A Publisher’s Guide for Converting from Dynamics GP to Business Central Dynamics GP (Great Plains) has long been a trusted tool for many publishers. The Microsoft product introduced efficiency, accuracy, and ease-of-use into the publishing workflow. Yet, many publishers now find themselves considering a transition to Microsoft’s cloud-based Business Central. With Business Central, publishers see [...]
The current sustainability revolution has effects on the book publishing industry in all its diverse forms. From the supply chain to digitalization, publishers have the power to make a huge impact in contributing to a sustainable future. Microsoft has committed to being carbon negative by 2030, and as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, knk has [...]
What opportunities has the COVID-19 pandemic created for media companies? The pandemic has been an accelerator in many important ways. New processes have been created, and organizations challenged to digitize many existing working workflows. Historic activities became archaic and new business models, by necessity, were created, especially the digitalization for media companies. There was little [...]
Business software doesn’t change as fast or as frequently as the apps on your phone, but product development is a constant. As demands expand, capabilities and faster performance are a market expectation!
When a team of Danish developers started to create a financial accounting package in the 1980s, (later to become known as Navision), they were [...]
We all live in a global, online world and the publishing industry is no exception to that. This creates enormous opportunities for businesses, with books and other products being sold internationally, in a variety of formats and through multiple sales channels – potentially great for sales and marketing but how can publishers make sense of [...]
As part of knk’s continuing series of interviews with thought leaders serving the book publishing industry and its supporting communities, we recently interviewed Brian O’Leary, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group (https://bisg.org/). BISG’s mission is to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry, and to be the primary resource for solving problems that [...]
In an increasingly complex application landscape in which web services, off-the-shelf software and home-grown individual applications generate and consume huge volumes of data, the integration of corporate data is a must. Can an Enterprise Service Bus reduce the effort to accomplish this? And what exactly does an Enterprise Service Bus mean? Since information technology has been supporting companies’ business processes for quite some time, the integration of [...]
knk recently interviewed publishing consultant, Nancy Roberts, on core operating systems for publishers as part of knk’s continuing series of interviews with thought leaders serving the book publishing industry and its supporting communities. Ms. Roberts is the Founder and CEO at Umbrella, a technology firm that employs data intelligence to help businesses materially accelerate the [...]
In my last article I explained some aspects of Audience Building and tried to give a short overview. Because this topic is important to us - and as we have noticed, also to you - here is part two, in which I want to introduce our product “knk365 Audience Building” and go into a little more detail. [...]
knk recently interviewed publishing consultant, Bill Rosenblatt as part of knk’s continuing series of interviews with thought leaders serving the book publishing industry and its supporting communities. Mr. Rosenblatt is a globally recognized authority on intellectual property and technology issues in the digital age. Bill’s breadth of experience on matters of intellectual [...]
