News planning tools: Q&A with KnowledgeView

KnowledgeView is a developer of cross-media publishing, news management and editorial-sharing systems. Ali Assam is Managing Director of KnowledgeView and Roberto Minio is the Chi ...>

Yuri Purgin, Altapress, on demands of regional publishers for planning modules of editorial systems

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Xenia Shevnina, on crisis time start-up company, MSM

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Mikhail Shubin, Terem-Media, on existing solutions for editorial planning in Russia

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News planning tools: Q&A with Diane Burley, Nstein Technologies

Diane Burley is media specialist for Nstein Technologies, which develops and markets multimedia content management solutions. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeking in ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Klaus Dombrowski, Multicom

Klaus Dombrowski is CEO of Multicom, which develops and markets the NGen multimedia publishing solution. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeking in their planning solu ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Andrés Checa, Protec

Andrés Checa is marketing manager for Protec, which develops and markets the MILENIUM Cross Media publishing solution. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeking in their p ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Davide Garavaglia, Atex

Davide Garavaglia is business development & marketing manager for Atex, which develops and markets multimedia publishing solutions. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeki ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Richard Hall, DTI

Richard Hall is international marketing director for Digital Technology International (DTI), which develops and markets multimedia publishing solutions. Before tackling our specific ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Steve Ball, EidosMedia

Steve Ball is marketing director U.S.A. for EidosMedia, which develops and markets its Méthode multimedia publishing solution. Before jumping into the questions, Ball provided a bit of back ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Kim Svendsen, CCI Europe

Kim Svensen is marketing manager for CCI Europe, which, among its various solutions, develops and markets the CCI NewsGate multimedia publishing solution. IFRA: What is it that ne ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Matthias Kretschmer, Xalmiento

Matthias Kretschmer is owner of Xalmiento, a web services company that develops and markets Desk-Net, a newsroom planning tool. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seek ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Hans Janssen, WoodWing Software

Hans Janssen is CEO of WoodWing Software, which develops and markets the WoodWing Enterprise multimedia publishing solution. When IFRA Magazine contacted Janssen for this article on ne ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with John Juliano, Tera

John Juliano is Manager, Worldwide Marketing and Reseller Relations Tera Digital Publishing, which develops and markets the GN3 multimedia publishing solution. IFRA: What is it th ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Andreas Schrader, Vjoon

Andreas Schrader is CEO of vjoon GmbH, which develops and markets the K4 publishing solution. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeking in their planning solutions today ...>

News planning tools: Q&A with Matthias Gilke, Quark

Matthias Gilke is marketing manager for Quark Central Europe, which recently launched the Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution. IFRA: What is it that newsroom managers are seeking in t ...>

John V. Juliano (Tera) on selection of publishing systems

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Interview with Rainer Golembek, Madsack

IFRA: Why did your company select the DTI editorial system? Golembek: There were various relevant aspects for our choice of an editorial system. Of these, the most important were: > Platform independence: The editorial system is intended for use in various houses ...>

Interview with Richard Hall, International Marketing Director, DTI

IFRA: What parts of the business does your company's business solution cover? Richard Hall: Advertising, Circulation, Editorial and Web publishing, Business Intelligence. ...>

Interview with Stephen C. Lang, Vertriebsleiter bei Leomedia

Text not yet available in English. IFRA: Welche Business-Bereiche werden mit der System-Lösung aus Ihrem Hause abgedeckt? Stephen C. Lang: Folgende Geschäftsbereiche decken w ...>

Interview with Gerd-Ruediger Schmidtke, Marketing and Distribution Media Director, Lufthansa Systems

IFRA: What part of the business does your company’s solutions cover? Gerd-Ruediger Schmidtke: Our VI&VA Publishing solutions covers all the business areas of Advertising and Dis ...>

Interview with Steve Roessler, VP Advertising Product Management Atex

IFRA: What parts of the business does your company's business solution cover? Steve Roessler: Our business solutions cover all the active cycle of the business processes; tha ...>

