Content Mgmt ServicesDigital Delivery Update

April 2013

Agenda• Recent Releases

– eText v4.8.8– eText v4.8.6 Content Manager

• Upcoming Releases– iPad v1.3.1– Digital Library v1.3– eText v4.9

• Other Updates– Digital Library– NexText

eText v4.8.8• Released on March 23rd

• Additional Canadian Proxy enhancements

• Federation of Scenario 7 for Equella

• Code fix to handle PSN+ duplicate records

• Support same RUMBA ID for PSN and PSN+

• Bug fixes

• Release Notes are posted on NEO:

https://neo.pearson.com/docs/DOC-216599

eText v4.8.6 Content Manager• Released on April 5th

• Changes to Content Manager

– No downtime impact for customers

• Mostly focused on bugs and features related to the

accessible HTML book

• Release Notes are posted on NEO:

https://neo.pearson.com/docs/DOC-221132

iPad 1.3.1• Release planned to submit to Apple this week

• Addressing language translation and other issues related to the French iPad app

• Other bugs

Digital Library v1.3• Release date TBD

• Add RUMBA subscription link on home page

to support Int’l registration

• Search issue

• Other bugs

eText v4.9• Release planned for June 15th

• Option to increase printing limit

• Potential support for Pearson’s Smart Player

• Other Authoring, Analytics and Integration

improvements

Digital Library update• Currently have 38 live Digital Libraries • 14 additional HiEd libraries closed for fall 2013 with many

more pending opportunities• 2 School products using RUMBA with others planned for

production shortly thereafter• INT’L libraries for Brazil and the Caribbean• Custom options being discussed for some business units • Creating demos for Canadian & South African School BUs• Join our NEO Group!

https://neo.pearson.com/groups/content-management-services-digital-library

NexText Update• Latest PXE Specs available at:

https://docs.google.com/a/pearson.com/document/d/1CalkdZTNLg5dp1wapSJNyWm0nPr0f5_yyeBfm7_OfRY/pub?embedded=true

• Prototype v2 now available for demonstrations

– See Janet to schedule

• NexText Advisory Group

– Members have been selected and are posted here on NEO: https://neo.pearson.com/docs/DOC-224997

– Meetings to start April 25/26– Join our NEO Group! https://neo.pearson.com/groups/content-

management-services-nextext

Current NexText Timeline - Updated 4/16/2013 • Requirements and user story creation (Oct. 2012) - Complete!

• Content model and sample content creation (Nov. 2012) - Complete!

• Prototype v1 demonstrable (NSM, Jan, 2013) - Complete!

• Prototype v2 demonstrable (March, 2013) - Complete!

• Xopus D3A Pilot begins (March, 2013) - Underway

• Engineering efforts commences (April, 2013) - Underway

• First Advisory Team mtg and v1.0 scope adjustments - April 25/26, 2013

• NexText v1.0 scope finalized (May, 2013)

• Xopus v1.0 authoring tools released - (June 28, 2013)

• NexText v1.0 feature complete and released to QA - (Q3 2013?)

• NexText v1.0 pilots - (Q3 2013?)

Creation of PXE Content from Legacy Content

Creation of Born Digital Content

Thank you!