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SES Annual Conference 2026: from documents to decisions, the new life of a standard 

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For most of their history, standards have had a clear destination: the PDF. Write the content, reach consensus, and publish the document. Job done.  But the world that consumes standards has changed. Compliance is no longer primarily a human reading a document and making a judgment call. It is engineers’ querying requirements across a portfolio. It is procurement […]

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From documents to decisions: how structured authoring is changing what a standard can do 

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 There is a question that sounds almost too simple for a professional conference: what is a standard, actually? Not in a formal, definitional sense. In a practical one. What is it that a standards organization produces and hands to the world?  The instinctive answer is a document. A carefully structured, rigorously reviewed document. The result of months or

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A new season, a new balance: Sven Roosen on the road to the European Championships in Birmingham

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For decathlete Sven Roosen, 2026 feels like a fresh start. Not because his ambitions have changed, they remain sky-high, but because the way he views his sport has fundamentally shifted. After a year marked by physical setbacks and mental lessons, he begins the new season with a clear focus: build, enjoy, and trust the process.

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Fonto 8.16: Built for better collaboration and consistent output 

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Fonto 8.16 focuses on what matters most in day-to-day content creation: reliability, smooth collaboration, and a more intuitive review experience. This release builds on recent innovations like Suggestion Mode, refining them with real-world feedback to make workflows more predictable and efficient.  At the same time, we’re strengthening the foundation of the Fonto platform, from more robust concurrent editing and improved

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Fonto Why & How: Custom endpoint response validators

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With the release of Fonto 8.14 we’ve introduced a few helper functions that can help you create validator callback functions for your custom endpoints. And with those functions, we’ve also updated our documentation to help you set up your own custom connectors.  Creating your own custom connectors was something you could already do in your Fonto Editor instance. However, when using the CmsClient’s sendRequest method, you

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From documents to actionable knowledge: standards adoption in an AI-first world

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In a world where everyone feels compelled to put AI on the first slide, Patrice Canonne opened his recent webinar with a wink, and then got very real, very fast: standards are changing, and the organizations behind them need to modernize how standards are authored, structured, and delivered if they want to stay relevant (and useful).  “The

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Fonto Why & How: Custom Fonto Review Navigators 

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Since the release of Fonto 8.14, we have introduced a few new API’s in Fonto Editor which allow you to create your own navigators for the Fonto Review add-on. Previously, you could only register your own annotation types, and they would all be navigated by the same default Fonto Review navigator. With this blog post we’d like to highlight some of the possibilities these new APIs give you.  Previously, all annotation

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Fonto 8.15: Suggest, Review, and Perform at Scale

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Fonto 8.15 is a milestone release that brings reviewing and collaboration to the next level, while continuing to strengthen the performance, stability, and cohesion of the Fonto platform. Fonto Editor & Review  We are beyond excited to announce the initial release of Suggestion Mode. We have worked tirelessly for over a year to add a new mode that

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Why pharma teams are drowning in submissions and what to do about it – Part two

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Welcome to part two of this blog series. In the first part we’ve explored the current state of the pharma industry and how the regulatory submissions process has been impacted. We’ve looked at KPIs that sponsors and CROs can monitor to ensure regulatory submission success, and we’ve analyzed the current landscape, looking at the internal

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Why pharma teams are drowning in submissions and what to do about it – Part one

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Regulatory affairs (RA) teams are under pressure more than ever before. Faced with a growing demand for pharmaceuticals, cumulative legislative changes and an approaching steep patent cliff, sponsors are struggling to find new ways to modernize, innovate and deliver therapeutics to market faster.   The greatest challenge isn’t just the volume of work, but the unpredictable

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