Ted Hill of THA Consulting will break down the different types of cloud-based offerings available to the publishing industry. He'll help you understand the breadth and depth of services available and what you need to know when looking for the right solution.

1. Understanding the Options:
A review of cloud services and
solutions available to publishers
Book Publishing in the Cloud
July 26, 2012
NYC

3. Who I am/what I do
 Business development consultant
 30 years publishing experience
 Business application of new technologies
 Launched dozens of new business
initiatives
 Raw startups to large corporations

4. Worked with…

5. SaaS, IaaS & PaaS
Software as a
Service
Platform as a Infrastructure
Service as a Service

6. Software as a service & hosted solutions
Enterprise
Publishing Specific Intelligence, Marketing, Commerce

7. Enterprise software solutions
 Business-oriented tools
 Applications include:
 Billing systems
 Customer relationship management
 Enterprise resource planning
 Financials
 Human resource management
 Email, Calendars, & Contact Management

8. Publishing specific solutions
 Address unique needs of publishers
 Applications include:
 Contracts, rights & royalties
 Title management
 Editorial & production management
 Editorial & production workflow
 Digital asset management
 Digital asset & metadata distribution

9. Business intelligence, marketing &
commerce solutions
 May be unique to publishing or not
 Some applications include:
 Social media (Facebook, Twitter)
 Marketing tools (Google AdWords,)
 Business intelligence & analytics (Book
Radar, Bookseer)
 Sales tracking & validation (RoyaltyShare)
 B2B services (NetGalley, Edelweiss)
 Many, many others

10. When should IT be a part of the process?
 Whenever they can be helpful
 When ever more than a few users are
involved
 Whenever you’re spending a noticeable
amount of money
 Whenever you need to push out or pull in
data or content from any of your other
software systems

11. Thank you!
ted@thaconsulting.co
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