Our Vision: We believe that wiki-based technologies will be the future for documentation. Our Tools for Wiki-based Documentation extend the wiki-approach to work for technical documentation, project and process documentation and to involve traditional office users.
Our tools help everyone on the team to contribute their bit of information, and they keep track of the process.
Use Case I: Technical Documentation
Wikis are a great way of getting authors from beyond the technical writing teams involved. Our tools help technical writing teams to better manage the documentation process, improve communication between all participants in the documentation process, and the remove the requirement for complex, dedicated authoring tools.
Use Case II: Project and Process Documentation
Wikis have been used for documentation in projects for years. We help project manager to comply with regulatory requirements and company policies by adding better management and workflow tools to Confluence and produce properly formatted documents.
Use Case III: Involve Traditional Office Users
Wiki adoption among non-technical users is still lacking. We help with our tools to better interface with traditional text-processing software and bridge the gap for non-wiki users.
Why Scroll Wiki?
There are three main commercial benefits to bring Scroll Wiki to a large number of persons to an organization:
1. Simple tooling for the all authors
Scroll Wiki and Scroll Office as easy to use. Compared to other authoring solution, they are not built for just a few technical writers, but for the normal business user in mind.
2. Inexpensive tooling
Wiki-based documentation involves a large group of people in an organization. Therefore, Scroll Wiki and Scroll Office are offered at a significantly lower price than traditional, per-seat licensed authoring and documentation tools.
3. Re-use existing infrastructure
Our products are built on top of the most-popular Confluence wiki, which is already running in many companies. To get started with our products it is often as simple as installing installing our products with a few mouse clicks.
History
2002
First Use of Atlassian products
2004
First Idea about Scroll and Wiki-based Documentation
2007
Tobias and Stefan meet at Robert Bosch and start developing the Scroll Wiki Exporter plugin to export content from Confluence to DocBook XML.
2009
Foundation of K15t Software
Scroll Wiki Exporter 1.0 released with Export to PDF and DocBook XML.
2010
Scroll Office 2.0 released with export to MS Word 2007.
2011
Scroll Wiki Exporter 2.0 releases, now with exports to PDF, EPUB, EclipseHelp, static HTML.
Scroll Wiki EPUB exporter named "Best over-all plugin" at the Codegeist contest.
To be continued...