Content Rules, Inc.

Data Not Documents

By treating content as data, rather than documents, most of the problems inherent in monolithic documents are remedied.

10 Ways an SCM Optimizes Your CDS

There are many reasons why a component structured content management (SCM) system is superior to using a Microsoft Word document for managing your Company Core Data Sheet (CDS or CCDS). We touched upon some of the reasons in our previous blog post, The CDS is Dead! Long Live the CDS!

Who Owns My Content and Why Isn’t It Me?

Using component-based structured content authoring and having a robust reuse strategy is the only way to produce pharma content at scale. It’s how you produce accurate content efficiently across the enterprise. It’s how you deliver the right content to the right place at the right time, such as when you

What Is a Reuse Map?

A reuse map is a blueprint for planned content reuse. Planned content reuse means that you identify ahead of time exactly which pieces of content will be reused in a specific output. With planned content reuse, authors do not have to do anything to make the reuse happen. The planned

To Chunk or Not to Chunk? 3 Questions to Help You Decide

A question came up recently in a conversation about structured authoring and a migration into a component content management system: “If we’re not going to reuse this content, and it is always entirely unique, do we still need to chunk it into components?” The short answer is … it depends.