1. HiEd & INT’L Monthly Meeting CMS Digital Delivery
February 2012
Janet Marhefka
Product Manager
CMS Digital Delivery

2. Today’s Agenda PCL Digital Library eText v4.5 update Upcoming Releases
Release planned for Saturday, February 18th
Release Notes have been posted on NEO
Upcoming Releases
Android v1.1 Release
eText v4.7
iPad and Android v1.2
PCL
v4.6
High-Level Overview
Roadmap
Digital Library

3. eText v4.5 Release planned for Saturday, Feb. 18th
Release Notes on NEO
Expected outage time
New features
List of bug fixes

4. Upcoming Releases Android v1.1 eText v4.7 QA continues
Planned release late February or early March
eText v4.7
Planned for May
Will include some customer-facing features but mostly server-side work
Include new federated services iPad & Android v1.2
Three new versions each
To be deployed slightly ahead of eText v4.7
Support new hotspot types and federated servers
Late Spring or early Summer

5. Pearson Custom Library (PCL)
Integration Goals
Automated publishing process - about 2 days to create an eText
Create eTexts from PDFs stored in HighCrest
Dedicated Viewer, CM and Authoring servers (PROD3)
Automated subscription preparation and publish via RUMBA
Sale of eText/PCL products via Pearson’s Comergent eCommerce Server
Access via HighCrest (“PCL”) Bookshelf. Digital Library access to follow
Subscribe to full title or individual chapters (each a book)
Release to Production this summer after v4.7
v4.6 release (only to CERT3)
Includes eText server enhancements to integrate with HighCrest
Needed for integration testing planned for end of March

6. Digital Library
Allows students and instructors to search, preview, purchase and then manage large collection of Pearson eText titles and media content
User will be able to directly access their Digital Library using a personal computer‘s web browser or mobile device as well as via selected MyLab solutions.  
Business Units will have the ability to pre-defined collections or allow individual users to expand their bookshelf by subscribing to additional eTexts via Pearson’s authentication and eCommerce systems.  
Subscriptions to the Digital Library can be extended beyond the end of a given course, allowing the user access to Pearson content that continues through their collegiate education and during their careers.  
A multitude of organizing mechanisms will be available for users to save their favorite searches, refer to their most recent searches, create study guides as well as organize their content.  
Instructors will be provided with the option to share their recommended searches to the students in their courses, upload their own content and add eTexts to their personal bookshelves.    The initial Digital Library release will be released for BTS 2012 and will include, at a minimum, the ability for users to search across a library of eText titles, preview titles and then purchase a subscription.   
Future releases will expand the capabilities to include features such as searching for Pearson media assets, collection personalizations and more.  

7. Other Updates Janet out on maternity leave
Starting end of February/beginning of March
Peter Chapman to be primary contact