The Aptara PowerSuite^TM is a complete set of Services and tools that enables our publishing clients to have greater control and insight into the entire production process. Our patented PowerSuite^TM strengthens workflow automation - ensuring greater flexibility, better control, lesser costs, and reduced time-to-market. Publishers using these tools benefit greatly throughout the editorial and manuscript production process.

The Aptara PowerSuite^TM includes the following:

• PowerReview^TM
• PowerTrack^TM
• PowerEdit^TM
• PowerProof^TM
• PowerQA^TM

Technology Services - PowerReview
PowerReview^TM is a fully customizable system, providing book and journal publishers with an affordable, Web-based option for managing manuscript submission and peer review. With the help of this quick, simple, and efficient process, authors, editors, and reviewers can access their proofs irrespective of their geographical locations or time zones.

Key Benefits Include:

• Custom Workflow - The PowerReview^TM workflow is fully customizable and can be configured to meet your client's specific workflow requirements.
• Custom Design - PowerReview^TM is a flexible, customizable application that can be tailored to reflect your organization's online look and feel.
• Online Tracking - Submissions can be tracked by journal, category, or division classification. Vital information related to a submission is available, including details of review, file name, proof date, details of delivery, numbers of reminders, and date of download. In addition, status reports can be downloaded as MS Excel^TM worksheets for further use off-line.
• Confidentiality - The access and availability of page proofs will be secure. Unique login names and passwords are generated for publishers, authors, and reviewers.
• Automated Follow-Up Process - A periodic reminder email is a salient feature of PowerReview^TM and ensures that authors and reviewers access articles at regular intervals.

Technology Services - PowerTrack
PowerTrack^TM is a proprietary online tracking system, created specifically for Aptara's clients so that they can monitor their project status more efficiently. This Web-based system provides an in-depth view of the production milestones for each project. Now status reports can be viewed online or saved as MS Excel^TM files for further use offline.

PowerTrack^TM is provided upon request, as part of Aptara's world-class composition and data conversion services.

Key Benefits Include:

• Web Interface - PowerTrack^TM allows secure and quick global access to a job's status. To access your tracking site from anywhere in the world and at any time, all you need is a Web browser. Searches can be performed, and efficiently saved for future reference.
• Workflow-based tracking - A job's status can be tracked via milestones. Tracking options can be customized to match the specific requirements of each client. Flexibility in tracking options includes tracking by article, issue, figure, and chapter.
• Color Coded Status - PowerTrack^TM provides color-coding of project status. This allows users to quickly identify any delivery issues.
• Advanced Search - PowerTrack^TM provides the ability to filter data in any sorting sequence, based on field names with predefined conditions.
• Custom Design - PowerTrack^TM is fully customizable and enables a client to personalize the tracking site, so that it matches the look and feel of the original Web site.

Technology Services - PowerEdit
Aptara copyedits thousands of manuscript pages for its publishing clients, ensuring the highest level of quality and accuracy. In an effort to improve the efficiency of our editorial process, Aptara has developed PowerEdit^TM - an application that takes copyediting to a whole new level.

Using .Net technology and a MS Word^TM backend, this customizable application normalizes author files and performs checks to ensure matching of figures and captions, correct punctuation, preferred spelling, reference style, and cross-referencing.

With PowerEdit^TM to empower you, copyediting is no longer a laborious task that takes up precious time in the editorial process. Publishers today rely on Aptara's innovative editorial solution and opt for PowerEdit^TM, as it has significantly reduced the cost and time associated with routine editorial clean-up.

Key Benefits Include:

• User Friendly - PowerEdit^TM conforms to the standard Microsoft Windows conventions, using customized MS Word^TM editing features to provide operational simplicity.
• Bibliographic Citations - Reference marking is automatically accomplished in PowerEdit^TM by using pattern matching and regular expression.
• Complex Structures - Using built-in MS Word^TM features - tables, matrices, and other complex structures are easily converted.
• Built-in Standard Math Type Editor - For scientific and math intensive publications, PowerEdit^TM incorporates MS Word's^TM standard math type editor.
• XML Conversion - If required, PowerEdit^TM also provides conversion and mapping directly to a client-specified XML DTD.

Technology Services - PowerProof
Are you hassled by the routine delays experienced from lost packages? Or do you want to speed up the delivery process, and reach authors and editors around the world as quickly as possible? Here is how Aptara can help you ensure real-time delivery of page proofs at a fraction of the cost incurred for shipping it in the traditional way.

When the page production process is complete and the content is made ready for proofing by authors and editors, PowerProof^TM generates an email providing a direct link to the digital page proof. The resulting email and link not only allows immediate review and correction markup of the composed page but it also alerts the publisher when the page has been reviewed.

Key Benefits Include:

• Proof Delivery - PowerProof^TM supports article-based and issue-based workflow requirements. It facilitates simultaneous delivery of proofs both in high-resolution and low-resolution PDF versions and supporting documents. Proof can be delivered to multiple recipients and proof pages can be accessed via the links sent in email messages.
• Customized Email Alerts - Upcoming proof due dates can be sent to authors, editors, proofreaders, and yourself. These emails can be configured to originate from your production editor's email account. This feature ensures that all undelivered email messages will bounce back to the production editor.
• Automated Follow-Up Process - A periodic reminder email is a salient feature of PowerProof^TM, and ensures that the authors concerned regularly provide their feedback.
• Controlled Access - The access and availability of page proofs will be secure. Different login names and passwords are generated for publishers, editors, and proofreaders to control the access of proofs.
• Tracking Homepage - Articles can be tracked by journal, category, or division classification. Vital information is available via the tracking homepage, including filename, proof date, expiry date, details of delivery, number of reminders, confirmation, and date of download.
• Customized Look - Publishers can customize the look and feel of the article download page, giving it the same appearance as that of the publisher's hosted Web site.

Technology Services - PowerQA
PowerQA^TM is a revolutionary, Web-based quality assurance tool that effectively screens vendor-supplied electronic files before the content is uploaded to an asset management system or electronic repository.

The content checks performed by PowerQA^TM are customizable, allowing publishers to replicate much of their current in-house manual checks through this automated process. Files must pass through a series of content-based Java rules in addition to being compliant with the client-specified DTD. With PowerQA^TM to help them, publishers need not go through the repeated manual cycles of testing and resubmission of vendor files.

PowerQA^TM provides an automated quality assurance process that strictly validates the electronic deliverables for its quality specifications, and provides feedback to vendors by listing the errors in their files.

Key Benefits Include:

• Reduced Chances of Error - The PowerQA^TM provides a fully automated QA process that maximizes efficiency and reduces the chances of erroneous content passing over to the client's asset management systems.
• Operational Simplicity - PowerQA^TM employs a user-friendly interface to perform complex operations. The vendor is required to submit the electronic deliverables through a simple FTP process. PowerQA^TM then performs the complex quality checks, and next generates reports and simple methods for delivery and acceptance of the submitted files.
• Automated Email Alerts - After the completion of the QA process, PowerQA^TM sends automated email alerts to the publisher, as well as to the vendor who has submitted the data.
• Customized Emails - Publishers may customize the email messages that are sent to vendors and/or to themselves. The software allows the publisher to add the log report and the publisher acceptance status report, or provides a link to these reports via the notification email.