Ted Hill will return to the stage to outline what publishers need to think about as they ready their own staff for cloud-based services. He will also help guide attendees to ask the right questions when looking for a service provider.

1. A Publishers Checklist for Using
Cloud Services
Book Publishing in the Cloud
July 26, 2012
NYC

2. What do we talk about when we talk about
book publishing in the cloud?
Platforms
Practices People

3. People
 Are IT and management aligned when it
comes to build vs. buy?
 Are you ready to contribute to best
practices and evolve with your peers?
 Are you willing to continually train and
learn?

4. Practices
 Do you know your content and data?
 Are you willing to think strategically, rather
than tactically?
 Are you willing to simplify?

5. Platforms
 Have you defined content standards, and
created repositories for content and
metadata?
 Do you know how cloud services will
interface with enterprise systems?
 Do you know what you need? Are you
ready to define a service level agreement
(SLA)?

6. An introduction to today’s solutions
providers
 Michelle Norrell, CCC
 Russell Longo, CoEnterprise
 Agustina Casal, Constellation
 Steve Rutberg, Firebrand Technologies
 George Logan, Klopotek
 Bob Cohn, RoyaltyShare
 John Wicker, TCS
 Rodney Elder, Virtusales

7. Thank you!
ted@thaconsulting.co
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