FatWire TeamUp

Solutions for Publishing
Integrate disparate content repositories with book related content, improve productivity, create online communities around books and journals, allow instructors and students to publish content directly from their school servers, reduce IT infrastructure and maintenance costs.

Background
A modern book, or magazine, or journal, is a complex product that is an aggregation of text, designs, layouts, and images. Many printed products now include CDs with videos, multi-media presentations, software, and other types of information.

When a book is published, this information is stored in many content repositories, often managed by different companies involved in the publishing process.

A modern book is also a living product that has a website and a community of readers. In many cases, particularly in the case of textbooks, a book website can be used to create many independent communities where instructors contribute lecture notes, and students submit their home work.

Integrate disparate content repositories
With FatWire TeamUp you can manage, search, and securely share the entire body of book-related content, regardless of where this content is stored.

You can accomplish this by deploying a FatWire TeamUp server in your data center and installing FatWire TeamUp agents on machines with content. The agents will discover content and index it in the server.

The agents can be installed on your machines, as well as machines managed by your partners, such as printers, design studios, and others.

There is no need to migrate content to a central location. You can preserve existing business processes by keeping the content at its current locations and centralizing only the index and meta-data.

Improve productivity
With all the information at their fingertips, your writers, editors, and designers can be a lot more productive. They can focus on the creative aspects of their work, and leverage the existing knowledge and assets, instead of recreating them.

Create online communities around books and journals
Once the FatWire TeamUp server is deployed, it can also be used to form and maintain any number of online communities.

A community can be either open or closed. Community members can share content, post forum messages, and comments. FatWire TeamUp access control mechanism can be used to ensure students can view the lecture notes, for instance, but cannot change them.

Publish content directly from school machines
With FatWire TeamUp, instructors can publish lecture notes and assignments in a book community directly from their servers without having to upload this content to one of your machines.

Students can find and preview content in a community, and then download it directly from one of the instructor machines over the local campus network.

Reduce IT infrastructure and maintenance costs
FatWire TeamUp can dramatically reduce the scale of the IT infrastructure that is required to maintain active reader communities around your books, journals, and magazines.

You no longer have to maintain the terabytes of storage required to manage content contributed by the community members. There is also no need to provision the network bandwidth required to upload and download this content.

Deploy FatWire TeamUp in your data center today
FatWire TeamUp is available as a packaged software product that can be installed on machines in your data center. It can also be purchased as a hardware appliance that is pre-configured for the optimal performance in your environment.

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Contact us to see how TeamUp can work for you.
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