Content Automation Insights

S1 E2: AI-Powered, Data-Driven Automation for Client Reports & Fund Fact Sheets

Discover how leading asset managers use Quark to transform the creation and management of investment content - from client reports and fund fact sheets to regulatory documents. Learn how to aggregate data from multiple sources, automate data-rich content like tables and charts, streamline template formatting, and scale global compliance with ease.

S1 E1: Out-of-the-Box AI & New Adobe InDesign Integration for Enterprise Content Strategy Success

Discover Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) AI, powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, to automate content creation, enhance word choices, and streamline translations – no AI expertise needed. Plus, learn how Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI) integrates your custom AI models seamlessly, and how expanded Adobe InDesign support enables effortless layout design collaboration alongside QuarkXPress, eliminating reformatting hassles.

S3 E1: State of CCMS in Today's AI Era: IDC InfoBrief Sponsored By Quark Key Findings

In the first episode of series 3, Emerson is joined by guest speaker Rahel Anne Bailie, renowned author and Content Solutions Director at TWI, to unpack new insights from the IDC InfoBrief Sponsored By Quark, on the topic of CCMS and AI. They explore the top challenges of today's content teams in the Life Sciences, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Public Sector industries, as reported by over 600 technical writers, content strategists and other key stakeholders. Understand how and where CCMS adoption helps deliver improvements in document creation, workflow automation, omnichannel publishing and more. Plus, hear how organization’s are already charting a path to use AI for their own content strategies.

S2 E3: What’s Our Ideal Content Technology Strategy and Who Should Be Involved in Defining It?

Nailing the right global content strategy from the boardroom is one thing, but failing to investigate the technology you need to execute it can lead to diluted ROI, especially if not fully aligned with the business use case requirements. Guest speaker Max Swisher from Content Rules, a 30-year-old independent consultancy specializing in content technology strategies, joins regular Close the Content Loop hosts Emerson Welch and Sam Courtney to identify the pros and cons of the often-conflicting options available in today’s market. They highlight the important involvement of key stakeholders such as operations managers, content authors and even graphic designers in the project, discussing the daily challenges they each face and the consequences to their roles of not getting an enterprise content strategy right or worse still, doing nothing at all.

S2 E2: Why Are XML Schemas So Critically Important to Enterprise Content?

Are you totally confused by XML-based schemas, architectures and content structures? Why do they matter so much? Do we really have to learn and deal with XML schemas in our enterprise content strategy? In this episode Sam and Emerson are joined by Quark’s own Amit Sood – a veteran of structured content – to clear all the mist and fog around XML schemas and expose their true nature in them most simple language. They identify the different schemas available, when each one should be applied depending on the content type use case and all you really need to know about XML and taxonomies without having to go back to school.