Aptara PowerSuite is a set of technologies that provides publishers greater insight into, and control over, editorial and production processes.  PowerSuite streamlines and strengthens publishing workflows and applies selective task automation, resulting in greater editorial agility, better production control, and faster time-to-publish.

PowerReview – Online Proof Management

PowerReview is a fully customizable, web-based application for managing manuscript submission and peer review for book and journal publishers.  With the help of PowerReview, authors, editors, and reviewers can work on the same proofs regardless of geographic locations or time zones. PowerReview offers unparalleled flexibility through a configurable workflow and a customizable interface that reflects the publisher’s “look and feel”, while automated notifications online status reporting and improve schedule fidelity.

PowerTrack – Enhanced Project Tracking

PowerTrack is an online monitoring and reporting system providing an in-depth view of production milestones and accurate, timely status reporting for complex project portfolios.  Status reports can be viewed online or exported to Microsoft Excel for offline analysis. PowerTrack enables customized project tracking, including by milestone, article, issue, chapter, and even figure, while configurable color-coding enhances status reporting.  An advanced search capability means data can be filtered in any sorting sequence, based on field names with selectable conditions. 

PowerEdit – Quality, Automated Copyediting

PowerEdit brings automation to copyediting like never before.  It handles thousands of manuscript pages quickly, ensuring the highest level of quality and accuracy.  PowerEdit performs checks to ensure matching of figures and captions, corrects punctuation errors and ensures cross-reference consistency and compliance with the preferred spelling and reference style.  Publishers use PowerEdit to significantly reduce the cost, time, and hassle of routine editorial clean-up, lightening the copyediting burden. It offers automated reference marking, a math editor for scientific and technical publications, and XML conversion directly to a customer-specified XML DTD.

PowerProof – Real-Time Proof Delivery

PowerProof ensures real-time delivery of page proofs - at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle and time inefficiency of traditional shipping.  When content is ready for proofing, PowerProof sends an email, linked to the digital page proof, to the reviewer, enabling immediate review and correction.  The publisher is automatically notified when the review is complete. PowerProof supports article-based and issue-based workflows, facilitates simultaneous delivery of proofs in both high- and low-resolution PDFs, triggers automatic due-date alerts to authors, editors, and proofreaders to improve schedule fidelity, and offers online tracking for status transparency.

PowerQA – Automated Quality Assurance

PowerQA is a unique, web-based quality assurance tool that validates electronic deliverables against quality specifications and provides error listings back to vendors for correction.  PowerQA content checks are customizable, enabling publishers to automate most of their in-house manual checks.  With PowerQA, publishers eliminate repeated and costly manual cycles of testing, resubmitting and retesting vendor files.

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