KNK France, a subsidiary of a German company, has been offering its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, knkÉditions, to French publishers since 2018. ERP systems help organizations manage various business processes through integrated software. KNK France claims to support over 450 clients worldwide and has more than 35 years of experience in developing software for the publishing and media industries. knkÉditions is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a widely used platform for business management, and includes specialized modules tailored to the needs of publishers. These modules help manage functions such as title and collection management, author contracts, advances, rights sales, production, cost price calculations, bibliographic metadata, subscriptions, and the commercialization of both printed and digital products. The software is designed to streamline publishing operations by providing centralized information management for titles, editions, and print runs. It also includes tools for managing author contracts, automating royalty accounting, and tracking the stages of editorial projects. For rights management, knkÉditions offers features to manage packages, advances, royalty tiers, and contract models. It also automates the settlement of advances and links rights accounting to sales data. The software includes an ONIX interface, a standard format for exchanging book metadata. Documentation mentions support for ONIX 2.1, with ONIX 3.0 expected to be added in the future. KNK France encourages publishers to view the transition to a new system as an opportunity to re-evaluate and potentially improve their existing processes, rather than simply replicating them. The company suggests that some publishing workflows may have developed due to limitations in older systems rather than being the result of deliberate organizational decisions. KNK's approach involves analyzing the reasons behind current structures and exploring whether alternative procedures could achieve the same goals. This method draws on preconfigured features, models, and practices from previous implementations, allowing the company to propose several possible organizational structures instead of just copying existing ones. KNK emphasizes the importance of standardizing processes where possible to avoid unnecessary custom developments that would require ongoing maintenance and adaptation. Centralizing data is highlighted as a key example, where information about a publication can be used across departments without creating multiple separate databases. The software is designed as an integrated system that covers various stages of the editorial process, from project preparation to commercialization, while also allowing integration with external tools such as content management systems and Microsoft applications. In October 2025, KNK announced that the scientific publisher EDP Sciences had selected knkÉditions to manage author contracts, rights calculations, author accounting, and direct sales. The project was expected to begin in October 2025 and be completed by January 2026. However, this reference, provided by KNK itself, does not represent an independent evaluation of the software's performance or the success of the deployment.