on how to manage localization in the agile development environment from slide deck format into a "red paper" (pending publication) for distribution from its website and to customers, prospects and industry influencers.

Localization in the Agile Environment



CyraCom International

CyraCom International, the second-largest provider of over-the-phone interpreting in the U.S., has also developed a great deal of expertise in localizing eLearning projects, especially those based on XML content. They hired venTAJA to turn their knowledge into a technology guide to educate managers of Web, eLearning, documentation and software projects on the goals, practices and problems involved in localization.

Localizing eLearning Systems and Websites - A Manager's Guide

Cogen SA

To kick off its content marketing effort, Cogen engaged venTAJA to create localization newsletter articles. The content focused on the problems Cogen's customers face, such as translation risk, simplified cost estimates and terminology management, and described the company's services in terms of those problems. Newsletter open rates reached as high as 40%.

"When you manage your translations, are you also managing your terminology?"

Remedy Corporation

As Remedy's consulting international product manager, John White of venTAJA condensed a wide variety of real-life scenarios and published the answers to Frequently Asked Questions. This document helped Remedy's overseas sales organizations understand and demonstrate the company's commitment to taking worldwide markets seriously.

 • International Product FAQ

Lionbridge Technologies

Language service provider Lionbridge teamed with LISA, the Localization Industry Standards Association, for a webinar on designing and localizing for the Chinese market. The presentation covered issues of business and infrastructure as well, so Lionbridge engaged venTAJA to capture the webinar as a pair of white papers.

  Doing Business in China: How Western Companies Develop their StrategyDoing Business in China: Designing and Localizing Websites for the Chinese Market


[Open]  network security
Tarari

Tarari applied its acceleration technology to security at the enterprise network gateway, where it could offload deep packet inspection of large files from the CPU to specialized hardware. Through partnerships with vendors of intrusion prevention, anti-spam and anti-virus products, Tarari marketed an accelerated unified threat management (UTM) platform, and engaged venTAJA for a business-benefit white paper on the product, as well as a technical benefits white paper on the use of XML in the intelligent network.

"Accelerating Unified Threat Management" • "Mainstream Networking Embraces XML"

Parapet Security

Parapet Security, a consultancy specializing in security for enterprise networks and call centers, worked with venTAJA in the creation of its initial brochure and Web content to describe its services and launch the company.

 • Services Overview


[Open]  analytics and retail
Lionbridge Technologies

Lionbridge identified retailers as a target market for its translation and localization services. They engaged venTAJA to write a business-benefit white paper focused directly on the business problems that retail marketing managers face in delivering translated versions of products and promotional materials.

High Volume, Short Turnaround. Making Translation Work in Retail  


Alphablox

Alphablox sells infrastructure software that helps decision-makers identify and take the most profitable action. Alphablox engaged venTAJA to create a business-benefit white paper on the scalability of analysis servers, to be used late in the sales cycle.

InLine Analytics White Paper (5MB)

Trialpay

In building up its library of educational and SEO content, Trialpay engaged venTAJA for a blog post on conversion tactics based on those used by leading online retailers. Trialpay's primary customers, software developers, can benefit from embedding these tactics in their software, business and customer service practices. Trialpay's additional research stretched the original three points into seven.

Retail Conversion Tactics for Software Developers



[Open]  marketing, social media and branding
Various Blogs

John White of venTAJA has guest-posted on several writing and marketing blogs around the Web, on topics ranging from freelance writing to social media.

Facebook Takes Over Genealogy?  • Pardon Me, Your Brand is Leaking  • Does My Company Need a White Paper?  • This is Why You're a Social Media Loser  • Ask These Questions Before Starting Your White Paper (4 parts)



Representative Samples, by Format

[Open]  white papers
[Open]  • business benefit white papers
Xiam Technologies

Xiam's personalization technology allows wireless carriers to personalize the mobile Web experience for each individual subscriber. To lay out the business case for Xiam, the company engaged venTAJA to write a business-benefit white paper focused on carriers' need to please their wireless customers.

