C.D.I. Systems has developed NetIS, the first e-publishing platform that integrates Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Rights Management (DRM) and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless package for the support of premium content sales.

NetIS is a break away from the traditional 'all or nothing' e-publishing model that requires customers to purchase entire articles or books, or to pay exorbitant fees for database subscriptions, just to access content that may or may not be helpful.

In developing NetIS, C.D.I. Systems recognised the market trend that consumers are willing to pay for premium content, provided they can first preview it, purchase only what they need, and receive delivery in a useful form. By creatively marketing digital content -rather than just managing it-NetIS serves the interests of publishers, integrators, content owners and end-users alike through flexibility and personalisation, security, lower set-up costs and integration and search and data manipulation.

Founded in 1992, C.D.I. Systems is a privately owned software house headquartered in Israel. Aspects of NetIS have been deployed in several solutions including interactive legal productions on CD-ROM, dynamic professional databases (both on-line and on handheld devices), newspapers, phone directories, electorate registries and encyclopaedias. CD.I. Systems is a principle technology provider to Makrolog GMBH, the leading supplier of electronic legal information in Germany.

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