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Camtasia

Camtasia is TechSmith's screen recording and video-editing application for creating instructional videos, software demonstrations, tutorials, narrated training media, and polished visual communications. It belongs in TechSmith and learning-media workflows because it connects recording, editing, audio, callouts, and publication into a practical production tool.

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is Microsoft's collaboration, chat, meeting, calling, and teamwork platform for communication, file sharing, channels, webinars, and Microsoft 365-connected collaboration.

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MS Word

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word-processing application for business documents, templates, styles, review workflows, forms, reports, and professional content production within Microsoft 365.

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Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is Adobe's professional PDF application for creating, editing, combining, reviewing, signing, protecting, and publishing reliable documents. In this portfolio it supports technical documentation, document review, forms, and business-ready file delivery across Adobe, technical writing, and productivity workflows.

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SAP SD - Sales and Distribution

SAP Sales and Distribution is a business productivity tool or professional application used to create, manage, analyze, or communicate information.

It is commonly used to produce, manage, communicate, or analyze business information in professional environments.

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Atlassian Confluence

Atlassian Confluence is a collaborative knowledge-base and documentation workspace used by teams to create, organize, review, and share information.

  • Relevant to technical writing when it is used for internal documentation, product knowledge, runbooks, requirements notes, and team-authored reference content.
  • Its strongest homes are Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Requirements/Agile documentation, and a limited Skill 18 collaboration/workflow role.

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CP/M

CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Digital Research, Inc. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations and were migrated to 16-bit processors.

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HTML

HTML is the standard markup language for structuring web pages and web application content. It defines semantic elements, forms, links, media, and document structure.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is Adobe's raster image-editing and compositing application for retouching, layout assets, image correction, and professional visual production. In this taxonomy it supports graphic design, learning media, documentation visuals, and branded content development.

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Generative AI

Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence focused on systems that create text, images, code, audio, video, and other new content from learned patterns in data.

In professional knowledge work, it supports drafting, summarization, research synthesis, software assistance, content development, and automation when paired with clear governance and human review.

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Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is Adobe's eLearning authoring tool for responsive courses, software simulations, interactions, and training content. It remains a current Adobe learning product and belongs in Adobe, instructional design, and technical training contexts.

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Microsoft Windows Server

Microsoft Windows Server is Microsoft's server operating-system family for enterprise infrastructure, identity and access services, file and print services, application hosting, virtualization, management, security, and hybrid/cloud-connected server environments.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is Adobe's raster image-editing and compositing application for retouching, layout assets, image correction, and professional visual production. In this taxonomy it supports graphic design, learning media, documentation visuals, and branded content development.

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MS OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is Microsoft's digital note-taking application for organizing notes, meeting content, research, screenshots, task information, and shared knowledge capture.

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MS Project

Microsoft Project is Microsoft's project planning and scheduling application for tasks, dependencies, timelines, resources, milestones, and project status communication.

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MS SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is Microsoft's collaboration and content-management platform for team sites, document libraries, permissions, lists, pages, intranet content, and workflow-enabled information sharing.

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Articulate 360

Articulate 360 is the vendor ecosystem for building, reviewing, and publishing workplace eLearning. It brings together authoring tools such as Storyline 360 and Rise 360, review workflows, Content Library 360 assets, and LMS-oriented publishing for formats such as SCORM and xAPI.

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MS SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is Microsoft's enterprise relational database platform for transactional systems, reporting databases, stored procedures, security, integration, and business application data management.

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Salesforce

Salesforce.com Inc. is a global cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though best known for itscustomer relationship management (CRM) product, Salesforce has also expanded into the "social enterprise arena" through acquisitions. It is currently ranked the most innovative company in America by Forbes magazine, as well as number 7 in Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2014

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MS Visio

Microsoft Visio is Microsoft's diagramming application for process maps, flowcharts, network diagrams, organization charts, system diagrams, and visual documentation.

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Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud platform for compute, storage, networking, identity, security, application hosting, data services, and enterprise cloud infrastructure.

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MS Word

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word-processing application for business documents, templates, styles, review workflows, forms, reports, and professional content production within Microsoft 365.

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MS Word

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word-processing application for business documents, templates, styles, review workflows, forms, reports, and professional content production within Microsoft 365.

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Articulate 360

Articulate 360 is the vendor ecosystem for building, reviewing, and publishing workplace eLearning. It brings together authoring tools such as Storyline 360 and Rise 360, review workflows, Content Library 360 assets, and LMS-oriented publishing for formats such as SCORM and xAPI.

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Python

Python is a general-purpose programming and scripting language used for automation, data processing, application development, tooling, and integration work. It belongs under Programming, Scripting & Markup because it directly represents code-writing and automation capability.

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Git

Git is a free, open-source distributed version control system used to manage commits, branches, merges, change history, source repositories, and collaborative revision workflows.

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Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory is Microsoft's enterprise directory service for domain-based identity management, authentication, authorization, users, groups, computers, Group Policy, and Windows access control.

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ISO/IEC/IEEE 26514 - Information for Users

ISO/IEC/IEEE 26514 is the primary recruiter-facing record for the software and systems information-for-users standards family.

This consolidated record preserves the portfolio value of the related 26511, 26512, 26513, and 26515 family topics: information-management planning, acquirer/supplier expectations, testing and review, agile documentation, lifecycle maintenance, and user-focused information design.

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Litmos

Litmos is a cloud-based learning management system for delivering, managing, tracking, and reporting on corporate training. It is commonly used for employee onboarding, compliance, partner training, customer education, and skills development.

Litmos belongs under Learning Management Systems because it is a true LMS platform focused on learning delivery, administration, and reporting.

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WinBatch

WinBatch is a Windows scripting and automation tool used to automate desktop tasks, administrative workflows, file operations, application control, and repetitive business processes.

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uPerform

uPerform is a just-in-time training and performance support platform for creating and delivering software training content at enterprise scale.

It is especially useful for technical enablement because authors can record procedures and publish guides, videos, and step-by-step simulation materials for application rollouts and workflow support.

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GitHub

GitHub is a Git repository hosting and collaboration platform used for repositories, branches, pull requests, issues, discussions, code review, documentation, and change tracking across software and technical content workflows.

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SAP MM - Material Management

SAP Materials Management is a business productivity tool or professional application used to create, manage, analyze, or communicate information.

It is commonly used to produce, manage, communicate, or analyze business information in professional environments.

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Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe FrameMaker is a structured authoring and long-form publishing tool used for complex technical documentation, reuse-oriented content, and print/PDF publishing. It belongs prominently in Adobe and technical writing because it represents enterprise-scale authoring rather than general word processing.

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Atlassian Confluence

Atlassian Confluence is a collaborative knowledge-base and documentation workspace used by teams to create, organize, review, and share information.

  • Relevant to technical writing when it is used for internal documentation, product knowledge, runbooks, requirements notes, and team-authored reference content.
  • Its strongest homes are Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Requirements/Agile documentation, and a limited Skill 18 collaboration/workflow role.

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