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Content Conversion and Distribution Case Study
Case Information
Industry:
Higher Education and Publishing
Business Type:
Educational Content Publisher and Distributor
Services:
Content Conversion, Digital Distribution, SharePoint Development, Workflow Automation, Digital Accessibility
Client Profile

Delivering High-Volume Educational Content in Multiple Formats Across Global Distribution Channels

Our client, a #1-ranked state university, is one of the largest creators and distributors of business cases, technical notes, presentations, books, articles and other educational content.

Businesses continuously generate content including technical notes, publications, agreements, contracts, manuals, legal documents, multimedia, business cases, news articles and many more. Consumers require this content in various formats.

Business schools, publishing houses and international distribution partners require this material in different formats and through different delivery channels. Each partner may also have its own requirements for branding, file format, delivery time, location and distribution method.

Technical Challenges

Manual Content Conversion and Publishing Workflows Increased Costs and Limited Global Distribution

Business cases, technical notes, presentations, books and articles had to be converted into several publishing formats.

Converting content based on consumer requirements was expensive and prone to manual formatting errors.

Processing content for publishing and distribution could take as long as one week.

Distributing content through email, fax, paper and digital delivery channels according to predefined schedules was labor-intensive.

Publishing partners required different content formats, branding rules, schedules, locations and delivery methods.

Existing staff could support only a limited number of global distribution channels, restricting growth and contributing to declining revenue.

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Our Solution

Reducing Digital Publishing Time from One Week to 10 Minutes

Our professionals analyzed the business and technical challenges and proposed a custom SharePoint 2013-based content conversion and distribution solution. Administrators could define rules through a web interface to convert content into widely used formats such as ePub, PDF, MOBI and XML.

Content could be branded, personalized or white-labeled for each publishing channel. The solution also supported scheduled distribution through email, FTP servers, HTTP Post and web services, while preserving content groupings, relationships and metadata.

Digital publishing time was reduced from one week to 10 minutes, operating costs were reduced by 35%, and productivity increased by 45%. The solution supported more than 10,000 digital content assets across multiple formats and global distribution channels.

Contract workflow planning
Contract review and approval
Contract reporting dashboard

  • Reduced content conversion time from one week to 10 minutes
  • Achieved a 35% reduction in operating costs
  • Increased productivity by 45%
  • Completed 600 automated content workflows in one year
  • Supported more than 10,000 content items
  • Expanded the number of global distribution channels supported by the existing team
  • Reduced manual errors through configurable rule-based execution
  • Improved control and predictability across content conversion and distribution

  • Fully featured 100% web-based interface with easy administration
  • 100% configurable rule-based content conversion
  • Support for ePub, PDF, MOBI, XML and other industry-standard content formats
  • Content filter rules based on content metadata
  • XML conversion with cleansing and transformation
  • Automated branding, personalization and white-label publishing
  • Preservation of content groups, relationships and dependencies
  • Flexible scheduling by day, day of the week and day of the month
  • Distribution through email, FTP servers, HTTP Post and web services
  • Full and incremental content distribution
  • Automated distribution to an online eCommerce store
  • Management of more than 10,000 content items
  • Highly available and scalable SharePoint solution
  • Digital accessibility support for PDFs, digital documents and publishing workflows

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013
  • SQL Server 2013
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Custom Event Receivers

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