IPA SISTER COMPANIES MAKES THEIR WAY INTO THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET


alfa OpenMedia editorial solution for Journal Register Company, Yardley

alfa systems GmBH and alfaQuest Inc. have successfully installed alfa OpenMedia editorial solutions into the Journal Register Company (JRC) who represent 7 areas in the USA: Greater Philadelphia, Michigan, Connecticut, Greater Cleveland, Central New England as well as in the areas Capital Saratoga and Mid-Hudson in New York. JRC publishes 27 daily newspapers, and the total circulation exceeds 650,000 per day on weekdays and 675,000 newspapers on Sundays. JRC also publishes 362 other publications with a circulation of more than 5 million. In addition, JRC co-operates with a leading online news provider. In total more than 230 websites are published. Journal Register Company claims to be the leading local supplier of print and online information.

alfa Media has finished the first editorial project in West Chester for the production of Daily Local News, (see http://www.dailylocal.com/). This year additional media companies in the group will begin to use alfa OpenMedia.

alfa NewsSuite Enterprise is installed in these sites. It is the central module handling cross channel news in the integrated media solution alfa OpenMedia. It is through its design a perfect match for the work in a modern editorial department. alfa NewsSuite Enterprise is deeply integrated with the rest of the alfa OpenMedia solution. Its features are perfectly matched to those of the planning modules and it masters the seamlessly integrated production of mixed pages as well as the delivery to online-portals. alfa NewsSuite Enterprise delivers content to the JRC websites.

In addition to this, there is the integration of alfa OpenMedia CMS, a system of browser-based media-asset and content management components used for the centralised management of all the newspaper objects. alfa OpenMedia CMS combines different features - the search, editing of photos and documents etc. - in one single production system, which can be used for the management and filing of any kind of data, such as texts, photos, graphic illustrations, audio, video, HTML, XML etc.

In addition to the printed edition, an e-paper edition is generated by alfa e-dition.

alfa OpenMedia Publishing Solutions are now available in the United Kingdom and Ireland through IPA Systems Limited.

For more information please contact: sales@ipasystems.co.uk

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