SAP offers integrated, end-to-end solutions for all core business processes that deliver a measurable ROI and reduce TCO in the media industry. Publishers worldwide have successfully implemented the SAP for Media solution portfolio. SAP is your stable, long-term partner – providing solutions tailored to your specific business needs. Not only today, but in the future.

Convincing References for a Great Offer

"Choosing SAP as a platform and IDS Scheer for business process support was a key decision for our publishing group." – Georg Thieme Verlag

"IDS Scheer and SAP for Media are future proof partners for our publishing house." – C.H. Beck

"Having SAP software as our new business platform is a great support for the innovation of our book production processes." – Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS

Solution Map

The SAP for Media solution map outlines business processes so you can visualize, plan, and implement a coherent, integrated, and comprehensive solution.

Best Practices for Media

SAP Best Practices for Media are tailored to the media industry – so you can set up key processes with industry-specific sample data, thorough documentation, and solution-specific training and support materials at no additional charge. SAP Best Practices provide preconfiguration, guides, and accelerators that help simplify and streamline the implementation of your SAP for Media solutions. Examine the first-ever available best practices for media.

Customer Successes

These are just a few customers who are successfully using SAP for Media solutions in their business environments:

• De Agostini Editore (PDF), Italy – Find out how De Agostini Editore transformed itself into a modern publisher of materials in 13 languages for over 30 countries – choosing SAP software, including the SAP Customer Relationship Management application, to integrate and automate its direct marketing channel.
• Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag (PDF), Germany – Read how this publisher of financial products and services implemented the SAP Customer Relationship Management solution and the SAP for Media solution portfolio to increase margins and cut costs.
• Editorial Aranzadi (PDF), Spain – Examine how this provider of content services for law professionals turned to SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) to optimize business processes and increase productivity through more detailed customer information for better sales management and reporting.
• Haufe Media Group (PDF), Germany – Discover how this leading German specialist publisher in the fields of economics, law, and taxation optimized its core business processes – and streamlined order management – with industry-specific and cross-industry software from the SAP for Media solution portfolio.
• Higher Education Press (PDF), China – Learn how this text publisher integrated operations, achieved greater process control, reduced manual data input, and improved production, inventory, and sales visibility – with the SAP Business Suite.
• Imprensa Nacional Casa Da Moeda (INCM) (PDF), Portugual – Discover how this national publishing and mint organization reduced TCO and prepared its IT environment for future challenges. INCM upgraded SAP ERP software, enlisting the expertise of SAP Consulting to help improve business processes and support new projects.
• Kodansha (PDF), Japan – Discover how a Tokyo-based media company deployed SAP ERP software and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to support future growth. The new solution provides fast, accurate information about costs and expenses, improved enterprise control infrastructure, and reduced TCO.
• Macmillan India Ltd. (PDF), India – See how SAP software brought positive changes to Macmillan India's business – including streamlined business processes, improved staff productivity and customer service, and reduced transaction time and costs. The story also describes how Navneet Publications benefited from SAP software.
• Oxford University Press (PDF), United Kingdom – Find out how Oxford University Press Education and Children's Division optimized demand planning and forecasting for its complete range of publications using the SAP Demand Planning application, which is part of the SAP Supply Chain Management solution.
• RAO Publishing Group (PDF), Romania – Discover how this midsize publisher implemented SAP Business All-in-One ERP to replace its legacy accounting, reporting, and sales and distribution software. Expert assistance from SAP Consulting enabled SAP implementation partner FAIR VALUE to complete the project in record time.
• RCS (PDF), Italy – Explore how RCS Diffusione, the arm of RCS MediaGroup that distributes newspapers, magazines, collectibles, and paperbacks to local distributors throughout Italy, manages distribution cycles more effectively and reacts to market changes more quickly – meeting business goals more successfully.
• Swets (PDF), Netherlands – Read how this subscription-services firm met increasing demand by implementing SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure for unified, more efficient information management and the flexibility to keep pace with fast-changing market dynamics.
• Verbo Postal (PDF), Portugal – Investigate how Verbo Postal implemented SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) – effectively reorganizing the business through a uniform platform and efficient usage of a customer behavior database.
• Wolters Kluwer/IPSOA (PDF), Italy – Find out how this publisher effectively serves more than 100,000 customers in the fiscal, legal, labor, and business markets using SAP Customer Relationship Management and the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Case Studies/ROI Reports

