Automotive companies and OEM's must make information rapidly available in a wide array of languages to meet the needs of their global client base. SDL works closely with key industry players to manage the delivery of all corporate information into different languages

In the automotive industry, technically complex products must be made simple to sell, service and operate for millions of dealers, service centers and customers around the globe.

Increasingly automotive manufacturers need to tailor their product content to accommodate product variations and customizations to meet legal, language and cultural preferences and local customer preferences that may sway buyers to your brand or model.

Some auto manufacturers even produce customized owners manuals for dealer installed options. Yet the complexity and costs associated with supporting this extensive product variation, across dozens of countries, and keeping all this content up-to-date in an environment of constant change can be overwhelming.

Until now.

SDL accelerates global delivery of widely-varying, complex content

SDL’s global information management (GIM) solutions and services bring together all relevant content resources, across your content lifecycle – authoring through localization to publishing – to:

• Re-use approved technical content across multiple documents and delivery channels (e.g. Web, CDs and printed owners and service manuals)

• Speed content authoring processes, improving content consistency and quality and lowering process costs

• Build brand messaging consistency across all content and delivery mechanisms

• Leverage and re-use content created in any authoring environment, in any language – further exploiting existing information assets

• Streamline localization processes, through any combination of project in-sourcing or outsourcing

• Provide an enterprise-wide platform for rapid renewal of content wherever used

SDL is a founding member of SAE TopTec Documentation conference and SIG.