Malaysian Sales Partner Papyrus Media to Exhibit at Publish Asia in Macao together with SoftCare and CoreMedia
Malaysia’s largest newspaper publishing house, New Straits Times Press Berhad, will publish three daily magazine sections of its newspapers using the SoftCare K4 Publishing System. The publishing house announced that the layout production of its popular tabloids, “News Straits Times” and “Harian Metro”, as well as the “Berita Harian” newspaper has almost been fully converted to Adobe InDesign and SoftCare K4. Altogether those publications reach more than 2,6 million enthusiastic Malaysian readers per day. Papyrus Media, SoftCare‘s official K4 integrator for Malaysia, is in charge of implementing the software. In April, Papyrus Media and SoftCare will present the K4 Publishing System to the Asian publishing industry at the Publish Asia tradeshow in Macao, China at Booth 10a. Also on board: CoreMedia, SoftCare’s technology partner for cross-media publishing. CoreMedia’s CMS and K4 offer an integrated solution for multi channel publishing that has already gained a lot of interest at the CeBIT in Germany earlier this spring.
SoftCare K4 is increasingly gaining ground in global markets: “Papyrus Media is a competent and reliable local contact partner for Asian publishers who are interested in a professional publishing solution,” says Birgit Rosenthal, Director of Business Development at SoftCare. The recent purchase of New Straits Times Press Berhad supports this statement: The traditional Malaysian publishing house bought 70 K4 seats. K4 won out over competitive products, because it was especially easy to integrate into the publisher‘s existing IT infrastructure. For example, they are using K4 Drop Folders to automatize check-in to the system for their existing customized text and picture files and an ad planning system. Another reason was that relatively few training sessions were required to prepare the employees for the new system.
“As the number of Adobe InDesign users at New Straits Times Press grows, organizing the users’ work has proved to be an arduous task,” said Abdul Rahman Hashim, Head of IT at New Straits Time Press. “We found K4 most convincing, since it allows us to manage all InDesign documents in a central database. At the same time, the documents are available to editors without access to InDesign and can be proof-read by freelancers outside New Straits Times Press via the K4 Web Editor. The K4 XML Exporter makes it especially easy to export layouts and repurpose them for the internet or for the magazines’ archives,” adds Abdul Rahman. Papyrus Media supports the publisher during the entire conversion process: The Malaysian integrator company has fed all existing InDesign documents into the system, assisted with the setup of a logical workflow for all publications, and has trained the staff on the new system. As the first publication of New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad the lifestyle magazine “Harian Metro” is expecting to have entirely switched to K4 by the end of March.
Read more about SoftCare K4 at Publish Asia.
About SoftCare
SoftCare focuses on developing professional editorial solutions for cross-media publishing, based on Adobe Creative Suite. SoftCare K4 is a powerful, integrated publishing solution that combines efficient ways of working with proven time and cost advantages for its users. The SoftCare K2 workgroup system provides an excellent base product for people entering the world of professional publishing. Founded in 1990, SoftCare works with a team of qualified global integrators in order to guarantee high-quality system support at a local level. More than 230 systems are already successfully in use, with installations ranging from ten to more than 1,000 users. Publications using SoftCare include Focus, Capital, ADACmotorwelt, Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, BusinessWeek, New York Magazine, Playboy and Le Point, while corporate publishers include BASF, Siemens, KircherBurkhardt und Publicis. Find out more at www.softcare.de.
About Papyrus Media Sdn Bhd.
A group of experienced IT experts, providing Information Technology solutions, services, outsourcing and support to clients throughout the Asia Pacific & Middle Eastern Region. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Papyrus Media services include hardware and software development, installation and customization, digital publishing solutions, imaging & archiving solutions, digital signage and narrowcasting, web, new media development, design services and printing. Papyrus Media has an excellent support team combining extensive publishing and new media technology expertise. Papyrus Media is an authorized system integrator for SoftCare K4 and SoftCare K2 in Asia. More information can be found at www.papyrus-media.com.
About CoreMedia
CoreMedia is an international provider of people-centric™ content management software – software that focuses on the people who use it. CoreMedia CMS forms the flexible basis for strategic content platforms that power corporate websites, intranets and high-traffic media portals. By strongly integrating its intelligent Social Software and innovative Web TV services into an already-comprehensive product portfolio, CoreMedia enables staff, partners and customers to interact rapidly, creatively and productively. The company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has successfully positioned itself in the highly-dynamic global market for Internet technology and is represented in every industry. Founded in 1996, CoreMedia employs over 150 staff worldwide and maintains a global network of implementation partners that includes 500 professional consultants.
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