Is it possible to connect indesign with database/OOD...

Hello fellow Indesign user,
Not sure if this question belongs here or in scripting...
I'm just a moderate user in ID CS4 and I got this daunting task to find/invest a way to use Indesign (our existing layout software) to create "brochures/instruction manuals" using databases or OOD. Meanings, use a template, add a code that corresponds to a similar code with pre-defined data-entity in a database/OOD, and automatically add the text/pictures from the database/OOD.
We are not talking about addresses or simple things like that, but brochures and instruction manuals in different languages with different or similar operation for each machine. Some instructions are the same and some are not. Get my drift?
We are using ID Cs4 in the company right now, not the smartest tool to use when producing 25 different brochures/technical manuals with different languages. Changing one content in one manual, meaning we have to change all 25 brochures/manuals.... manually...
Many of you may think -"why did you start ID in the first place". The answer: I don't know, I wasn't here then... It is not until now they discovered -"Oh, we need a new system… " and guess who got the task to evaluate it…
I need to know if it is possible and to what extent we can use ID with database or an OOD-system to retrieve data (mostly custom data with bulletin, font, size, pictures, etc).
Articles, links and other information would be very helpful….
Thanks!
//Vincent

What kind TM exist out there and is it possible to integrate it with ID? (I can probably check Wikipedia, but it feels correct to ask the right question to ask to the right person here. How does your firm manage multilingual contents in ID? You gotto have the same problem as I do, at least to some extent…
How is it even possible to have an automated system and still have that flexible design freedom in ID..? Many questions here…
To invest a complete new system is not an option anymore. I made some calculation and plenty of phone calls. The figures does not look good at all… it’s simply not worth the time and money. So what are the options, if we keep ID in the firm?
Well, I should have had lots of time to answer your questions this evening, but it turns out that we're both out of luck. I'll cover a few things quickly to give you some Google-fodder:
1) Okay, I won't suggest expensive commercial solutions.
2) Read up about how to flow XML content into and out of ID
2b) Store your content in the DB of your choice, spit out XML, and then update your INDDs with it.
3) Think about an open-source TM app like OmegaT
4) Do you do all of your translations in-house? If not, ask your suppliers how they work.
5) But really, if you don't have a completely obsessive person in charge of making sure everything is up to date, you're asking for trouble. I'm reminded of a quote by Edward Tufte who was talking about project management; I can't remember the quote, but the idea boiled down to the fact that you can do just as good a job with whiteboards as you can with databases. At least right now you know that you haven't kept all versions up to date... if you were housing all your content in a database, then the update process is somewhat hidden from you, and you wouldn't know if something broke unlesss you caught it in QA. If you're not doing all the updates... then you can't do good QA.This is a recipe for disaster.
5b) Establish a good workflow with whatever tools you have (database, whiteboards, little strings with knots tied in 'em, notches carved in the thighbones of extinct birds of prey, etc.) and give someone the power to sanction/punish/fire people who disobey workflow rules. I am not kidding.
I will make more useful suggestions (suggestions more useful than 5b, at any rate) in the near future.

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