An End-to-End Multimedia Cross Publishing Solution for the evolving Media Company

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1 PUBLISHING Modular, Configurable, Easily personalized, All-in-One Solution for Media Companies An End-to-End Multimedia Cross Publishing Solution for the evolving Media Company Advanced Editorial/ Issue Planning, tracking, enhanced workflow, automatic layout and seamless cross-channel publishing of multimedia news from one system.

2 newsasset Publishing Newsasset Publishing is the platform to enable Media Organizations leverage the opportunities digital era offers and gain competitive advantage. It redefines the publishing and distribution workflow, providing an integrated platform for all Newsrooms, titles, users and most importantly one centralised environment to manage and store all your multimedia assets. This intuitive, all-in-one, feature-rich system, is designed to provide media companies with the tools they need to automate the production workflows, allowing Editors and Journalists to focus on most important job of creating news, stress free of deadlines. The innovation of the suite lies on the simplified publishing workflows and broad multi-channel distribution with only one click, leading to significant operational cost reduction. Additionally incorporates all business models to monetize your content and create new revenue streams. why users embrace newsasset Unique multilingual, one click, multi-channel publishing. Automated cross-channel publishing process, which allows seamless delivery of your content to print, web, mobile computing and social media. Real-time production monitoring for multiple publications and issues minimizing errors and enhance productivity and agility. Editors and Chief Editors can now take control for the first time over production workflow with Real Time Monitoring Tools. Unique feature for Automatic Pagination resulting in elimination of pagination Time & Effort. Ensures integration of Planning, Newsroom and Archive Departments, with Prepress and Page-Layout Department. Automates the receiving process of external content. Configurable engine for ingesting multimedia content from any source, delivery channel and format. Powerful Archive and Asset Management tools offering one centralized environment for storing all your multimedia assets, ability to re-use content, filter and search capabilities, boosting collaboration. Flexible and fully configurable solution. It was never easier to add and expand in new publishing channels.

3 newsasset is a sound investment Substantial operational cost reduction, by minimizing and automating production workflows. Short Return On Investment. Create New Revenue Stream by monetizing your content, all business models are supported. You can go beyond news aggregation and distribution and offer through e-shop news and non news products taking advantage of your brand name and customer loyalty. Fast and easy deployment. Unprecedented reach of customers through web, mobile, tablets and social media. Newsasset secures your investment, incorporating all industry trends. Our Research and Development Team ensures newsasset keeps up with all technological advancements.

4 editorial planning EDITORIAL & ISSUE PLANNING Simple arrangement and re-arrangement of plans for content and resources. Newsasset allows multiple titles with complex production requirements to be easily created, while providing the tools to monitor the process. It offers a variety of views and planning capabilities, allowing multiple users to work collaboratively on the same production plan. At this planning stage, several important elements are taken into account such as ad-customer requirements, production specifications and editorial preferences. The flexibility of editorial and pagination procedures ensures speedy completion of Newspaper or Magazine planning. Newsasset can efficiently support any type of configurable workflow such as template-driven, content-driven and mixed-environment. The Editor has the ability to choose the appropriate workflow, according to the requirements of the production process, managing timeframes and resources. content creation and aggregation INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA NEWSROOM Newsasset supports the entire life-cycle of news assets from planning, collecting, creating and editing all the way to cross publishing and archiving. The integrated multimedia newsroom can handle all multimedia assets, all types of workflows and all news content management activities, via a friendly interface. Newsasset fulfills the need for a common digital asset management and archive, which supports an integrated editorial workflow, while eliminating content creation dependencies from format or publishing channel, thus making newsasset an ideal tool for cross channel publishing. Newsasset integrates with widely used desktop applications such as MS Word, Open Office, Photoshop, and many others, while supporting News Industry Standards such as IPTC, NewsML, EventsML, ANPA, etc. ARCHIVING & SEARCHING There is no more need for file systems or multiple storing sources, now you can have one common digital asset management and archive system, for all your multimedia content. Newsasset offers advanced functionality for archiving, searching and handling of all multimedia content, whether user-generated or received from any third party source. This is the essence of your editorial workflow, as all multimedia content produced or received can now be retrieved, re-used, shared and most importantly, published to any channels. Newsasset provides a toolkit for quick searching, sorting, filtering, selecting and retrieving of multimedia assets. Users can define specific criteria, which are easily composed and applied. Consolidation of system filters is supported. Users can now collaborate effectively, shortening the production time. Newsasset also supports the creation of Filter-specific Notifications, when content relevant to a filters criterion is available in the archive. MULTIPLE RECEIVING SERVICES Automated reception of multimedia content from multiple media feeds and wires, using a configurable engine, for ingesting content from any source, channel and in any format. Newsasset allows direct access to news wires. It gives a clear overview of the news items, which can be previewed without being opened. It is easy to create an article from a wire, or place it directly onto a page. A notification mechanism is also available for the user, in case that a new item is received within a search. All industry standard formats are supported. WEB ACCESS: A web based light interface to enable remote users to access the system through the web. PUBLISHING

