According the company business aim to apply the same technology used in its financial software to other sectors, Sofistar has helped Diogenes (www.diogenes.ch), one of the most highly regarded publishers in German language, to build a rule-based automation framework to calculate author royalties and license fees. The software decreases the duration of the half-yearly payment process from 10 weeks to a few days. The system delivers also additional benefits as operational, reputation and audit risk are substantially reduced thanks to an electronic audit trail similar to the one produced by Q-TRADE and a multi-level balance check reporting.