Return on Investment for the Vasont CMS

The Vasont CMS provides enterprises of all sizes with a valuable return on investment (ROI), saving them time and money. Here are actual returns our clients have achieved:

• Faster time to market: By using Vasont to manage, reuse, and locate content, clients have reduced editorial timelines as much as 80% in as little as three months, allowing products to reach the market faster.
• Do more with less: Vasont's ability to automate many repetitive and complex tasks have enabled clients to produce many more publications without adding staff members. At one client site, 10 employees using Vasont created the same volume of content in the same timeframe that previously took 22 employees.
• Reduced editorial cycles: After implementing Vasont's automated workflow, it revealed to a client that their writers were spending more time coordinating the editorial cycles than they were spending on writing. So, they reduced the number of steps to write a topic from 61 steps to 5 steps, significantly eliminating administrative work for the writers.
• Compressed production cycles: Using the Vasont CMS, clients have seen dramatic productivity gains in their DTP cycles. Production cycles have decreased from 2 weeks to 1 day.
• Faster publishing cycles: By automating their online help publishing processes using the Vasont CMS and its WebWorks extension for delivering technical documentation to their customers, as well as for delivering internal departmental guidelines to their staff members, this client improved their productivity from producing 5 online help systems in 8 hours to 8 online help systems in 2 hours.
• Interconnected review cycles: Vasont's Collaborative Review package allowed the inclusion of staff from management and marketing to provide their feedback simultaneously on content developed by the tech docs team. The review cycle was more comprehensive without adding time to the process.
• Quick creation of new revenue streams: Clients have created new manuals in less than six weeks from concept to printed book without additional editorial work by repurposing their content in Vasont.
• More accurate content: Because content is maintained as a single instance in Vasont, clients averaged 71% reuse and experienced a higher level of accuracy in their publications.
• Minimized translation costs: Vasont has saved organizations millions of dollars in translation costs because the system prevents the same content from being repeatedly translated. Because less content is being translated, translation cycles have been reduced by up to 80%.
• Accelerated translation cycles: By implementing Vasont's automated workflow, a client reduced their translation cycle times from 8 weeks to 8 days.
• Lower demands on customer support services: Vasont enabled a client to provide more complete and intuitive content in their online documentation and training, and create a more self-service environment for their customers, resulting in less calls to their help desk and saving them millions of dollars.
• Expanded reach in the market: Products have reached new and broader audiences because Vasont delivers content to multiple publishing channels faster and cheaper. Clients found it easy to add to their deliverables by creating new online knowledge centers, PDF deliverables, print and CD publications.

Many clients saw their ROI in half the time they originally estimated. In less than one year, the cost benefits from using Vasont's enterprise CMS paid for itself.