Interview with Torsten Börner, Member of the Management Board of HUP AG

IFRA: What parts of the business does HUP's business solution cover? Torsten Börner: HUP’s business solution covers the distribution and logistics system (including GIS), along ...>

Interview with Rainer Kellerhals, Global Media & Entertainment Solutions Lead, Microsoft

IFRA: What areas does Microsoft Dynamics exactly cover? Which tasks can it perform? Does it include what is called 'Business Intelligence' applications? Rainer Kellerhals: Mi ...>

Interview with Debashish Ghosh, The Times of India Group

IFRA: After the instillation of several SAP and ppi Media systems for the automation of the advertising workflow and the general production of the newspaper, it was said that you might inve ...>

Roman Menyakin, Quark representative in Russia, on future plans

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Pavel Cherkashin, Adobe Russian representative, on plans in Russia

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Classic Battles: InDesign has the edge in Russia

Mikhail Shubin is head of media automation at Teren, a Russian system integrator specialising in media solutions. IFRA: How do the Mac and Windows platforms compete in the Russian ne ...>

Classic Battles: IFRA's Harald Löffler on proprietary systems

The functionality of "proprietary" layout engines is much better today than a few years ago. ... Newspapers see that proprietary layout engines are "good enough" for layout and have a better i ...>

Classic Battles: Q&A with Michael Mendoza, global IT director, Metro International

With 20 million readers in 21 countries, in 17 languages, the world's largest newspaper publisher is a loyal QuarkXPress customer. Faced in 2006 with the choice of changing their page layout s ...>

Classic Battles: Q&A with Andreas Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer Consulting

Andreas Pfeiffer is an industry expert on platform migration. He has written several surveys on the competition between QuarkXPress and InDesign, as well as Mac OS and Windows, in the publishi ...>

CMS: Norrköpings Tidningar in Sweden develop in-house solution

Bengt Engwall is the development editor of Norrköpings Tidningar in Sweden and tells newspaper techniques about the company's CMS setup and challenges. "CMS is, as you say, a huge area ...>

CMS: Non-newspaper experts describe what CMS can do

The differences in understanding what content management systems are for motivates a short description of what they do, as described by several content management experts outside the newspa ...>

CMS: Business considerations with video strategy and CMS

Many newspapers have already incorporated video, for both web and mobile publishing platforms, but most are still thinking about it. From a business (and CMS) point of view, in order to take t ...>

Selecting an editorial system

Criteria for making a selection. Available only in Russian -----ТЕОРИЯ----- Комплект поставки, цена Какие серверные модули входят в комплект, для какого числа сотрудников может быть использована система, т.е. для какого числа компьютеров и для какого числа ...>

Comment by Sergei Rudenko, Gazeta 24

Experience of working with K4 editorial system. Available only in Russian История «Газеты 24» «Газета 24» – украинская ежедневная газета. Она входит в сегмент так называемых «качественных издании». Учредитель газеты – ООО «МедиаДом». Кроме газеты в стро ...>

Q@A Mikhail Shubin, Terem

Human dimension of IT solutions. Available only in Russian Вопрос: Для чего издательскому бизнесу автоматизация? Михаил Шубин: Начнем с особенностей этого бизнеса по сравнению с другими. Первое: ответственность за результат здесь коллективна ...>

DTI's Geoff Walker on the Telegraph installation

newspaper techniques: Is The Daily Telegraph still the largest circulation newspaper in the world using DTI's editorial system? How many seats are involved? Geoff Walker:>

Why invest now? Viewpoints of some users

Michael Gill, Editor-in-Chief, Financial Review, Australia What are your expectations for the coming year? We have developed a Flex-based application model for our digital platform. It is integrated with a Cyber Newspaper production platform, with its own e ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Allan Marshall, iMedia Advisory Services

Allan Marshall is a joint principal of iMedia Advisory Services Ltd., the new consulting company jointly formed by Ifra and the principals within iMedia. He is former Group Technical Director o ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from Nicolas Boutet, Wedia

Nicolas Boutet is CEO of Wedia, which was established in 1981 under the name of Datox, a specialist in publishing software for newspapers, the media and business. The company is based in France ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Mike Pelizzoni, BBC Worldwide

