The contrast between scholarly and for-profit publishers has lessened; all publishers of information, regardless of discipline, face the same issues and problems: Getting the content to the correct audience first, faster and in a flexible way.
Amazon’s flexible technology stack allows it to offer consumers a broader product assortment, greater convenience, highly competitive pricing. All of which make Amazon a formidable competitor for traditional multi-channel retailers. Here’s a closer look.
Custom information delivery is hard — unless you have robust, authoritative metadata. Production workflows make it challenging to preserve and manage data throughout the production lifecycle. This is due to the use of multiple disparate software applications that do not share information, making it difficult to organize the data that is collected from these systems. Upstream metadata extraction can help solve this critical problem.