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Now that the worst of the financial crisis is past, the mood is
one of optimism laced with rational exuberance. Publishing
clients in the biggest marketthe U.S.are back on board,
busy developing new titles and content, and asking for new
products, solutions, and workflows. Over in Europe, where
certain countries are still in dire financial straits, publishers are
starting to award more projects to India-based vendors now that
they have seen the advantages of outsourcing hitherto internal
processes.
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submission and convesee traditional content
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Atul Goel, senior v-p for global operservices evolving to use ations and technology at Cenveo
flexibility for authors
cloud-based technolo- Publisher Services
to save changes and
gies: We have invested
resume review at a later
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Contentra
Technologies
Known formerly as Planman Technologies, the new name, Contentra (and its
colorful logo), represents the companys
focus on content transformation services
and expanding its service lines. We have
been a trusted partner for the book publishing, library, and news industry, and
Contentra plans to take its content transformation expertise to newer markets
and industries, says president Amit
Vohra, who is currently stationed in the
companys new U.S. office in Cincinnati,
Ohio. We view organizations in all
industries as content publishers that have
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Hurix
Hurixs decade-old experience in the
e-learning and e-book segments is captured in two major platforms: Kitaboo,
for legacy content conversion into
e-books, and Dictera, for creating digital-first content such as interactive material, learning objects, and customized
courses. Both products, says CEO Subrat
Mohanty, seek to solve two core interrelated problems in content creation. On
the one hand, educational publishers
need to create cutting-edge digital products and content that provide a compelling and engaging user experience to
students who are digital natives with
high expectations. On the other hand,
these digital products are not bringing
in revenue, so balancing cost and ROI
[return on investment] is an uphill bat-
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Integra Software
Services
Digital services and e-learning are moving to the forefront at Integra, based in
Pondicherry. A comprehensive range of
digital solutions for the k12, highered, STM, and vocational segments as
well as for corporations is available.
HTML5 and apps development, IWB
[interactive whiteboard], 2-D/3-D animation, audio-video production and
postproduction, LMS, simulations and
game-based learning, and assessment
solutions are right up the digital alley
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LearningMate
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With digital and print workflows merging, it is important for a digital vendor
to be competent not just in the print
workflow but also in fulfilling any digital requirements that customers may
want in order to stay in the business,
says CEO Indira Rajan, adding that in
educational publishing at least, digitalfirst is not far away. The industry is
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demand for big data or business analytics, according to recent reports, will
increase the demand for technical skills
in NoSQL, JavaScript, CSS, and related
technology. Getting the right people
with the right skill set is going to be a
challenge, as always.
Meanwhile, e-book conversion has
become a complex task of using one single solution to make multiple deliveries
on different devices. Says COO V.
Bharathram, There will be ever-increasing demand for e-books. As shown in
Aptaras recent annual e-book survey,
65% of the publishers out there have
converted less than half of their backlists
into e-books. So there is still a huge number of backlists out there, lying around
in PDF or hard copy.
Bharathram adds, The next market
focus for e-book publishers and digital
solutions companies will be Japan,
China, Russia, and India. These are territories where e-books have not made
Solutions
Beyond
MPS Limited
The only major publishing-services
player listed on Indias stock exchanges,
MPS Limited has seen a dramatic increase
in its market capitalization over the past
year due to a surge in revenue and profits.
We acquired a great company with a rich
legacy from Macmillan and have successfully turned it around. We have also built
a strong suite of products and services
with organic growth well underway, says
CEO Nishith Arora, who is evaluating
acquisition opportunities to develop an
even stronger presence in the publishing
services domain. MPS currently employs
2,600 people and has a large production
footprint in Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Delhi, and Dehradun in India, with
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higher education space with our integrated print and digital asset production
model, leveraging our established relationships with publishers and our vast
portfolio of book production services.
We continue to thrive and grow in the
STM market as well as in our strong
legacy journal production business, says
Arora, adding that the surge in content
production resulting from open access
has certainly benefited his company. Millions of pages are converted at MPS every
year to a variety of formats as publishers
seek different ways to present their content. Our robust delivery model built
on an automated workflow and strong
quality control system has proven successful in attracting a large inflow of
business from existing clients and new
partners.
