The Mitsumura Publishing Company in Japan has been publishing text books for elementary, junior high and high school levels since 1949, when the company was founded. The publisher selected WoodWing´s publishing platform Enterprise as its new production environment to reduce workflow complexity and to streamline processes – a highly successful endeavor.

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Text book publishing made efficient with Enterprise
The Mitsumura Publishing Company in Japan has been publishing text books for elementary,
junior high and high school levels since 1949, when the company was founded. The publisher
selected WoodWing´s publishing platform Enterprise as its new production environment to
reduce workflow complexity and to streamline processes – a highly successful endeavor.
About the Customer
• For more than sixty years, the publisher´s operational strength and passion has always been to
think from a children’s perspective, to discover and create innovative and fun learning materials
that naturally encourage their learning abilities.
• The entire team works hard to ensure that the
children who learn from their textbooks will
retain their newly gained knowledge when they
grow up, so that they can pass it on to their chil-
dren as well.
• In recent years, the company has also been
developing digital textbooks.
• The legacy workflow posed numerous challeng-
es – the editors were overburdened by the com-
plicated editorial and publishing processes. As
a result, the high quality standards were in risk.
The Mitsumura Publishing Company selected WoodWing Enterprise
to streamline its cumbersome book production processes.
Challenges:
≡≡ The complex workflow
needed to get stream-
lined in order to
increase efficency
≡≡ Editors were overbur-
dened with administra-
tive and logistic tasks
≡≡ Intregration of external
users in the workflow
was difficult
Solution:
≡≡ WoodWing Enterprise
Benefits:
≡≡ The team can focus on
content creation
≡≡ Highly efficient revision
process
≡≡ Unparalleled level of
collaboration
Case Study: Enterprise I Textbooks
Mitsumura Publishing Company

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Project
• Introduction of a powerful workflow system in order to significantly increase process efficiency.
Goals
• Discharge the editors of administrative and logistic tasks so they can refocus on creating the
educational content again.
• Enable easy collaboration internally as well with various external partners.
Evaluation
• Tomoko Nishimura, Vice Editor-in-Chief of the production department at Mitsumura, saw
WoodWing Enterprise at a trade show and quickly became confident that the system was the
best solution for the company.
Implementation
• The implementation was executed by Visual Process-
ing Japan, WoodWing´s Authorized Solution partner
in the country.
• WoodWing Enterprise is the main workflow system
for editing and producing all textbooks and supple-
mentary reading materials.
• This system is used by over one hundred users, not
just from Mitsumura’s own editorial department, but
also from their subcontracting partners.
“In the past we lost
two or three days to
just make one revision,
because we outsour-
ced all typesetting to
an external service
provider. That is just
one of many steps we
have taken out of the
workflow, which has
become flexible and
efficient.
”Tomoko Nishimura, Vice
Editor-in-Chief of the
production department at
Mitsumura
Case Study: Enterprise I Textbooks
Mitsumura´s editorial and publishing processes leverage
WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing System Enterprise.
Mitsumura Publishing Company

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• The editors are using InDesign to create the layouts on the server. Then the editors leverage
InCopy to insert the text. This way, all parties can work simultaneously on the master file, further
reducing the workflow complexity.
Results
• Soon after the full-scale implementation of WoodWing Enterprise, Mitsumura achieved numerous
positive workflow effects.
• In the past, the team lost up to three days to just make one revision, because all typesetting was
outsourced to an external service provider. The WoodWing environment enables the publisher to
tap significant time savings, the workflow has become flexible and efficient.
• Progress management has improved dramatically too. Thanks to Enterprise and its editorial
management solution Content Station , the editors can now check the latest progress status on
the server via their web browser.
• Before Enterprise, the processes of creating, updating and status reporting were very unwieldy. In
the new environment, editors can focus on their editorial work.
Case Study: Enterprise I Textbooks
“WoodWing ´s
publishing system
Enterprise enabled us
to improve the intellec-
tual productivity of our
editors.
”Tomoko Nishimura, Vice
Editor-in-Chief of the
production department at
Mitsumura
Mitsumura Publishing Company

4. About WoodWing
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The Partner
Visual Processing Japan (VPJ) is a system integrator established in 1994 to serve the new area of com-
puting called “visual processing.” The company has a strong focus on information media, especially
advertising, publishing, printing, broadcast, and video. From its earliest beginnings to today, from pro-
fessionals to the average business user, VPJ has consistently supported digitalization of content pro-
duction environments and system design. Headquartered in Tokyo, VPJ employs more than 80 people
and runs offices in Okinawa and Osaka. More information at www.vpj.co.jp/.
Case Study: Enterprise I Textbooks
Mitsumura Publishing Company