RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, is used by The Institution of Engineering and Technology to manage journal articles, issues, images, and corresponding metadata for its journal production process. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a world leading professional organization sharing and advancing knowledge to promote science, engineering, and technology across the world. Based in the UK, The IET publishes 100+ new titles every year: a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 500 publications.

RSI is proud to announce the relaunch of www.rsuitecms.com, a website which provides details on our three new licensing models.

These three licensing models, called "editions", will make RSuite available to publishers of any size, as well as other industries. The new editions are: RSuite CMS Team Edition (TE), RSuite CMS Standard Edition (SE), and RSuite CMS Enterprise Edition (EE). 

Find out which edition is right for you:

RSuite CMS Team Edition (TE)

RSuite TE is a hosted CMS solution ideal for the needs of small and mid-sized publishers or organizations who are stepping into content management for the first time. We have packaged the popular features and function of our industry-leading solution and made it easily accessible and affordable.

RSuite CMS Standard Edition (SE)

RSuite SE is the perfect solution for mid-size publishers and media companies that demand the full feature-set of an enterprise solution without the price tag. RSuite SE manages the full lifecycle of content from creation to packaging and distribution. RSuite SE is a scalable CMS that can serve as a central repository for all of your content, provide significant automation through workflow, and package and distribute content to targeted licensing partners or other platforms.

RSuite CMS Enterprise Edition (EE)

RSuite EE is a full featured CMS that scales to terabytes of content and thousands of users. If you are looking for an industrial strength CMS to leverage your investment in MarkLogic, RSuite EE is the CMS you need. Why build on top of MarkLogic when you can install and be running in hours with RSuite EE? Trusted by some of the world’s most recognized global publishers, RSuite EE provides the framework to run your entire publishing operation.

Interested in seeing a demo? Click the demo request button under the product that best describes your company's needs. We'd love to hear from you!

I was recently reading Dorothy Hoskins' provocative LinkedIn thread on Adobe's embrace of the magazine market at the expense of the educational publishing market and it made me think. So, the options covered in this thread are to work with Adobe by adding requests to their product wish list or have IDPF front an industry request to support merging standards, assuming EDUPUB rather than a better version of ePub is a standard worth sponsoring.

The real question is whether InDesign provides the capability of producing derivative structures that support different standards. It's not looking that way, not now. Maybe production editorial folks in ed publishing houses will embrace other options, like batch pagination systems as an alternative to InDesign. Or use off-shore vendors to force feed *ML through a few manual conversion steps to make ePub files. This push and pull between the making systems like InDesign and the market demands for multiple file formats from a single source puts production and editorial managers in a challenging position.

What's missing from this thread is how Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) fit in, where in the workflow they add value. As a CMS software vendor for some ten years, we at RSI, makers of RSuite CMS, see the movement from IT-based CMS systems, XML repositories with some workflow added, to robust publishing systems supporting a variety of editorial and production workflows.

Enter DITA For Publishers, a standard which RSuite supports which provides the extensibility publishers do and will need to connect editorial, production and the market demands for multiple file formats from a single-source. Click here for our DITA For Publishers White Paper.

Since 2009, RSI Content Solutions has brought ease of content management to the publishing world via RSuite CMS, the enterprise content management for publishers. Now is your chance to nominate RSuite for a Critic's Choice Award for Best Enterprise CMS. RSuite CMS is an award-winning content management has brought real ROI to publishers all around the world such as:

• 100% increase in production throughput

• $500,000 incremental revenue upon launch

• More than 50% reduction in time-to-market

• 100% automated processing and distribution

The Critic's Choice CMS Awards were started in 2012 as a means to help spread the word about all of the amazing systems out there. Last day to nominate is Thursday, August 1.

Lisa Bos, CTO CTO/EVP, Publishing Solutions, Co-founder will speak at the Association of American Publisher’s (AAP) Professional Scholarly Publishers (PSP) Journals Committee meeting in NYC on July 24 from noon to 1pm E.D.T. She will provide a general overview of DITA, including the tools and practical steps of using it. In addition, Lisa will provide a brief demonstration of RSuite CMS and will review transformations that bring home the value of DITA.

“My experience in the publishing industry has shown me that we often become too close to our individual publishing processes,” stated Lisa Bos. “The presentation at AAP’s PSP, ‘DITA 101’, will provide an insight to the big picture of publishing with DITA, the basics of using it, and the ways that publishers can take advantage of DITA to facilitate content reuse, automation, and digital production.”

Since 2007, RSuite CMS, has been a trusted content management solution to the publishing industry. Learn 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 at www.rsicms.com.

I find it almost comical that our mainstream media is latching onto (and blowing out of proportion) the report about the NSA pouring over phone records and other data.  First, metadata is not new.  It may have been disguised as health records, or school records, or whatever, but it is not new.  People didn't care about the information in years past because it was secured and locked away on a printed piece of paper in a file cabinet at your doctor's office or at your child's school.  Fast forward to today where many of our personal records, bills, and pretty much everything else is electronic and you have a massive amount of metadata.  Yes, there is a massive amount of this metadata that lives in our world, and yes the NSA is not the only organization looking at it.