• C.H. Beck (PDF), Germany – Examine how a leading publisher of professional journals in law, taxes, economics, literature, and science implemented SAP Intellectual Property Management and other SAP for Media solutions to improve its royalty accounting process – realizing productivity savings and process improvements.
• Daekyo (PDF), Korea – Learn how this provider of online education programs and materials for early childhood education, tutoring, and homeschooling implemented SAP ERP to consolidate information systems, streamline purchasing, and reduce excess stock – and establish a Web portal for teachers and students.
• Malmberg (PDF), Netherlands – Learn how this educational publisher, with SAP and CIBER (UK) as implementation partners, selected SAP Customer Relationship Management and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence to identify target groups, anticipate and satisfy customer demand, link front and back offices, and gain a competitive edge.
• Wolters Kluwer/IPSOA (PDF), Italy – Consider how IPSOA, a leader in the Italian publishing market, launched the SAP Customer Relationship Management application to achieve an internal rate of return (IRR) of 7% over 25 months – and expects an IRR of 30% over 36 months.

Additional References

References for SAP for Media include the following companies and organizations:

• Associated Press, United States
• BBC Lonely Planet Publishing
• Bertelsmann Direct Group, Germany
• Burda Digital Systems and Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Germany and Norway
• Commercial press
• Ediciones SM, Spain
• Hansol Gyoyook, Korea
• Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Italy
• Macmillan, India
• Navneet Publications, India
• Oxford University Press
• People's Education Press
• Random House, United States
• SourceMedia
• Springer Science & Business, Germany
• Synform Co., Japan
• United Business Media
• VNU, United States
• Werner Söderström, Finland
• Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

SAP Solutions for Your Business

To see how SAP solutions provide benefits and capabilities for your business processes, check out the following:

• "End-to-End Reporting and Analysis" (PDF) – Explore how SAP for Media helps publishers and information service providers meet customer demands with powerful reporting and analysis features.
• "End-to-End Subscription Management" (PDF) – Consider how SAP for Media can help you master business scenarios for subscription sales of loose-leaf publications, journals, book clubs, and more.
• "Managing Intellectual Property: A Total Solution" (PDF) – Discover how publishers, newspapers, studios, and broadcasting companies use SAP solutions to automate processes for acquisition of content assets to capture rights and effectively manage royalty processing. Log-in required.
• "Maximizing Profitability When Consumers Control Content" (PDF) – Examine how media companies can capitalize on opportunities created by the explosion of user-generated content. In this new digital marketplace, SAP solutions can help you support a high volume of deals and business partners. Log-in required.
• "Thriving in a Digital Economy as a Premium Content Owner" (PDF) – Learn how SAP for Media helps publishers cope with challenges driven by digitization, impacts of new media, convergence, market fragmentation, and globalization. The software increases flexibility, drives innovation, and supports business-critical processes.
• "Title Life-Cycle Management" (PDF) – Learn how SAP Product Lifecycle Management can help you keep track of titles from concept through product launch – while you interact effectively with writers and make sound decisions based on accurate, timely information.

Partner Announcements

• Georg Thieme Verlag Deploys New Publishing Information System Based on SAP
• Nomos Publishing House Implements SAP's Industry Solution for Rights & Royalties Management in Record Time

Additional Offers

SAP for Media offers these additional benefits and resources:

• Subscribe to the SAP for Media newsletter.
• Connect to the SAP Media Community Discussion Forum.

Contact an SAP for Media representative.