Biblio3 goes live across The Penguin Group | 24/06/2009 |
Penguin Books and Dorling Kindersley, part of The Penguin Group UK, one of Europe’s largest trade book publishers had a number of disparate, legacy computer systems and a plethora of spreadsheets and Word documents to run its publishing program. The Group required a modern, integrated, industry leading system, accessible on PCs and MACs, across all publishing divisions and across the publishing lifecycle to track all details and commercial activities of a title from pre-acquisition through to post publication.
Phase one of the system went live at Penguin in July 2008 and phase two at Dorling Kindersley in both the UK and USA offices in November 2008. Virtusales' successful implementation of Biblio3 has achieved The Penguin Group’s requirements of achieving efficiencies in their publishing process and simplifying the overall system architecture.
This has been accomplished by:
Replacing a large number of legacy systems and interfaces that were no longer fit for purpose and suffering an increased support overhead;
Generating efficiencies in the business processes
Users finding Biblio3 easier, quicker, more accessible and reliable to use than existing systems
Data quality has become vastly improved through cleansing activities during the migration process and through Biblio3’s superior validation during normal day to day worklow processes By far Virtusales’ largest and most complex implementation to date, with around one thousand users on both sides of the Atlantic and in Europe, Biblio3 is a truly scalable solution that is proven to fulfill the requirements of global publishers in the demanding and rapidly changing publishing industry. Through its modern .Net technology, Biblio3 is future-proofed and enables Penguin to identify ever more new features to develop in order to help it tackle the day to day challenges of the new digital world.