Make it Easy for Me

Apperson Education Products

Apperson's education products include scanners for grading standardized test forms. Among their customers are hundreds of school districts tasked with aggregating student test scores and reporting on them for No Child Left Behind. They engaged their public relations firm, Purematter, to help position their optical mark recognition (OMR) technology against that of their competitors. Purematter engaged a former journalist to write a lead-generation piece, but the resulting paper fell short of Apperson's expectations, so venTAJA rewrote the white paper to focus on the problems of Apperson's customers: the flow of assessment data from classroom- to district-level.

Data-Driven District Administrators Use OMR to Enhance Accountability

Alphablox

Alphablox sells infrastructure software that helps decision-makers identify and take the most profitable action. Alphablox engaged venTAJA to create a business-benefit white paper on the scalability of analysis servers, to be used late in the sales cycle.

InLine Analytics White Paper (5MB)

Intertek NSTL

Intertek NSTL provides testing services to mobile application developers. When it commercialized its own internal tool as appRELAY Test Center,the company hired venTAJA to write a hybrid, business- and technology-focused white paper on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. venTAJA also created Web and e-mail marketing content to roll out the service to new prospects and existing customers. In the first month of syndication, over 2,000 visitors downloaded the paper.

Making Mobile App Testing EasierWeb and E-Mail Marketing Content

[Open]  • technology benefit white papers
Tarari

Tarari, a fabless semiconductor company, develops software, FPGAs and ASICs that accelerate compute-intensive processes such as XML parsing and digital media encoding. For critical design wins, its sales teams required persuasive, detailed descriptions of the acceleration technology and benefits, so Tarari engaged venTAJA to draw the information from the heads of engineers and product managers and create technology-benefit white papers.

T9000 ASIC Family Architecture (2.1MB) Acceleration Algorithm Analysis

Alphablox

Alphablox sells infrastructure software that helps decision-makers identify and take the most profitable action. Then engaged venTAJA to write a technology-benefit white paper to supplement their corporate presentation on the role of their InLine Analytics in delivering profitability to front-line decision-makers in real time.

AAS Distributed Servers White Paper

[Open]  • white paper series - content marketing campaigns
Qualcomm Innovation Network

In the Qualcomm Innovation Center's (QuIC's) Web Technologies initiative, engineers have greatly enhanced the mobile Web experience for users through improvements to the open source WebKit browser and V8 JavaScript engine. They hired venTAJA to absorb the technology story, then turn it into a series of technology benefit white papers for several different audiences.

Handling Mobile Web Pages Better Developing Richer Web-based Apps



Plantronics
Plantronics
Plantronics

As part of a content marketing campaign designed around Plantronics' wireless headsets, integrated marketing agency Purematter engaged venTAJA for a series of lead-generation white papers. The papers guide readers through the steps of discovering, considering and making the business case for wireless headsets in contact centers.

The Manager's Guide to Wireless in the Contact Center (register)



[Open]  • thought-leadership papers
Moog Industrial

As part of a shift in focus towards broad, deep, partner-style engagements with its customers, Moog turned to venTAJA Marketing to perform hours of interviews and write a thought-leadership paper followed by a series of application-specific papers. The campaign generated leads among machine designers in power generation and flight simulation.

 • A Collaborative Approach to Motion Control Solutions (1.4MB)

Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle is a global financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate services and investment management. When a senior vice president in JLL's consulting group launched a campaign around the notion of the "value manager," she worked with venTAJA to articulate the concept in a thought-leadership paper published by Emerald Group. The resulting piece helped the company define the new role and explain how existing corporate real estate managers can become value managers.

 • Value Management: Raising Strategic Relevance of CRE

[Open]  • backgrounders
Cleveland State University - Reading First Ohio

A joint effort by Cleveland State University, University of Akron and John Carroll University, Reading First Ohio is a literacy improvement program for students in kindergarten through third grade. Funded by the federal Reading First initiative in No Child Left Behind, Ohio's program focuses on "teaching teachers how to teach reading" and on scientifically based reading research (SBRR). Reading First Ohio engaged venTAJA to write a white paper debunking several myths about its methods and requirements.

