"Llewellyn Worldwide, a leading publisher of New Age books and related products, has signed a contract with The Media Services Group to implement the Élan Rights and Royalties software application. Details of the agreement will see the new system implemented alongside the company’s current Oracle financials and fulfillment software."
Read the Media Services Press Release
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Publishers Group UK installs Vista Hosted Solution
"January 30, 2008 —VISTA, market leader in applications to support the publishing supply chain, is proud to announce that Publishers Group UK (PGUK), a market leader in book sales and distribution representing publishers from the UK, Europe and the USA, has selected VISTA’s fulfillment and financial applications in a hosted (AHS) environment. The hosted applications require minimal maintenance from PGUK’s perspective allowing their mainly non-technical staff to focus on their business of marketing, selling and distributing books."
Read the Vista Press Release
Read the Vista Press Release
Monday, February 18, 2008
Software Selection Options
What are your options?
Any company looking for software should look at all of their options;
1. Integrated software
2. Best of breed solutions
3. Custom designed software
and
1. Standalone vs.
2. Hosted solutions
That said, there is no one best solution. You must select the software that best meets the requirements of your organization.
Any company looking for software should look at all of their options;
1. Integrated software
2. Best of breed solutions
3. Custom designed software
and
1. Standalone vs.
2. Hosted solutions
That said, there is no one best solution. You must select the software that best meets the requirements of your organization.
Dyanamics GP (Great Plains) Royalty Module
The Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System (ERRMS) is the only software solution that is totally integrated with the mid market Microsoft Dynamics™ GP ERP package.
It is designed for Publishing, Music, Entertainment, and Merchandising companies who find it costly or disruptive to manually manage low value transactions, or to deal with intrusive SOX or trademark-initiated audits by “bounty-hunting” external auditors.
For more information visit: Eclipse Business Dynamics
It is designed for Publishing, Music, Entertainment, and Merchandising companies who find it costly or disruptive to manually manage low value transactions, or to deal with intrusive SOX or trademark-initiated audits by “bounty-hunting” external auditors.
For more information visit: Eclipse Business Dynamics
Sunday, February 17, 2008
SAP IPM Implemented in 4 Months
Medium sized publishers rarely look at SAP. They think that its too expensive and/or that it takes too long to implement.
That is not always true. The Nomos Publishing House implemented SAP IPM (Intellectual Property Management) and SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) in four months with the assistance if IDS Scheer.
"After the initial identification of the specialist requirements, a small team began work on the project in mid-September 2006. The finished fee settlement for the publisher for the year 2006 was hot off the press at the end of January 2007. This enabled Nomos to start making automatic postings for financial accounting and payment runs to the authors — in record time and the result of an excellent partnership."
Read the press release about this implementation of SAP IPM.
If your publishing company has growing sales of $50M USD and needs a customizable intellectual property management solution I would include SAP IPM among the solutions that I would evaluate.
That is not always true. The Nomos Publishing House implemented SAP IPM (Intellectual Property Management) and SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) in four months with the assistance if IDS Scheer.
"After the initial identification of the specialist requirements, a small team began work on the project in mid-September 2006. The finished fee settlement for the publisher for the year 2006 was hot off the press at the end of January 2007. This enabled Nomos to start making automatic postings for financial accounting and payment runs to the authors — in record time and the result of an excellent partnership."
Read the press release about this implementation of SAP IPM.
If your publishing company has growing sales of $50M USD and needs a customizable intellectual property management solution I would include SAP IPM among the solutions that I would evaluate.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
knk Publishing Software Comes to America
knk Business Software (http://www.knk.com/ ) is a European vendor of book publishing software modules certified for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) product line.
Their first implementations in the United States are due to start soon and both sites are expected to go live by the end of the year. One publisher is in the Midwest and this solution is being implement by Solution Dynamics (http://www.solutiondynamics.net ) - a Microsoft Dynamics NAV VAR) and the other is on the East coast. We will let you know who they are as soon as knk Business Software AG releases a press release.
What sets knk Publishing apart from competitive book publishing solutions is that their book publishing software modules are 100% integrated into the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP product.
Users work from one user interface - the Dynamics NAV user interface. This means that users don't have to switch between programs and the IT staff doesn't have to export information from one system and import into another.
Their first implementations in the United States are due to start soon and both sites are expected to go live by the end of the year. One publisher is in the Midwest and this solution is being implement by Solution Dynamics (http://www.solutiondynamics.net ) - a Microsoft Dynamics NAV VAR) and the other is on the East coast. We will let you know who they are as soon as knk Business Software AG releases a press release.
What sets knk Publishing apart from competitive book publishing solutions is that their book publishing software modules are 100% integrated into the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP product.
Users work from one user interface - the Dynamics NAV user interface. This means that users don't have to switch between programs and the IT staff doesn't have to export information from one system and import into another.