Ingenta

A Message from Lord Pickles and Lord Blunkett, followed by Ingenta's best practice article

The ability to listen and learn from one another has always been vital in parliament, in business and in most aspects of daily life. But at this particular moment in time, as national and global events continue to reiterate, it is uncommonly crucial that we forge new channels of communication and reinforce existing ones. The following article from Ingenta is an attempt to do just that. We would welcome your thoughts on this or any other Parliamentary Review article.

Blunkett signature Rt Hon The Lord David Blunkett
Pickles signature Rt Hon The Lord Eric Pickles

www.ingenta.com

11INGENTA PLC |
BEST PRACTICE REPRESENTATIVE 2018
Scott Winner, acting CEO of
Ingenta plc
Unlocking content
is key
Ingenta is a global software supplier to publishers and other
content-rich industries. We built our core business by enabling
publishers to manage and monetise vast amounts of content.
Now, Ingenta’s cutting-edge solutions supports the new wave
of digital content providers and disseminators across retail,
media, music, education and healthcare.
For nearly 40 years, Ingenta has created world-leading software and content
solutions that enable publishing businesses to transform and stay current with
industry trends. We have deep knowledge and expertise in trade, educational and
scholarly publishing, which has been built through our close partnerships with
some 80 per cent of the world’s leading publishers.
Our global operations team partners and supports our customers wherever they are
located. Over the decades, we have helped shape and support the vast changes in the
publishing industry, increasing our partnerships and our suite of products and services
to a point where we offer unrivalled solutions for content owners and distributors.
The core solution for print and digital publishers is our technology for managing
products and IP, the associated contracts, rights, royalties, orders, warehouse
communications, subscriptions and distribution services. This solution is used by
large publishers such as SAGE, Cambridge University Press, Penguin Random
House, Macmillan and Elsevier. We have enabled the digital content transformation
with our content management systems, which serve millions of page views and
digital documents every month for a wide range of customers. Our complementary
advertising booking system helps some of the largest global magazine publishers
further monetise their content through advertising revenue.
FACTS ABOUT
INGENTA PLC
»Acting CEO: Scott Winner
»Established in 1977
»Headquarters in Oxford, UK
»Software and related services
provider for publishers
»Employs over 100 people
worldwide
»Worked with 80 per cent of
world’s largest publishers
»Our systems have processed
over £1 billion in orders for
customers
»www.ingenta.com
Ingenta plc
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Our expertise gained from helping
publishers maximise their revenue
opportunities is now benefiting other
content-rich industries. Earlier this
year, we signed a deal with Sainsbury’s
for our advertising solution to help
manage their digital advertising
space. We are also positioned to
bring value to other areas of retail,
healthcare, banking, education and
inter-governmental organisations. The
opportunities continue to expand as
more organisations find themselves
becoming publishers.
The broadening publishing
landscape
Ingenta provides opportunities for
businesses that wish to leverage their
assets by extrapolating meaningful
content and making it available to
consumers as open, print-on-demand
or paid-for content. In fact, the
growing realisation that businesses
already create and disseminate
content, sometimes in vast quantities,
has driven a multitude of changes in
the need to fully leverage that content.
The sheer explosion of new content
has created a “noisy” environment
and organisations need to invest in
key technologies to make sure that
the right content is available in the
right form at the right time. Acontent
strategy backed with the right
technology is business critical; if your
content cannot easily be found then
consumers assume it does not exist.
This is an investment that more and
more businesses are making to deliver
their content effectively, make it
discoverable to their target audience,
and where applicable use that channel
as a source of revenue. Success
depends on being able to react swiftly
to changing demands with products,
the acquisition of content, shifting
rights needs, and increased tracking
needs. Solutions to these needs must
be easy to navigate, scalable and
capable of handling today’s challenges
as well as tomorrow’s.
Our position of strength –
core customer focus
In 2017, we partnered with Rosen
Publishing, an American educational
publisher, to launch our full commercial
ERP to support their business. By 2018,
after a successful implementation,
we grew the solution to support
integration of a newbusiness.
President and owner Roger Rosen
said: “It is vitally important to our
continuing success as a fast-growing,
robust independent publisher…,
that Rosen utilise a state of the art,
flexible and reliable system to meet
our customers’ needs and our own
growth plans. Rosen now publishes
across many formats, with increasingly
complex packages and bundles of
content across different product
types. I have confidence that Ingenta
can partner with us to support our
acquisition growth plans and ongoing
innovations in product mix which must
come speedily to market.”
Finding the right content
at the right time
I have
confidence
that Ingenta
can partner
with us to
support our
acquisition
growth plans
and ongoing
innovations in
product mix
which must
come speedily
to market
Roger Rosen,
President and CEO
RosenPublishing
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13INGENTA PLC |
BEST PRACTICE REPRESENTATIVE 2018
When Schibsted Media, Norway’s
largest newspaper publisher, with
over 150 publications and four sites
nationwide, required a centralised and
simplified advertising management
solution, they turned to us.
Ingenta Advertising ensures Schibsted
has access to reliable, real-time
inventory information which enables
them to make the right decision
immediately. The software was
deployed remotely to all Schibsted
Media’s regional offices, which helped
maximise advertising revenue and
improve their ability to sell advertising
packages, and sell across titles. The
highly configurable, easily integrated,
component-based architecture of
Ingenta’s solutions has made all the
difference to Schibsted Media.
Schibsted’s IT manager for advertising
systems commented: “The system
makes the process much more
seamless as sales staff have access
to reliable, real-time inventory
information, seeing exactly what
spaces and positions are available
within each publication at any
given time. A fundamental reason
we opted for Ingenta Advertising
is the remarkable flexibility of the
systemarchitecture.”
Technology as an enabler of
growth
At Ingenta, we invest heavily in
providing the most value possible to
our clients. We work with a multitude
of technologies to provide a wide
range of software with specifically
superior functionality to enable our
customers to succeed.
A foundational goal of our solutions
is to free customers from technology
constraints and enable them to think
and adapt to the future. Our team
of business consultants works with
customers daily to shift their view of
their business. Thisencouragement
to innovate in their business drives
them to improve key functions
where they lag behind their
competitors, and to transform how
they work and conceptualise their
organisationalproducts.
Publishing is an industry where none
of us can afford to fall behind and
every day I am excited to drive our
products and our teams to take hold
of today’s opportunities and the
opportunities we see on the horizon in
five to ten years. Our customers have
been fantastic long-term partners and
we enjoy being the catalyst to their
success, providing the expertise and
functionality that they aren’t getting
with other parts of their technology
ecosystem. They thrive on our stable,
trusted solutions, which provide
low-risk ways to explore new revenue
models and processes. As I see this
industry expanding, with more parties
developing a defined publishing
element as part of their organisation,
I also foresee a bright future for our
teams in reusing what we have and in
building for the future.
A fundamental
reason we
opted for
Ingenta
Advertising is
the remarkable
flexibility of the
system
architecture
IT manager,
Schibsted Media
“
“
Our technology has had
a ripple effect across
publishing