 • Reading First Ohio - Overcoming Common Myths

The University of Akron - e-Read Ohio

As part of its role in Reading First Ohio, the center at University of Akron has created content for professional development (training) of literacy teachers. The courseware takes eLearning to new heights, helping instructors statewide apply scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in assessing, planning, and teaching in accordance with Ohio's English-Language Arts standards. The Akron center engaged venTAJA for an organization backgrounder and annual report.

 • e-Read Ohio Organization Backgrounder


[Open]  case studies and customer testimonials
Tanner EDA

Tanner makes electronic design automation (EDA) software used to design, lay out and verify analog integrated circuits in applications including medical devices and optics. As part of an ongoing marketing effort, Tanner hired venTAJA to interview customers and write case studies around successful implementations of its tools for use as Web content and in trade publications.

Proteus (medical devices)MEMSIC (accelerometers)NoblePeak (optics)

ServiceNow

ServiceNow's novel SaaS-based approach to architecture and pricing has made it stand out in the landscape of IT service management (ITSM). To capitalize on audio content, the company engaged venTAJA to edit webinar transcripts into customer success stories for use in lead generation, advertising, Web copy and blog posts.

No Training Needed (REI)Sleeping Better at Night (Juniper Networks)

RightScale

RightScale's Cloud Management Platform automates the process by which companies manage their applications and data in the cloud. RightScale engaged venTAJA to create case studies and draft technical articles highlighting its customers' technology objectives and how they solved them with RightScale technology.

Pearson Manages Digital Learning in the CloudMOL Global Manages Friendster in the CloudDo-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management - Is It Worth It?



Coradiant

Coradiant's network appliances offer real-time visibility into the user's experience of web applications. In the evolution of their partner program, Coradiant worked with venTAJA to develop a partner quick reference guide, placing valuable product information at the fingertips of its channel partners. Coradiant also engaged venTAJA to write case studies on customers in its education segment.

Partner Program GuideCase Study - Educational

Tarari

In its critical first two years, Tarari's sales team faced the task of educating prospects on the benefits of accelerating high-performance computing applications. venTAJA wrote a series of "caselets" - brief, anonymous success stories describing real-world use cases of Tarari's technology - including applications in life sciences and telecommunications.

Life Sciences caseletTelecom caselet


[Open]  technical articles
Brew Mobile Platform

In launching its Developer Network Web site, the Brew® Mobile Platform marketing team sought to reach two disparate audiences: developers unfamiliar with Brew or programming in general who need an introduction to the platform, and veteran developers ready to dive in and write code. The team hired venTAJA to write content for both audiences, including technical news articles for new developers, case studies to spotlight successes, and What and Why descriptions of new features and how developers can take advantage of them.

L&T Ports App to Brew Mobile PlatformWhat and Why - Remote Invocation


Tanner EDA

Tanner's line of electronic design automation (EDA) products faces stiff competition from entrenched, high-end, high-priced tool sets. To help its growing user base continue to use its software while transparently taking advantage of industry-standard verification features in a competing product, Tanner developed a plug-in around the competing tool's published interface. Tanner engaged venTAJA to write a technical article and e-mail to announce the new product to its customers and the press.

 • Interoperability article

Qualcomm Incorporated

At the outset of its LifeCOMM initiative, Qualcomm engaged venTAJA for a technical article on the business model and market opportunity in wireless healthcare and telemedicine. Interviewee Paul Hedtke describes the need for a value chain of providers wireless connecting the patient to different levels of health care professionals .

The Nurse Is In. (...Your Phone.) Wireless-enabled Health Condition Management


[Open]  newsletter and web content
Qualcomm Developer Network

Along with relaunching the Brew Mobile Platform®, Qualcomm relaunched the newsletter and portal for its developer community. The marketing team took advantage of John White's familiarity with the platform and his contacts on the Brew MP Engineering staff for Web and newsletter content that spoke to the main concerns of mobile app developers: how to use the tools, how to optimize apps and how to make money.

