Case Study: Life Fitness cuts localization costs and speeds documentation with Bluestream XDocs DITA CCMS

Life Fitness - From Struggle to Success Story, From over budget & overdue to company front runners

Life Fitness, a leading manufacturer of fitness equipment, was struggling with its technical documentation processes. As their product lines grew more complex, their existing tools like InDesign made it difficult to manage content, meet deadlines, and stay within budget. Facing rising localization demands, the team sought a better solution, which led them to the vendor Bluestream and their XDocs DITA CCMS product.

Bluestream implemented the XDocs DITA CCMS, which involved converting content to DITA XML and deploying the new system. The results were transformative: the team slashed the time to add a new product line from eight weeks to two and reduced translation preparation from two weeks to under two hours. Measurably, Bluestream's solution saved Life Fitness an estimated $30,000 in the first year and cut translation costs from $7,500 per language to just $320 per language, while also enabling output to multiple digital formats for customers.

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