Our Clients
Jennifer Ryan, director of electronic product development, CQ Press
Really Strategies Successfully Implements New XML Publishing Environment for J.J. Keller
Documentum, XMetaL, and XyEnterprises's XML Professional Publisher Integrated for Robust Content Management Solution
LANSDALE, Pa.–November 16, 2005–J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. is the nation's leading supplier of safety and regulatory compliance solutions for transportation, manufacturing, construction, human resources, security, and general industry. They offer thousands of products and services including print publications (in looseleaf and bound formats), online services, custom solutions, software, consulting and outsourced services.
J. J. Keller determined that repetitious updating, redundant processes and inaccessible content had become obstacles to realizing sales opportunities in new markets. They also had become hurdles for developing new online content as well as software and print products. In an effort to become more efficient and therefore better positioned to meet these opportunities, J. J. Keller sought assistance in eliminating content redundancy across print publications, defining workflow changes, evaluating and implementing an appropriate content management system to support single sourcing, and choosing and implementing a new print composition system. Really Strategies and J. J. Keller embarked on a three-phase project, implementing a content management system that will enable J. J. Keller to meet its publishing goals.
Really Strategies worked with J. J. Keller to identify requirements and solutions for all aspects of its new single-source content management system and integrated the system components. After pilot-testing two representative looseleaf books, J. J. Keller is now putting publications through the entire workflow-converting publications to XML, loading XML into the content management system, updating the content, and producing composed pages from XML. "J. J. Keller is addressing major publishing challenges," stated Mark Jacobson, senior content engineer at Really Strategies. "Legal and regulatory publishing is driven by changes and updates to laws and regulation as well as customers' expectations of timely content. J. J. Keller's looseleaf publications presented unique challenges, including managing a defined number of changed pages for each update. It's quite a complicated editorial workflow and process."
Content was converted to XML and Documentum was implemented to split XML content into reusable objects according to customer-defined rules. Additionally, page composition has been automated using XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher as the batch composition engine.
"When we converted our books to desktop publishing 12 years ago, the process was painful and full of uncertainty. This time around - despite much higher complexity and a much larger investment - we had a clearer understanding of what we wanted to accomplish and what it would take to do so," stated Webb Shaw, director of editorial resources at J. J. Keller. "A lot of the credit for that goes to Really Strategies, who became a part of our team and gave us the tools to be successful."
The first iteration of the system has been deployed and editorial and production staffs are extremely pleased with the initial results. "Our content management system project had many facets and complex requirements to satisfy," said project manager Jennifer Jung, a software project leader at J. J. Keller. "With Really Strategies' guidance and a dedicated J. J. Keller team we have satisfied those requirements and published live content. We have only begun to see the opportunities that single-source content and XML can provide."
About J. J. Keller
J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., of Neenah, WI, is a leading specialized publisher and services provider. Founded in 1953, the company offers a wide spectrum of ready-made and custom safety and regulatory compliance products to customers throughout North America. Keller helps customers in industries such as transportation, construction, utilities, manufacturing and food processing comply with DOT, OSHA, EPA, DOL, FDA and USDA requirements. The company's diverse product line includes technical publications; computer software; video-based, online and CD-ROM training programs; specialized forms; and supplies.
Keller also provides safety consulting, on-site training and a variety of transportation services, including licensing, permitting, fuel tax reporting, driver log auditing and driver qualification file management.