Mike Pelizzoni is head of advertisement systems for BBC Worldwide Ltd. (U.K.). newspaper techniques: What Atex and/or Unisys solutions are you using at the moment? < ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from John Marley, News International

John Marley is chief technology officer for News International Ltd., publishers of the U.K. national titles The Times, The Sunday Times, The News of the World and The Sun. News International ru ...>

Atex übernimmt Mediensparte von Unisys: Kurzinterview mit Gerd-Rüdiger Schmidtke von Funkinform

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Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Max Lederer, Stars & Stripes

Max Lederer is general manager of Stars & Stripes, the daily newspaper for the U.S. military communities in Europe, Middle East and Asia. newspaper techniques: Assuming you still ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from an integration specialist

Russell O'Brien is CEO of Bluescribe Pty Limited, a company that specialises in integration and rationalisation projects regarding business and technology. It is based in London, Sydney and Cap ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Klaus Dombrowski, multicom

Klaus Dombrowski is director of system provider multicom, which is based in Germany. newspaper techniques: The systems offering for publishing companies is shrinking. Do ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with consultant Andreas Pfeiffer

Andreas Pfeiffer is in charge of Pfeiffer Consulting and the Pfeiffer Report about technology and business issues in the media industry. newspaper techniques: In general, w ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction of José Bolufer, IT manager at Le Monde

"The newsdesks at the daily newspaper Le Monde have been working with Hermes since 26 June 2000. Unisys is more than just a supplier, because we have also collaborated with its teams on the develo ...>

Atex aquires Unisys: Q&A with Andrés Checa

Andrés Checa is marketing director for Protec, the system supplier based in Spain. newspaper techniques: The systems offering for publishing companies is shrinking. Do ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Don Oldham, CEO, DTI

newspaper techniques: The system offer just got smaller for publishers; is this a good thing for the industry and for this sector? Don Oldham: More choices are almost alway ...>

Atex acquires Unisys Media

At IfraExpo 2006 in October, rumours were whirling about a possible acquisition/merger between Atex and Unisys. During that week, Atex CEO John Hawkins told newspaper techniques that “Atex is around as a consolidator, definitely not to be consolidated.” True to his word, Atex Gro ...>

La Tribune recalls core newsroom competencies

Newspaper publishing houses do not usually trust IT service providers to manage complex systems under the working conditions of a newsroom. But their own specialists have difficulty keeping up ...>

EdVista overcomes barriers in the publishing house

For some 30 years, the Stuttgarter Zeitungsgruppe has been actively involved in the further development of newspaper systems. Its Südwest computing centre was one of the most important IBM par ...>

Metro standardises worldwide with Quark

The Metro International Group will introduce QuarkXPress 7 for its global network. With 69 editions in 93 larger cities in 21 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia, the pioneer of free daily newspapers addresses young and active urban readers totalling about ...>

Editorial Systems overview 2006: alfa Media Partner

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Editorial system overview 2006: Van Gennep

Editorial system: PlanSystem3 – Version 3.6.5 is available on the market since 2003 Some references (magazines only): Reader’s Digest (Worldwide), Prisma Presse (France), Baue ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: WoodWing

Editorial system: Smart Connection Enterprise – Version 4.1 is available since 2004 Some references: Gruner + Jahr, Axel Springer Verlag, Coop, Tamedia, Migros, Ringier, Telegraaf Tijdschriften Groep, SDU, Nederlands Dagblad, Reed Business, Elsevier Science ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: EidosMedia

Editorial system: Méthode – version 3.0 is available since Q2 2006 Some references: Financial Times, London (UK), Edipresse, Lausanne (Switzerland), Media 24, Johannesburg (Sout ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Wedia

Editorial system: Open³ – current version available since September 2004 Some references: Le Dauphiné Libéré, Groupe Moniteur, Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest (NRCO), Sport Recent installations: Groupe Moniteur, L’Alsace, Le Dauphiné Libéré , NR ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Saxotech

