Smart Newspapers

Smart Connection Enterprise - Publishing Platform

Saving time and increasing efficiency

WoodWing boasts over 20 years of newspaper experience. That’s why leading newspapers all over the globe, from small tabloid dailies up to multi-edition broadsheet metros, rely on our software every day.

Supporting the entire process

Smart Newspapers is our fully integrated solution for the newspaper industry. It supports all editorial steps: planning, gathering, creating, selecting, editing, producing and publishing. Its powerful page-planning integration allows smooth interaction with the advertising workflow. Further integration of Web, archiving, wire feed and digital asset management systems provides you with one single solution: the best one available. Our Authorized Solution Partners will gladly share with you their many years of experience, derived from numerous successful business cases.

Multi-channel publishing productivity

A newspaper has become more than the daily printed issue. The Web site requires immediate publication. An accompanying weekly magazine may call for in-depth articles. Perhaps you need a recording for radio or TV broadcasting. That’s why WoodWing believes in the blended media concept. In this story-centric approach the writer can focus on his primary task: writing the ultimate story, consisting of multiple interrelated parts. To that end, he has all source information at his fingertips.

First, he might publish a short item including audio, video or low-res images to the Web site. Perhaps the title and summary are used for RSS or a text message news service. Next, he could take the same dossier to produce a newspaper article with a higher quality photo for the next printed edition. But just as easily, he can create a full story first, and extract a Web site version at a later stage.

A different employee may simultaneously add an audio or video broadcast recording to the dossier. The archived dossier can later be used for research purposes or a comprehensive magazine article.

Collaboration, quality and creativity

We know that a smooth business process is absolutely vital to meet the deadline. With our advanced Web Editor, your reporters and editors in the field can work from any Internet connection on the planet. Your in-house staff can keep working in their familiar environment: InDesign, InCopy, Word or Excel. Graphic artists will use Photoshop or Illustrator.

Both for internal and external contributors, the customizable workflow will ensure swift but thorough reviews, increase content quality and enforce security. E-mail attachment and document version anarchy will be ancient history. Truly parallel content and page layout production saves both stress and critical deadline time. Writers, editors and designers can work simultaneously on the same item.

Adobe InDesign is clearly the best page-layout application on the market. We enhanced it even further to make newspaper layout much more efficient. Smart Newspapers fully integrates Adobe InDesign in its database environment. Put it all together and you get the best of three worlds: perfect design tools for the best-looking newspaper, efficient newspaper layout and a streamlined production.

Organization and overview

As in any organization, management information is vital. You can keep an eye on publication progress through any intranet or extranet Web browser. Monitor all work in progress through flexible reports, deadline overviews and thumbnail publications. Browse and query the database to get answers to specific questions. Manage your publications, stories, and files.

Publishing platform

The basis for all this is Smart Connection Enterprise, our state-of-the-art publishing platform, providing repository and content management system functionality. Its open architecture enables tight integration with your existing software environment, it supports all your publications and editions, encompasses any printed or digital media, and handles images, text, audio, video and more.