SAP for Media provides a complete answer to the needs of book publishers and Information Service Providers. An industry-specific portfolio of solutions, applications, and services, it builds bridges between editing, production, marketing, and financials, creating an unprecedented degree of control and visibility for managers and key decision makers. This is an IT environment that gives the whole picture, not just part of it. An IT environment that supports all processes, not just some of them. And an IT environment that is going to be up and running tomorrow. At last, you can communicate, you can collaborate, you can calculate - across all departments, all divisions, all systems.
Editorial systems provide support to authors working with large amounts of material which needs to be delivered to multiple audiences and distributed in multiple forms.
Ad production applications are used to carry out the technical processes between the sales of ad space to the placement and publication of an ad.
The ad production system receives the publication relevant information from the SAP Advertising Management and in case of a classified or semi-display ad, also the ad content. It includes processes such as page planning, dispositon, pagination, page layout and plate production. Status information is provided back to advertising management for status management and to initiate follow-up processes such as billing. Tearsheets are also provided by ad production systems.
Ad production applications are used to carry out the technical processes between the sales of ad space to the placement and publication of an ad on an internet device. Business-relevant ad consumption information like clicks and page impressions is then provided back to the advertising management system to initiate follow-up processes such as billing.
Content Download & Online Access Systems provide the repository of all content for sale as well as capabilities to control and track customer-specific access & privileges to the content wherea the SAP system acts as a backbone knowing what content each customer has access to and under what terms and calculates royalties and revenue under all of the business models supported.
In particular Content Download & Online Access Systems allow
for online electronic products via the Internet. (Here the term "electronic product" subsumes all product types that publishers use, such as journals, books and book series, newsletters, lecture notes, reference works, encyclopedia, colloquia, abstracts, and which they want to deliver in various electronic formats, such as text, image, audio, video and software.)
In addition these systems support propagating bibliographic metadata and full-text content to third parties like search engines and aggregators.