CMS saves Highways Agency lb600 000

The UK Highways Agency`s content management system (CMS) and Web site is expected to save the organisation lb600 000 in operating costs over a three year period, as well as delivering critical real-time information on England`s major road conditions including traffic headlines, weather forecasts and e-mail alerts.

Peter Aylward, MD of RedDot Solutions, who implemented the technology, says: "The Highways Agency`s story highlights the many benefits that a well run CMS can deliver - the organisation has been able to dramatically improve the way it communicates with its audience and take significant costs out of doing so at the same time".

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CMS vendor DayPort has installed its Carbon Task Manager, part of its Carbon Content Management System, for Sky News Interactive, reports TVtechnology.com.

The Carbon Task Manager system at Sky News Interactive enables preparation formatting, management and delivery of Sky News content and metadata in multiple video formats, resolutions, image sizes and aspect ratios, to additional content viewing platforms such as mobile phones, iPods and other mobile video services.

"Sky News Interactive journalists edit news stories using Quantel sQEdit workstations, which are 'wrapped` around a Zone Magic, Quantel sQ Video Server architecture. The newly installed Quantel system provides the core content news production system for the Sky News channel," adds the report.

Google is exploring a tie-up with Solix Technologies, a provider of data and e-mail archiving solutions, to bolster its offering in the enterprise search space.

This is according to India Times, which says: "According to market sources, the tie-up will enable the search major to access tools that can help search e-mails and data resident on multiple servers and storage platforms."