Springer Science+Business Media is one of the world's largest STM publishing house. Springer's main publishing fields are science, medicine, engineering, economics, architecture, construction and transport. The company owns 70 publishing houses in Europe, Asia and the USA and publishes 1,700 journals and 5,000 new book titles every year, plus databases, online services, conferences and seminars. Behind all of this are some 5,000 employees working in more than 20 countries around the world. Reksoft in engaged in the project for the development of book production process, based on the industrial EMC Documentum platform.
Springer's Content Management Department was the prime customer of the workflow system that ensures the highest data quality, establishes clear responsibilities for information and process flow, reduces the complexity of processes and harmonizes processes at Springer's worldwide locations.
Springer began with the journal production processes area. The original solution which automated the journals production workflow was developed based on the EMC Documentum platform. Following its success, Springer decided to extend the process for book production. The system automates all of the book production processes: from initiating a book and preparing content to proofs, to creating hard copies and digital content and finally, to distribution.
Although Reksoft engineers joined the project in the middle of the development process, the project communications were built up promptly thanks to the excellent knowledge transfer process, thereby ensuring the smooth course of the project. A further challenge was the geographic spread of the team members in Germany, the United States, the Netherlands and Russia, but this challenge was easily mastered and at the end of January 2007 the first phase of the project was completed and in the spring 2007 the system was rolled out into operations.
As of November 2007, Reksoft in engaged in a few concurrent projects on the automation of the books' production processes (Book WorkFlow), journals' production processes (Journal WorkFlow) and books & journals pre-production, production and post-production. Apart from that, Reksoft team has been involved into the integration of the applications based on Documentum and SAP platforms.