The new standard in publishing management systems

Our clients publish at scale, employ progressive business models, and grow – with Consonance driving global metadata and workflow excellence

Your "one version of the truth".

From acquisition to ONIX metadata, contract management, rights, royalties, permissions, production, contact management, and with tailorable code-lists throughout the app, Consonance is the complete publishing management system for complex publishing companies who want to achieve stability, consistency and harmony as the basis for growth. Review the documentation for an in-depth look at Consonance's extensive feature list.

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Remove the repetition, confusion and delay that comes with ambiguity. One version of data, so everyone knows what's going on, and what's expected of them.

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Everyone on the same page, with clear responsibilities, and access to information, wherever they are.

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We work closely with you on your particular requirements, building out our system in response to your evolving needs.

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Consonance is designed to help you get data in – and out. That includes ONIX, Slack, customisable spreadsheets, PDFs, JSON and GraphQL APIs, and custom solutions including Amazon SQS.

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Scale matters

Consonance scales as you scale. However much data and processing you throw at Consonance, it will be handled. And our user-based pricing model means that you only pay for the processing power you use.

These are the stats of just one of our largest customers:

1,168,600 product records.
174,749,012 ONIX fragments processed in the last year.
5,061,946 metadata updates in the last year.
113 ONIX recipients including Hachette Distribution, Amazon AE, AU, CA, JP, UK and US, IPS, Nielsen and Titlepage, taking daily incremental feeds.

Relied on by publishers around the world.

Consonance enables our clients to deliver against their unique business strategies.

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.

Agricultural sciences publishing start-up Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing went from a standing start to winning IPG Newcomer of the Year, using Consonance to structure their complex metadata.

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IOP Publishing.

The Institute of Physics are prolific professional publishers who deliver impact, recognition and value to the scientific community through their publishing, enabled through extensive adoption of Consonance's features.

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LUP.

Liverpool University Press have established strategic partnerships with The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Voltaire Foundation, Northcote House Publishers and Historic England, applying their rigorous processes to publish wider, faster and more successfully.

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Level up your publishing expertise.

Insights and advice to boost your publishing prowess.

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Understand the ONIX standard.

The ONIX standard is not very standard. Here are ten things that recipients require differently.

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You don't need special software to store data properly.

If you have some mechanical sympathy for data and spreadsheets, you’ll likely get a lot more mileage out of them.

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Creative industries and the division of labour.

How do you arrange people in a modern company? It’s an endlessly interesting question, and one that needs a new answer with every shift in technology and the markets.

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