in order to rein in QC costs.”
This familiarity with the QC process has given the team a
lot of practice in auditing projects such as content and
learning management systems, archived typeset ;les, and
;xing HTML5 bugs. For one project in which the publishing
client deployed several production houses for layout services,
Lapiz was asked to quality audit the archived typeset ;les.
“The huge volume and extensive coordination with multiple
stakeholders across different time zones required our team
to automate the management process, further resulting in
substantial time and cost savings,” says Bharathram, who
reports a signi;cant increase in quality-auditing projects
in recent months. “Our analytics team was then able to
generate reports speedily, which helped our client to rate
their production vendors and highlight recurring issues.”
To learn more about Lapiz’s e-tools and auditing
services, email jeyashreesundaram@lapizdigital.com or
bharathram.v@lapizdigital.com to make an appointment or
visit lapizdigital.com.
Newgen KnowledgeWorks
Visitors to Newgen’s booth (7C19) will be amazed by the
plethora of new products and solutions on display there.
There is the MyOwnBook portal, for instance, which is a
virtual of;ce for publishers and editorial assistants to
manage content contributors, manuscript development,
and preparation work for production handover. “It brings
the stakeholders into a single interface with the necessary
bells and whistles, and effectively streamlines the communication among authors, editors, and publishers,” president
Maran Elancheran says.
The RedShift platform, on the other hand, is designed to
help publishing clients get content at the right time and
produce it faster with the most ef;cient work;ow possible
while reducing redundancies. “It is an integrated publishing
solution that enables authors and publishers to write and
edit through a simple Word interface and create print-ready
PDF, XML, ePub, and HTML outputs on the ;y,” says
Elancheran, whose team also offers ;xed layout and re;ow-able ePubs, and enhancement of reader experience through
interactivity and accessibility.
Beyond creating e-books, the key challenge to any publisher,
Elancheran says, “is discoverability. Publishers recognize
the need to understand how readers discover content and the
factors that can ease or impede that discovery. To this
end, our marketing and discovery team offers innovative
and proven solutions that will improve discoverability.”
Another new product is Nova, a mobile-;rst platform that
enables publishers to provide digital copies to customers
who have purchased the physical titles, and helps them
understand customer preferences. Authors, contributors,
and editors can also receive their complimentary copies
through Nova, which saves publishers some money in sending
out the print books.
Then, there is Jaws Evolve, a platform-based journal-pub-lishing system that integrates article submission, peer review,
and production processes. Elancheran says the underlying
content-management system, work;ow management, and
tracking system “makes this an elegant solution for journal
publishers. For distribution of journals and articles through
tablets, we have ResearchPad, a white-labeled solution
that eliminates any bespoke work for tablet distribution. It
seamlessly converts XML to ePub and delivers the content
on the ;y to the end users. It also offers library features and
search functions.”
SourceHOV
Three new solutions—Jet, BoxOf;ce, and CourtQ—are the
focus for the SourceHOV team in London.
The automated content extraction platform Jet intelligently
recognizes and classi;es data using natural-language process-
ing and machine-learning tools. “It automatically identi;es
critical ;elds to be extracted, and once extracted, the data is
available for future queries or actions,” says Nakul Parashar,
v-p for enterprise content management, adding that “by
removing manual intervention, the publisher does away with
vendor dependency and is able to speedily go to market. This
translates into time, cost, and quality advantages.”
BoxOf;ce is a composite enterprise information man-
agement solution that ingests, extracts, and stores key data
from documents. “It helps in aggregating, enhancing,
summarizing, and routing content for real-time repurposing
and archival. For business units within a publishing company,
BoxOf;ce empowers them with actionable and trackable
intelligence,” Parashar says, adding that “cloud-based Box-
Of;ce offers greater security, a drastic reduction in paper
handling, and allows role-based access for seamless retrieval
in most formats.” Major modules within BoxOf;ce include
content aggregation, conversion, extraction, enhancement,
classi;cation, summarization, and XML generation.
CourtQ, as its name implies, is targeted at the legal sector,
enabling users to ef;ciently search, monitor, and mine within
court documents for actionable intelligence based on recent
case activity. Parashar says that working with two large
legal-content aggregators for the past two decades has given
