Our Solutions

e-Publishing Services:

Multimedia: - Impelsys develops all types of electronic programs distributed by educational publishers, from Instructor/Student Resource CD or DVD, Full Book on CD, interactive games, PowerPoint presentations, image collections, interactive image atlases with labels on/off, quizzes or question banks to drag-and-drop labeling exercises, audio glossaries, integration of videos and animations.

eLearning: - Educational publishers rely on Impelsys to transform their printed content into engaging eLearning products. Services offered include full online courseware created around a book, LMS cartridges for Blackboard, WebCT or Angel, and assessment engines for all major LMS systems. Impelsys offers fully compliant SCORM and AICC systems that are customized, server-based Internet solutions. Using proven learning strategies, Impelsys underlines the importance of context as well as learner characteristics, thereby ensuring that the content meets the requirements of both the individual user as well as the domain.

Mobile Devices: - Impelsys possesses proven expertise in content conversion to all PDA platforms and readers such as Mobipocket, Amazon Kindle, Palm, Adobe, Microsoft Reader, Sony and ePub. Impelsys helps educational publishers to make their content available across various platforms to meet the content requirements of diverse users.

Content Conversion: - Impelsys provides a multitude of services for content conversion, including digitization (converting hard copy to electronic format) and converting PDF/Word files to other formats like XML, Mobi, Palm, LIT, and proprietary mark-up languages. Impelsys enables educational publishers to leverage their existing print content and create products in various formats at an affordable price, within a short turnaround time.

Technology Services

Custom Software Development - Impelsys provides custom software development services for publishing in various technologies like .NET, PHP, Oracle, Java and multimedia. With the rich experience in providing solutions using these technologies, Impelsys helps educational publishers to create marketable online content products and bundles.

iTeams - An iTeam is a dedicated, custom-created team of Impelsys employees with the skills and experience to serve the technology needs of educational publishers. By using an iTeam to handle maintenance and other tasks, educational publishers can maximize their human resource investment to the fullest.

Maintenance and Support - Impelsys team ensures that educational publishers' eLearning and other applications keep pace with the changing business needs by providing enhancements, content processing, and technical support. Impelsys also provides hosted solutions and routine upkeep and maintenance.

Technology

Impelsys looks at constant innovation in building technologies that not only empower publishers with cost and time advantage but also helps gain ROI by digital conversion of content and creating new electronic products.

iPlatform™ - Educational publishers can create rich portals around a book, a series of books or a specific published content with iPlatform™ an XML-driven hosted solution that empowers publishers to bring educational books, journals, and any other printed material online.

Impelsys hosts and maintains all portals, reducing publishers' infrastructure and human resource expenses, while allowing them total freedom and control over their digital properties. iPlatform™ leverages publishers' existing print workflow, transforming print-ready content into branded, full-featured websites.

Easily customized to address changing business needs and expanding functionality, iPlatform™ allows educational publishers to pick and choose the offerings they need with minimal investment and maximum returns. This empowers educational publishers to monetize new and existing content, to strengthen their relationship with readers/students/instructors, and to establish a profitable digital presence.

VirtualPages™ - Impelsys' online and offline reader was created exclusively for publishers to monetize their existing print content by creating new digital versions. With VirtualPages™ educational publishers significantly reduce costs and turnaround time; creating an almost instant digital presence.

Publishers enjoy increased return on their investment over complex content deliveries by using VirtualPages™ for online catalogs, ViewInside teasers, Talking eBooks, and other products. It creates print look-alike and rich user-friendly online books at a fraction of the cost of complex XML workflow solutions.

VirtualPages™ provides ready-to-go functional components for publishers to pick and choose from and can be easily extended with multiple enhancements to provide additional functionality like audio highlights, activities and evaluations. The required components can be assembled in a modular, "building-block" approach to satisfy all functional requirements. VirtualPages™ powered solutions help educational publishers to enhance the reader experience by providing real-time accessibility to their content.

iDAMS™ - A digital asset is any form of content or information that plays a role in the publishing workflow. iDAMS™ is a Digital Asset Management System that enables educational publishers to store, search and retrieve all digital assets through one common platform. These can include Quark, PDFs, documents, image files, video and audio files, or any other ancillary material relevant to educational publishing needs.

iDAMS™ offers ease of use and deployment over the generic solutions available in the market with modules that are easily configured and extended. With iDAMS™, content can be pushed out to an iPlatform™ portal or any content distribution outlet, effectively becoming a digital asset distributor (DAD). This helps educational publishers in maintaining a central online repository of all digital assets for efficient searching and to ensure easy and quick access to what is needed, from any part of the world and by any one in the organization.

SmartCD™ - A complete, platform-independent solution for delivering books, journals and learning resources through compact discs, Smart CD™ supports keyword-based search, quizzes, instructor/student resources, full book-dumps, videos, animations and external documents like MS-Word and PowerPoint.

By connecting SmartCD™ with any smart portal can create a simple and effective online-offline delivery system. One of the major benefits is that a SmartCD™ can be changed once it is already into the market. This empowers educational publishers to update readers with newer versions, upgraded functionality, marketing advertisements for related products, and fix errata, news/discoveries and more.

Solutions

iPublishCentral - A self-service e-content delivery platform that allows publishers to market, distribute and deliver their content online in a simple yet cost-effective manner, iPublishCentral empowers educational publishers to try various subscription models for individuals and institutions. It also brings down maintenance, operational and support costs.

As readers spend more time online, educational publishers need to leverage web 2.0 features to forge tighter relationships with their readers and engage them more successfully. iPublishCentral provides power of widgets as viral marketing tool to support publishers in building these relationships by establishing a presence on various social networks and blogs.

Custom Content Portal A customized content portal enables educational publishers to drive sales and deliver extensive array of educational material online at affordable cost and in short timeframe. Portal solutions are offered by leveraging Impelsys iPlatform™ technology to build customized end-user portals around a title, series of books, or specific published content.

Talking eBooks - With talking eBooks, educational publishers have an opportunity to provide a learning platform to their users that strengthens the development of language skills and improves comprehension through narration and longer retention of highlighted words and phrases. Powered by Impelsys VirtualPages™ technology, which transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books, Talking eBooks offer a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually click-able words and read-along colour coding of words.

Online Catalog - Creating online catalogs with a look of actual pages along with numerous online features is made simple with Impelsys' VirtualPages™ technology. Users can browse a simple and secure online catalog containing basic features like double page view, close up view, thumb nail view, top navigation arrows, print, table of content tab, home tab and PDF download. Online catalogs bring educational publishers' products available to a much wider client base, without increasing their printing or distribution costs.