Editorial system: SAXOTECH Editorial and SAXOTECH Online – version 6 available on the market since October 2005 Reference customers: Magdeburger Volksstimme, Orkla Media (Norway), Gannett (U.S.A.), Aller (Denmark), Flensborg Avisen, Flensburg Installati ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Protec

Editorial system: Milenium Cross Media, - Version 5.0 available on the market since 2000. Reference customers: 300 Installations 2005/2006: (selection) Der Standard, Vienna, ADN, Spain, El Economista restructuring with IT outsourcing, France A ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: net-linx

Editorial system: nxEditorial – Version 2.6 on the market since three years Reference customers: no information given Installations 2005/2006: no information given newspaper techniques: In your experience, where is the development ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Multicom

Editorial system: NGen – version 5 available on the market since 2005 Reference customers: Salzburger Nachrichten; Passauer Neue Presse, Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg, Badische Zeitung, Freiburg; Wetzlarer Zeitung; sh:z, Flensburg; Mediaprint, Vienna Instal ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Unisys

Editorial system: Hermes – version 10.2 is available since March 2005 Some references: News International (UK), Dow Jones (US), Singapore Press Holdings (SG), RCS Media Group (IT) Recent installations: Axel Springer (DE), Chicago Suburban Newspaper ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: MediaSpan

Editorial system: IQue – version 5 available since April/May 2006 Jazbox – version 3.20 available since January 2006 Some references: IQue: Inland Valley Daily Bltn, Hollywood Re ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: KnowledgeView

Editorial system: RAPID Browser – version 1.4.5 available since 2003. Some references: Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, Washington Post, Al-Hayat, The Enqu ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Henke & Partner

Redaktionssystem: unique redaktion – Version 5 ist seit 2005 auf dem Markt Kunden-Referenzen: Frankfurter Neue Presse (Frankfurt), Freies Wort (Suhl), Frankenpo ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Funkinform

Funkinform Editorial system: DIALOG – Version 3.6 on the market since 2006 Reference customers: Ruhr Nachrichten, Dortmund Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden, Freie Presse Chemnitz, Braunschwe ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Evolver

Editorial system: RedTool – the current version 5 of the online editorial system has been available on the market since 2001. Reference customers: Frankfurter Rundschau; Neue Westfälische; Magdeburger Volksstimme Installations 2005/2006: Magdeburger ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: DTI

Editorial system: NewsSpeed – Version 6 is available since October 2005. Some references: Atlanta Journal and Constitution, USA, London Daily Telegraph, UK, Cox Newspaper Group, USA, Kent Messenger Group, UK, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Austria, La Nacion, Argentin ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: CCI

Editorial system: NewsGate – Version 1.2.3 is available since 2005, but an earlier generation (CCI NewsDesk) has been available since 1995 as integrated editorial/pagination solution and as pagination solution integrated to SII and Atex editorial solutions. Som ...>

Editorial system overview 2006: Atex

Editorial system: Prestige – version 5 is available since 2005 Some references: L’Espresso Group (Italy), INL (South Africa), Newsquest (UK), JRC (USA), Gannett (USA) Recent installations: INL (x15 titles), The Sportsman, Metropoli, New Haven Regist ...>

Search tools within CCI’s NewsGate asset management system

newspaper techniques: How does your system offer desktop search and/or support the editor in news research? Furthermore, does the system support the newspaper in offering an info ...>

Carl Davaz Q&A; the power of automation in the newsroom

Carl Davaz, managing editor at The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A., is the leader of the automation committee of the DTI User Group. Taking advantage of the scripting possibiliti ...>

Executive Briefing for Chief Editors (1)

English version see newspaper techniques November 2005, page 32.>

Der Standard banks on Protec for new strategy

Available on this site only in translation. For the English version, see newspaper techniques November 2005, page 13.>

Going inside the system "war room"

Available on this site only in translation. For the English version, see newspaper techniques November 2005, page 9.>

Virtual stroll through Solution Park

Available on this site only in translation. For the English version, see newspaper techniques November 2005, page 33.>