Using the AMB (Access Management and Billing)
functionality, Advantage manages orders and access for all types
of digital media, from your online newsletter to content
databases.
AMB:
Sets up, maintains and bills for access to content,
including "personalized" content and site licenses
Creates access agreements with unlimited or controlled
number of participants
Provides ability to quote a price
Allows management of expires, renewals and invoicing
Maintains authentication information (user name, password,
IP address, IP range, etc.)
Can serve as the gatekeeper for your online content,
managing entitlements
Manages distribution of electronic publications
PAY-PER-VIEW The Access Management and Billing (AMB) module in
Advantage allows you to offer whatever type of access agreement
you choose, including pay-per-view. This model allows you to
charge readers each time they choose to access your content.
NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS
The Access Management and Billing (AMB) module in Advantage allows
you to offer access to content based on a specified number of
log-ins or downloads, with no limit. A customer may be allowed to
log in ten times, for example, and such log-ins may be spread
across a week's time or over several years.
TIME-BASED ACCESS
The Access Management and Billing (AMB) module in Advantage allows
you to offer access to content for a specified time period of your
choice. The customer may log in as many times as they want to
within the active time period. When the time period is drawing to
a close, you can promote them to renew their access.
ISSUE-BASED ACCESS
Many Advantage clients offer magazines and newsletters in both
print and digital form. Advantage manages both with equal ease,
and of any issue frequency you choose to offer.
ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION
Do you send the content to your subscribers instead of directing
them to your website? Advantage can handle this type of
distribution as well. Logic to determine eligibility is reviewed
based on your desired frequency.
CONSORTIA SALES
Advantage is the only tool you need to handle sales to large
consortia or other site licenses. Determination of holdings,
tracking of migrations and additional sites, pricing and weighting
options and allocation of income is all at your fingertips to both
establish and track. Pricing models are constantly changing, and
Advantage is designed to handle them. If your organization depends
on the "big deal" Advantage is the solution for you to manage
entitlements, site licenses and agreements with consortia members.
ECOMMERCE
The Advantage eCommerce capability allows your customers to
perform online, real-time entry of orders and other self-service
functions and provides the same access to customer, digital,
subscription, order and payment data to Web users as your
customer service reps have. A vast library of methods is available
in the API for your webmaster and the Web module can be run with
web services. The Advantage Web module offers:
ECOMMERCE