RSuite CMS Will Provide LexisNexis Pacific with the Tools to Efficiently Manage its Vast Collection of XML

Audubon, Pa.—March 27, 2012—LexisNexis Pacific provides world-class content and leading-edge technology designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis Pacific recently licensed RSuite CMS by RSI Content Solutions. RSuite CMS is the leading content management system for publishers who want to manage, store, and deliver content to any channel, in any format, at any time.

RSuite CMS will replace several legacy internal editorial systems in use at LexisNexis Pacific and provide a consolidated and editorial system to manage its vast collection of XML, DTDs, metadata, and other content.

“LexisNexis Pacific has a wealth of great content and products,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder at RSI Content Solutions. “RSuite CMS will provide the LexisNexis Pacific team with workflow tools and content discovery tools that stay true to their mission of putting the right information into the right hands and giving people the power to change the world.”

“We required a content management solution that leveraged our investment in MarkLogic Server,” explained Andrew Squire, project manager at LexisNexis Pacific. “RSuite CMS is not only deployed on top of MarkLogic Server but it has the added workflow functionality that will enable us to centralise and normalise our content across all product chains.”

Every once in a while a company finds itself evolving and in need of a makeover. Really Strategies reached that point. The company's new name is RSI Content Solutions. "When we founded the company back in 2000, we were 100% focused on XML technology consulting to publishers and media companies," stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder of RSI Content Solutions. "Today, 99% of our revenue is from our software products and related services and we needed to reflect that in our company name."

The name has changed but the dedication to provide world-class content solutions to publishers, media companies, and technical publishers remains.

The new web site reflects the name change and also brings together our three content management software products---RSuite CMS, DocZone Book Publisher, DocZone DITA Publisher---under one url: www.rsicms.com.  Additionally, the new web site highlights more of our customer success stories. When our customers make statements like this, we want people to know!

“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.”
--Holly Gilly, Vice President for Product Development, Human Kinetics

"RSuite CMS is 200 times faster than our old system. The efficiencies we've gained are hard to believe."
--Keith Lawrenz, Senior Business Analyst, SAGE Publications, Inc.

"We selected DocZone because it is the only DITA-specific CMS available as a hosted solution that met all of our requirements."
--Nancy Thompson, CMS Implementation Specialist, Epson America

"We saw the time for PDF proofs drop from a week to just a few minutes with DocZone Book Publisher."
--Stephen Driver, Vice President of Production Services, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Over the next week, this blog will also have a face lift to reflect our new brand. We'll share more customer case studies as welll as highlight a series of webinars that kick off in April. Thanks for your interest thus far and stay tuned!

 

Publishers understand the value of XML but sometimes the cost of entry into an early XML workflow is difficult, expensive, and time consuming. The open source project DITA for Publishers combined with RSuite CMS changes everything.

DITA is a sophisticated XML-based application architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering information. While enthusiastically adopted in the TechDoc world, DITA is less understood among traditional publishing organizations.  Until now. DITA specialist Eliot Kimber and technology evangelist Christopher Hill are hosting a webinar in March that details how RSuite CMS and the open source project, “DITA for Publishers" is  the toolset that launches publishers into the XML world and why this is critical. DITA’s unique extensibility architecture makes it a better business value than any comparable XML alternative. Eliot and Chris' enthusiasm combined with a straight-forward approach to CMS and DITA, will have you starting to take DITA seriously.

Webinar details

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

How Successful Publishers Deliver Content: RSuite CMS & DITA for Publishers

Panelists: Eliot Kimber & Christopher Hill

Educational Publishing: Dynamic Content Creation Begins Here with Triumph Learning

A free webinar | January 26, 2:00 to 3:00 pm EST

Triumph Learning serves instructional materials to more than 25 million students across the country. More than three brands serve up a range of curriculum needs, including test prep resources, digital curriculum, and classroom kits. In this free webinar, Christopher Hill, VP of product development at Really Strategies will interview Robert Methven, CTO of Triumph Learning. They’ll discuss how a large-scale organization developed a successful digital publishing strategy and selected the tools that will allow it to respond to changing market needs.

