PPM – Title Management & Product Marketing

For publishers, the PPM Title Management system ensures the successful planning and marketing of their digital and physical products. Whether trade, educational, specialist or academic publishing house: PPM Title Management helps to develop products and to turn content into business. The publisher enriches books, e-books, printed and electronic journals, articles, loose-leaf works, databases, services, audio, video, apps, and merchandise with standard ONIX metadata. Publishers manage their relationships with authors and service providers in a unified system.

With PPM Product Marketing, publishers automate the creation of flyers, brochures, catalogs, newsletters and webpages in different technical formats to serve every marketing channel. Standardized output forms ensure timely connections to web shops and aggregators.

With PPM – Title Management & Product Marketing

• Products are managed collaboratively by various departments
• Planning reacts flexibly to new and familiar products and formats
• Product managers create cost estimates and break-even analyses for new product ideas at the push of a button
• Editorial staff make informed decisions for or against new projects on the basis of reliable data
• Marketing advertises classic print products, subscription download products or access to content via cloud computing
• Publicity departments deal with the tasks relating to reviews and public relations
• Tap the potential of viral marketing and social media

Unique features

• Brief period of familiarization due to predefined standard processes for every area of title management and product marketing
• Consistent, consolidated metadata feed on an ONIX basis for print and web catalogs, portals, aggregators
• Digital content and title information are fully integrated for use with PPM and ensure efficient online marketing of the publisher's products.
• Standardized, automated data export ensures that products can be found on Amazon, Google Book Search, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, Nielsen Bookdata, Centraal Boekhuis and other online platforms.
• Flexible classification and selection of products and prospects (e.g. according to BISAC) for individually compiled, targeted, on-demand production and distribution of catalogs and flyers
• Management of info-texts, product websites, cover pictures in any resolution, example chapters, and text, audio and video reviews
• Real-time web shop integration via Web Services and Message Based Services
• Multi-location, multi-currency, multi-language, multi-company

Innovations

• Digital Asset Management
• Workflow Dashboard
• Quick Search
• Product Component Manager

Solutions

• Software as a Service
• Information Provider
• Small Publishers
• Corporate Publishing
• Non-Profit Organizations
• International Publishers

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