World Bank contracted with Klopotek to replace their legacy system ACS for production management, licensing & rights management with Klopotek’s Product Planning and Management System PPM.

The Editorial & Production and the Contracts, Rights & Royalties modules have streamlined many previously manual processes including rights invoicing and all departments within the Office of the Publisher have started using the central address database and the central product pool.

The project started in 2007 with a study based on Klopotek’s standardized business processes developed in cooperation with customers and prospects worldwide which reflect best practices in publishing. The study helped the World Bank to identify their needs, reorganize their business processes and define their requirements and goals for the project.

According to Carlos Rossel, Operations and Marketing Manager for the Office of the Publisher, “The central business partner and product pool database, which eliminates duplicate, and inconsistent data is just one of the efficiencies which the project has achieved for the World Bank.”

As the Project Director, Mr. Rossel was involved in every aspect of the project and commented that “from the very beginning it was clear that “Klopotek’s commitment to continuous product enhancements to meet their customer’s needs and keep up with the industry’s evolving standards would be a significant long term benefit to our operations. We have been very pleased with the knowledge and professionalism of the Klopotek team”.

Inge Wilmes, Klopotek North America’s Executive Vice-President Consulting supports Carlos Rossel’s view: “The World Bank staff has been a real pleasure to work with. There has been excellent cooperation and commitment on both sides – from the World Bank staff and management as well as from Klopotek’s North American team based in Parsippany, New Jersey which contributed to the success of this project and the beginning of what will be a long term relationship with The World Bank”

About The World Bank

The Office of the Publisher, the World Bank is the publishing arm of the World Bank. It includes units that acquire, produce, and market print publications and electronic products. It handles all official publications bearing the World Bank’s ISBN, translations of these publications, and all rights and permissions related to the World Bank’s intellectual property.

About Klopotek

Klopotek is the leading international supplier of software and consulting services for publishers of books and journals. More than 300 publishers of every type from trade literature to professional information, school book and education publishers to scientific publishing houses, use Klopotek software to manage their publishing businesses. Our customers deliver all types and formats of publications from the classical book to loose leaf editions, periodicals, magazines and advertisements to electronic products such as CD-ROMS, DVDs, videos and online content. The standardized Klopotek publishing software is in use at over 13,000 workplaces worldwide. Additional information is available at www.klopotek.com.

Contact

Carlos Rossel
Operations and Marketing Manager, Office of the Publisher, The World Bank
crossel@worldbank.org

Inge Wilmes
Executive Vice-President Consulting Klopotek North America, Inc.
i.wilmes@klopotek.com