www.ingenta.com

This article was sponsored by Ingenta. The Parliamentary Review is wholly funded by the representatives who write for it. The publication in which this article originally appeared contained the following foreword from Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng.

Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng's Foreword For The Parliamentary Review

By Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng

This year’s Parliamentary Review reflects on a tumultuous and extraordinary year, globally and nationally. As well as being an MP, I am a keen student of history, and I am conscious that 2020 would mark the end of an era. It will be remembered as the year in which we concluded Brexit negotiations and finally left the European Union. Above all, it will be remembered as the year of Covid-19.

In our fight against the pandemic, I am delighted that our vaccination programme is beginning to turn the tide – and I pay tribute to the British businesses, scientists and all those who have helped us to achieve this. But the virus has dealt enormous damage, and we now have a duty to rebuild our economy.

We must ensure that businesses are protected. We have made more than £350 billion available to that end, with grants, business rates relief and our furlough scheme supporting more than 11 million people and jobs in every corner of the country, maintaining livelihoods while easing the pressure on employers. The next step is to work with business to build back better and greener, putting the net zero carbon challenge at the heart of our recovery. This is a complex undertaking, but one which I hope will be recognised as a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Through the prime minister’s ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, we can level up every region of the UK, supporting 250,000 green jobs while we accelerate our progress towards net zero carbon emissions.

With our commitment to raise R&D spending to 2.4% of GDP and the creation of the Advanced Research & Invention Agency, we are empowering our fantastic researchers to take on groundbreaking research, delivering funding with flexibility and speed. With this approach, innovators will be able to work with our traditional industrial heartlands to explore new technologies, and design and manufacture the products on which the future will be built – ready for export around the globe.

And I believe trade will flourish. We are a leading nation in the fight against climate change. As the host of COP26 this year, we have an incredible opportunity to market our low-carbon products and expertise. Our departure from the EU gives us the chance to be a champion of truly global free trade; we have already signed trade deals with more than 60 countries around the world.

As we turn the page and leave 2020 behind, I am excited about the new chapter which Britain is now writing for itself, and for the opportunities which lie ahead of us.
Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy