Advantage Computing Systems

Product Overview

The Publisher’s Advantage Computing System, the industrys premier in–house fulfillment system, is a comprehensive, feature-rich software package developed for the management of digital and print magazines, journals, newsletters, online content and books or other products.

Proven and Professional

Advantage is by far the most comprehensive package available, and features are added with every release. And it is thoroughly proven, with scores of publishers using it every day. ACS offers excellent project management services, following the Project Management Institute (PMI®) guidelines. Support is always immediately available; 24/7 worldwide. All this from a profitable company with a solid financial base and steady growth. You can count on ACS to be there to support you, now, and in the years ahead.

Customer Relationship Management

Some publishers purchase third-party systems to incorporate all their disparate data in order to manage their customer relationships. Advantage is designed to integrate that disparate data from subscriptions, book and product orders, memberships, online content, articles, conferences and more – in one central place, and to quickly and easily provide the information needed to make good management decisions and manage customer relationships.

Users Drive New Features

Advantage user requests are the main source of new features in each release. These include:

• a completely integrated online and real- time E-commerce interface
• access management
• site licensing
• combination orders,i.e. a subscription, access agreement and conference
  regis tration on the same order
• integrated promotions across multiple products and subscriptions
• comprehensive package/kit management
• unsurpassed data access via 300+ stan dard reports (many customizable),
  on line screens, ad hoc reports, pivot tables and data cubes
• completely integrated accounts receivable
• automated customer service emails and letters
• always the latest technology (Windows, Oracle, SQLServer)
• multiple addresses and multi-currency
• web services
• paid and controlled
• online entitlement

Advantage Clients

American Medical Association, Army Times Publications, Boy Scouts of America, Crain Communications, Hearst Business Publications, Kalmbach Publishing, New England Journal of Medicine, Newsweek Education, Oxford University Press, The Taunton Press, Weekly Reader and Wolters Kluwer Health.

Memberships

Professional Affiliations: Audit Bureau of Circulations, American Business Media, BPA International, ICEDIS, Specialized Information Publishers Association, Fulfillment Management Association, Oracle ®Certified Advantage Partner, Microsoft  ® Solution Provider.