The eXtyles Transition Team is highlighting third-party solutions that may be of interest to eXtyles customers as they explore alternative workflows. While our team has not fully vetted and does not endorse any third-party offering, we have communicated with a variety of vendors who provide tools and services that may align with eXtyles customer requirements. Many thanks to the team at Ictect for providing the information below. Click here to return to the eXtyles Transition Resource Hub overview.
Ictect
Updated 6.18.25
Business Overview and Relevant Offerings
Ictect brings Intelligent Content and Artificial Intelligence to your workflows with tools available on most desktops, such as Microsoft Word. We focus on improving publishing workflows by providing a better way to professionally edit, transform, and publish to multiple formats. We are a proud Microsoft Partner.
Ictect published a case study about replacing eXtyles at Denmark’s DJØF Publishing:
- Denmark’s DJØF Publishing replaces Inera’s eXtyles with Intelligent Content Tools (icTools) to modernize publishing workflows. See Ictect | Case Study — DJØF Publishing
- Ictect has a recorded version of webinar for publishers. icTools for replacing Inera eXtyles and Modernizing Publishing Workflow – Ictect | icTools for replacing Inera eXtyles and Modernizing Publishing Workflow
- Ictect is offering 10 hours of FREE access to icTools software for journal editing and production with their technical experts. This may be especially useful to organizations looking to replace Inera eXtyles and modernizing their workflow. You are welcome to bring your manuscripts for processing with icTools! See https://www.ictect.com/JATS. Please contact Ictect at [email protected].
Key Features and Functionalities: icTools
icTools, our flagship product with Microsoft Word and Office 365, is a software solution for document creation, formatting, compliance, automation, XML, and more. Like eXtyles, icTools is integrated within Microsoft Word and is used to create JATS, BITS, and STS compliant XML.
The links below will give more industry specific detail regarding icTools.
Customization Capabilities
While icTools offers many editorial and XML conversion features out-of-the-box, the software can be customized to very high degree including customizations for organization-specific:
- Cleanup Rules
- Styles
- Compliance checks (Standard and Publisher specific checks)
- XML conversion
- Track changes and comments, including collaboration with authors with tagged Word documents
- Formatting manuscripts using Microsoft Word or InDesign
- Crossref and PubMed integration
- Complex table formatting
- Any new features based on your workflow..
Deployment and Usage
The software is available as a SaaS product with Microsoft Word or Cloud-based. For Word to XML, XML to Word, and many other batch functions, Ictect also offers access via REST APIs.
Pricing Model
Ictect offers the software with subscription pricing models. The pricing model also includes one-time configuration with fixed-fee or using agile sprint format.