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Upgrade to STREAM Title Management, Editorial, and Production

Boost your ‘idea to approval’ and ‘plan

to product’ phases with fast and intui-

tive cloud-based apps on STREAM

Designed to provide an excellent user ex-

perience on all types of devices, web apps

that run on the smart Klopotek STREAM

platform can easily be tailored to indi-

vidual needs. Pick & choose and drag &

drop functionalities enable you to cre-

ate your own dashboard and software

support, so you can completely focus on

the processes you want to handle, as the

intuitive UI makes you forget that you

are using powerful software packages.

Putting your business in your hands

Whether in the author research, title

proposal, contract creation or scheduling

phase, access to fast and comprehensive

information is key. Therefore, our key

web apps, such as Product 360°, are built

to provide fast and highly sophisticated

search functionality across all Klopotek

applications, comprehensive but tailored

information in 360° views as well as

modern jump-out functionality to other

STREAM apps as well as the Klopotek

Classic Line.

Find out more about our smart apps which

will, in the long run, cover all core func-

tionalities of our Classic Line, and much

more, and the benefits of becoming an

early adopter of STREAM technology.

STREAM does not only improve working

in (international) teams, it will highly in-

crease user and employee satisfaction.

The learning curve for STREAM apps is

minimal, so users are trained and can be

productive in short time.

Switch to smart and role-based workflow support enabled by web apps

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Smart and intuitive workflow support on all types of devices

Thin and role-based (highly customizable dashboard)

Easy to work with; outstanding user experience

Fast and highly sophisticated search functionality

The information you need presented in 360° views

Modern jump-out functionality to other apps and the Classic Line

Based on the same database andbusiness rules as the Classic Line

Klopotek STREAM for Title Management, Editorial, and Production

Central entry point for all Title Management,

Editorial, and Production apps!

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Product 360˚

As your basic master information and con-trol center, Product 360° provides a com-plete 360° view on all product information to the various functional types of users in your organization with a fully configur-able, widget-based dashboard. It also pro-vides seamless and fast jump-out function-ality to other applications.

Product 360° links directly to Klopotek’s sys-tem-wide Product Pool but can also retrieve information from third-party applications outside of Klopotek (e.g. show stock infor-mation from a distributor).

The highly sophisticated and fast search functionality of Product 360° is keyword-sensitive and can browse through large title databases in a wink of an eye. It in-cludes cover thumbnails of titles.

Reduce complexity with Product 360°

The app shows how your titles are con-nected/combined (in sets, series, bundles, e-variants, etc.) in a tree structure which makes it easy to navigate from one title to the other.

Customize and arrange widgets to create your personal dashboard

The content and overall look and feel of every dashboard can be individualized, providing high-level to granular informa-tion based on the needs of the role and responsibilities of the individual user. You can choose from a variety of widgets to be included in your dashboard. Many of them come with configuration options. The lay-out of the widgets has been designed to present their content in the most efficient way: all the necessary information is pre-sented at one glance.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

360° view of product data: information center for jumping to other applications

State-of-the-art search functionality including thumbnails of products

Browse through set relations and set structures

Configure widgets individually

Arrange widgets on your personal- ized dashboard as desired

Use the same widget multiple times to compare data

Peter Karwowski, CTO Klopotek

The highly sophisticated and fast search functionality of Product 360° is keyword-sensitive and can browse through large title databases in a wink of an eye.

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Product Quality Manager

Backlist titles are often used as templates for

creating new titles in ERP systems without

checking in the first place if all metadata will

be correct for the new title. And there are

various other reasons – such as switching to

a new system, adapting to changing market

requirements, acquisitions of products from

other publishers, etc. – why titles are often as-

sociated with wrong or incomplete metadata.

Improving your metadata will ensure that

your titles are more likely to be found on the

Web, and you will benefit from a greater ac-

ceptance among your distributors.

Our smart tool brings monitoring and improv-

ing metadata to a STREAM app level: easy

to work with, accessible from anywhere and

on any type of device. To cover all relevant

aspects in this area, Klopotek’s Product Qual-

ity Manager provides two views on data man-

agement: the (large) title list and the single

product level.

All industry standards, such an ONIX, are fully

supported. The app can also make title import

processes that are necessary for retailers such

as Amazon smoother and help to clean up

your product pool.

