David Saracco, VP of Business Development at RSI Content Solutions, will be speaking at The Challenges of Digital Online Publishing Management Seminar on January 15 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM E.D.T. The seminar will take place at the SUNY Global Center for Graduate and Executive Education, located at 116 East 55th Street in New York.

The purpose of this management seminar is to provide an overview of the rapidly developing technologies and new businesses for digital and online publishing for a delegation of Chinese publishers. It will present a review of recent developments that are taking place and how they will impact the publishing or information industry in the areas of editing entering data, storage and retrieval of information as new forms of the publishing business. The functions of searching, data storage and data mining, bookmarking, tagging, blogs, websites, social networks, and new business models will be presented as an intense management overview.

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RSuite CMS, the leading multi-channel Content Management System for the publishing and media industry, has been selected by HarperCollins Publishers and HarperCollins Christian Publishing as their workflow and content management system. HarperCollins is one of the world’s leading English-language publishers known for being a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children’s books, cookbooks, narrative nonfiction, mystery, romance, reference, pop culture, design, health, wellness, and religious and spiritual books.

HarperCollins needed a robust software system that can manage each aspect of their publishing process. RSuite CMS will configure the system to meet HarperCollins’s specific requirements such as their workflow and content development needs.

“HarperCollins had a business requirement for a cross-functional collaborative workflow platform to manage the publishing process,” stated David Saracco, Vice President, Business Development, RSuite CMS. “The trade book market is quickly evolving, and HarperCollins required a content management solution to better manage products across all platforms – both print and digital.”

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, is now powered by MarkLogic 7, the industry’s leading Enterprise NoSQL database. RSuite CMS 4 provides an entirely new user experience through an intuitive user interface that minimizes actions required to execute complex searches across an entire set of content, globally apply metadata, dynamically organize content into collections, package and distribute content to licensing partners, and much more.

“RSuite and MarkLogic have had a wonderful partnership over the past seven years,” stated Christopher Hill, vice president, product management at RSI Content Solutions. “While MarkLogic provides the foundation, the RSuite toolset adds a robust set of capabilities that publishers can leverage to meet their multi-channel publishing goals.”

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RSI Content Solutions, a content management solutions provider to the publishing industry, is pleased to announce that it has been named to the 2013 EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry for the third year in a row. Selection of the companies for the EContent 100 list falls to a team of judges including editors from Information Today, Inc., EContent magazine contributing editors, and other industry experts. Additional companies on the list include Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, O'Reilly Media, and others.

“In 2013, our task was to narrow down the ever expanding list of important players in the digital content industry to a mere 100 companies that matter most, a task that is becoming harder every year,” said Theresa Cramer, editor of EContent. “Consequently, the companies that do make up our list can be sure that they are in good company—and that next year, there will be a new crop of companies biting at their heels. This is great for the industry, and exciting for those of us who cover the space.”

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I'm going to see a movie tonight called "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". It's a movie that derived from a book. You may or may not have heard about it, but seeing as you're on a website that sells content management systems for publishers, the chances are very high that you're familiar. In the first movie (spoiler alert) the story revolves around children and teenagers who are put in an outrageous dangerous environment and must fend for themselves until one "lucky" player survives and is released at the very end of the game and lives their lives in luxury...not to mention reoccuring nightmares on a consistent basis for the rest of their lives.

At RSI Content Solutions, we have seen some Hunger Games-like ways of managing content. Over the years, we have found many publishing companies that don't even know where their content is stored which means you don't have the source files for your publications. Imagine a situation which your content is in numerous amount of files that are stored in multiple places, and no one really knows where to find them. There is ultimately no real way to universally search in one place for what you're looking for and even if you did have a way to search, how is the content managed?

That's what we at RSI Content Solutions consider the Hunger Games of Content Management.

We have been helping publishers manage their content since the year 2000 and RSuite CMS, the content management system for publishers, is our bow and arrow for the world of confusing content management. With your choice of cloud or deployed CMS, we have a content management system that stores your files from simple Word files to your digital assets.

Do you create, edit, or manage content? You might need a content management system.

