Paragon Hydra

Hydra - technology for work with interactive content. The technology is focused on publishing houses, for simplification of development process of cross-platform applications and reduction of time of their output to the market.

On April 5, 2016 the Paragon Software company provided technology of digitization of dictionary content. It was created in Paragon Software development center.

"Hydra", according to the statement of developers, the most modern technology for work with digital content in the XML format - it changes old model of content production when for release of one product several dozens of specialists, several types of the software, a set of iterations, hundreds of hours of testing and editing were required.

The model offered Paragon Software will provide cost reduction on production and release of digital help and educational content. Decrease in cost value and increase in speed of entry into the market of new dictionaries, reference books and other products will positively affect the industry level of profitability.

The software on the basis of Hydra will help publishing houses to optimize lexicographic processes and to reduce a way from creation of dictionary base to development of the electronic version of the dictionary or mobile application. The technology helps to release cross-platform applications, creating one dictionary base, media and neutral content (Device agnostic data) for all basic operation systems.

Hydra will give to independent authors the chance to work independently with dictionary content. The technology will be available within Slovoed ecosystem.

Slovoed software on screens of mobile devices (2013)

Application Hydra as special internal software simplifies process of creation of cross-platform dictionary applications.

"Hydra" is one of our most perspective directions of development. We did not tell long time about it, tested and got used, and now are ready to more large-scale researches, first of all in cooperation with our partners – the largest world publishing houses. On the basis of this technology we release a product which will become the fine tool both for publishing business, and for creation of various interactive help and educational content. It considerably will reduce costs and consequently, will reduce cost value of end products. We created thousands of dictionary applications, a huge number of other products connected with digital content therefore we perfectly understand all potential of this technology. Alexander Zudin, director of a division of the mobile and publishing solutions Paragon Software