1. Extracted slides from a presentation given at CID by Wolf-Michael Mehl Amsterdam, May 22nd, 2014

2. Market Trends

3. Market Trends Publishers becoming modern service providers
providing content and services
permanently developing new business models
Development of technology ==> change of consumer culture ==> new patterns of use ==> content to be accessed at any time, on different media, with different formats, in different ways
agile and flexible capabilities are a must

4. Market Trends
increasing granularity of products, proliferation of formats
==>
increasing complexity of rights and licensing processes
Challenges for rights acquisition and rights permission processes

5. To keep up with Market trends Software needs to …
be more scalable

6. become more customizable

7. run systems in web browser environments

8. reduce administration effort

9. Klopoteks dual technology stack: benefit from a solid foundation and leverage new open source technologies By
Client Layer
Application
Server Layer
*Optional
DBS Layer
Operating System
Layer

10. Software Engineering is key – Klopotek‘s Engine room
Software Technology Department
Desgin
Build & Test
Run
Maintain
Support
balsamiq
Technical Product Management
Software Development
QA Team
Operations
Team
Customer Service
Klopoteks Engineering toolbox:
ST4 Requierments defintion, general documentation
Balsamiq – UCD/UX Design and Mockups
Visual Paradigm – Software modelling (Domains, Classes, UML)
JIRA use cases, devlopment task, tickets,
Coding mit eclipse (Integrated (Java) development Environment)
Spring/hypernate – DB conncetion, O/R mapper
Junit/HP Quality center – testing framework and ticketing center
Subversion SVN – code repisitory , version control
Powerbuilder IDE – powerbuilder coding
Jenkins – Continous Integration, Deployment
Drools – rule based development
Scrum Teams
70 Software Engineers
Scrum Teams for Java stack
Separate Consulting team

11. Klopotek supports 3 kind of cloud-based SaaS solutions
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
On-Premise
Externally Hosted
Public Cloud NEW/BETA
In-house
Own hardware
Own management
Managed Services
Example customers: Thieme , deGruyter
Elsevier, Brill, Taylor & Francis, Brepols, Liber
2 professional 3-tier DC’s by Klopotek available (US, Germany)
Shared infrastructure
Public network
Managed service
Example customers: Liberty Fund , Albin Michel, Libella , Wales University Press
highly scalable
usage based
flexibility
Pilot installation
On-Premise: Elsevier
Taylor&Francis
deGruyter
NWB
C.H.Beck, …

12. After redesigning the core functions we focus on Klopotek K‘apps for specific purposesBy
K’app
K’app
K’app
K’app
Client Layer
Application
Server Layer
DBS Layer
Operating System
Layer

13. For the 3 main Klopotek modules we provide small and easy-to-use K’apps
CR&R
Rights & Permissions
Contract
Workflow
Rights
Sales & Purchasing
Royalty
Accounting
O2C
Subscriptions
Accounts Receivable
Title
Management
Title
Workflow
Business
Partner
Title
Info
Production
Workflow

14. First apps will be available by the end of this year with more to come in 2015 – the roadmap
Today
End of 2014
2015
Refresh PB user interface
Dual stack defined
Core functions redesigned
POC PowerBuilder Version 15 in SAP lab
Upgrade JBoss Version 7
4 Pilot K’Apps for
Title Workflow
Business Partner
Rights & Permissions
Subscriptions
Public cloud service with AWS
New K’App (α Q1/2015) Contract Workflow
New K‘Apps (α Q2/2015)
Rights sales/acquisition
Royalty accounting
New K‘App (α Q3/2015)
Production Workflow
All CR&R K‘apps ready as Beta (Q3/2015)

15. Thank you for your attention … and take note
Thank you for your attention … and take note. The theme of this year’s user group cocktail party is a masquerade contest !