Bookmaster to be part of Era’s successNews & Events 2005-09-26 Doubling in size over the last year, and with over 150 new titles pending being published over the next year, as well as an extensive backlist, Era Publications has selected Bookmaster as its new enterprise partner. Era Publications has always been at the forefront of innovation in educational learning in Australia. Era was the first to research and introduce big books to the upper primary school education sector. Its most recent venture into guided reading, through its WINGS Developmental Literacy Series, is winning over customers in all parts of Australia and overseas.
Rod Martin, Managing Director, said “With the business growing so strongly, we needed a robust enterprise-wide solution for our business processes. Bookmaster will help us realise our business objectives. I cannot imagine how we could effectively compete in the global publishing market without it.”
He added, “Effective content creation, delivery and management in the publishing sector and achieving a suitable return is not for the faint-hearted. I believe Bookmaster offers us an opportunity to focus on producing more products that people really want, and spend less time managing how we do it.”
A few years ago Bookmaster would have been beyond the scope of companies such as Era. However, Bookmaster is also suitable for small-to-medium sized businesses and this means that the benefits of this enterprise solution are now available to a wider number of potential clients within publishing and book distribution.
Era decided on Bookmaster because it offered a demonstrated return on investment against the company’s bottom line as well as an opportunity to combine its legacy systems and processes under a unified enterprise-wide system. In addition, Era chose Bookmaster due to its excellent track record of on-time and on-budget implementations.
Era Publications is an award-winning educational publisher specialising in primary school (K-8) literacy resources, big books for shared reading, guided reading, literacy assessment, teacher guides, language reference, audio, interactive CD ROMs and children's picture books.
Established in 1971 and based in South Australia, Era is owned by the Martin family. The company's titles have been published or distributed in over 30 countries and translated into 18 languages in addition to English.
Bookmaster is developed by IBS, a world-leading supplier of business solutions for niche industries servicing over 5000 customers in some 40 countries. Bookmaster the most widely used publishing-specific ERP solution and its customer include HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin, Macmillan Distribution Service, Harvard University Press, LexisNexis, Pearson Education and McGraw Hill.
For more information contact:
IBS
Mike Irving, Sales & Marketing Manager
Mike.irving@ibsaustralia.com
Phone: (02) 9761 9222, www.bookmaster.com.au
Era Publications
Fiacre Baker, Marketing Director
fiacre@erapublications.com
Phone: (08) 8352 4122, www.erapublications.com
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