RSI Content Solutions, a content management solutions provider to the publishing industry, has been named to the EContent 100 list for the 2nd year in a row. Now in its 12th year, this list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry is hand selected by EContent Magazine’s judges who are experts in the digital content industry. Additional companies on the list include Amazon, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, O'Reilly Media, and others.

“Submissions for this year's EContent 100 list were better than ever, and consequently our judges had their work cut out for them,” stated Theresa Cramer, editor, EContent.  “What truly makes a company successful in the digital world? That's the question we set out to answer with this year's EContent 100 list.”

RSI provides content management software to traditional publishers, media companies, and technical documentation teams. Its enterprise software solution, RSuite CMS, serves many global publishers and has become a trusted content management system.  RSuite CMS has proven to reduce the time to market for new product development by more than 50%, deliver packages of content in a fully automated fashion to licensees, and reduce content conversion budgets through multi-channel publishing.

 “It brings us great joy to be honored along with the other distinguished companies who are shaping the industry,” explained Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder of RSI Content Solutions. “Our staff puts great effort and dedication to support publishers and media companies as they navigate the digital landscape and discover ways to not only survive but also thrive during this exciting time.”

To learn more about RSI and how organizations like Oxford University Press, Elsevier Health Science, LexisNexis Pacific, and many others use RSuite CMS and see the latest features of the software, please visit www.rsicms.com.

RSI Content Solutions and Data Conversion Laboratory have surveyed and collected input on the state of technology adoption and digital revenue metrics from publishing and media organizations. Join us for a webinar on December 6 as the survey results are revealed and analyzed by Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder of RSI Content Solutions, and Mark Gross, CEO of Data Conversion Laboratory. 

Don't miss Barry and Mark's insight and perspective on 

• How publishers are approaching the digital landscape to benefit customers
• How organizations recognize increased revenue from multi-channel publishing
• What you can do to achieve greater revenue from digital products in 2013

Webinar Details | 2012 Publishers' Survey Results

Title: Reality Check: The Truth from the Publishers' Perspective

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Space is limited.
Reserve your webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/198740406

Audible Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN),  was founded in 1995 by Donald Katz. The company invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, 4 years before the introduction of the iPod. One of the few startups to survive the dot-com bust, Audible was designed to be a destination and a daily literary service for serious readers who wish they could read more—and for the huge population of would-be serious readers who don’t have the time to read what they want or need to read.

The company introduced one of the first digital audio players in 1997. The following year it published a Web site from which audio files in its proprietary .aa format could be downloaded. Today, Audible is the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio, entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible is the exclusive provider of audiobooks to all Apple's iTunes Music Stores worldwide.

How to Increase Revenue?

In 2007, Audible saw an opportunity to improve sales if it could easily identify and share its products in the Internet space and provide open APIs to allow partners to easily integrate with Audible. A solid metadata foundation was the critical component to achieve these goals.

Content Management to Improve Workflow, Metadata, Content Distribution

RSuite CMS was selected to manage metadata used to create Audible's online product catalog. RSuite's metadata management and customizable user interfaces and APIs offered Audible the tools needed to effectively manage content and support workflow functionality. Audible completed a successful proof-of-concept project with RSuite CMS in which several use cases were identified. During this stage many business rules were also documented that were applicable to improving Audible's business opportunities. Audible worked with RSuite's developers to configure and deploy RSuite CMS after installation.

RSuite CMS became the framework upon which Audible crafted solutions to meet all its requirements: workflow, business rules validation, content aggregation and delivery, publisher feeds, audit trail, and product prototyping. In 6 months, Audible configured and implemented RSuite CMS to become both the database of record for its metadata content and its workflow tool that enables seamless transfer of content from publisher feeds to web site-ready files.

 "RSuite has become a very critical system very fast!" 

--Art Zegarek, Director of Data Architecture, Audible, Inc.

How Can Content Management Help Your Organization?

RSuite CMS is used to by the world's leading publishers to create, store, manage, and deliver content. Contact us to learn how publishers are using RSuite CMS to deliver content to licensing channels, automate ebook production, streamline common editorial and production tasks, and much more.

Epson America offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for the consumer, photographic, business, and graphic arts markets. Epson chose DocZone DITA, a SaaS-based XML component content management system designed for technical documentation teams, to move themselves from unstructured content to structured content for publication in multiple output types, author content at topic level instead of document level, store the content in a CMS for easy reuse and change tracking, and much more.

Join us on November 8th, 2012 at 2pm EST to ask any questions you may have as well as to learn about Epson America and how their workflow has changed due to using DocZone.

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and development professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in more than 125 U.S. chapters and with more than 20 international partners. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.

On an annual basis, ASTD publishes approximately 20 books, 150 monthly newsletters, a monthly and a quarterly magazine as well as 5 research reports in addition to numerous conferences. While a member organization, ASTD is also a niche market publisher. ASTD needed to find a better way to publish and provide content to its members.

ASTD hired RSI Content Solutions to provide both a content management platform as well as a digital publishing strategy that would bring content to the market in a timely manner. RSuite CMS provided an enterprise metadata framework that allowed ASTD end users the ability to find content based on standardized metadata fields as opposed to using text search applications as they did in the past.