Join us and learn what processes and tools you can implement to maintain agility in the digital publishing space.

Implementing XML-Early Workflow Allows Publisher to Respond to Market Needs

Human Kinetics leads the world in providing information related to physical activity. That information takes many forms: textbooks and their ancillaries, consumer books and journals, online courses, software, and audiovisual products. Human Kinetics recently licensed RSuite CMS.

RSuite CMS will deliver several business benefits to Human Kinetics, including the ability to

1. reuse content components across its many publishing pipelines
2. integrate information across business systems
3. streamline publishing workflows

A Word-based editorial workflow in RSuite will transform Human Kinetics’ content into XML and enable further transformations into ePub, mobi, HTML, and PDF formats.

"Human Kinetics selected RSuite CMS as the central repository to store content, related assets, and metadata. RSuite will provide improved search and discovery of content for reuse and provide the underlying structure to automate the creation of both print and digital products.”
- Christopher Hill, VP of product management at Really Strategies, Inc.

“Finding an easy way to implement an early-XML workflow allows us to achieve a single-source multi-channel publishing workflow. Our organization’s digital publishing strategy depends on having tools in place that allow us to be nimble and respond to market demands.”
- Holly Gilly, vice president of product development at Human Kinetics.

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Really Strategies is pleased to announce the launch of the RSuite CMS support community. Really Strategies is dedicated to the success of its customers and partners who have adopted RSuite CMS as a core foundation for their digital publishing strategy. The RSuite CMS support community is a forum where problems are solved, topics are discussed, and ideas are exchanged. All discussions related to the ongoing support of RSuite CMS and its customers are now housed in one secure location that encourages professional discussion as well as submitting and resolving software tickets.

"The RSuite CMS support community provides a central location as well as the tools to communicate with RSuite developers and engage users. This online forum also provides all of our customers and partners a mechanism for direct communication with product management regarding their priorities for the evolution of RSuite CMS as well as insight into the product’s direction.”
--Christopher Hill, VP Product Management, Really Strategies, Inc.

Really Strategies, Inc. will host a webinar on Friday, January 6th to introduce its customers and partners to the new RSuite CMS support community Web site, unveil new capabilities offered by the system for resolving support requests, and introduce forums to allow the RSuite CMS community to engage with each other as well as the development and product management groups at Really Strategies.

Oxford University Press recently launched the Oxford Index, a search and discovery gateway to Oxford's digital academic content. The Oxford Index is available free of charge to all and provides a portal to discover trusted scholarly content from Oxford and its partners. As the website states, "One search brings together top quality content and unlocks connections in a way not previously possible." The portal is currently in beta format and already includes an impressive collection of content, including

• All content from University Press Scholarship Online (including Oxford Scholarship Online), a collection of academic monographs from leading university presses worldwide (more than 80,000 chapters from 7,200 titles)

• All content from Oxford Handbooks Online (more than 3,400 chapters from 100+ titles)
• Over 150,000 articles from 235 Oxford Journals

The Index does not contain full-text content but provides an abstract preview with links to full-text content (some of which may require a subscription...but not all). From now until March 2012 the Index will evolve in response to feedback. Hundreds of thousands of scholarly articles, reference entries, and bibliographies will continue to be added along with more site functionality.

At Really Strategies, we are particularly excited about this portal because RSuite CMS is one of the systems that helped make it possible. RSuite serves as the central repository and metadata hub for Oxford University Press and the Oxford Index.

From acupuncture to Werner Herzog, I've discovered scholarly content from trusted peer-reviewed sources, which I find terribly important during this era of big data overload.  When the family gets too hectic during the impending holiday season, you'll find me cuddled up in front of the fire exploring "Surrealism, Dada, and the Refusal of Work: Autonomy, Activism, and Social Participation in the Radical Avant-Garde" (full text for this gem is available!).