Success Story
As one of the leading Swiss providers in commercial and business education and practice, Verlag SKV produces didactilly and content-wise high-quality education media. The publishing house has been publishing educational content since 1925 and has been committed to the successful model of “dual education” ever since.
Verlag SKV implements SiteFusion to create, manage and publish digital content into analog and digital channels.
SKV‘s digital learning platforms: MODU:LAB, CASE:LAB, TEACH:LAB
“The absolute highlight for me was to be able to transfer the entire content to our learning platform with the push of a button and see the finished design within a minute.”
Melanie Künzler
Project- & Content Management
@ Verlag SKV
Starting Point
It was a strategic decision to introduce a content management system into Verlag SKV. Customers are increasingly demanding individualized and personalized educational content in al kinds of different output formats. Up until now, this was only possible through manual production and distribution as well as high maintenance effort and expenditure of time. A system solution was needed allowing them automated or at least semi-automated content reuse. Hence the content conversion to the data format XML.
Goal
Successful implementation of a content management system based on medianeutral data management to offer, sell and distribute content individually and cross-media content in different output formats and deliver it to the customer.
Challenge
The focus at the beginning was still strongly on print and e-book media, planned as a pilot project together with one customer of the publishing house. This strategy changed in the course of the project to the concept of “digital first” and an additional pilot project was created. A new digital learning platform called MODU:LAB was built as a second pilot project and had its go-live early 2022. Subsequently, the platforms CASE:LAB and TEACH:LAB were implemented and form together the new Lerngalaxie [eng. Study Galaxy]. SiteFusion ProConsult‘s other parent company, EBCONT, also partook in the project and implementation while the online learning platforms were being developed. It was a major challenge to launch different outputs in parallel, to manage pilot projects and to implement the connection of the license management.
Why SiteFusion
- Customizable editor
- Automatic data export
into their learning platform
MODU:LAB - Automatic InDesign-
Publication - Media Usage Rights
Management
FFF
- Mikrotypo Script
- API to Abacus
(ERP System) - Keyword Widget to
manage metadata - White Label solution for
other customers - Task management with a
wide range of question types
Highlights
The API connections SiteFusion to MODU:LAB, said online learning platform, to Icefox for print output and to Abacus, their ERP system, were specifically designed for Verlag SKV. Furthermore customizations were made to the Fonto XML editor and the Media Usage Rights Environment. EBCONT was not only charged with the installation and configuration of the SiteFusion CMS, but also successfully implemented the new online learning platforms.
Milestones
Selection & Project Start
- Evaluation & decision for SiteFusion
- Infrastructure & system
- Setup Kick-off integration project
Workflows & Publishing
- Implementation of the
basic workflow incl. roles
and checklists - Creation of the workflow
for online learning platform
(data export) - Customization XML
editor (Fonto) - Implementation of
metadata and keywords - InDesign publication
through integration
of Icefox - Data collection of the
pilot projects - Creation of microtypography
script and integration
into the workflow
Media Usage Rights & API
- Implementation of Media
Usage Rights Management - Migration to new DITA
LCE including 13 different
task types - API from Abacus to
SiteFusion - Data pool implementation
for White Label solution - API: SiteFusion to digital
learning platform - Finalization of InDesign
publication in SF
Finetuning
- Adaptations of online
learning platform according
to requirements - Fine tuning of Fonto
XML editor - InDesign publication of
the new question types - Generated content like
tabs, tables of contents - Adaptations to Abacus
workflow - Creation of digital PDFs
(workflow, script for PDF)
„The challenge lies in finding balance between traditional book production and media-neutral content, but it’s certainly a lot of fun to explore the technologies. As a typographer, you would like to apply all the micro typography rules if possible, but you have to stay pragmatic and tell yourself: You need to know the rules of typography before you can break them”
Gianni Cocchiarella
Production Management & Grafics / Layout
@ Verlag SKV
Solution
This software implementation was carried out by SiteFusion and their implementation partner, EBCONT.
SiteFusion ProConsult is a formal joint venture of SiteFusion and EBCONT, and delivers the same technology solutions and engineering services to the North American market.