Newgen Knowledge
Works
2012 was another year of extension and
experimentation for Newgen. All of our
clients produced more books and articles
than in previous years, but extension in
this context was not simply of output
but of output formats and outsourced
services, says president Maran Elancheran. During the year, we increased the
amount of development editing and
content creation upstream of the traditional outsourced workflow, and the
number of clients for whom we handle
the downstream process of print management.
In addition to its existing portfolio of
development work in professional and
academic law and medicine publishing,
Newgen has recently added educational
work, with the acquisition of Connecticut-based NETS, a leading full-service
provider of k12 materials for teachers
and students. NETS offers editorial, art
and design, composition and prepress,
and interactive media servicesthe latter an excellent fit for Newgens Cloud
Matters division in Chennai, which
spent 2012 building cloud-based solutions and mobile applications for publishers.
The extension of mobile require-
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Ninestars
Founded in 1999, Ninestars made its
name globally in newspaper digitization
services. To date, it has digitized nearly
2,500 newspapersboth archival and
current contentas well as books in
multiple languages, including Chinese,
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese,
Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
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accuracy.
A relatively new service from Ninestars is mobile apps development, which
is handled by a 20-member team. We
recently launched the iOS app for the
Hindu, a leading English-language newspaper in India, and it has received great
reviews. We are also working extensively
with childrens book publishers to transform selective print content into engaging digital experiences. For a few other
customers, our team has built custom
cross-platform e-stores for tablet or
mobile commerce.
Ninestars recent acquisition of Newbase, a media monitoring products company based in Hamburg, Germany,
means a broader range of solutions and
market expansion in Europe are expected
in the coming months. At the same
time, the company is using the expertise
of two other sister companies2AdPro
for creative outsourcing services, and
Jump Global Digital Solutions for cre-
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Qbend
Three-year-old U.S.-based Qbend (and
its parent company, Chennai-based
S4Carlisle Publishing Services) is helping publishers to build their own brand
presence through its white-label
e-bookstore platform. We provide
publishing clients with an incredible
number of sales modelspurchase,
rental, subscription, and customization,
for instanceas well as customer support services, analytics, and guidance
for streamlining areas such as marketing processes. We fulfill the need that
has always existed in the publishing
industry, which is to have content that
is responsive to consumer needs, says
CEO Kris Srinaath. We help publishers
understand what the needs are and then
use our e-bookstore platforms various
Single-source
Workflow Solutions
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Development
HTML5 Development
Solutions
2D & 3D Graphic
and Animations
EPUB3 Conversion
Services
Assessment
Development Services
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SPi Global
Last February, PLDT (Philippine Long
Distance Telephone Company) sold its
business process outsourcing business,
which includes SPi Global, to Asia Outsourcing Gamma Ltd., a CVC Capital
Partners company. The transaction, due
for completion this month, will see
PLDT become a CVC partner with a
20% stake. In November 2012, SPi subsidiary Laserwords acquired Chicagobased Tighe Publishing Services, a fullservice k12 educational development
house. Thus begins the next phase of
growth for SPi.
The acquisition, says president and
CEO Maulik Parekh, allows Laserwords
to take advantage of the burgeoning
opportunities in the U.S. educational
publishing business. In strengthening
SPis content business with the addition
of a top-rated content development
house, we can now focus on further building our digital service lines. This merger
reinforces our leadership position in the
global content solutions market.
John Wheeler, senior v-p for strategy
and emerging technologies, highlights
that SPi Globals style is to partner with
customers. We take this quite seriously
and always look to add value to the projects we undertake. We dont just talk
about innovation when it comes to our
serviceswe practice it. Not surprisingly, its 200-strong Innovation Lab has
been working in several areas, including
Flash-to-HTML5 conversion and repurposing of digital content, workflow and
authoring systems for digital-first production processes, and content enrichment and enhancement using automated
processes and human intelligence.
One important growth area that
Wheeler has observed recently is the use
of technologies required to compose,
edit, assemble, store, and distribute content digitally. We have had to become
proficient in the tools, technologies, and
repositories required to create and manage digital content. These do not involve
Swift Prosys
Growing from 36 clients to 56 within a
year is a huge step forward for a small
operation with barely 200 people. So is
the acquisition of a small Chennai company with 15-plus experts in prepress
and typesetting services in November.
But Swift Prosys did it. Last year, the
director for technical and business development, Mohan Thas Shanmugam, also
established a new office in Toronto, Canada, to service around a dozen accounts,
and kick-started marketing campaigns at
the Toronto and Montreal book festivals.
The next logical step, he adds, would be
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