Charts and clear views on titles

help to prioritize tasks

TRY OUT THE

FIRST VERSION! You decide, it’s your workflow:

Validation Manager

STREAM puts you in charge of deciding what is important at which point in time: All quality rules and criteria, plus all workflow and approval steps, can be tailored to the various requirements of your business using our Validation Manager app. This STREAM product is the administrative basis for the Product Quality Manager.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Improving your metadata willensure that your titles are more likely to be found on the Web

Provides both a (large) title list level and single product level view

Offers numerous widgets for enhancing metadata quality, but is also seamlessly integrated with the Product 360° app (so other important product data is also available in your dashboard)

The quality required for importantindustry standards, such as ONIX, can be controlled effectively

All quality rules and criteria

can be tailored to the various

requirements of your business

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Early Title Manager

Klopotek's Early Title Manager facilitates the entry of data which is central to the title management processes in your editorial de-partment. It can easily be customized to meet the requirements of editors, editorial assis-tants, and information management teams. The user wants to create a new title, a new set header, a new version of an existing ti-tle, or a new edition for an existing version. They can enter a provisional title record and complete the title data in subsequent steps. The UI guides the user through the process, making it clear which fields are mandatory in each step and which fields have to be filled in in order to move to the next stage of the title editing process.

As long as a title is marked as a draft or not yet approved, it is only visible in Early Title Manager, not in the classic product pool

in PPM (Klopotek Classic Line). In this way, the title is excluded from other processes in PPM, particularly export/import processes, until it has been approved.

Early Title Manager facilitates the early phases of title editing. The user sees at a glance all the titles which are awaiting pro-cessing in their personal workspace. They select the next title from the list, check and add the necessary data, and (if they have the appropriate authorization) approve it, making it visible and editable for all au-thorized PPM users. Once the appropriate fields have been filled in, the title receives a new status. Titles are always visible to us-ers who are authorized for this status.

Early Title Manager provides planning and budgeting tools for doing a first calculation.

Fast and structured creation

of first drafts and titles

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Create new titles from scratch or from templates

Create new editions for existing titles

Easy creation of new manifestations (electronic or print) for a product

Workflow support in the editorial and title approval process

Quick overview of your draft titles and their status

Easy handling of the required data fields

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Title Metadata Editor

Title Metadata Editor is your app for custom-

izable title management: It’s you who decides

which attributes and data should be included

in your workflow, e.g. title & author informa-

tion, product identifier, version & edition data,

print runs, etc.

In Klopotek, over 100 attributes are available.

By narrowing them down and arranging them

in the app, you create your own user interface

and workflow for title management.

But which attributes require adding data at

which point in time? To keep a clear overview,

Title Metadata Editor provides different sce-

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

You decide which attributes anddata should be included for perfect title management

It is easy to create your own userinterface by arranging attributes in the app

To keep a clear overview at alltimes, you can choose from different flexible scenarios

Employ the Scenario Managerto create your own workflows for data entry that are not part of the standard delivered by us (including defining which fields have to be filled out, which data is read-only)

Klopotek can also build specialscenarios for you as a consulting service

Title management on the STREAMplatform: cloud-based, intuitive & easy to work with, a great user experience on any type of device

Software as a guide through completing essential tasks for bring-ing your titles successfully to market

WEB

Choose the best scenario for managing the title information at hand

WEB

Scenario Manager

If you’d like to work with different sce-narios in Title Metadata Editor that are not part of the standard delivered by us, you can employ the Scenario Manager, an app to design your own schemes.

Creating your own scenario is done in a simple 3-step process that ensures maxi-mum efficiency and reusability:

You first add the elements of our available attributes and arrange them in groups. The second step is creating a canvas. Finally, you build your own scenario by adding your canvases to it and assigning them to a workflow step – done.

KLOPOTEK CAN ALSO

BUILD SPECIAL SCENARIOS FOR YOU

Create your own scenarios with ease by adding the elements of our available attributes and arranging them in groups

narios, e.g. ‘Product

Release Milestone

1, Print’, ‘Standard

Scientific Milestone

2’, etc. Each scenario

comes with the ap-

propriate attributes.

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Blurb Manager

The Blurb Manager supports creating vari-ous text elements that are needed in the title approval process, for marketing activi-ties as well as for providing bibliographic details.

In the Klopotek Classic Line, such text ele-ments are created in conjunction with the product as notes or content descriptions. The STREAM app enables the user to add blurbs to either works or products. Focus-ing on the work (instead of the product) and adding blurbs to it (rather than to the product) can be a huge advantage. The blurbs added to a work can not only be made available for all product forms de-rived from the work, they are also part of all product export procedures including the catalog export.

The web app also supports ‘links’ that refer-ence information elements stored in other environments. It can be used in the context of the Early Work Manager or Title Meta-data Manager as well as a stand-alone tool.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Simple creation of texts (‘blurbs’) for title approval, marketing, and providing bibliographic info

Blurbs can be created for both products and works (various products can be derived from a work)

Can be part of all product export procedures, incl. catalog export

Supports ‘links’ to information stored in other environments

Can be used in conjunction with other STREAM apps or as a stand-alone product

TRY OUT THE FIRST VERSION!

