Consonance - OpenText Magellan Risk Guard Integration and Automation

Common Integration Use Cases Between Consonance and OpenText Magellan Risk Guard

Consonance manages publishing workflows, manuscript metadata, rights, and production across print, digital, and audio formats. OpenText Magellan Risk Guard analyzes unstructured content to identify sensitive, non-compliant, or problematic material and supports remediation workflows. Together, they can help publishers reduce legal, regulatory, and reputational risk while keeping editorial and production processes moving efficiently.

• Pre-publication content risk screening for manuscripts and supporting files

  Data flow: Consonance to OpenText Magellan Risk Guard

  When a manuscript, appendix, foreword, or other editorial asset is uploaded in Consonance, the content can be sent to Magellan Risk Guard for automated review. The platform can flag potentially sensitive material such as defamatory statements, confidential personal data, discriminatory language, or references that may create legal exposure. Results are returned to Consonance so editors can route the title for legal review before it advances to production.

  Business value: Reduces the chance of publishing risky content, shortens manual review cycles, and creates a consistent compliance checkpoint in the editorial workflow.

• Rights and permissions review for third-party content

  Data flow: Consonance to OpenText Magellan Risk Guard

  Publishers often manage quotations, excerpts, images, and contributed content that may require permissions or carry contractual restrictions. Consonance can pass rights-related documents, contributor notes, and manuscript sections to Magellan Risk Guard to detect references to licensed material, personal data, or restricted content that could violate rights agreements. Findings can trigger a rights manager task in Consonance to confirm permissions or request revisions.

  Business value: Improves rights compliance, reduces infringement risk, and helps rights teams focus on exceptions rather than reviewing every title manually.

• Automated legal and compliance escalation for flagged titles

  Data flow: OpenText Magellan Risk Guard to Consonance

  When Magellan Risk Guard identifies high-risk content, it can send a structured alert back to Consonance with the issue type, severity, and recommended action. Consonance can then automatically place the title on hold, assign tasks to editorial, legal, or compliance stakeholders, and prevent the project from moving to design or final production until the issue is resolved.

  Business value: Creates a controlled approval process, avoids accidental release of risky titles, and improves accountability across teams.

• Monitoring of marketing copy, cover text, and catalog descriptions

  Data flow: Consonance to OpenText Magellan Risk Guard

  Consonance stores title metadata, jacket copy, author bios, and promotional descriptions that are often reused across retailer feeds, catalogs, and sales materials. These text fields can be scanned by Magellan Risk Guard to detect exaggerated claims, prohibited language, privacy concerns, or statements that may create advertising or consumer protection issues. Approved content can then be published downstream with greater confidence.

  Business value: Reduces reputational risk in customer-facing content and helps ensure marketing and metadata are compliant before distribution.

• Remediation workflow for sensitive content discovered during production

  Data flow: Bi-directional

  If Magellan Risk Guard identifies problematic content in a manuscript or production proof, it can create a remediation task in Consonance for the responsible editor, production manager, or legal reviewer. Once the content is revised in Consonance, the updated version can be resubmitted to Magellan Risk Guard for re-screening until it passes review. This creates a closed-loop process for issue resolution.

  Business value: Speeds up remediation, preserves an audit trail, and ensures that corrections are verified before publication.

• Compliance review of backlist and legacy titles

  Data flow: Consonance to OpenText Magellan Risk Guard

  Publishers can use Consonance metadata to identify backlist titles, revised editions, or titles being repackaged for new markets. Selected legacy manuscripts, descriptions, or rights notes can be sent to Magellan Risk Guard to assess whether older content contains outdated, sensitive, or non-compliant material that should be updated before reissue or digital redistribution.

  Business value: Helps publishers modernize backlist catalogs safely, reduce exposure from legacy content, and prioritize remediation based on risk.

• Audit-ready compliance records for editorial and production decisions

  Data flow: Bi-directional

  Consonance can store the risk assessment outcome from Magellan Risk Guard alongside title records, workflow approvals, and production milestones. This creates a defensible audit trail showing when content was screened, what issues were found, who approved the resolution, and when the title was cleared for publication. These records support internal audits, legal inquiries, and regulatory reviews.

  Business value: Strengthens governance, improves traceability, and gives compliance teams evidence of due diligence across the publishing lifecycle.