Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL)offers a quick and inexpensive test to help you understand the value of a content reuse strategy for your specific document collection. It’s called the Content Reuse Assessment. It allows you to analyze a significant cross-section of your document collection and get back objective reuse statistics, as well as specific identification of duplicate and “near duplicate” instances. The Assessment includes a Summary Report with reuse potential metrics for your document set, as well as a detailed analysis report displaying location and content of exact and close matches.

DCL has found most document collections to contain more than 50% redundancy, meaning you’re maintaining twice as much content as you need to… at twice the expense. It also means that you’re likely updating the same content multiple times, you’re risking excess errors creeping in, and you’re reinventing text that you’ve already written.

Learn more about the DCL Content Reuse Assessment.