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This April saw the release of the 2016-17 version of Basic PAYE Tools (BPT), the free download application provided by HMRC to support businesses in making their mandatory on-line submissions to the Government Gateway. The product has seen many changes during Pennant’s seven year tenure as developers but none more so than this year. While to the estimated user group of 400,000 employers most of the screens and functionality have remained unchanged, the product’s database structure required a major overhaul to provide efficient implementation of the ongoing legislative changes applied to...

Author: Reeta Nye A year ago a customer from a Truck Manufacturing Company sat down with me to discuss their technical documentation requirements and what they wanted to be delivering to their customers over the next five years. They had performed an initial review into various specifications and had come to the conclusion that they should choose either S1000D or DITA. They wanted my opinion on these two specifications, including the differences, benefits and disadvantages to working with each. As a background both DITA and S1000D are specifications (not standards). The DITA specification...

Negotiating the S1000D project business rules and implementing a customer’s BREX into an existing production process creates a foundation of understanding between you and your customer at a level much more detailed and rich than any Statement of Work (SOW) can achieve. This blog reviews the benefits of implementing a customer’s BREX in three major categories: The BREX as Common Ground Your Customer’s Concerns A Path Forward I.  The BREX as Common Ground As a common source of reference, the BREX acts as the glue that binds a multi-company project together at the technical level. When the...

The use of S1000D for projects has a variety of benefits across various areas of the business. Each projects realization of benefits will depend on the project itself, its implementation strategy, and technology available to the project team. Area’s that you can expect to see some benefits are in: Data Planning and Management, Authoring and Delivery This first of a two part blog post, will cover the benefits that can be seen in Data Planning and Management (1) and Authoring (2): 1.   Data Planning and Management benefits S1000D is Based on the International standard ISO 8879 (SGML/XML...

The Defence Aeroskills Training Academy (DATA) at RAAF Base Wagga moved a step closer to achieving its vision of becoming Australia’s premier aviation technical training facility this week. The project took delivery of two synthetic training devices—the first of their type in Australia—which rank with the most up-to-date and innovative courseware in the world. DATA provides initial and postgraduate training for ADF aircraft-related and other technical trades in a military-focused environment. The training devices are an Integrated Avionics Maintenance Trainer (IAMT) and a Generic Flying...