Who We Are

We offer services in Technical Writing, User Documentation, Policy and Procedure Writing, Engineering Documentation, Corporate Governance Documentation, Business Analysis, DRP/BCP documentation, Instructional Design and Training(CBT and Instructor Led), OH&S Documentation.

Maralan Pty Ltd trading as Maralan Documentation was founded in 1997 and is Australian owned and operated.

We operate across Australia and internationally.

What We Do

We are technical writing specialists who produce a range of documentation including IT user manuals, on line help, general office documentation, policy and procedure guides, corporate governance documentation, DRP and BCP documentation.

We analyse workflow and business processes.

Our work takes us into diverse areas and a variety of organisations. Our personnel have a broad experience and skills base.

Our assignments are based in areas as diverse as IT, HR, OH&S and Logistics.

We also work in Engineering, Manufacturing and Product Development Documentation areas.

We conduct training needs analyses.

Our Staff

To achieve success in our assignments it is necessary that our staff have more than just technical expertise. They need to be able to engage and establish working relationships with client personnel at senior through junior levels. They need to be able to work independently and project manage their assignments. They need to be able to work in the client's environment with minimal disruption to normal business, to rapidly absorb information, to accurately assess the target audience and to then to package their material such that the information is effectively disseminated.

Our staff have a spread of expertise beyond technical skills with backgrounds in information technology, HR, safety,
education/learning and business analysis.

Tools Used

Our skill is in getting to know you and your systems, the way you do business, quickly.
We then discuss with you the best tools for the job that you ask us to do.
Within the I.T. and instructional design areas those tools might include the use of products and technologies such as Visio, Macromedia Flash, Director, Authorware, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe Framemaker (PDF), GoLive, PeopleBooks (PeopleSoft), Oracle Tutor, Weblite, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, HDK, RoboHelp, HTML, SGML and XML. Or we'll work with the comfortable tools you already have.

Methods

Where the client utilises an established methodology, Maralan personnel adhere to its disciplines and requirements.
In other cases, Maralan staff adopt a structured approach based on a documentation and training development life cycle consisting of the following phases:

Project Establishment > Analysis and Design > Prototype > Development > Acceptance > Handover > Evaluation

Each phase consists of particular tasks, reviews and sign off steps. These are customised to suit the particular application and client requirements.

If we're involved in training and induction classes then delivery may be a combination of instructor led, classroom based tuition through to use of the finest interactive computer based training across your network or intranet or CD based for remote locations.

Assignments undertaken may be prior scoped, fixed price, time and materials or a combination.

Why Maralan ?

We assume end to end responsibility for development of your documentation or training requirements.

Our experience, choice of staff and methods based approach absolutely minimise risk for your organisation.




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