Case Study: Detroit Diesel Corporation achieves faster ROI and improved content management with Vasont Systems

Vasont® Content Management System Provides a Return on Investment in Less than One Year

Detroit Diesel Corporation, a Daimler Company, needed to replace an outdated content management system that couldn’t keep up with its massive volume of technical documentation, limited staff resources, and integration needs with editing software. To manage more than 200,000 pages of content and tens of thousands of graphics across multiple departments and formats, the company turned to Vasont Systems and its Vasont Content Management System (CMS).

Vasont Systems implemented a component-based, multi-channel publishing solution that enabled Detroit Diesel to manage and reuse content once, publish in print, Web, CD-ROM, and other formats, and support multilingual documentation. The results included a payback in 11 months, more than $174,400 in outside savings, an estimated 60–70% productivity improvement in under three months, a 25% reduction in documentation cycle time, and a 40% increase in content volume managed in the system.

Detroit Diesel Corporation

Kevin Holland

Manager of Documentation and Publication Development