ABRSM implements Priam Royale

Leading music publisher The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music has chosen Priam Royale software to manage royalty payments.

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) is the world's leading examination board with over 620,000 candidates every year sitting music exams in more than 90 countries around the world.

Its subsidiary ABRSM (Publishing) publishes a wide range of sheet music, music books and CDs.

In order to control and administer the payment of royalties to artists, composers and other music publishers ABRSM Publishing has chosen Priam's Royale software.

Royale manages every aspect for music publishers providing a complete and immediate view of royalties due across the whole enterprise.

This covers the creation of "works", composer contracts, licensing and permissions, the collection of royalties through international collecting agencies and distribution of royalties to artists and composers.

There is a full and complete audit trail for all transactions.

Royale is the only completely unified system available for the music publishing industry.

This means one "package" with a single "look and feel", using one shared database and a single set of rules to handle all areas of the business.

In addition Royale can be integrated with a complete business system with facilities such as CRM, e-commerce and accounting.

Executive Director for ABRSM, Leslie East, commented: "We are delighted to have implemented the Royale royalties system; we had a large amount of complex data to be moved from our existing royalty system into Royale.

"Priam helped and guided us through the conversion process and allowed us to retain all of our existing data but within the new system.

"We look forward to exploring the software's options for managing and monitoring our whole copyright and licensing operations".

Glyn Carvill, Commercial Director for Priam Software, said: "I would like to welcome ABRSM as a Priam customer and look forward to creating a strong relationship between our two companies; Royale is gaining more and more presence within the music publishing industry and the implementation at ABRSM is testament to the strength and wide ranging functionality of the product".

Priam sells and supplies packaged applications for call centres and fulfilment/mailing houses, mail order companies, mobile phone traders, music and book publishers.

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