Twenty years ago when I worked at GE, we were hired by a well known large bank to develop a data mining system that would be able to forecast the likelihood of a person defaulting on a loan or missing a credit card payment.  This system aggregated a ton of metadata including financial credit scores, loan payment history, economic status, etc.  This was a commercial business, not the government, but why is this any different than the NSA using phone records to secure our country?  Aren't both organizations (banks and NSA) invading our privacy?  I am perplexed by our citizens who feel that our government is required to keep us safe, but don't want any inconveniences or intrusion in our lives.  Meanwhile, public companies, advertisers, banks and pretty much every other large business is looking at your metadata to figure out your buying behavior. This is nothing new.

Up until a few weeks ago most people in the United States had no idea what metadata was and frankly, probably could care less because it was a techie thing.  For most publishers, metadata is the backbone of their content.  Publishers have invested heavily in metadata as their printed product revenue has evolved over time into electronic product revenue.  We have touched on this subject several times over the past few years on this blog:

The Second Rule of Content Management:  Enrich with Metadata - http://blog.reallysi.com/bid/92056/The-Second-Rule-of-Content-Management-Enrich-with-Metadata

Centralized Metadata, Content, and Assets:  Paradise Lost - http://blog.reallysi.com/bid/41180/Centralizing-metadata-content-and-assets-Paradise-Lost-and-Regained

Metadata Lessons from Google Books - http://blog.reallysi.com/bid/40326/Metadata-lessons-from-Google-Books

Metadata management will continue to be a key part of their publishing and product development processes.  This is one of the main reasons we developed RSuite CMS.  There was a significant void in the CMS market when it came to both content and metadata management.  We believe we have solved this issue with RSuite and welcome the opportunity to discuss our product with publishers who feel the need to more efficiently apply and manage metadata.

The recent elevation of the word "metadata" in the mainstream media probably has most publishers chuckling a bit, but the investment in metadata by publishers is very real and will continue as the ability to find content becomes ever more complex.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will exhibit at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)  Annual Meeting from June 5-7 in San Francisco, California. The SSP’s 35th Annual Meeting is one of the year’s must-attend events for professionals in all areas of scholarly publishing: publishers, service providers, librarians, students, and more.

“RSuite CMS has been a supporting member of SSP and an exhibitor at the annual conference since 2008,” stated Jeff Wood, vice president, business development at RSuite CMS. “Scholarly publishing is complex and RSuite CMS was created to address the needs of this community---metadata management, XML early workflows, searchable repository, etc."

Since 2007, RSuite CMS has helped the world's leading scholarly publishers manage, produce, transform, and distribute content for books, journals, and digital media. Company representatives will be available at booth 213 to discuss specific publishing needs and demonstrate the latest version of the software. 

For more information about RSuite CMS or to schedule a demo at the Society for Scholarly Publishing conference, click the link below.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will exhibit at the Association of Educational Publishers’ Content in Context Conference (CIC) from June 2-5 in Washington, D.C. CIC aims to present a range of informative and practical sessions that address all issues relating to the development and distribution of high-quality learning resources.

“RSuite CMS provides an ideal foundation for the educational publishing community,” stated David Saracco, vice president of business development at RSuite CMS. "RSuite CMS provides a searchable repository to store all content and assets, implements an XML publishing workflow, manages the ever increasing amount of learning objects and, of course, includes metadata tagging, especially in light of this year’s AEP’s LRMI initiative.” RSuite CMS is used by Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, Human Kinetics, and others.

The AEP provides information, training, and outreach to help its members navigate the global realities of today's educational resource industry. Through its services, events, and initiatives, AEP facilitates communication among key interest groups including educators, policy makers, businesses, educational foundations and associations, and the education media.

For more information about RSuite CMS or to schedule a demo at the AEP’s Content in Context conference, please email info@rsicms.com.

XML is the foundation that enables multichannel publishing for publishers and media companies, but authors, editors, and reviewers have struggled to work with it effectively. At last, the tools and technology have caught up. Today organizations can choose whether they want XML-first, XML-early, or XML-late workflows, and even whether they want the XML hidden from their users altogether. Christopher Hill, vice president of product management, recently spoke at the MarkLogic World conference and demonstrated RSuite CMS, the industry’s first enterprise content management system powered by MarkLogic. In this presentation he details the benefits of XML-first, XML-early, and XML-hidden workflows in various publishing scenarios from leading publishing organizations using RSuite CMS.

When you'd like to learn more about RSuite CMS and how it can support your publishing organization, contact us to arrange a custom demo:

Content management and digital asset management have traditionally been approached as distinct operations. There was limited interaction between content and assets during editorial development mostly coming together as print layouts were created and finalized. Workflows and tools were developed to address the separate requirements around the two components. However, the emergence of digital publishing has greatly increased options around how and what to publish. No longer are publishers constrained to print deliverables. New hardware devices, Internet applications, social media sites, and communication opportunities offer rich opportunities for publishers to use content in a variety of new ways. To take full advantage of this, publishers need to adjust the tools and techniques employed to manage content.

What is needed is a platform in which publishers can manage traditional assets (e.g., .jpg, .gif,.mov, .mp4, .mp3, etc.) to coexist with what was traditionally content (e.g., Word, XML, PDF, etc.). This platform should house both items natively. This becomes a strategic content hub that can be deployed either as a replacement for or as a layer over the existing tools and workflows that may still be required to support existing publishing channels. However, such an approach requires unique characteristics not seen in traditional CMS or DAM systems.

Download our latest white paper and learn how the unification of content and assets is possible today and how you can get started.