NT Publishers B.V.

NT Publishers B.V.

N.T. Publishers B.V. publishes Nieuwsblad Transport, the leading specialist magazine for logistics, sales and bulk transport in The Netherlands and Belgium. The periodical offers weekly information on road freight transport, ocean transport, inland navigation, airfreight, and transport of goods by rail etc. Once every five weeks the magazine Mainport News reports on logistic subjects from the Greater Rotterdam area. The publishing company runs the Website www.transportnet.nl as well as eMail and newsletter services. Until the changeover to K4, production was realized with Smart Connection Enterprise of Woodwing.


Besides the optimal integration of the existing components of Adobe the new production system should:

• Facilitate faster operation processes
• Offer a modern, comfortable und easy-to-manage system environment
• Offer a consistent user interface, easy handling and the closest possible orientation to Adobe standards
• Guarantee a secure and reliable production
• Cause low costs of operation
• And should allow for easy integration into the existing publishing IT infrastructure.

The changeover to the new system could be realized within only three weeks including training and production support without any frictional losses.


Number of workstations: 15

Operational system Server: Linux

Operational system Client: Windows 2000 / XP

Used / developed components:

• K4 Publishing System
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Adobe InCopy
• SNAP Create Pages
• SNAP Genios Export

Services:

• Comprehensive analyses of processes and requirements
• Support with the re-definition of the editorial workflows
• Installation and Customizing
• Training K4 Publishing System
• Production support
• Support
• Project management
• Integration Asset Management System myCONTENT
• SNAP CreatePages for the automatic creation of issues inclusive of interfaces to the publishing director and integration of the advert disposition in K4.
• SNAP Genios Export for the transfer of editorial contents to the Genios Database.

Customer Feedback:

„The new system could be rolled out very efficiently and taken into operation. Lay-out staff and editors now profit from the essential productivity effects triggered by the high operating speed of K4. Thanks to the open architecture of K4 and the experience of SNAP the integration of our IT infrastructure could be carried out without any problem. In particular the possibility to take along and evaluate the meta information of the footage used for production, has considerably improved our productivity. Through the integration of the online archive we are now able to market our print contents without any additional cost and effort.”

Andreas von Roth, Project Manager

http://www.transportnet.nl