Publishing Workflow & Product Management Software

No, Title Management is built to support a diverse range of publishing models. While it is highly effective for trade publishers, the system is also used extensively by educational and academic publishers, university presses, audiobook and digital-only publishers, and even publishers of non-book products (blank journals, calendars, activity kits, apparel, and more). Whether you are tracking complex multimedia assets or managing peer reviews for academic acquisitions, the Title Management application adapts to fit your specific catalog and business needs.

Title Management is built to adapt to your unique processes, not the other way around. Because it is not a shared SaaS (Software as a Service) environment, your installation and database are completely dedicated to your organization. This independent architecture allows for deep configurability. You can easily add your own custom fields and sections to any record, ensuring your highly specific business data is tracked perfectly without being forced into rigid, default parameters. The custom window views and configurable user security settings also help your team make the application fit your own unique workflows and business needs.

Title Management provides exceptional visibility through a combination of intuitive dashboards, automated scheduling, and robust reporting. The Home page features custom executive and departmental dashboards that immediately surface critical data, such as active titles, overdue manuscripts, and upcoming publication dates. The scheduling module assigns tasks to individual users and can send proactive email alerts to keep your team on track. Additionally, our integrated reporting tools allow you to securely extract, format, and share high-level business intelligence with stakeholders both inside and outside your organization.

Title Management equips your acquisitions team with everything they need to demonstrate careful due diligence. Descriptive copy, comp titles, key project details, and acquisition statuses ensure full transparency for your acquisitions team. For academic and professional presses, the system seamlessly tracks the entire peer-review process, allowing you to assign reviewers, create schedules, and track feedback across multiple iterations of a manuscript. For Title Management Enterprise users, the system includes dynamic Profit & Loss (P&L) statements that calculate sales, royalties, prepress, and manufacturing costs across multiple formats and years.

By providing a single source of truth for your entire organization, Title Management effectively breaks down departmental silos. Editorial, production, marketing, and sales teams all work within one centralized database instead of working in separate spreadsheets with perpetually out of date details. This means that as soon as the editorial team enters early descriptive copy or production finalizes a cover image, those details and assets are immediately visible to your marketing and sales staff to begin building promotional campaigns and catalogs. Operating from one shared platform significantly reduces duplicate data entry, improves accuracy, and keeps everyone aligned.

Yes, seamless integration is a core strength of the system. Using the Firebrand Integration Toolset (FIT), Title Management can connect robustly with your ERP system, financial software, and other critical internal applications. We support both flat-file integrations (such as ONIX, XML, JSON, and Excel) and direct API calls. We have successfully integrated with dozens of standard systems—including SAP, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Magento—ensuring your data flows effortlessly across your entire technical ecosystem.

Advanced production and manufacturing capabilities are available exclusively in Title Management Enterprise. The Enterprise edition eliminates the need for separate spreadsheets by offering a comprehensive purchasing management system. It easily handles component-based printing specifications (print, bind, jackets, paper) and allows you to create pro-forma and batch purchase orders directly within the system. For more complicated manufacturing runs, the system supports split binds, co-editions, and shared component purchase orders, and provides your production team with maximum flexibility and clear visibility into printing histories.

While both systems share the same foundational architecture and powerful database, they are configured for different operational scales. Title Management Lite provides the essential tools required to manage the core publishing workflow—such as acquisitions, scheduling, contract details, and global metadata distribution via Eloquence on Demand. Title Management Enterprise builds upon this foundation to handle the highly complex needs of larger organizations, adding advanced features such as Profit & Loss (P&L) statements, complex manufacturing and purchase order management, comprehensive journal production, custom API integrations, and expanded marketing campaigns.