Classification Manager

Classifying books, e-books, and other prod-ucts is a key factor in product marketing and sales. Products that are tagged with a high-quality subject classification profit from increased visibility in different mar-kets, whilst becoming more discoverable by potential buyers and intended target audiences.

National and international industry stan-dards bodies such as EDItEUR, BISG, or BIC have been working on classification sche-mas as a service and tool for the book in-dustry’s supply chain for many years. Clas-sification schemes such as ‘thema’, BISAC

Easy use of all

industry standards!

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Index of the content of 'thema'- relevant products

The ability to set up other industry classification systems (BISAC, BIC etc.) as well as your own in-house product classifications

Enables editorial, sales and market-ing users to identify the relevant categories easily and to classify products thoroughly and consistently with a minumum of effort

and BIC are large category trees that are designed to cover all relevant subject areas or classification needs.

The Classification Manager enables editori-al, sales, and marketing users to easily iden-tify the relevant categories and to classify their products as consistently as possible while keeping their effort for the assign-ment of classifications to a minimum.

With the Classification Manager, it‘s very easily possible, for example, to allocate a 'thema' category to a large number of titles at once. And with around 2,500 subjects and 2,000 additional qualifiers, many of our custom-ers are glad to have this tool to categorize their backlist titles efficiently.

Dr. Dirk Wetzel, Product Manager, Klopotek

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Suppliers Online

Suppliers Online helps with an important organizational part of the production process of publishers: the order and con-trolling processes of vendor services. This browser-based App is directly connected with the Supplier Orders module of the Klopotek Classic Line and offers a selection of key features that guide the order place-ment workflow – cloud-based and on any type of device.

The application provides publishers and vendors with an overview of placed or-ders, the statuses, the time schedule, and all communication activity. It allows both

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Supports publishers in their order and controlling processes of vendor services

Provides publishers with a fast and reliable overview of orders placed for several suppliers, their statuses and the time planning, resulting in maximum transparency

Enables production staff to work efficiently and reduce costs by uti-lizing electronic data transfer

Simplifies communication between suppliers and publisher

Allows suppliers to check production tasks with target dates

Authorization process is guaranteed by inherent approval workflow

parties to manage and adjust the orders directly in the system as the order is being processed, keeping all users informed at all times. It enables users to quickly adjust information in a smooth and intuitive way – such as scales (uploading new price lists) – and supports the planning activities of pro-duction managers by showing if a vendor is available for a new project. Vendors can use the tool to check production tasks with target dates by means of an interactive, configurable dashboard.

This control panel provides clear, up-to-date information:

Have new orders been placed? Which tasks are in process? Which ones have been completed and

signed off by the publisher?

Users of Suppliers Online at publishers will find the purchase ordering process simpli-fied through the use of automatic order placings for specific vendors based on the metadata of the Production system.

Direct communication

with your supplier!

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Upgrade to STREAM: leave the limitations of Client-Server technology behind

We took a unique approach to secure the business of our customers, preventing them from being forced to switch technology and systems all at once by having a ‘big bang migration’: this strategy is called the ‘dual technology stack’. Following this approach, Klopotek STREAM was developed using the same data model and configuration frame-work as the Client-Server solution does.

STREAM development follows an exception-ally user-centric approach that creates a new, unrivalled user experience on top of the func-tional power of the Klopotek solution. The STREAM technology stack by design allows a significant reduction in operational and in-frastructure costs in comparison to employing Client-Server software.

USPs of Klopotek STREAM: Access to new functionality Excellent user productivity and unique user

experience Standardization of business processes

enterprise-wide Alignment with latest technologies High scalability & availability supporting

small and enterprise publishers Excellent performance and user response

times Automated functional and non-functional

quality assurance Adoption of industry-standard technology /

open standards Comprehensive integration framework

with REST APIs Optimized for low operational costs

info@klopotek.comwww.klopotek.com

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Inventory Manager

Benefit from a full overview of your stock inventory or a detailed view at title level, making use of personalized alerts and watch lists.

Klopotek’s Inventory Manager can help you to reduce costs across the supply chain, as it enables you to clearly determine when your publishing products should be reproduced.

This is made possible by making use of two views that can be pre-sented next to each other: a full ‘observer’ or ‘monitoring’ overview of your entire stock inventory and all titles (or specific groups of titles), and a detailed view at title level for specific products that are particularly relevant.

TRY OUT THE

FIRST VERSION!

It makes everything user-friendly.

Rajiv Singhal, Scrum Master (Project Manager) at Taylor & Francis,

on STREAM technology

Klopotek has invested in these STREAM applications to support the ideation and production processes of STM publishers. The list of applications is neither fixed nor complete, and may still change – depending on the requirements of the Members of STREAM development Partner Program.

Dr. Michael Castner, Head of Product & Solution Management, Klopotek

COMPLEX PROCESSES MADE EASY