Our Solutions
e-Publishing Services:
Impelsys offers several unique e-publishing services for the industry that encompass:
Multimedia - Professional & reference book publishers can now provide a dynamic experience to their audience with the help of the expertise of the creative team at Impelsys. Our team has extensive skills developing several types of electronic programs, including: resource CDs, complete books on CD, interactive games development, presentations (Powerpoint, Flash and interactive), image collections and banks, interactive image banks, quizzes and question banks and audio / video collections.
ELearning- Some of the leading names in publishing have looked to Impelsys to build elearning products, including: full online courseware, LMS cartridges, assessment engines for all major LMS systems, skill sets, instructional designers, and image designers. Fully compliant SCORM & AICC systems that are custom made and server based Internet solutions are also offered. The LMS programs include student-friendly functionality such as course delivery, interactive quiz features, and managed schedules. Administrative features contain instructor-led web based seminars, test modules and chats.
Mobile Devices - In the age of communication-on-the-move, instant gratification for digital content paves the way for sophisticated products. Impelsys helps professional & reference book publishers adapt their content for different platform, quickly and cost-effectively by offering high competency and experience in handheld device platforms that convert into products such as Mobipocket, Palm, Adobe, Microsoft Reader, Sony and ePub.
Content Conversion -Impelsys provides a multitude of services for content conversion. Source files including Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word can be converted to a format desired by professional & reference book publishers, including proprietary markup languages. Output formats can be SML, PDF, SML/SGML, NIMAS or eBooks. Impelsys also converts printed materials into electronic formats, including multiple levels of proofreading to ensure accuracy at every level.
Technology Services
Custom Software Developement - By utilizing the most proficient and scalable technologies and systems, Impelsys enables publishers to realize their business goals and gain competitive advantage. By focusing exclusively on publishing, Impelsys also offers valuable industry insight and strategy that enriches the development process with a collaborative vision that fuels breakthrough solutions.
iTeam - Applications that support an enterprise can be so diverse and complex that not every team member will be adept enough to learn. This is where an iTeam can make a difference. An iTeam is a custom-created team of Impelsys employees dedicated to serving publishers' technology needs. They act as an extension of a publisher's own team, supporting all activities driven by the client's business goals/needs.
By using an iTeam to handle low-level maintenance and other tasks, professional & reference book publishers maximize their human resources investments to the fullest. Impelsys provides flexible terms with each iTeam that can be leveraged to achieve a more efficient and effective method of resource planning and allocation.
Maintenance & Support - The challenges in managing a range of software applications efficiently and cost-effectively are many. To overcome this, leading publishers depend on Impelsys for guidance, insight and preventive solutions in maintenance and support to:
- Reduce costs
- Run applications with efficiency
- Improve quality
- Enhance stability
Impelsys' maintenance methodology is the result of rich experience and collective knowledge of technologies and domains. Impelsys empowers publishers to target investments in key growth segments and to focus on their core competencies by providing prompt service and change requests, and by ensuring systems fulfill business requirements.
Technology
Innovation in building technology is the cornerstone of all technology solutions from Impelsys with the singular goal of giving publishers the cost and time advantage while converting print content to digital. Some of the tech-solutions include:
iPlatform™ - It empowers professional & reference book publishers to create rich portals around a book, a series of books, or other specific content. Easily customized to fit changing business needs and expanding functionality, iPlatform™ is XML-driven and allows publishers to pick and choose the offerings they need with minimal investment and maximum returns.
With scalable and future-proof architecture, iPlatform™ allows publishers to monetize new and existing content, to strengthen their relationship with readers, and to establish a profitable digital presence.
VirtualPages™ - An online and offline reader created exclusively for publishers, VirtualPages™ enables monetization of existing printed content by helping to create new digital versions. Utilizing Impelsys' VirtualPages™ engine, Impelsys helps publishers significantly reduce costs and turnaround time to create an almost instantaneous digital presence.
Many professional & reference book publishers enjoy increased return on their investment over complex content deliveries by using VirtualPages™ for online catalogs, ViewInside teasers and Talking eBooks. 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 like audio highlights, activities and evaluations.
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 professional and reference 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 publishers maintain 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 anyone in their organization.
SmartCD™ - An offline solution to deliver content, SmartCD™ is a complete, platform-independent solution for delivering books, journals and learning resources through compact discs. It supports keyword-based search, quizzes, instructor/student resources, full book-dumps, videos, animations and external documents like MS-Word and PowerPoint.
Impelsys has helped many professional & reference book publishers to meet the growing customer demand for electronic media. One of the major benefits is that a SmartCD™ can be changed once it's already released into the market. This feature allows publishers to update users with newer versions, upgraded functionality, marketing or advertisements for related products, and fix errata, announce news/discoveries and more.
Solutions:
iPublishCentral - iPublishCentral allows publishers to take fullest advantage of their content and generate new models and revenue streams at the lowest possible cost by utilizing a SaaS model. Professional and reference publishers can convert their capital expenditure into revenue in the form of monthly payments and pay only for what they use. This allows publishers to experiment with the efficacy of this delivery model.
iPublishCentral provides an easy, self-serve model that gives publishers complete control to create, run, and manage their own portal without the need for software programmers, content conversion specialists or hosting providers. These portals enable direct purchasing, thereby reducing publishers' dependence on traditional channels involving aggregators, distributors, and retailers.
iPublishCentral is packed with marketing tools like Widgets and ViewInside which allow publishers to virally market their content on social networks and blogs and to engage readers through an online community. With a suite of administration and reporting tools at their disposal, publishers can build relationships - and revenue - for minimal investment and maximum return.
Custom Content Portal - Using Impelsys' iPlatform technology, professional & reference book publishers can now launch feature-rich companion websites around a book, a series or specific published content at lowest possible cost and in the shortest span of time.
Talking eBooks - Powered by Impelsys VirtualPages™ technology, Talking eBooks transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books enriched with audio. Impelsys' Talking eBooks solution offers a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually click-able words and read-along color-coding of words to enhance the reading experience.
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 make educational publishers' products available to a much wider client base, without increasing their printing or distribution costs.