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June 3, 2022
What’s new in autocarevip.com?
Wow, many new and exciting updates are taking place within the autocarevip.com site this year. In our previous blog post, we talked about the new content added to the Vehicle Configuration Database (VCdb). This month, we will highlight a few new features that content professionals can take advantage of while working within the autocarevip.com site. These new features include “Notifications”, “New Coverage”, “Discussions” and “Cases.” “Notifications” and “New Coverage” allow you to review and take advantage of the latest and greatest content that can help you get your products to market faster. Have questions about how to use these databases? You may not be alone. Use “Discussions” and “Cases” to engage the community of like-minded individuals to help improve your knowledge and the content that drives the industry.
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April 21, 2022
Revolutionize Your Digital Assets with the Latest Best Practices Guide
April 5, 2022, marked the beginning of the 90-day review for the industry to take a look at the last update of the Digital Asset Best Practice document, with July 4, 2022, for its next release. The Digital Asset Best Practice document was released on the autocare.communifire.com site in the technology standards space. Once this file is released it will be moved to the Auto Care Digital Hub. In this blog post, I will provide a brief history of the Digital Assets Best Practice Guide, what has been updated and a few benefits that you will be able to take advantage of with this latest release.
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March 16, 2022
We’ve got you covered. Here’s how we provide our VCdb coverage.
The Auto Care Standards team has been asked by the subscriber community how we’re able to get the data into the Vehicle Configuration database (VCdb) at a faster pace year after year. The subscriber community has asked for more vehicles, more vehicle configurations and more countries. Despite the increasing demands for more data, this is being accomplished with “over 40,000 change requests processed in the February 2022 publication for the VCdb,” said Milt Grimes, lead ACES analyst, Auto Care Association. In this blog post, we will focus on the change requests for new coverage to answer this question.
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February 9, 2022
Everything You Need to Know about the New ACES and PIES Online Course
Wondering if the Auto Care Association’s new online introductory course to ACES and PIES data standards is right for you? In this blog post, I’ll walk you through everything there is to know about our e-learning course, including: What Data Standards are used for; Who can benefit from the course; What the Introduction to ACES and PIES course covers; Frequently asked questions; and more.
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January 24, 2022
Heavy-Duty Data Reign in the Wild West of Content
The Auto Care Association’s Technology team is pleased to launch a new monthly Auto Care Tech blog series titled, “What the Tech? This series will cover topics related to Data Standards.
I'm Jonathan
I help reduce cost out of the overall supply chain by improving the quality of standards data we provide to the industry and develop new processes that help get data to our members faster.
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