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2008
February 2008 Value Chain
adopts epub standard;
instantly available to
hundreds of sites
Value
Chain International (VCIL),
a global digital publishing
specialist, announces today
that it has enabled ePub
titles to be rendered
seamlessly within its online
DX READER platform, which is
used by libraries and
institutions around the
world. The titles will be
fully DRM protected along
with OEB and other XML
files.
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2007
October 2007
Azurn acquires Value Chain
In October
2007 Azurn acquired Value
Chain (International)
Limited.
This
strategic acquisition
provided Azurn two key
benefits:
-
Existing client of blue
chip clients within the
publishing sector – a
content intensive
industry vertical where
process collaboration
leveraging Azurn MCP can
make a great difference.
-
Predictable running
revenues and business
relationships that can
underpin further growth
with certainty
Azurn’s
business is all about
business processes –
automating business
processes leveraging
information technology and
enhancing people
effectiveness by leveraging
patented technology that
brings in convergence of
voice, data and video within
the security of the
corporate firewall. By
harnessing the ability to
truly combine voice (PSTN)
with IP (data), Azurn
presents enterprises a
hardware/software based
customer premise equipment
that allows complete process
flexibility – the ability to
leverage voice/data/video
using any communication
device using any carrier
network, over the internet,
broadband, telephone and
wireless protocols.
One sector
that is now available to
exploit the power of this
patented technology is
“publishing”. As a result of
the acquisition of VCIL,
Azurn now has a client base
of global players within the
publishing sector. Within
this sector, Azurn now has
clients like Cengage
(Thomson Learning), Taylor &
Francis, Houghton Mifflin,
McGraw Hill, Elsevier,
Encyclopaedia Britannica
etc. Publishing is a content
heavy collaborative process
and generally involves
dispersed teams who have a
constant need to review
documents and take
decisions. This process
lends itself extremely well
to the capabilities of
process collaboration
supported by the platform.
Azurn through the
acquisition of VCIL already
has a global workforce
active within the publishing
sector and plans to start
selling the capabilities
into this vertical within
the first quarter of 2008.
The same platform has also
serious applications within
the Education and Training
sectors. Azurn already has
agreements in place with
global heavyweights like
Intel and Xerox. These
relationships inherited as
part of the acquisition of
VCIL, are related to
specific projects within the
education sector. Plans are
already in place to leverage
the capabilities of the
multimedia platform within
the education sector and the
sales process has already
started.
VCIL
competes in the market with
other digital publishing
service providers to compose
raw content into
presentable, usable,
sellable pages for print and
electronic distribution.
VCIL has to date produced
over 15 million pages of
content in complex XML-based
digital outputs. VCIL has
established a good
reputation and long term
relationships with its
clients. IP and processes
allow VCIL to provide world
class services to convert
content from any format to
digital format, accompanied
by proprietary software for
conversion of rich content
into XML.
The
end-to-end digital
publishing services
comprise:
-
Composition of raw
content into
presentable, usable,
sellable pages for print
and electronic
distribution
-
Conversion of content
from any format to any
digital format of
customer’s choice
-
Hosting of digital
content in a secure
environment
eCommerce – Retail,
Wholesale
-
packaging & delivery of
content to Aggregators
and ‘Print on Demand’
Suppliers
-
Development of
publishing software
products
April 2007 Value Chain
partners with Xerox to
deliver enhanced industry
solutions
Globally based information
management specialist Value
Chain (International) Ltd
("Value Chain") and Xerox
Corporation today announced
an agreement to deliver
enhanced collaborative
business process and
performance management
solutions for financial
services, human resources,
insurance, and publishing
and education sectors.
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