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Author Solutions

Company Description

Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI), an Inc. 5000 company, is owned by Bertram Capital and is the world leader in indie book publishing - the fastest-growing segment of publishing. ASI’s self-publishing brands - AuthorHouse, AuthorHouse UK, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris, and Wordclay - have helped more than 85,000 authors self-publish, promote, and bring to market more than 120,000 new titles. Through strategic alliances with leading trade publishers, ASI is making it possible to develop new literary talent efficiently and provide authors a platform for bringing their books to market. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, ASI also operates offices in Indianapolis and Milton Keynes, England.

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Cloud Story: Cloud Application Development

 

Business Need: End-to-end Self-Publishing in the Cloud

• Automate entire self-publishing workflow to create high quality books faster, at a lower cost, integrating disparate front and back office systems to speed business processes and increase visibility
• Develop solution that can be resold to other publishers to provide similar automation benefits
  
  

Appirio Solution: Force.com, Sales Cloud

• Built custom application on Force.com integrated with existing on-premise systems and third-party services
• Built publishing rules, production workflow, file management, accounting, e-commerce, and relationship management into system

Results: Microsoft Dynamics Integration, <6 Months

• Integrations include Crystal Reports, Microsoft Dynamics/Great Plains, and SQL Reporting Services
• Replaced Cornerstone and DB.NET legacy systems
• Less than 6 months to rollout the initial application

In the News

Author Solutions is a mid-size publishing company with $50M in revenues and 400 employees. Working with Appirio, Author Solutions recently moved its core business process – helping independent authors publish books – to the cloud in just five months.
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