SAMS Rapid
Controlling online access and subscriptions effectively is crucial for any publisher. The Semantico Access Management System (SAMS) offers a complete access and subscription management solution that already manages some of the world’s busiest and most successful product sites. Together with the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP) SAMS offers a complete solution for online publishing.
SAMS Rapid provides a flexible and sophisticated approach that can integrate simply with third-party systems to control access, subscriptions, reporting and contact information across multiple product sites. The system can cover access models for journals, e-books, reference works, directories and scholarly publishing.
Using SAMS Rapid, Semantico have successfully designed and implemented access management systems on behalf of many major international publishers. The largest SAMS deployment handles in excess of 5 million authentication requests per month, and in excess of 20 million API requests.
Supported authentication models
- IP address ranges
- Username & Password
- Athens
- HTTP referrer
- Library card code
Sales models
- Date limited subscriptions
- Duration limited subscriptions
- Perpetual subscriptions
- Grace periods
- Trials
- Token/voucher based access
- Concurrency limits
- Pay-per-view
- Free limited access
- Marketing and service emails targeting users based upon defined subscription parameters
- ICOLC usage reports
- COUNTER usage reports
- Management reports
If the access management demands of your business require extra functionality Semantico can easily implement these common additional components:
- E-commerce
- Shibboleth
- EZ Proxy
- Publishers may extend the account and subscription records with data fields of their own devising
Semantico can also provide custom integrations with back-office systems – backed up by design services proved in a wealth of projects for some of the world’s leading publishers including; fulfilment systems, marketing databases, third party access control systems backed up by design services proved in a wealth of projects for some of the world’s leading publishers.
SAMS Gatekeeper provides publishers with an even quicker route to market. This component can be embedded within an existing website to provide rapid integration with SAMS. SAMS Gatekeeper acts as a proxy between end users and the product site, significantly reducing or removing entirely the need to re-invest in existing products in order to bring them under the control of SAMS and begin earning revenue.
