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Edinburgh, 20. September 2000. The Swedish media company Bonnier AB launched a new daily business newspaper in Scotland after more than 100 years, appearing 5 times a week: The financial paper "business a.m."
To ensure the launch date of this newspaper the Swedish company trusted CoDesCo IT Consulting an experienced systems integrator based in Oststeinbek near Hamburg, Germany. After a short planning phase CoDesCo IT Consulting specialists had the system up and running and business a.m. employees trained within eight weeks. In late july they started in Edinburgh in empty rooms and on September 20th the big day had come. Business a.m. was launched together with its online site at www.businessam.co.uk
CoDesCo IT Consulting had once agin leveraged it's experience and competence in realising sophisticated projects with know-how and team spirit within a very limited time period.
CoDesCo IT Consulting has created a fully integrated production system for “business a.m.” that allows last minute changes due to it's highly efficient combination of customised standard tools for the publishing industry with seamlessly integrated interfaces, thus guarranteeing highest degree of actuality.
The core component of this production process is the Quark Publishing System™ (QPS™) from the American software company Modulo Systems Corp. A workgroup based DTP-editing and production system, that combines QuarkXPress™ with numerous applications for text-editing, protocolling, document administration and workflow status control. So QPS enables editors, writers and layouters to work in their group at the same time
Quark Digital Media System™ (Quark DMS™) specially developed by Quark Inc. for the management of digital assets and content functions as the asset management database for pages, pictures, ads, market data and information retrieval. It's the backbone for all systems.
Content produced in QPS and Quark DMS is transmitted automatically and bidirectionally as XML data to "Vignette Storyserver" the online-publishing system used by "Business a.m."
The flow of incoming data supplied by various news agencies is administered with ex NotesWire. Received text data is “if necessary” converted and sent to a Lotus Notes® database on a Lotus Domino server, where the content is stored for a certain time, which can be freely defined by the system administrator. While in the database the content can directly be accessed for individual user requests from the current production application, where the user can setup ticker queries as well
The extensive workflow for incoming pictures is handled by the live image management production system MediaGrid of the Atlanta based Software Construction Company (SCC). Here we also implemented an automatic interface to the Quark DMS.archive
CoDesCo IT Consulting is a customer oriented systems integrator and solutions developer for publishing companies and all those who are concerned with communication. The variety of solutions reaches from extending or integration of modules to existing systems to complete taylormade new production systems. Depending on customers' demands these systems contain modules of editoring (print&online), asset-management systems, internet, text- and picture-agencies, ad-management and production, pagination, accountancy and archiving.
CoDesCo IT Consulting is one of the worlds' greatest supplier and developer for XTensions™, CoDesCo IT Consulting knows the market well. CoDesCo IT Consulting not only localises XTensions, but develops tailormade XTensions for publishing purposes on demand. As an authorised system integrator for QPS and Quark DMS CoDesCo IT Consulting has installed numerous systems for newspapers, magazines and catalogues etc.
Modulo Systems Corp. was founded in October of 1999 to market and develop complete publishing solutions to specific vertical markets.
The company’s charter is to create and distribute integrated systems to meet the needs of publishing markets requiring automation and elctronic management of their workflow. Modulo distributes collaborative workgroup publishing systems for enterprise-scale publishers such as magazines, newspapers, and data-driven catalogs.
Modulo will also develop and distribute commodity technologies that solve the complexity of publishing workflow. Modulo provedes world-class, cross-media publishing solutions by selling through System Integrators
Modulo is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts to be close to the East Coast customer base and also serve the large community of European QPS users.
CoDesCo IT Consulting GmbH - Im Hegen 11 - 22113 Oststeinbek - Germany -
Telephone: +49 40 / 71 30 01 30