Applies To
Software | Version |
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Acrolinx Server | 5.2 |
If you have an earlier server version, you can download an archived version of this article. |
Cost Savings Settings
If you use Acrolinx, you might want to know how much money your improved content quality saves you. Using your reporting data you can calculate your Acrolinx cost savings by looking at how many issues your users found and corrected with Acrolinx. After you calculate how much money each corrected issue type saves, you can assign the different issue types to cost savings categories.
To see the results in the cost savings dashboard, configure how Acrolinx uses your data to calculate the cost savings. Acrolinx provides an example configuration to help you get started.
To configure the cost savings dashboard, follow these major steps:
Configuring the Currency That's Used in the Cost Savings Dashboard
Configuring the Cost Savings Categories
You calculate your Acrolinx cost savings by looking at how many issues your users found and corrected with Acrolinx. You can categorize your cost savings based on the types of issues that could have cost you money. In the cost savings dashboard, the results are broken down by these cost savings categories.
For example, suppose that you translate your content into 10 different languages. Translators are paid per word, and the longer your texts are, the more expensive the translations are. If you use Acrolinx to ensure that your writers write shorter sentences, you can reduce the overall word count. With every word your writers save, you save money when translating the content. If you know how much each translated word costs, you can add this amount to a cost savings category.
To configure the cost savings categories, follow these steps:
Assigning Issue Types to Cost Savings Categories
After you have configured your cost savings categories, you must assign the different issue types to the relevant cost savings categories. You assign issue types to cost savings categories so that you can calculate the costs saved. Only the issue types that you assigned to cost savings categories are included when Acrolinx calculates the cost savings. Once you have assigned your issue types, your cost savings dashboard shows you the related cost savings broken down by your cost savings categories.
For example, suppose that you configured a cost savings category to calculate the cost savings you achieve in translations. Because translations are cheaper if the source content is shorter, you can assign all Acrolinx guidelines that help writers write shorter texts to this category. In this case, you might assign guidelines like sentence too long , avoid duplicates , or simplify word to this cost savings category.
To assign issue types to cost savings categories, follow these steps:
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