Simplify Content Complexity with Quark Publishing Platform and AI

Low-code / No-code Structured Xml-based Authoring 

Next-generation Microsoft 365 & web browser authoring options

In QPP, subject-matter experts and technical writers can work in the tools they already know – including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – or directly in a web browser. They don’t need to learn XML schemas or content modeling, because XML metadata and tagging are automatically generated behind the scenes, making structured authoring simple and intuitive. Authors now benefit from real-time threaded comment replies for clearer collaboration, and automated component creation that turns marked inline content into reusable components as they work.

Plus, design-rich Quark components (such as charts, disclosures and objectives) can be reused directly inside Microsoft PowerPoint for pitch decks, sales presentations, and research reports. And with recent enhanced Excel integration, QPP now preserves text styling and formatting within linked data tables, giving teams more accuracy and layout flexibility during publishing.

Xml Schema Flexibility 

Quark Smart Content? DITA? DocBook? S1000D? Be free to use any XML schema

Why restrict yourself and put your eggs in one basket? With Quark, you have the freedom to use any XML schema, depending on your technical or business document requirements. This includes our own simplified and customizable Quark Smart Content schema which has the XML data context to allow AI platforms such as OpenAI to talk to them. You can even convert your content from one schema to another in QPP. Learn more about XML structured authoring.

Powerful Component Content Management System (CCMS)

Ensure your content is compliant, on-brand and ready for all channels

A single source-of-truth repository for your content components that makes content reuse, collaboration and personalization easy, fast and accurate. Plus, content automation and seamless workflows let you create once and publish everywhere across all channels and formats. Learn more about Quark’s CCMS.

New Batch Component Operations extend these workflows even further by allowing teams to update statuses, assignments, and checkouts across multiple components at once, drastically reducing manual overhead.

Intuitive, Role-based User Interface 

Dashboards and user views personalized to your team’s roles

Content leaders, architects, subject-matter experts, authors, reviewers and more all benefit from a modern user experience just for them, so they can concentrate on their tasks down to component and section levels without distraction. Learn more about role-based working in QPP v4.0.

Teams now benefit from workflow accelerators, including batch component actions such as Pin All and Auto-Pin for faster content assembly, as well as side-by-side version comparison to review and validate updates with greater confidence – improving auditability and reducing editorial cycles.

Artificial intelligence & machine learning

Future-proof your content strategy and maximize automation

Scale your content operations, save time and costs, and keep pace with digital transformation using AI and ML. Our partnership with OpenAI ushers in embedded AI for content search & discovery, suggestive authoring, natural language generation, automated workflows and analytics, giving you a true product and service differentiator to take to market. Read more about AI in content automation.

To help enterprises govern this growing use of AI-assisted workflows, QPP now includes an AI Credit Pack Usage Dashboard, offering tenant-level visibility into credit consumption, usage trends, and remaining balance to be informed before credits run low to avoid workflow disruption.

Translation, regionalization & personalization

Create localized and translated documentation with automated publishing

Global standards, codes and regulations are constantly changing and add to content complexity, especially when language translations need to be factored in. Quark seamlessly links your primary language and compliance components to localized and personalized variations that can be branched off and managed within the CCMS, automating publishing on a global scale. Learn more about content localization.

Preview content in every format from your authoring tool

See exactly how your content looks before publishing

Whether it’s a standard operating procedure, data sheet or product label, a revolutionary feature in QPP allows your team to get a fast and exact preview of how your content will look in multiple formats and channels like HTML5, PDF and mobile app before approving it for publishing, improving visibility and collaboration for all. Learn more about omnichannel publishing.

Now, with business-rule-driven Preview & Publishing configuration, you can be sure that only the correct, approved content component versions appear in preview and final publishing. Writers and reviewers can now validate structure, content flow, and compliance before release, reducing rework and reinforcing governance for highly regulated outputs such as credit reports, regulatory statements, and policy documentation.

Component-level content intelligence & analytics

Track content performance in real time and see true content ROI

See how your documents, sections and content components are consumed by the end readers as you assemble them, with visual analytics in your Microsoft Word or web browser authoring tool. Use these actionable insights to fine-tune your content plan and even determine what content to reuse, repurpose and retire. These insights are a reflection of the effectiveness of Quark’s RAPs, designed to guide teams to build repeatable, optimized content flows for any use case. Combine consumption and production metrics to see the true return on investment of your content and know if you content is really working for you. See what your ROI could be with our content automation calculator.