• Title Management & Product Marketing
• Editorial & Production
• Contracts, Rights & Royalties
• Customer Marketing

Alexis Dragonetti, managing director of Ballon Media, states: ‘Ballon Media is a young company that is the result of a merger of two publishing houses that were respectively editing children books and comic books. The merger and the development of both businesses create new organizational challenges. In parallel with the traditional book business we also face growing licensing activities and have projects in the audiovisual field. Ballon Media will be therefore a crucible of multimedia projects in the future.

To keep up with our growth and the broadening of our activities, we were looking for a tool to support the several business processes. After a thorough selection process we have chosen the Klopotek SaaS system as this solution not only covers all our current needs in one single system but also supports us in defining new future business models.

We are extremely confident that the expertise Klopotek and its project team offers, will help us ensure the optimization of our present and future business processes. Since the Klopotek solution is in use by many small, medium and large publishers, we see this as a strategic choice in our business development.’

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Klopotek SaaS is an Internet-based, on-demand service which makes the Klopotek publishing software available to publishers without the need to purchase computer hardware. The Klopotek SaaS solution embodies best practice processes for publishing. Detailed research, analysis, and discussions with international publishers have enabled us to develop a pre-configured solution of the standard Klopotek software – ready to use ‘out of the box’.

The pre-configuration of the Klopotek SaaS solution provides a more rapid and cost-effective approach compared to an individual implementation on a customer site. Once initialization is complete using Klopotek SaaS requires no further configuration effort, and allows you to start with a running, tested system.

Klopotek provides publishers a choice of  3 packages:

1.  A contracts package which includes the contract drafting, updating and editing process.

2.  A rights package which includes the contract drafting, updating and editing process as well as the rights marketing and sales functionality.

3. A royalties package which includes the contract drafting and updating process as well as the rights revenue process. It does not include the rights marketing and sales functionality or the contract editing process.

Want to know more?

Since Klopotek SaaS is a ready-to-use out-of-the-box solution, the best way to know if we’re right for you is to talk to one of their sales representatives.

Please contact

for the US:
George Logan
Tel. +1 646-243-4829
g.logan@klopotek.com

for Europe:
Carl Mann
Tel. +49 30 884 53 131
carl.mann@klopotek.com

Academic publisher BRILL, with offices in Leiden (The Netherlands) and Boston, Massachusetts (USA), is implementing Klopotek’s publishing solutions for its entire range of products, including electronic products, major reference works, primary source collections, and journals.

Following a 2-month system suitability study, BRILL is currently implementing Klopotek’s PPM (Product Planning and Management) and JEM (Journal Editorial Management) components in a centralized database. The first phase sees BRILL replace its current IT infrastructure with Klopotek’s Editorial & Production and Publicity & Product Marketing modules. CR&R (Contracts, Rights & Royalties) will follow in the second half of this year. CCM (Customer Care Management) is scheduled for 2010.

Globally, about 100 users at Brill will work with PPM and JEM.