Case Study: F.A. Davis Company achieves streamlined, cost‑saving textbook production with Censhare

F.A. Davis is saving money and streamlining the production of its healthcare textbooks with censhare

F.A. Davis, a Philadelphia‑based healthcare publisher founded in 1879 that produces about 50 textbooks a year, was struggling with growing digital complexity: content and artwork lived in disparate file systems, rights weren’t linked to assets, and publishing workflows were slow and costly. The company needed a single, accessible source of truth to streamline production, simplify rights management, and reduce time and expense.

F.A. Davis selected censhare and implemented it in phases — first as a DAM, then as a workflow manager, with ERP integration planned — attaching permissions to assets and automating routine tasks. The result: hundreds of hours saved, reuse of artwork that can save up to $200 (and a month’s development time) per image, a library of 100k+ images (up from 20k), support for ~100 projects/users, and faster, more accessible textbook production.

F.A. Davis Company

Dan Clipner

Program Manager