At the IFRA`98 publishing exposition, beginning here today, Unisys Corporation is presenting version 4.0 of its Unisys Publishing Solutions: Hermes, WireCenter and DocCenter. In addition, Unisys will introduce a beta version of Hermes On-Line, an application for the creation of content destined for the World Wide Web.
In addition, Unisys announced here today that the Unisys Publishing Solutions have received ISO 9001 certification -- recognition from the International Organization for Standardization that the solutions conform to rigorous quality standards for their lifecycle, including consulting, planning, development, installation and services.
Hermes On-Line will allow editorial departments to author content for traditional or new media all from a unique tool, Hermes NewsRoom. Highly integrated with the entire suite of Hermes products, Hermes On-Line will manage the Web authoring and workflow processes, handle multimedia objects and integrate with leading third-party applications for Web site design and graphics management.
For the first time, the IFRA expo will focus on magazine as well as newspaper production. Accordingly, Unisys magazine publishing client Edizione S. Paolo will exhibit how it uses Hermes to produce its numerous weekly and monthly magazines, including Italy`s top circulating weekly magazine, Famiglia Cristiana.
Unisys in the publishing market
Today publishers require solutions that improve the quality of their publications, accelerate the production cycle, and enable them to store and organize information for future use. With over 20 years of experience in the newspaper pre-press market and many successful installations in newspapers of all sizes, Unisys is extremely well positioned to provide newspapers with specific solutions to address their requirements. An in-depth knowledge of the publishing market enables Unisys to understand clients` requirements and provide a solution tailored to their unique environments.
The Unisys Publishing Solutions have been selected by nearly 100 newspapers in 11 countries for comprehensive newspaper production and zoning requirements. Recent sales of the Unisys Publishing Solutions have been made to top Italian newspapers, Corriere della Sera and La Gazzetta dello Sport, ABC in Spain, The New York Daily News and Newsday in the USA, and La Provence in France.
Unisys publishing solutions improve newspaper production
Unisys provides one of the most comprehensive newspaper publishing solutions available with a complete editorial, electronic pagination and archiving system. The solutions run on several server platforms with mainstream databases and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows 95 and NT. Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialty packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions.
The flexibility and scalability of these systems allows publishers to produce many different papers with different styles -- such as tabloids, daily broadsheets, Sundays and special supplements, and magazines -- within a single integrated solution. All the client applications required to produce a newspaper are accessible through one terminal rather than using separate editorial and page assembly workstations. Everyone works from a single database so that several people can work on the same page simultaneously. This and other features help to speed up the production process and allow editors to close pages later to cover late breaking stories with greater effect.
The solutions run on the Sun Solaris and IBM AIX platform and mainstream databases and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows 95 and NT. Hermes and WireCenter also run on DEC Alpha and Intel servers using Windows NT and SQL server from Microsoft. Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialty packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions.
About Unisys
Unisys (NYSE:UIS) is more than 33,000 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 systems integration, outsourcing, "repeatable" application solutions, consulting, network integration, remote network management, 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. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area, Unisys 1997 annual revenue was $6.6 billion. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com -- for further information.
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