Author Solutions

Cloud Story: Cloud Application Development

Business Need: End-to-end Self-Publishing in the Cloud
Automate entire self-publishing workflow to create high quality books faster, at a lower cost, integrating disparate front and back office systems to speed business processes and increase visibility

Develop solution that can be resold to other publishers to provide similar automation benefits

Appirio Solution: Force.com, Sales Cloud

Built custom application on Force.com integrated with existing on-premise systems and third-party services

Built publishing rules, production workflow, file management, accounting, e-commerce, and relationship management into system

Results: Microsoft Dynamics Integration, <6 Months

Integrations include Crystal Reports, Microsoft Dynamics/Great Plains, and SQL Reporting Services

Replaced Cornerstone and DB.NET legacy systems

Less than 6 months to rollout the initial application

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“Appirio has helped us move a process that has long relied on manual, time intensive activities and turned it into something that is streamlined and demands a fraction of the resources. Today our company is completely ‘in the cloud’ and we can’t imagine running it any other way.”

- Kevin Weiss
CEO of Author Solutions

In the News

Author Solutions is a mid-size publishing company with $50M in revenues and 400 employees. Working with Appirio, Author Solutions recently moved its core business process – helping independent authors publish books – to the cloud in just five months.
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