NEWBOOKS Solutions and MVB Surpass Competition with New VLB-TIX Service
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- VLB-TIX
- MarkLogic Database
Tech Stack
- XML
- ONIX
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Sales & Marketing
Services
- Data Science Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
NEWBOOKS Solutions is one of the German publishing industry's leading software houses. Services provided to the industry include a new title alert and approval plan system, ONIX import and export systems, converter tools, shop-, platform-, library- and eProcurement systems development. By combining the title data for all new publications contained in the NEWBOOKS and VLB (German books in print) catalogues, the company's innovative product VLB-TIX can provide customers with comprehensive enriched and timely (marketing) information on new and forthcoming titles. Users - especially libraries and corporate customers - can also receive new title information on all new titles published in German and English in the German-speaking countries as new title alerts, as part of an approval plan and integrated in their eProcurement systems.
The Challenge
NEWBOOKS Solutions and MVB wanted to create a new revenue stream and open up a new market by digitizing published new books, previews, and an ordering system with a new service, VLB-TIX. The developers at NEWBOOKS required an infrastructure that could integrate and manage a wide range of data sources and formats, offer the highest levels of customer service, support future growth with enterprise features, and provide agility. They needed to integrate data from its database and the VLB database, which together contained titles from 23,000 publishers and diverse data types such as bibliographic book metadata, and shared buyers' notes. They also had to incorporate a large number of publishing partners into the process with different workflows and various data formats.
The Solution
After attempting to build VLB-TIX on a relational database, the team rapidly realized the MarkLogic® database was more ideally suited to the task. The IT team was particularly drawn to the flexibility and agility of the MarkLogic database, as well as its data import and search capabilities and enterprise features. Today, the MarkLogic database runs VLB-TIX on-premise and contains new title announcements from all of the 23,000 publishers listed in the central German Book catalogues from NEWBOOKS and VLB. With the help of the MarkLogic database, NEWBOOKS and MVB launched VLB-TIX to wild success. VLB-TIX is the platform for high quality, productive and up-to-the-minute communication about new books that goes beyond title listings or printed new books catalogues.
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