Oracle EBS Solution to E Publication Industry
E-Content in different format for diferent e Readers (Order Management), this involves order fulfillment being moved out to 3rd party who are apt in converting "e -contents" to the desired e reader format. The publishers own the content and need to provide secured access to 3rd party providers. On receipt of order a drop ship order is created and interfaced to these service providers. Confirmation from the service provider is considered as ASN to close the drop ship orders. This solution relies on EDI transactions with 3rd party and also in providing secured access to service providers to the contents
Access to E content over web, (Service Contract, Service Mode, Pre paid), this business model is to allow customers to have a time bound access to content over web for a specified time period. This can be achieved using Oracle Service Contracts to store the paid up contracts for the access and integrate with a third party Access & Entitlement system to provide access based on valid contracts. These contracts are defined like access to specific contents e.g. Gold Privilege to a content means unlimited access, Silver Privilege means access on during night time. The complexity in this solution is the integration with Access and Management systems to provide access based on the contracts.
Access to E content over web, (Service Contract, Counter Mode, Postpaid), A variant of the above solution can also use Service Contracts in counter mode to keep track of the usage and then send an invoice for the usage to the contract. The Solution from EBS needs to be integrated with a third party system to provide the usage details, and an access and entitlement system to provide access to the contents based on the contratcs
All these solution rely on integration with 3rd party service providers, storing of contents and providing secured access to 3rd party Service providers and user so in any implementation of EBS for publishing house these needs to be factored in the Order to Cash track as different kind of fulfillment for e media
