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Vasont users drastically reduce duplicate content, reporting
improved productivity, cost savings, and time-to-market
A recent study conducted by Vasont Systems found that customers
using the Vasont Content Management System achieve an average
of 71 percent content reuse. The Vasont Content Management System
enables organizations to consolidate and manage multilingual
content — such as technical documentation, business information,
product manuals, and reference materials — as a single
source for maximum component-level reuse and multi-channel delivery.
This percentage illustrates that Vasont customers reduce their
content management load to less than one-third of the volume
of content they managed prior to using Vasont.
Vasont users’ substantial content reuse resulted in time
savings in content creation, revisions, delivery, and translation.
One client cut their production time for technical documentation
down from eight weeks to one week. Because Vasont stores each
piece of unique content only once, duplicate content is eliminated,
enabling clients to reap significant savings in time and money.
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One client stores 228,416 “Sources” components in
Vasont. Only 46,043 are unique pieces of content; the remainder
being duplicates. Those 46,043 unique “Sources”
are reused 182,373 times – an 80 percent reuse rate.
Without Vasont, this client managed each of the 228,416
“Sources” individually, even though many were the
same. Eliminating duplicates and managing only unique content
freed authors to focus on developing new content and publishing
timely and accurate documentation.
Content reuse varies from organization to organization depending
on how its content is written and structured. Vasont enables
users to store “chunks” of content at any granularity
level that is most useful for an organization’s editorial
process. For example, one organization may prefer to work with
content at the chapter level, while another finds the paragraph
level to be more efficient. One of the strengths of the Vasont
Content Management System is that it can be flexible with the
granularity of content, enabling maximum reuse in any situation.
According to the study, content reuse
also varies by industry. Technology companies such as software
developers have been found to achieve an average of 70 percent
content reuse, while manufacturing companies achieve approximately
93 percent content reuse. That means that manufacturing companies,
on average, manage only 7 percent unique content and reuse this
existing content to create the balance of their material, saving
them hours of time in the creation and revision process.
“Many organizations have no idea how much duplicate content
they have or how much time they spend rewriting similar content,”
said Richard Schiding, CEO of Vasont Systems. “When content
is stored in Vasont’s repository, duplication is automatically
detected so that no unique piece of content is stored more than
once. Vasont’s Content Reuse Report gives users information
about how much less content they are managing through Vasont’s
content reuse capabilities, resulting in a substantial return
on investment.”
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