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Book Distributor to Focus on its Core Competency...Selling Books
PGUK Selects VISTA for Fulfillment and Financial Applications
January 30, 2008 —VISTA, market leader in applications to support the publishing supply chain, is proud to announce that Publishers Group UK (PGUK), a market leader in book sales and distribution representing publishers from the UK, Europe and the USA, has selected VISTA’s fulfillment and financial applications in a hosted (AHS) environment. The hosted applications require minimal maintenance from PGUK’s perspective allowing their mainly non-technical staff to focus on their business of marketing, selling and distributing books.
Stability, reliability and low maintenance were the desired characteristics when evaluating new systems. The VISTA hosted software is time tested and VISTA maintains the system including regular updates and enhancements keeping it compliant with industry standards. Medwyn Hughes, Joint Managing Director of PGUK commented, “Our existing system, although functional was extremely old and we didn’t have the technical staff to maintain it. And adding new requirements became a burden. Now, we can turn our focus from worrying about our software to providing top of the line sales and distribution services, while VISTA keeps us up to date on all the industry standards and helps improve our customer service by giving us more visibility into our stock and automating several processes that we were handling manually.”
“We are pleased to be able to add PGUK to our prestigious list of distributor clients,” added Colin Bottle, Managing Director of VISTA Europe. “Our hosted applications are a perfect fit for any publishing organization that doesn’t have significant technical resources on-hand. By relying on VISTA’s 30 years of experience, PGUK can have peace of mind that their systems will be well maintained and will support their business goals today and in the future.”
VISTA’s hosted application allow publishers to become more efficient and meet industry standards without having to commit to a large up-front capital investment or keep expensive technical resources on staff. Click here to learn more about VISTA’s hosted applications.
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.
