STREAM intuitively guides users through their day-to-day business operations.

Traditional publishers of print products, such as books and journals, have had to adapt and change as their customers demand ever-changing new media products, such as digital newsletters, emailed information, databases, or indexed electronic articles. With these new products come new revenue streams and sales models. Subscriptions, bundled subscription / one-off products, pre-paid, and then used access to electronic content, to name just a few. So publishers are evolving to be more content or information providers.

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The information provider’s business can hardly be supported with the traditional ISBN-centric publishing software of the past. Our STREAM web apps and our O2C Order to Cash software are uniquely different:

Small Publishers tend to be niche or special interest publishers. They face the same challenging business issues as any of the larger publishers and, in some cases, can even experience more issues; such as non-standard products, complex unique product structures, leading-edge web strategies, and so on.

They are usually supported by an evolved technology architecture and application set that is comprised of MS Excel, databases and other tools that are not integrated and are subject to extensive manual intervention, and so have difficulty streamlining their processes and guaranteeing consistent, quality metadata. This creates costs and speed-to-market issues and headaches.

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For these publishers, Klopotek offers an affordable STREAM Cloud solution set that provides standardized processes, a single point of entry and sophisticated support.

Today, almost all non-profit organizations are facing shrinking budgets coupled with the need to produce more publications and content. Some are also facing open content initiatives where publications that originally earned revenue are now given away.

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The publications are often specialized, containing illustrations, mathematical formulae, and tables, and need to be produced and adapted in short timeframes. Many non-profit organizations have come to the realization that they need to be able to do more with fewer resources and a way to achieve that is through integrated system automation, building streamlined workflows through every aspect of the organization.

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For these publishers, Klopotek offers a robust solution set that provides integrated workflows, standardized processes, a single point of entry and sophisticated applications support that enables high-quality metadata,  prescient calculations, data, and web technologies to provide secure access to sensitive content.

For many corporations, there is the need to produce publications that support the business and marketing processes of the company. This could be product catalogs, brochures, manuals, technical publications, and so on. For most companies, this represents a major cost unit and not a major revenue stream,  it’s really part of the cost of doing business. It is therefore imperative to eliminate as many inefficiencies and their attendant costs from the process as you can so that you can produce quality publications in the most cost-effective way possible.

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This translates into efficient reuse of common content, a flexible XML-oriented content creation workflow with version control, automated publication output, and rendering in multiple formats – be it PDF, e-book, MS Word, Adobe, or whatever is needed.

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Klopotek STREAM – along Klopotek's integration partner Schema – offer these features, available for the entire enterprise.

Many International Publishers are in the process of standardizing business operations in all countries, establishing COO (Chief Operating Officer) Forums, and looking to leverage common processes and procedures with the aim of reducing costs and eliminating errors in order to create more products with fewer resources while also enhancing quality. The key is to leverage content and to reduce time to market in an ever-changing and challenging business environment. This can mean engaging thousands of employees speaking different languages, with different metrics and currencies all with a common approach.

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For these publishers, Klopotek offers a world-leading application approach that allows the publisher to support the entire enterprise with one single instance of the application and database that automatically supports each region with a localized user interface, currency options, product dimensions, and metrics, tax, and international law requirements.

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These features are available for the entire enterprise suite of applications from concept to acquisition, production, order to cash, and delivery to final end consumer.

Smaller University Presses practically face the same challenges as the others in the publishing industry. The market needs triggered by the transition to new media and personalized content delivery and coupled with the pressure of working with limited funds have made it clear that the current publishing processes are challenged. There is now also a greater need for reliable software support and innovations which help exploit the possibilities of ONIX, title management, product data accreditation, linked production schedules, a centralized database, and the visibility of rights and royalties management.

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The Klopotek Cloud offering is set to deliver exactly these benefits. With University Presses as customers, Klopotek has developed a standard system incorporating the best business processes needed to support similar organizations. A major benefit of Klopotek Cloud is that it does not require a protracted implementation project.