Impelsys Inc., a leading technology company providing digital products and services to publishers, education providers, and enterprises worldwide, has entered into a business partnership with SAPnet, South Africa’s leading producer and supplier of bibliographic and other content-rich metadata. The partnership will enable SAPnet to resell Impelsys’ flagship digital content and learning delivery infrastructure, iPublishCentral (Now mon’k), in the African region.
SAPnet is one of the leading producers and suppliers of bibliographic and other content-rich metadata in South Africa. The organization is one of the longest-running sales statistics services for books worldwide, having operated for over a decade. SAPnet provides enriched data on products across various industries, including books, music, video, television, technology, and manufacturing.
The partnership will open doors to a range of new market opportunities for Impelsys, leveraging SAPnet’s regional expertise. Impelsys, in the form of iPublishCentral, will bring into the equation a bellwether, time-tested technology infrastructure that is powering digital content and learning strategies for global publishers and education providers to the region through SAPnet’s regional reseller network.
“Publishing and learning industry worldwide has been leveraging new technologies every day; the time is ripe for Africa now,” said Sameer Shariff, Founder and CEO of Impelsys. “The industry here is ready to test and implement advanced technologies. SAPnet, being the leader in metadata services, and Impelsys are now ready to explore the region. This collaboration is strategic to both of us, and we believe our combined efforts will benefit all the publishing entities in the region.”
Speaking on the occasion, Freda van Wyk, CEO of SAPnet, said, ”With the constant changes in the organizational learning landscape, there is a growing demand to support eBook and online content solutions in this region. SAPnet is looking forward to working with Impelsys to offer a potent combination of regional market expertise and market-tested global technology solutions to publishers, professional associations, university presses, non-government entities, and education providers.”
About Impelsys
Impelsys is a leading provider of technology solutions and services for education providers, publishers, and enterprises – managing content and learning delivery on its flagship platform – iPublishCentral Suite (Now mon’k), the world’s most comprehensive Read-to-Learn Solution.
Impelsys also provides courseware development and content engineering services across the digital product development lifecycle, helping clients build new digital products ranging from ebooks to simulations to online courseware.
To learn more, please write to marketing@impelsys.com or visit impelsys.com/.
About SAPnet
SAPnet is South Africa’s leading producer and supplier of bibliographic and other content-rich metadata. SAPnet consists of one of the world’s foremost metadata management and editing teams. SAPnet is one of the longest-running sales statistics service providers for books across the globe, running for nearly a decade now. The organization supplies enriched data on products encompassing books, music, video, television, technology, and manufacturing industries.
