ProQuest Boosts Product Quality, Slashes Cycle Times and Production Costs

Firm Outsources Digital Content Production to Innodata Isogen

Challenge

ProQuest, one of the world’s leading publishers of proprietary electronic content, converts more than 3,100 magazines, journals and other periodicals. The company uses a format that allows for full-text searching and other revenue-generating enhancements. Among the titles the Ann Arbor-based company delivers to college and academic libraries are leading publications, such as Newsweek, The Journal of Internal Medicine and Cosmopolitan.

ProQuest realized it needed a more cost-effective way to convert and format its vast amount of content, especially since it wished to add more titles to its growing list of publications. The company was not willing to compromise on turnaround time, and actually sought to improve it. The sooner ProQuest was able to add magazines to its various databases, the greater the value it would deliver to subscribers and readers....