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New Customer for VISTA's Information Commerce Software
New System Delivered to Sdu as New Customer Implementation Goes Live
October 5 , 2007 —VISTA, market leader in applications to support the publishing supply chain, recently announced that Sdu Publishers, the leading Dutch publisher of legal and professional journals and books, has selected VISTA’s information commerce software to pilot realtime customer profile management in support of online access to Sdu Publishers’ NBDOnline website. Ongoing developments will investigate the benefits of integrating this new software with existing technologies, supplied to Sdu Publishers by both VISTA and other providers, to create a comprehensive management system for online and offline publishing activities.
“We have worked with VISTA for many years, and are delighted that their new online capabilities give us the option to deliver a stronger service to our clients without seeking an alternative partner,” says Marcel Verhaar, System Owner at Sdu Publishers. “We are impressed by the speed with which they have completed the developments thus far, and we are now studying the feasibility of rolling out this new functionality to support more of our websites in the near future.”
VISTA’s Professional Services Director Jason Bennett adds, “One of the core differentiators of our information commerce software is its ability to consolidate administration of multiple web interfaces. Having implemented Sdu Publishers’ pilot Information Commerce System, we are already working on the developments which will extend its online functionality ready for launch across their entire web presence. Ultimately, we’re making it cheaper and faster for them to develop the new websites and digital commerce models which will drive their revenues ongoing.”
VISTA added information commerce middleware to its extensive suite of publishing software following its February 2007 merger with Ingenta to form Publishing Technology plc. Rapid implementation of the new system for Sdu Publishers has been facilitated by the software’s modular architecture, which fragments the sophisticated functionality into individual component capabilities that can be readily repurposed and combined to meet specific publisher needs. The software gives publishers the agility to capitalise on market trends by providing tools which can quickly and easily create or modify licensing models. It is already proving successful for launch customer Institute of Physics Publishing, which recently transferred all subscription, access and profile administration for its IOP journals, Physics World Archive and IOPscience websites to VISTA’s information commerce software.
About VISTA
VISTA, a division of Publishing Technology, is the leading worldwide provider of solutions and services for the publishing industry. VISTA is a committed business partner to publishers, distributors and booksellers supported by our systems throughout the world. Our solutions fit all aspects of the publishing value chain, from author care through production, rights and royalties to warehouse and fulfillment, for both print and online publishing - all integrated in an e-business environment, with full access to the analytical power of Publishing Intelligence.
To complement our comprehensive enterprise solutions, the full range of VISTA services include applications implementation, applications management and hosting services, and publishing-specific business consulting, together with lifetime customer support.
In February 2007, VISTA and Ingenta plc merged to form Publishing Technology plc, the largest provider of tailored software to the publishing industry.
VISTA was founded in 1977 and has offices in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
