Part of Aptara's world-class composition and digital solutions is the Aptara PowerSuiteTM, a complete set of applications that gives publishing customers greater insight and control throughout the entire editorial and manuscript production process.
Our patented PowerSuite strengthens workflow automation to ensure greater flexibility, better control, reduced costs and faster time-to-market.
PowerReview – Online Proof Management PowerReviewTM is a fully customizable application that provides book and journal publishers with an affordable, web-based option for managing manuscript submission and peer review.
With the help of this simple and efficient tool, authors, editors, and reviewers can access their proofs regardless of geographical locations or time zones.
Key Benefits
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Custom Workflow: configurable to meet publishers’ specific workflow requirements |
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Custom Design: flexible and customizable; can be tailored to reflect the publisher’s online “look and feel” |
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Online Tracking: submissions are trackable by journal, category, or division classification. Vital submission information is available, including details of review, file name, proof date, delivery details, numbers of reminders, and date of download. Status reports can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel. |
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Confidentiality: unique login names and passwords are generated for publishers, authors, and reviewers to restrict access to page proofs |
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Automated Follow-Up: periodic reminder emails help ensure that authors and reviewers access articles at regular intervals |
PowerTrack – Enhanced Project Monitoring PowerTrackTM is an online tracking system created specifically for Aptara's customers to more efficiently monitor their project status. This web-based application provides an in-depth view of the production milestones for every project. Status reports can be viewed online or saved as Microsoft Excel files for use offline.
Key Benefits
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Web Interface: allows for secure and instant access from anywhere in the world. Searches can be saved for future reference |
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Workflow-Based Flexible Tracking: status tracking via milestones; tracking options can be customized for specific customer requirements and include tracking by article, issue, figure, and chapter |
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Color-Coded Status: color-coding allows users to quickly assess project status and identify any potential delivery issues |
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Advanced Search: data can be filtered in any sorting sequence, based on field names with predefined conditions |
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Custom Design: fully customizable to match the “look and feel” of the customer’s web site |
PowerEdit – Automated Quality Copyediting Aptara’s innovative PowerEditTM application automatically copyedits thousands of manuscript pages, ensuring the highest level of quality and accuracy.
Using .Net technology and a Microsoft Word back-end, PowerEdit normalizes author files and performs checks to ensure matching of figures and captions. In addition, it corrects punctuation and ensures cross-reference consistency and compliance with the preferred spelling and reference style.
Publishers turn to Aptara’s PowerEdit tool to significantly reduce the cost, time and hassle of routine editorial clean-up. Copyediting no longer has to be considered a laborious task that takes up precious time in the editorial process.
Key Benefits
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User Friendly: conforms to standard Microsoft Windows conventions, using customized Word editing features for operational simplicity |
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Bibliographic Citations: reference marking is automatic, using pattern matching and regular expression |
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Complex Structures: using built-in Microsoft Word features, tables, matrices, and other complex structures are easily converted |
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Built-In Standard Math Type Editor: for scientific and math-intensive publications |
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XML Conversion: provides conversion and mapping directly to a customer-specified XML DTD |
PowerProof – Real-Time Proof Delivery Tired of routine delays from lost packages? Need to speed up delivery to more quickly reach authors and editors around the world? Aptara’s PowerProofTM application ensures the real-time delivery of page proofs - at a fraction of the cost of traditional shipping.
When page production is complete and content is ready for proofing, PowerProof generates an email with a link to the digital page proof, enabling immediate review and correction mark-up of the composed page. The publisher is automatically notified when the review is complete.
Key Benefits
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Proof Delivery: supports article-based and issue-based workflow requirements, facilitates simultaneous delivery of proofs in both high- and low-resolution PDFs; delivers proofs to multiple recipients via email with links for accessing the pages |
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Customized Email Alerts: triggers automatic due-date alerts to authors, editors, and proofreaders; email “From” addresses are configurable to ensure that any undelivered emails “bounce” back to the appropriate contact |
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Automated Follow-Up Process: periodic reminder emails help ensure that authors regularly provide feedback |
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Controlled Access: unique user names and passwords for publishers, editors, and proofreaders secure the access of proofs |
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Tracking Homepage: offers article tracking by journal, category, or division classification with vital information visible including filename, proof date, expiration date, delivery details, number of reminders, confirmation, and date of download |
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Customized Look: fully customizable to match the “look and feel” of the customer’s web site |
PowerQA – Automated Quality Assurance PowerQATM is a revolutionary, web-based quality assurance tool (QA) that effectively screens vendor-supplied electronic files before the content is uploaded to an asset management system or electronic repository.
The content checks performed by PowerQA are customizable, allowing publishers to replicate most of their in-house manual checks through this automated process. With PowerQA to help them, publishers can eliminate the repeated manual cycles of testing and resubmitting vendor files.
PowerQA provides an automated quality assurance process that strictly validates electronic deliverables against quality specifications and provides feedback to vendors by listing the errors in their files.
Key Benefits
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Error Reduction: a fully automated QA process maximizes efficiency and reduces the chances of erroneous content being passed to customers’ asset management systems |
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Operational Simplicity: a user-friendly interface simplifies complex operations, prompting vendors to submit electronic deliverables through a basic FTP process; PowerQA then performs complex quality checks, generates reports, and provides simple mechanisms for delivery and acceptance |
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Automated Email Alerts: automated emails alert the publisher and vendor upon completion of the QA process |
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Customized Emails: notification emails can include linked log reports and publisher acceptance status reports | |