"Write app. Optimize. Publish. Get paid. Repeat." • Qualcomm-SouthEnd ilomilo Case Study"

The University of Akron - e-Read Ohio

As part of its role in Reading First Ohio, the center at University of Akron has created content for professional development (training) of literacy teachers. The courseware takes eLearning to new heights, helping instructors statewide apply scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in assessing, planning, and teaching in accordance with Ohio's English-Language Arts standards. The Akron center engaged venTAJA for an organization backgrounder and annual report.

 • e-Read Ohio Organization Backgrounder

Cogen SA

To kick off its content marketing effort, Cogen engaged venTAJA to create localization newsletter articles. The content focused on the problems Cogen's customers face, such as translation risk, simplified cost estimates and terminology management, and described the company's services in terms of those problems. Newsletter open rates reached as high as 40%.

"When you manage your translations, are you also managing your terminology?"

Brew Mobile Platform

In launching its Developer Network Web site, the Brew® Mobile Platform marketing team sought to reach two disparate audiences: developers unfamiliar with Brew or programming in general who need an introduction to the platform, and veteran developers ready to dive in and write code. The team hired venTAJA to write content for both audiences, including technical news articles for new developers, case studies to spotlight successes, and What and Why descriptions of new features and how developers can take advantage of them.

L&T Ports App to Brew Mobile PlatformWhat and Why - Remote Invocation



[Open]  business overviews
Qualcomm Developer Network

As part of its ongoing effort to build strong relationships with mobile application developers, Qualcomm and Brew Managed Services conducted a pricing study. With a major developer and publisher of mobile games, they analyzed the effect of pricing changes on volume and revenue, then engaged venTAJA to turn the results into a well-documented business overview that demonstrated the company's dedication to developers' financial as well as technical success.

"How Can I Price My Games to Get More Revenue?"


[Open]  technology overviews and application notes
Tarari

With IBM, Tarari developed an appliance for its Encoder Accelerator card and IBM's blade servers and workstations to perform high-speed XML security and deep packet inspection. Tarari then engaged venTAJA to synthesize multiple information sources into a technical overview of the offering, including problems solved, component descriptions and benefits to the user.

XML Security in a Box


CyraCom International

CyraCom International, the second-largest provider of over-the-phone interpreting in the U.S., has also developed a great deal of expertise in localizing eLearning projects, especially those based on XML content. They hired venTAJA to turn their knowledge into a technology guide to educate managers of Web, eLearning, documentation and software projects on the goals, practices and problems involved in localization.

Localizing eLearning Systems and Websites - A Manager's Guide

Ressmoore PX
Ressmoore EDA

Ressmoore (pseudonym) wanted to describe the nature of parasitic effects in analog IC design and the company's technical approach to dealing with them. They engaged venTAJA to interview engineers and write application notes around their parasitic extraction tools.

Modeling Parasitics in Sub-Micron IC Designs



Xancom - VoIP School Notification System
"Xancom"

School systems are adopting notifications systems to automate the sending of messages home to students and their families, and  Xancom (pseudonym) has built a hybrid VoIP/TDMA notification system. The Sales team needed a paper that would address the frequently asked question, "How fast can your product call?" and they engaged venTAJA to write a technology overview for school district IT managers considering the service.

How Fast Can You Call?


Qualcomm - Brew Mobile Platform

Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform allows developers to build apps for mobile devices. Since many of these apps have a worldwide audience, the company engaged venTAJA to write a technology overview that explains the technical aspects of localizing (translating) them for users in other languages.

Localizing a Brew MP Application

Tumbleweed Communications

Financial networks, healthcare providers and government agencies rely on Tumbleweed's SecureTransport for the safe file transfer of billions of dollars in sensitive transactions daily, often in clustered environments. To standardize Tumbleweed's recommendations on why and how best to cluster its servers, they engaged venTAJA to interview internal subject matter experts and write a proprietary technical overview piece (internal use only) that explained dominant clustering technologies and implementation choices.

 


[Open]  blog posts
Various Blogs

John White of venTAJA has guest-posted on several writing and marketing blogs around the Web, on topics ranging from freelance writing to social media.

