Xait

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Xait AS
Company type Private
Industry Software
Content Management Systems
Founded2000;24 years ago (2000)
Headquarters Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway
Products Content Management, Proposal software Configure, price and quote and Collaborative Real-time Editors
Website xait.com

Xait (pronounced "excite" [1] ) is a software development company, specializing in Web-based database services. The company provides its customers with software for document publishing and collaboration. Its product, XaitPorter, [2] [3] is a collaborative-writing [4] software and is used by clients worldwide to create bids, proposals, financial reports, contracts and other business critical documentation. In Norway, the majority of all Oil operators use XaitPorter for writing their drilling license applications. [5] At the 22nd licensing round in Norway, 100% of the oil & gas operator licenses on Norwegian continental shelf were awarded to XaitPorter clients. [6] The company has been ISO/IEC 27001 certified since 2016, [7] and has since received re-certification the following years. [8]

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Xait is headquartered in Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway with a sales and support office in Austin, Texas, United States.

Managed Collaborative Authoring Process

The Managed Collaborative Authoring Process is a document creation technique and term invented by Xait in 2001 by which a structured and controlled collection of tasks and events create repetitive business value through quality, efficiency and security improvements, when applied to a group of writers, reviewers and/or approvers. [9]

The reuse of documentation and a means to improve the processes surrounding this has been an issue since the late-1980s – early-1990s, when wordprocessing was embraced by the masses as the main tool for document production. David M. Levy wrote a paper on this back in 1993, highlighting some of the issues regarding document reuse. "The world, though continually changing, is changing incrementally. Much remains the same (unchanged) at any one time, at least at the granularity of description we typically care about. This means that documents only need to be updated incrementally; and incremental updating is more easily achieved when existing material is reused. [10] "

Allowing the company to structure and control the rate and quality of the re-use of content, as well as keeping in line with compliance and security, gives an approach for Best practice when reusing content.

XaitPorter is currently one of the commonly used document collaboration software packages that is in line with the managed collaborative authoring process. [11]

History

Early years

The company was founded in 2000 in Stavanger. Xait first started developing a content management system called XaitExposure and a customer relationship management product called XaitExonerate. In 2002 however, the company announced collaborative writing software called Publish-As-You-Go, [12] later renamed XaitPorter.

Recent years

In 2016, [13] Xait received investment from the Nordic venture fund Viking Venture, resulting in an ownership stake of 43%. On December 16, 2019, [14] Xait was awarded 10.8 million NOK by the Norwegian Research Council to improve quality and efficiency in the RFP to production lifecycle. In 2020, [15] Xait acquired BlueprintCPQ, a provider of enterprise-class configure, price and quote software worldwide. With the acquisition, Xait added Configure, price and quote (CPQ) software to its solution offering. In 2021, [16] Xait did their second acquisition with Privia, a worldwide provider of capture and proposal management-specific solutions to the government contractor market.

Awards

Technology

Customers

The company's customers include:

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