SAP Solutions from Invenio

NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINES

Multi-platform media content needs a multi-disciplined software solution. With the digital revolution a ecting top and bottom line growth, traditional media and entertainment companies were already under considerable pressure long before the global economic crisis hit. To enjoy real success and maximum pro tability in todays economy, news and magazine publishers need to negotiate and overcome many business challenges some of which include: Meeting the requirements of global rights management across multiple content platforms. Competing against the proliferation of online free-to-access content. Addressing global recessionary pressures a ecting consumer spending and the advertising downturn. Protecting and increasing circulation levels as the competition for readers intensi es. Controlling costs across a highly complex distribution and logistics business. Managing the negative impact of wastage and unsolds on the bottom line.

Addressing the complex challenges of the Digital Era Given the many challenges you are experiencing in todays evolving market, how can you equip your organisation with the tools needed to protect and grow the bottom line? Here at Invenio, we specialise in delivering cutting-edge business solutions that can accelerate and support your strategies for a successful multi-platform business model - across multiple asset types. Designed for the mid-market, our solution is based upon SAP - the worlds most popular business system and is tailored to give you only relevant functionality to support the highly specialised requirements of the media and entertainment industry. Whats more, SAP Business All-in-One is highly templated - making it a ordable and quick to implement.

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Our solutions o er a way to: Improve advertising management. From receipt to publishing to accounting to collection processes. Invenio help you to manage, control and improve every process thats involved in selling print and digital ad space - including block and single booking, design and positioning of ad content right through to production and payment collection processes. Enhance and increase subscription sales. Gain complete exibility across a range of di erent titles with variable pricing and order concepts and online self-service functions. You can ensure that all aspects of your subscriptions run smoothly from punctual delivery through to renewals and correct invoicing. Optimise distribution, logistics and warehouse management processes. Streamline warehouse activities including inbound and outbound processing, facility management and storage, physical inventory, and planned and opportunistic cross docking. Take advantage of modern data collection technologies such as radio frequency identi cation (RFID) and voice and new workload balancing tools. Complete backend support by a single system for physical as well online content delivery. Manage ad sales on your website, online and mobile platform through tight integration with your ad serversallowing you to bundle packages and cross-sell across all platforms. The solution also provides ability to manage subscriptions across all delivery formats. Automate and control the intellectual property management process. Manage the entire value chain from acquiring and creating intellectual property, developing new products, selling rights and licenses to managing incoming and outgoing IP payments with rights holders, licensors, licensees and authors of intellectual property. Improve and enhance customer relationships. Respond rapidly to customer requests received through a variety of communication channels including phone, email, web and mail. Customer service agents can use a range of information and actions to change customer or order data, clarify invoice details, or process complaints, while customers can manage and change their own data online. Develop closer supplier relationships. Gain a 360 degree view across the entire supply chain - including external printers, media distribution networks, wholesalers, suppliers and partners. Reduce the impact of wastage and unsolds. A range of highly specialised tools that help to minimise the costly - and environmentally damaging - e ects of overruns and excess/unsold stock. Enrich campaign and marketing activities. Develop, plan, test, execute and report upon a variety of campaigns. Plan, test, execute and report on campaigns including reader o ers, catalogue and yer insertions, subscription o ers, 3rd party mailing list rentals, a nity programs and cover mounts. Gain protection for your technology investments. Proven integration into best of breed pre-press, and editorial systems including Atex, PPI Media and DTI o er a seamless, end-to-end media based solution. Enhance and protect existing media technology investments with the integration of other applications including legacy, third-party, and speci c technical solutions.

Why work with Invenio? Invenio are media specialists with a long and distinguished list of clients that include Star TV and Fox TV (part of News International), Random House (a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG), Universal Music, Star News and Fortune Magazine (part of ABP Group), Bennett & Coleman News Group (publishers of Times of India - the worlds largest English language newspaper) Eros International and Redi .com global providers of online news and information. With SAP Business All-in-One from Invenio you are equipped with the tools that can help you address the complex and diverse challenges facing your industry. Invenio o er comprehensive media and communications expertise all under-pinned by a technology practice that o ers deep IT expertise and service excellence. SAP Business All-in-One for News and Magazine publishers is the result of our extensive knowledge and experience in a range of areas including: E cient management of the various sources of publishing revenue including advertisements, subscriptions, distribution rights and royalties. Ways to maximise selling opportunities that allow for the highly perishable nature of your inventory. Processes that bring control and order to the highly complex and distributed nature of the print, production and distribution processes. Tight integration of your commercial and technical systems to create a seamless end-to-end corporate business system. Management of intellectual property rights, licensing and royalties across multiple delivery platforms. If you want to know more about how SAP Business All in One is helping mid-sized organisations gain control and insight into their business operations please contact us on 0330 440 1800 or email us at info@invenio-solutions.com.

Invenio Business Solutions Limited 400 Thames Valley Park Drive Thames Valley Business Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1PT tel: +44 (0)330 440 1800 email: info@invenio-solutions.com web: www.invenio-solutions.com