Traditional composition workflows force publishers to make a difficult choice: either incur the expense of purchasing expensive software and the skilled artists required to compose pages in-house, or pay exorbitant fees to a vendor to outsource page composition with a proprietary approach.
Innodata Isogen’s TALS solution provides a third choice by combining the cost advantage of offshore composition with the freedom to switch composition tools and vendors.
This allows publishers to transform their own stylesheets into intellectual property. Most outsourcers generally tie styles and templates directly to the composition engine they use to compose and paginate the pages. This means that when companies rebrand their image, or go through a merger, they must pay to redo the template and stylesheet. The same is true if they decide to switch vendors. New vendors typically charge a hefty fee to rebuild the stylesheet.
Vendor lock-in presents a particular challenge to large publishers who may look to outsource document composition to more than one firm to get the best prices, as well as to smaller outfits simply looking to switch from one outsourcer to another.
But TALS removes this obstacle by allowing publishers to retain the rights to these stylesheets. In addition, the solution significantly shortens the set-up time required by composition providers. And by minimizing the risk of switching to new vendors, the stage is set for increased price competition. That kind of flexibility is a benefit that all publishers, both large and small, cannot afford to ignore.
Innodata Isogen has been a leading provider of offshore editorial services for more than 15 years, helping many of the world's leading publishers reduce editorial costs, maintain and safeguard the quality of editorial standards and add value through richer features and functionality. We're now ready to extend this experience to the realm of page composition.
In addition, our professional staff includes the world's leading information scientists – analysts, architects, engineers, programmers, business process and workflow experts, editorial specialists, product designers and production specialists. In fact, our dedicated professionals have authored many of the XML-related standards at the W3C, ISO, IETF, OASIS and other standards bodies. They are also considered some of the top experts in content repository cross-linking – which includes standards like XTM, XIndirect and Xlink.
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