Paperless, cost effective, updateable, portable. The greatest thing since sliced bread - but thinner.

What exactly is a CD-ROM?

Well, it's an optical disc that can be read by a PC holds vast amounts of data. That data can be in the form of text, pictures (moving and still) and sounds (voice and generated). It can also hold the programs necessary to interpret the data and present it to the computer user in a useful and meaningful manner.

So, how would I use it?

Lucas Software saved a major motor manufacturer thousands of pounds in 1997 and made their lives a lot simpler into the bargain.

How?

A modern car has literally thousands of components and your garage mechanic needs to now how each part works and how it links to the rest of the car. (well, mine does anyway).

They used to send tons of paper based manuals to over 200 service centres around the country, several times a year.

That's a lot of paper and a lot of cost.

Introducing a new model means new manuals, for everybody.

We took hundreds of their technical bulletins for all of their product range and put them onto a single CD organised in a logical format (which they preferred).

Added to that, the facility to search the CD-ROM, on various criteria defined by the client and display the resulting information in a useful way gave them a value added product which they can now distribute in a quick and cheap fashion.

Everybody benefits. The client benefit. Their dealers benefit. If you are a customer, then you benefit.

Heaven forbid, but if your local garage had a fire and lost its entire stock of technical bulletins, no problem, a complete set would be in the post overnight.

Get the picture…

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