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publisher and deployed these in a private school as their proof
of concept on advanced teaching methodologies.
“We also launched our own game-based physics education
module, Vaco from Venus, on the iStore and Playstore. The goal
is to help the character Vaco get to its spaceship through
solving science-based activities and understanding the con-
cepts involved,” Gopinath adds.
The company’s true XML-first InDesign production solu-
tion has also undergone major updates. “InXML now works
with the latest version of InDesign and is used primarily for
clients wanting an InDesign-based solution. InXML is highly
automated with multiple outputs—Word, XML, PDF, ePub,
and HTML5—generated at a click of a button. So we are able
to fast track projects with ease,” adds Gopinath, whose focus
remains on “bringing about cloud-based solutions for design-
intensive publications.” Gopinath explains, “We are inte-
grating InXML with XEditPro to achieve this goal, which will
see almost all design and editorial work done using XEditPro’s
web interface.”
DiTech Process Solutions
DiTech’s acquisition of eAthena in December 2018 has
brought about special skills
and domain expertise. “This
was the first company to
develop regional Indian-
language e-books for Kindle,
and it was among the first
few to launch animated chil-
dren’s e-books,” company
founder and CEO Nizam
Ahmed says, adding that
eAthena, a specialist in cap-
turing medieval hand-
written documents, has
worked very closely with
several U.K.-based organi-
zations and universities on
such projects. “So we now
gained a foothold in this specific domain and acquired new
niche clients. There is huge potential in this area, and we want
to further grow this going forward.”
Then there is 3ClicksMaster (3CM), a separate company
developed and owned by DiTech that offers a cloud-based
automated cross-media publishing platform of the same name.
The 3CM platform combines three separate processes: creation
(which covers copyediting and XML conversion), design (auto-
flowing-created XML into InDesign or predetermined DTDs),
and publishing (creating print PDF, XML, ePub3, and
HTML5 on the fly). Customizable, flexible, and editable, the
3CM platform is designed for web, print, and mobile content.
Several global nonprofit organizations have adopted 3CM for
their publications.
Recently, 3CM started offering a new module for end-to-end
journal-publishing requirements. “JMaster allows the users to
publish their articles at the click of a button. It provides a
unique set of features for seamless journal publishing, such as
automated DOI generation, online copyediting, author packet
generation, auto-issue building, and email notifications for
production managers and authors. There is also a math-type
editor for equations and formulas,” Ahmed says, adding that
JMaster, which can process approximately 500 pages per
minute, has the ability to produce extensive publications with
highly complex layouts.
Aside from that, JMaster can process Unicode data and
comes with copyediting rules for all languages, thus enabling
multilingual publications. “Production managers can track
the status of their journals in the 3CM platform, allowing for
better planning of print and digital products,” Ahmed says.
“Since JMaster is easily configurable, it delivers quick solu-
tions to specific requirements without quality compromise.”
The success of 3CM, which was established in 2016, has
prompted Ahmed to focus on his company’s ability to provide
technology solutions for end-to-end publishing services. “We
want DiTech Process Solutions to be known as a technology-
solution provider rather than just a service provider.”Exeter Premedia Services
Kriya, Exeter’s cloud-based publishing platform, continues to
focus on its goal (and slogan) to “deliver happy authors.” “It
is being enhanced functionally as well as technologically to
ensure that its workflow and capabilities provide a superior
experience for authors, publishers, and all users of the system,”
company cofounder and CEO Ravi Venkataramani says. “We
have added significant new capabilities across the spectrum of
publications—journals, books, abstracts, newsletters, and
directories, for instance.”
For books, the team has built a dedicated cloud-based solu-
tion on Kriya that streamlines the entire life cycle of book
production. “The solution
comes with all the features
that make Kriya an effi-
cient publishing platform,”
Venkataramani says. “These
include an integrated con-
tent-management system
for versioning and storage/
retrieval for revised edi-
tions, versions, supporting
files and metadata; XML-
driven automation; proof-
and-edit on the flow; and
intuitive interfaces.”
The core new capability
is a stronger book-planning
and project-managementNizam Ahmed, founder and CEO
of DiTech Process Solutions and
3ClicksMasterRavi Venkataramani, cofounder and
CEO of Exeter Premedia Services