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Royalty Software

The royalty and rights software solutions listed below are designed to handle the financial and reporting obligations of complex licensing operations for book, film, music and software companies.

The five strategic decisions you need to make when evaluating intellectual property management solutions are;

1. Do you want a best of breed solution or a solution that integrates with your current or future ERP solution?

2. Do you want a standalone solution or a hosted solution?

3. Do you want a standardized or a customized IPM solution?

4. What is your budget? Royalty solution prices range from $500 USD to over $300,000 USD.

5. How fast do you want to implement the software?


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Alliant™ by Real Software Systems

REAL Software Systems delivers integrated solutions to manage intellectual property rights and royalties accounting. Our Alliant™ platform is proven across industries to handle the uniqueness and volumes of complex contracts.

Clients:

Industry leaders in Publishing include Houghton Mifflin, Cengage Learning, Egmont, Kensington Publishing Corp, Nelson Education, The Reader's Digest Association, and William H. Sadlier, Inc.

Other intellectual property-centric clients such as Allergan, BBC Worldwide, Dell, Electronic Arts, MGM Studios, and PBS use Alliant to ensure agility, compliance and efficiency in their licensing process.


Bradbury Phillips

Their Rights Management System and the Authors' Royalties System have been installed at over 250 sites around the world. Widely used by book publishers, large and small.

Their clients range from one-person businesses to large multinational publishing houses.

Clients:

Bertelsmann, Blackwell, Bloomberg, Kensington, Mayo Clinic, Shambhala, Simon & Schuster, World Bank, Yale University Press


Counter Point Systems

The Maestro range of rights and royalty management software offers solutions for the book, film, music, and record industry.

Clients:

BMG Music Publishing, Jive Records, MGM Studios Inc., Push Record, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Virgin Music, Virgin Records, Zomba Music and many more.


Easy Royalties by JDC Software

Royalty software for publishers and art museums. Prices start at $500 USD. Optional rights management module available.

EasyRoyaltiesUSA.com features a blog that talks about all issues related to royalties - best practices, royalty rates, royalty related news, QuickBooks imports, etc.

Clients:

Museum of Modern Art, New Growth Press, Bold Strokes Books and more.


Eclipse

The Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System (ERRMS) is the only solution that is totally integrated with mid market leading Microsoft Dynamics™ GP ERP package.

The Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System is an automated, end-to-end royalty accounting program that includes flexible reporting solutions and an excellent audit trail to clearly demonstrate regulatory compliance and reassure rights-holders of royalty accounting accuracy.


Élan .NET

Media Services Group's hosted .NET software as a service rights & royalty software is modern and easy to use. Publishers can expand this functionality with book and magazine related modules.


F. Logic

RICH Contract & Rights Management provides contract management and rights analysis with an integrated business solution supporting all aspects of contract, rights and brand management.

RICH Licensing Management is the business solution for licensors to successfully manage and optimize licensing rights and intellectual property assets.

Clients:

Scholastic, Hearst Entertainment, NBC Universal and many more


Klopotek

Klopotek is a leading provider of standardized royalty and rights intellectual property management software to book publishers. Over 300 publishers rely on Klopotek software.

While large publishers such as Taylor & Francis utilize Klopotek's stand alone software, smaller publishes use the more affordable SaaS (Software as a Service) hosted solution.


knkPublishing

knkPublishing is the only integrated publishing software certified by Microsoft.

Publishers can purchase just the royalty module and more publishing related modules later as their needs change.

knkPublishing's royalty software integrates with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision).

Web Site: www.knk.com

USA Distributor: SolutionDynamics.net

Clients:

Augsburg Fortress, US Naval Institute


PLX Systems

PLX rights management software, successfully automates over 200 music publishers, video distributors, software publishers, and record companies administration operations.

Clients:

BMG Distribution, Pioneer Entertainment, Rogers & Hammerstein, Time Life and TVT Records and many more.


RoyaltyShare

This hosted solution for music publishers has expanded their service to meet the needs of book publishers.

Clients:

CBS Records, Madacy Entertainment, Big Fish Media, and many more.


Royalty Tracker

This royalty software solution for book publishers is powerful (it runs on an MS SQL server), easy to use and offers exceptional drill down functionality for royalty analysis.

In 2009 MetaComet rolled out a hosted version of Royalty Tracker for smaller publishers.

Clients:

National Book Network, Taylor & Francis, Harcourt


That's Rights

An affordable rights solution for small publishers. Integrates with Easy Royalties.


SAP

The SAP Intellectual Property Management module is designed to handle the complex IPM needs of large companies.


Sophoi

Sophoi provides business rights, licensing, and royalty management solutions to Global Fortune 2000 companies.

Sophoi iPLS is certified to run with Oracle Applications Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic.


Trilogy Software

The Trilogy Editorial, Rights and Royalties book publishing software allows publishers to control acquisitions, author contracts, rights and royalties from a single database.

Trilogy is a Microsoft Partner and their software has a modern graphical user interface.


Virtusales

Virtusales' Contract, Rights, Subrights and Royalties module is a modern solution that also stores scanned paper contractual agreements. Integrates with their production management solution.


Publishing Technology

Publishing Technology's standalone and hosted royalty solutions are used by some of the largest English language book publishers.

The Advance royalty and rights software is known for its user customizablility and its work process management tools.

Clients: McGraw Hill Education, Sterling Publishers


Updated: Dec 20, 2009

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The key elements in selecting the right IPM solution are:

1. How satisfied are the vendor's current clients?

2. How many installations have they completed for companies similar in size to your own?

3. How easy is it to import sales?

What software do we recommend to small book publishers?

Publishers with sales of $1M thru $5M looking for a stand alone royalty package should consider Acumen, Anko, Bradbury Phillips, Easy Royalties, and Élan Rights & Royalties.

Easy Royalties is the lowest priced. It can handle complex royalty contracts and is easy to use. You can download a 30 day trial version from their website.

Élan Rights & Royalties is a hosted software as a service accessed via the web. Easy to use and powerful.

Acumen's royalty software is the most expandable. Optional rights marketing module.

Bradbury Phillips has the largest client base. The software is available in standalone and hosted versions. A demo version is available upon request.

Anko combines royalty processing with a title information and production management system. You can download a demo version from their website.

Royaltysoftware.info has a downloadable guide on how to configure QuickBooks for use with royalty software.

What do we recommend for large publishers?

Publishers with sales over $100M should look at Alliant, F Logic, Klopotek, Royalty Tracker, SAP and Publishing Technology.

Book publishers looking for an integrated contract, rights and royalties solution should look at Klopotek and Vista.


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If all you need is a highly scalable royalty solution consider Royalty Tracker. Its easy to use, scalable and has a track record of rapid implementations at large publishers.

Publishing Technology offers standalone and hosted royalty solutions for book publishers with a solution that is highly customizable.