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A product cannot be used effectively without good usability design.
The performance of a software program cannot be its only goal; it must also be aesthetically pleasing.
Design is a priority for our company, it is important for the look and feel, it identifies and enhances our products.
More specifically, people find it simple to project themselves and embrace new ideas when usability is designed with them in mind.

It is on the strength of its experience in this project that the 4D CONCEPT teams are continually improving their developments and the CCMS DITA FACTORY roadmap, convinced that the need expressed by the PSA Group was not isolated.

Today, all the players in fields as varied as industry, digital services, publishing, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and many others can produce and publish their documentation in DITA standards, benefiting from a high level of expertise and a robust and complete tool.

La rédaction technique est une discipline à l’historique riche. Elle connaît depuis longtemps des avancées
techniques et technologiques surprenantes qui ont encadré son évolution dans le temps. Des prémices de la PAO jusqu’à la production documentaire

Le standard documentaire a également pour mission de rendre simple ce qui est complexe pour garantir la clarté de l’information, et supprimer tout risque ou besoin d’interprétation par les opérateurs de maintenance. De fait, l’objectif est de réduire les marges d’erreur, et d’augmenter la sécurité et la durée de vie des systèmes.

Naval Group chooses 4D Concept‘s software for the complete S1000D documentation chain: logistic data conversion, authoring, managing, publishing and viewers for end users (in submarines).

As part of the modernization of its on-board documentation (the car manual in the glove box), PSA entrusted 4D Concept with producing mobile apps for its Peugeot, Citroën and DS makes.

For their “localization” in Europe, an automotive global player simply wanted to use car-maker data that were available in SAE J2008 format (Recommended Organization Vehicle Service Information), and convert them into DITA-publishing-standard data.

ATEQ wanted, in 2018, to modernize its user documentation by linking the modularity of information to the modularity of its equipment, for greater flexibility and also to reduce production costs and translation costs.

Also wishing to modernize and optimize its document production process, Airbus Helicopters chose to work with 4D Concept by equipping the ADAM S1000D 4.1 documentary workshop for drafting and managing the technical documentation of its helicopters. The ADAM solution will make writing, managing and publishing different formats on different media easier and quicker.

In 2015, Lexis Nexis France, market leader in legal publishing in France, chose 4D Concept to launch a digital view offering for its Lexis eLivres ™books.

In 2015, the PSA Group wanted to change the editorial system producing user documentation for Peugeot, Citroën and DS vehicles, in particular to reduce translation costs (30 languages), and to enable the transition to digital technology (smartphone applications), in order to provide users with more relevant and customized content.

Founded in 1972, Le Point is one of the main weekly news magazines with reference information on political, economic, social, technological, sports, scientific, automotive and cultural news in France and around the world.

Michelin wanted to create more digital offerings, and streamline and modernize its information system.

Two projects were launched: the IT Project (Tourist Information) and the GM Project (the Michelin Guide).