Publishers Weekly – August 05, 2019

Digital Solutions in India 2019

10 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ AUGUST 5, 2019

Cenveo Publisher Services

Cenveo Learning, which provides unified digital solutions for

publishers and corporate learning programs, was launched in

March. Employing a team of learning professionals with deep

experience in instructional systems, as well as visual and tech-

nical design, Cenveo Learning bundles educational talent with

corporate learning capabilities into a robust end-to-end

offering.

Available across devices

and platforms, Cenveo

Learning solutions include

adaptive micro-learning

modules, full-length

courses, assessment and

certification products,

gamification, animated and

live action interactive

videos, and simulations.

“We have long worked with

publishers, schools, col-

leges, and universities

worldwide on learner-cen-

tric, 21st-century solutions

for math, ELA, science, social sciences, and other disciplines,”

president Atul Goel says. “Corporate learning and develop-

ment programs will benefit from the application of these core

principles to training modules delivered via evolving tech-

niques and systems, including VR and AR, responsive design,

rapid development, blended learning, LMS development,

managed services, and consulting.”

Rajeev Barowalla, v-p of learning, says, “Cenveo is excited

to implement the skills and best practices to improve work-

place performance while we continue to create curriculum-

aligned and immersive educational experiences. Following our

proven approach of combining standards-based instruction

with interactive environments, we are confident that we can

transform mundane training materials into engaging and

effective learning across markets.”

As for Smart Suite, Cenveo’s cloud-based ecosystem of

publishing tools, many new features have been added to

make it even smarter. A total of four modules make up

the platform: Smart Edit (for pre-editing, copyediting,

and conversions), Smart Compose (the production engine),

Smart Proof (for capturing edits while allowing valid

XML round tripping), and Smart Track (which has an easy

user interface that logs all content transactions).

“Real-time reporting and validations are now a part of

the workflow,” Goel says, adding that one of the latest

features includes the fully automated issue-production

process. “It cuts down the issue compilation and delivery

process to a few minutes from the time the issue-lineup

information is received.” Cover processing has also been

fully automated. As for the new Smart Reporting feature,

customer-driven information such as metadata, stylesheets,

and typographic rules are now validated against the process

and reported as a proof of compliance.

“Smart Suite 2.0 is an integrated end-to-end workflow that

significantly reduces manual intervention while achieving the

goal of high-speed publishing with editorial excellence,” Goel

adds.

DiacriTech

Both large and small publishers have successfully adopted

XEditPro Publishing Suite, DiacriTech’s unified editorial and

production platform. Now in its third iteration, the platform

provides full support for multilingual interfaces and content,

and it has a changeable theme.

Enhancements to the platform are many. The security fea-

ture, for instance, includes IP-based restrictions for user access

and limits those users to the operations they are authorized to

perform. The project dashboard, meanwhile, can now monitor

project performance at a much more granular level, especially

for larger projects with multiple milestones. “An audit trail

or log is maintained for all events occurring during the stages

of publishing,” explains executive v-p Mahesh Balakrishnan,

whose team has added citation autolinking for edited book

references to the already available chapter- and article-end

reference link. The brand new UI/UX is an enhancement to

the previous Word-like editing interface.

“XEditPro version three presents a stable and more respon-

sive platform that has faster rendering of print and web PDF,

HTML, XML, ePub, and Word at any stage of the production

process,” Balakrishnan adds.

ImmersiveGaze, DiacriTech’s product for the AR/VR/MR

realm, is also evolving as a solution for distraction-free headset-

based immersive-learning techniques. “New generations of

schoolkids mostly have access to smartphones and devices, and

so we are creating content and storyboards that have an MR

angle,” says executive v-p A.R.M. Gopinath, whose team has

developed a series of biology concepts for a multinational

Mahesh Balakrishnan (l.) and A.R.M. Gopinath of DiacriTech

Atul Goel, president of Cenveo

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