Business Goal:
• Find a better way to publish and provide content to its members.

Results:
• Ability to build new businesses beyond just publishing.
• Can now apply metadata tools to tag documents in a highly contextualized manner.
• Tagged more than 2,000 chapters of books and 2,000 magazine articles drastically reducing production.

"RSuite provides to me and to my organization, a really strong core. That means I can really, really quickly iterate and make very fast changes that are going to drive the value within my organization"

--Anthony Allen, Director of Digital Media, American Society for Training & Development

RSI Content Solutions has been recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a best place to work in the Philadelphia region. This is the 8^th time the company has received this recognition from its staff and the Philadelphia Business Journal.

The Philadelphia Business Journal’s Best Place to Work program receives hundreds of entries each year and only ten companies in each of five categories are recognized.  Each company is evaluated on overall benefits and creative employee programs. Results from an extensive employee survey are calculated to determine recognition and ranking.

“Co-founder Lisa Bos and I made a commitment to our employees and our clients when we started this company,” stated Barry Bealer, president and CEO at RSI Content Solutions.  “We wanted to offer a stimulating and rewarding work environment that would parlay into outstanding publishing solution software for our customers. Recognition like this leads me to believe we are on the right path.”

The Philadelphia Business Journal's research partner, Wichita, Kansas-based Quantum Market Research tabulated the results of thousands of online surveys completed by employees to establish the rank order. Common themes among top companies focused on work-life balance; respect and caring for employees; recognition of accomplishments; feeling empowered; good teamwork and commitment to community.

To learn more about RSI Content Solutions, please visit www.rsicms.com.

Going to Frankfurt Book Fair? Wunderbar!

RSuite CMS is a content management system for publishers to create, manage, transform, and deliver a digital future. Visit our publishing technologists in Frankfurt and see how RSuite 4.0, powered by MarkLogic, provides a publishing solution to manage the entire life cycle of your content.

We invite you and your colleagues to join us along with our partner MarkLogic in Hall 4.2 | Stand K429. Learn how some of the world's leading publishers are harnessing the power of RSuite CMS to achieve a multi-channel digital publishing solution.

Join us for a Drinks Reception on Wednesday 10 Oct at 16:30 at our stand.

If you are unable to attend but would like to discuss how RSuite CMS will help your organisation, please contact Sarah Silveri at tel: +1 610 276 1375. Click here to visit RSuite CMS at Hall 4.2 | Stand K429

“RSuite CMS combined with the DITA for Publishers framework is helping us achieve the holy grail of single-source publishing: XML content automatically delivered to InDesign and to multiple ebook delivery formats. The transformations from structured content to designed content have been seamless, allowing our staff to focus on content and product development.”

“We see RSuite as a key technology that will allow us to implement industrial strength content management, including version control and automated content distribution, to best support our digital publishing program.”

“Our editorial process was labor intensive, and the problem couldn't be fixed by adding more people. With RSuite CMS, we get our product in the hands of customers faster, which makes us competitive with the bigger publishers with deeper pockets.”

RSI Content Solutions is recognized on the sixth annual Inc. 500|5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs.  RSI Content Solutions joins Yelp, yogurt maker Chobani, Giftcards.com, KIND, and famed hatmaker Tilly’s, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“While I’m personally thrilled to be recognized by the Inc. 500|5000, it really is recognition that we provide our customers with an outstanding publishing solution,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO, co-founder, and president of RSI Content Solutions. “And the team we’ve created is responsible for serving our customers with the industry’s only content management system for publishers and ensuring it meets their quality demands.”

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2012 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 97%. The companies on this year’s list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past 3 years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion.

"Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward.  Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” explains Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg.

RSI Content Solutions, makers of RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will host over 150 publishing executives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 6th annual RSuite User Conference on September 20^th.

Now in its 6^th year, the annual RSuite User Conference provides a forum for members of the global RSuite community, and those considering RSuite, to interact, learn about content management, and network with other publishing professionals. RSuite CMS manages the full life cycle of content. From content creation through multi-channel distribution of print, ebooks, and licensed content, RSuite CMS is used by some of the world's leading publishers.

“We are always thrilled to host our RSuite clients in one location to communicate upcoming product plans, provide a forum to exchange ideas, and show through both case studies and demonstrations how clients are leveraging the power of RSuite,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder at RSI Content Solutions.

RSI Content Solutions would also like to acknowledge the generosity of our sponsors---SPi Global, MarkLogic, Scope eKnowledge, Yuxi Pacific, and ITC InfoTech.

To learn more about the conference and register, please visit www.rsicms.com/rsuc2012.

Keynote Presentation:
Curation, Collaboration, Cross-Platform, Cloud: Profiting From the "Four C's" of The Second Web

Publishers continue to express their prime value points through electronic media, but not always with the profit margins that they would have hoped to retain. Tools such as text analytics, the Flipboard news-viewing application and highly successful publishing business models pioneered by O'Reilly Media put pressure on publishers to be ready to innovate in both how content is produced and when and how it can be experienced for maximum value.

Veteran content industry analyst John Blossom, President of Shore Communications Inc., outlines the cutting edge of content technologies that he has defined as "The Second Web" and how they are yet again redefining successful models for high-margin publishing businesses.