Facebook Takes Over Genealogy?  • Pardon Me, Your Brand is Leaking  • Does My Company Need a White Paper?  • This is Why You're a Social Media Loser  • Ask These Questions Before Starting Your White Paper (4 parts)



Trialpay

In building up its library of educational and SEO content, Trialpay engaged venTAJA for a blog post on conversion tactics based on those used by leading online retailers. Trialpay's primary customers, software developers, can benefit from embedding these tactics in their software, business and customer service practices. Trialpay's additional research stretched the original three points into seven.

Retail Conversion Tactics for Software Developers



[Open]  corporate communications
Tarari

When Tarari's CEO was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award, the VP of Marketing team chose venTAJA to draft the nomination entry. The resulting document followed the questionnaire closely and balanced its focus succinctly (1000 words) among the company's history, technology, staff and involvement in the community. venTAJA also wrote Tarari's entry for the Fast Company award.

Ernst and Young Nomination • Fast Company Entry

Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm consistently places in Training Magazine's Top 125 companies for employer-sponsored workforce training and development. Its Learning Center chose venTAJA to abstract information from dozens of departments, employee portals, course catalogs and internal reports, and to draft a competition entry (internal use only) to solidify its ranking.

 


[Open]  employee communications
Qualcomm Incorporated

For Qualcomm's Employee Communications group, venTAJA has conducted interviews and written technical articles highlighting innovative technologies evolving in different business units. Topics include mobile commerce, product launches, spectrum usage, wireless technology in healthcare, corporate R&D projects and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

The One with the Coolest Toy WinsGetting to the Internet of ThingsNew Kids on the Wireless Block

Stac

The Human Resources team at Stac conceived the company's newsletter, and the Technical Publications group published it quarterly. On the company's tenth anniversary, John White interviewed executives and founders to write an employee newsletter article with anecdotes and recollections going back to the company's inception.

A Look Back on Ten Years of Stac


[Open]  brochures, product briefs and sales collateral
Coradiant

Coradiant's network appliances offer real-time visibility into the user's experience of web applications. In the evolution of their partner program, Coradiant worked with venTAJA to develop a partner quick reference guide, placing valuable product information at the fingertips of its channel partners. Coradiant also engaged venTAJA to write case studies on customers in its education segment.

Partner Program GuideCase Study - Educational

Tarari

Tarari's marketing team prided itself on rapidly delivering product information for use by account managers, journalists, Web marketing and analysts. The team relied on venTAJA's ability to translate technical advantages into user benefits and entrusted venTAJA with writing the content for a series of product briefs and datasheets on several lines of acceleration products.

XTM Product Brief Publish/Subscribe Product Brief

Intertek NSTL

Intertek NSTL provides testing services to mobile application developers. When it commercialized its own internal tool as appRELAY Test Center,the company hired venTAJA to write a hybrid, business- and technology-focused white paper on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. venTAJA also created Web and e-mail marketing content to roll out the service to new prospects and existing customers. In the first month of syndication, over 2,000 visitors downloaded the paper.

Making Mobile App Testing EasierWeb and E-Mail Marketing Content

Parapet Security

Parapet Security, a consultancy specializing in security for enterprise networks and call centers, worked with venTAJA in the creation of its initial brochure and Web content to describe its services and launch the company.

 • Services Overview


[Open]  webinar/presentation conversions
Tarari

Like many technology companies, Tarari discovered early on that its most valuable content was inside the heads of its engineers and product managers. While these people rarely have time to stop and write a paper, they are constantly creating and delivering presentations. Tarari engaged venTAJA to record and convert presentations into white papers, getting rich technical content out of people's heads and into print.

 • Hardware Accelerator Method and Experience

Lionbridge Technologies

A senior vice president at Lionbridge created a series of presentations on trends in translation/localization and delivered them at several conferences and webinars. As a way of making this valuable content available through even more channels, the marketing team engaged venTAJA to convert the presentations and webinars into thought-leadership white papers for broader audiences in the industry.

