ACS is delighted to welcome John Wiley & Sons, Inc., to the Advantage community.  Wiley was founded by Charles Wiley in 1807 and, in its early years, published works by such authors as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville.  By the early 1900s, Wiley was established as a leading publisher of scientific and technical information.  In 2007, the company acquired UK-based Blackwell Publishing, greatly expanding its journal and society publishing business.

Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey. With more than 5,000 employees and operations across North America, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia,Wiley is a global enterprise.The company reported revenues of nearly $1.75 billion in fiscal year 2011.

Wiley began its search for a subscription management system in the first half of 2011 and sent out an RFI in June to a number of vendors.  The field was narrowed to three companies who participated in workshops and product demonstrations over the summer.  After a thorough evaluation process by the Wiley search team, Advantage was chosen, and implementation is now underway.

Advantage will be used to manage subscriptions for Wiley’s three core businesses:Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS), Professional/Trade, and Global Education.  Advantage will support 10,000 subscribed products, including 1,500 journals across those businesses.

The ACS team includes project manager John Sheehy and lead engineer Karl Davis. Tim Zapawa is acting project director, and many others will be involved in the project as it moves through the implementation phases.

The Wiley project team to implement Advantage is being led by Nick Forman, business lead, and Neel Mony, technical lead, while being managed by David Ingham.  In addition to the ACS team members, the project will draw on expertise from across Wiley.