Unisys Corporation today announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Dow Jones & Company, publishers of The Wall Street Journal, as part of a comprehensive business re-design initiative for the editorial and pagination processes of the newspaper. The Unisys Publishing Solutions will provide The Wall Street Journal with improved editorial workflow, electronic pagination, extensive zoning and editions, Web publishing capabilities and operational flexibility. An ability to leave pages open longer in the production cycle will allow for the inclusion of late-breaking news and afford readers more timely news coverage.
"We are excited about the Unisys publishing solution," said Paul E. Steiger, the Journal`s managing editor. "It clearly is the best approach to provide the latest news to our readers."
Phase I of the project has already begun - including the installation of the Hermes editorial and pagination system and the WireCenter wire services management system on nearly 300 workstations at both The Wall Street Journal`s main newsroom in New York and at Dow Jones` South Brunswick, N.J., facility. The Unisys solutions replace a custom developed Global News Management System.
"Given the scope of the project and our need to install a complex system quickly, Unisys was our choice," said Jim Pensiero, a Journal assistant managing editor responsible for the project. "We saw the Unisys solution at work at several large newspapers in the U.S. and Europe, and it has the right tools to handle the job. Our staffers who have worked on the system like it."
The agreement for the publishing solutions is the latest development in a long-standing relationship between the two companies, with Unisys having provided technology-based solutions and implementation services to Dow Jones for over 20 years.
Unisys Chairman and CEO Lawrence A. Weinbach said, "We are thrilled to expand our long-term relationship with Dow Jones by helping them further improve what is already a benchmark publication around the world. We also are eager to showcase the capabilities of our proven, repeatable publishing solutions, which can be quickly customized and implemented."
The Hermes and WireCenter systems will be powered by Sun Microsystems E6500 High Availability clusters, Windows NT clients and Oracle`s Enterprise Edition software as the database engine for Hermes. Additional project services include integration with Dow Jones` Page Delivery System. Editorial content will also be exported to a number of other Dow Jones systems and partnerships.
Unisys Publishing Solutions
Unisys provides one of the most comprehensive newspaper publishing solutions available with a complete line of editorial, electronic pagination, wire management, archive and advertising systems. The solutions run on several server platforms with mainstream databases and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows NT. Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialist packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions.
A major vendor in the publishing industry for 25 years, Unisys continues to experience significant growth in its publishing systems business, with over 70% of the new clients signed in the last three years. Unisys success in the publishing market is based on the unique approach the company brings to the industry -- combining the strengths of a leading-edge solution with technology and systems integration services to offer newspapers a total solution from a single source. Unisys has also recently purchased Publishing Partners International of Bedford, New Hampshire, adding a Classified and Run-of-Paper (ROP) advertising component to the portfolio of publishing solutions.
Over 170 newspapers in 16 countries around the world have selected Unisys Publishing Solutions. U.S. clients include The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, New York Daily News, and Investor`s Business Daily. Selected international clients are the News International Group, which includes the UK`s The Sun, The Times of London, The Sunday Times, News of the World and other titles, Brazil`s O Estado de S. Paulo, France`s La Voix du Nord, Italy`s La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore, Germany`s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Spain`s El Pais and ABC.
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Dow Jones & Company
In addition to The Wall Street Journal and its international and Interactive editions, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ www.dj.com) publishes, Barron`s and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, dowjones.com, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner of Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, and of the CNBC television operations in Europe and Asia. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S.
Unisys
Unisys is 35,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems. Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including electronic business, systems integration including custom and "repeatable" application solutions, outsourcing, Microsoft Windows NT services, network services, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage. Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, government, publishing, and other commercial markets. The company is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information on the company, access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at www.unisys.com. Investor information can be found at www.unisys.com/investor.
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