  The Future of Localization - A Varied Spectrum of Service Models

Venga Corp

Venga Corp builds custom localization teams dedicated to each client's international Web, software and documentation projects. The company engaged venTAJA to convert its presentation on how to manage localization in the agile development environment from slide deck format into a "red paper" (pending publication) for distribution from its website and to customers, prospects and industry influencers.

Localization in the Agile Environment



Lionbridge Technologies

Language service provider Lionbridge teamed with LISA, the Localization Industry Standards Association, for a webinar on designing and localizing for the Chinese market. The presentation covered issues of business and infrastructure as well, so Lionbridge engaged venTAJA to capture the webinar as a pair of white papers.

  Doing Business in China: How Western Companies Develop their StrategyDoing Business in China: Designing and Localizing Websites for the Chinese Market


[Open]  feature articles
St. Augustine High School

The school's monthly newspaper, Saints Scene, goes out to all students' families, alumni, neighboring businesses and residents. Its mission is to report on campus events, developments and personalities. John White of venTAJA has written several feature newspaper articles, press releases and development/advancement pieces for editorial staff and school administrators, including articles picked up by the local press.

It's a Cross Country Thing Intersession: Dozens of New Ways to Learn Freshman Salsa Lessons in the Gym 2009-10 Annual Report Volleyball: How's Our Wood Taste? Student Internships Paying Off (San Diego Union-Tribune)


[Open]  technical documentation and user guides
Qualcomm - Brew Mobile Platform

Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform enables developers to build apps for mobile devices. The engineering group engaged venTAJA to write technical documentation, including references and technology guides, for its audience of mobile application developers.

Excel Add-in for SDK (Tool Reference)Memory and Heap (Technology Guide)Localizing a Brew MP App (Technology Guide)

Nefsis Corporation

Nefsis combines the high quality of boardroom video conferencing products with the ease of use and SaaS-based collaboration tools of Web conferencing products. As the company ramped up its content effort for a product launch and public relations push, it engaged venTAJA to write technical articles, how-to's, papers, customer success stories and positioning statements around the business advantages of using video conferencing.

When is HD not High Definition? (User Education)Sharing Media Files in a Video Conference (How-To)Video Conferencing and HIPAA (Technical Article)Understanding Video Conferencing Latency (White Paper)



Nik Software

Nik's Dfine product reduces noise and optimizes detail in digital images. In updating the documentation, the product manager wrote a draft of the user guide and quick start guide, then asked venTAJA to edit the documents professionally and take them to their final, production versions.

 • Dfine 2 User Guide (2.6MB)

Lindows

LindowsOS is a desktop Linux that prides itself on ease of use. Lindows.com engaged venTAJA to write and lay out the procedures required for the most common tasks faced by new users. The result was a successful fusion of FAQ and QuickStart with step-by-step descriptions of what users could do with LindowsOS and how they could do it. The guide accompanied all copies of LindowsOS sold at retail.

 • QuickStart Guide (1.3MB)


[Open]  faq and q&a
Remedy Corporation

As Remedy's consulting international product manager, John White of venTAJA condensed a wide variety of real-life scenarios and published the answers to Frequently Asked Questions. This document helped Remedy's overseas sales organizations understand and demonstrate the company's commitment to taking worldwide markets seriously.

 • International Product FAQ

Qualcomm - BREW

Qualcomm localizes the Web site for its BREW development platform in the languages of its most important developer communities. venTAJA managed the localization process and provided a written Q&A to Global by Design, a leading Web globalization resource, on the advantages and difficulties in creating and maintaining a global Web presence.

 • Global by Design Q&A


[Open]  what and why
Brew Mobile Platform

In launching its Developer Network Web site, the Brew® Mobile Platform marketing team sought to reach two disparate audiences: developers unfamiliar with Brew or programming in general who need an introduction to the platform, and veteran developers ready to dive in and write code. The team hired venTAJA to write content for both audiences, including technical news articles for new developers, case studies to spotlight successes, and What and Why descriptions of new features and how developers can take advantage of them.

L&T Ports App to Brew Mobile PlatformWhat and Why - Remote Invocation



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