Even in 2013, publishers both large and small don't yet have a grasp on benefits of a content management system and how much easier it can make their publishing process. Then again, what do you, as a publisher, consider to be "content"? For different publishers, content means different things. Do you consider it to be a Word document? Is content a PDF, ePub, or something else? Dare I ask if you consider video a piece of content? Truthfully, the word "content" has morphed over the last few years and for publishers and therefore, content has truly become everything from a Word document to a video.

So, let me help clear any confusion and give you, the publisher, a few benefits of what content management system for publishers can do for you:

1. Streamline your publishing workflow. With RSuite CMS, there's no need to switch back and forth all day between your email and your content. Upload your content to RSuite, assign it to the next person in your publishing process, then edit it all from within our system.
2. Speaking of editing, do you use Microsoft Word when composing and editing your content? Bring your process into RSuite. Transform the Word document into XML automatically to meet your multi-channel publishing goals. RSuite handles the entire end-to-end process.
3. Package your content in an automated fashion and distribute it to your licensing partners. In many cases this process can be 100% automated based on the business rules that you define.

As part of our ongoing customer engagement, we're planning a series of webinars for current users of RSuite CMS. Our goal is to deliver customer-focused webinars which set the stage for our customers to drive the priorities for the next generation of the RSuite application.

This past Wednesday, October 30, we hosted our quarterly RSuite Customer webinar and this quarter's topic was the future of RSuite. We had great attendance accompanied by great questions. The main theme within each question happened to be about upgrading to our latest version, RSuite 4. This got me thinking about software features that we, in the publishing industry, come in contact with.

We are always interested in what the marketplace is asking for. For instance, which features in a content management system matter most to you and your organization? Do you prefer your content management environment to be hosted in the cloud, deployed in your office, or perhaps you don't have a preference?

We've heard from our clients regarding hosted and deployed environments and now we'd like to hear from our followers. Please participate in the the poll above or comment in the section below.

Back in September, DocZone DITA exhibited at the CIDM Best Practices Showcase in Savannah, Georgia. We spoke with many of you about your DITA Open Toolkit wants and needs, we spoke with many of you about how you're personally using these capabilities.

Because there is a such a growing need for DITA Open Toolkit plugins in the technical publishing environment, we have scheduled a webinar to inform you on the capabilities that DocZone has to offer.

Attend our DocZone DITA webinar and witness:

• How DocZone DITA incorporates DITA OTK plugins 
• XTM capabilities that translate content in more than 250 languages 
• How simple it is for DocZone to publish to multiple formats with the click of a button 
• ...and so much more 

We're excited to introduce DocZone DITA's OTK plugin and other capabilities to you. Register for the webinar on October 24 webinar today!

I recently read a post by CMS Critic's Holly Write which made me think. Today's content needs to be managed by more than just a straw man content management system. Content comes in all shapes and sizes because no one works from just one program or machine. Whether its an Adobe InDesign file or a Word file, the CMS that your content lives in needs to be more robust than ever. It needs to handle authoring, editing, production, distribution, and of course storage.

Until now, this type of content management system was nearly unheard of. Aside from it being flat-out non-existent, if it did exist, it would be clunky, ugly, and no one who needed to work in it would be able do so. It would simply be too hard for someone without a technical background to operate. Holly Write from CMS Critic stated, "One of the biggest reasons that companies invest in content management systems is to allow their less technical users to manage content." When a publisher explores the possibility of purchasing a content management system, among other things, they look for:

• ease of use
• minimal learning curve
• a beautiful user interface

Interested in seeing how RSuite CMS manages content for publishers? Schedule a demo now.

RSuite CMS, a content management system used by some of the most globally recognized publishers, will be exhibiting at the American Collective Stand S31 in Hall 8.0 during the Frankfurt Book Fair. Click here or below to make an appointment between Wednesday, 9 October and Friday, 11 October to speak with an RSuite specialist.

• Reduce product development and time to market by over 50%
• Achieve total control of your content using the newly released RSuite 4
• Realize your multi-channel publishing goals!

            ...and so much more

Time slots are almost completely filled. Schedule your meeting today to lock down your time with an RSuite CMS specialist.