Correspondence: Peter Hausken, CIO, JW Cappelens Forlag AS, PB 350 Sentrum, Oslo 101, Norway. Tel: +47 22 98 59 70 E-mail: peter.hausken@cappelen.no

¹is CIO of JW Cappelens Forlag AS, a major Norwegian Publisher with a diverse range of publications, book clubs and a distribution central. Cappelen has worked with transforming the IT architecture to make it a modern and agile platform for the future. Before joining Cappelen in 1995, Peter worked for Hewlett-Packard, University of Oslo and the national academic network, UNINETT. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

²works as a system developer at JW Cappelens Forlag AS. Before joining Cappelen in 2001, he worked for the National Norwegian News Agency (NTB). First as a journalist on the foreign desk. Later he became involved in editorial news system integration and development at the news agency. He has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo.

Abstract

The Digital Asset Management system should not be just another system, but an integral part of the IT architecture. This paper outlines why and how a publishing company did this.