5 adaption for multiple channels REAL TIME MONITORING Newsasset offers real-time production monitoring capabilities. Users, subject to permissions, can view all the production phases, as these evolve. Content in the editorial process can be previewed in the selected print layout template before the pagination even starts; any necessary changes can be easily made, so that content fits perfectly. Work progress at the pagination stage can also be monitored real time for multiple issues and publications. Modifications can be viewed as content is gradually placed into the page. AUTOMATIC PAGINATION BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION Newsasset supports dynamic and seamless integration with InDesign. It ensures Integration of the Planning and Newsroom with the Prepress and Pagination Departments. Automatic pagination functionalities are available for print editions. Articles and relevant material can be provided to the layout stage as ready-to-fit and can be placed automatically into the layout. Even after the automatic placement, the editorial department can directly edit content. Changes will be seamlessly reflected in the layout and vice versa, change made on the layout are directly visible to editors. The above features result in substantial reduction of workflow production time and improvement in the quality of pagination. Last minute modifications can be easily applied, saving time and minimizing errors. MULTIPLE PUBLICATIONS / EDITIONS Newsasset can simultaneously handle multiple publications and editions within one single installation. Any number of new publications can be easily added to existing installations, at any time, using existing or newly implemented workflows. All workflows can be easily configured through software parameterization. Role Based Access Control is supported, allowing users to belong to more than one Role and thus being able to access and create content for more than one publications or sections, depending on permissions given. WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY Content created within integrated Newsroom is channel independent and thus can be directly published to any digital channel (web, mobile, social) without any channel specific adaptation. ADVANCED SECURITY FEATURES: Newsasset incorporates advanced security features and access control at all levels of the platform.

6 delivery channels Newsasset brings publishing to today s digital era, helping publishers reach a broader audience. Content can be diffused, not only into print media, but also into any digital channel, including web portals, mobile news readers, tablet applications and all popular social media, without need for additional effort or resources. PRINT MEDIA Newsasset offers flexible channel-independent editing and an efficient pagination environment for the production of newspapers and magazines. Journalists and Editors while working within a simple and efficient editorial environment, can easily create, edit and preview content. Page editors can build pages, insert content and inspect print quality previews, before the pagination process even begins. Using the editorial interface, work progress at editorial and pagination stages, can be monitored in real time and an approval process put in place, while a print quality PDF is produced and sent to print, at the end of the production cycle. ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Newsasset, with its i-box Web & Mobile CMS module, accomplishes one-click publishing to web and social media. It enables creating content once and delivering it to digital channels seamlessly, from a single point of administration. Newsasset i-box Web & Mobile CMS is a dynamic Content Management platform with advanced publishing and marketing capabilities, while being an ideal tool for creating portals and exploring popular social community networks. Its efficient and effortless streamlining of content to portals and social media, enables publishers to keep up with continually evolving readers trends, easily and with limited cost. ALTERNATIVE CHANNELS Structured delivery of news assets for broadcasting via satellite; FTP based transmission; based distribution; serial port delivery. MOBILE Newsasset enables you to increase your readership through applications for Smartphones and Tablets. The newsasset mobile solutions enables the modern on-the-go lifestyle of your readership, giving access to news and news content in real-time in a clear, interactive and innovative manner. The applications support all types of multimedia content as well as live streaming of video and audio. Tablet solutions also provide the complete solution for digital publishing of newspapers, magazines, ebooks, audio and video content. The applications work on all popular platforms (ios, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry). Our digital solutions for mobile devices enables publishers to move into the digital age of publishing bring in new generation of readers, as well as providing additional options to existing readers. DIGITAL SIGNAGE Newsasset supports seamless delivery of content, to signage systems handling large LCD screens in public areas, offering new business opportunities to Agencies and Media Organizations by merging News Publishing, Infotainment and Advertisement. EXTENDED API: An enhanced and well documented Application Programming Interface enables easy integration with any third party system.

7 Newsasset has met all our expectations from a modern, fully featured Editorial System for the complex, cross channel environment of Lambrakis Press. We enjoyed the robustness of the product from the first instance of its delivery, as well as the bug - free, meticulously tested new releases and the flexibility and willingness of the personnel of ATC to understand and implement the necessary changes for the specific needs of our editorial environment. This is how the development and implementation of new systems should be. said Mr Dimitris Tsiampouris, Director of Multimedia SA and Project Manager for the New Editorial System of Lambrakis Press The Polish Press Agency is very satisfied with the customer-oriented attitude of ATC in our everyday cooperation. The newsasset editorial IT system allows PAP s journalists, editors and sales staff not only to make full use of IPTC metadata, but also to develop our internal workflow with all of its traditions, habits and new ideas. ATC is always ready and eager to help us in creating new functionalities and new possibilities. When we look for new solutions - we can be sure ATC will understand our needs perfectly. said Mr Ryszard Nizewski, Head of the Operational Committee for the Tryton (NEWSASSET) Editorial System, PAP, Poland. Newsasset Agency Edition is today one fundamental tool at LUSA: its implementation really improved the efficiency of the production and distribution workflow. The system proved to be very simple but simultaneously robust and integrated. It also enabled LUSA to proceed faster in the multimedia path, a key success factor in the media industry. said Mr Paulo Nogueira dos Santos, Technical Director, LUSA, Portugal. PUBLISHING Newsasset Publishing Edition Crash-tested for robustness in an Olympic Games environment, employing state-of-the-art technology, Newsasset is based on an open architecture and complies fully with media industry standards. Advanced Editorial/Issue Planning and tracking, enhanced workflow, automatic layout and seamless cross-channel multimedia publishing of news from one system. Newsasset Ltd in the Media Industry Newsasset Ltd is a UK based spin-off company of ATC S.A., an International IT solution & services Company. Newsasset Ltd is offering specialized, end-to-end vertical solutions for the Media Industry through the homonymous product suite and is continuously investing in novel technologies. Newsasset suite is built around a powerful Integrated Newsroom concept, with strong multimedia, multilingual and multi-channel publishing capabilities for print, web, mobile platforms and social media. Through newsasset, users of different cultures and background have already deployed innovative new business models and strategies, gaining competitive advantage. They managed to explore novel social network services and mobile platforms, or simply expand capabilities, streamline operations, by replacing a complex working environment with an all-in-one system. Newsasset accumulates more than 15 years of expertise and benefits from the company s participation in international R&D projects under the European Union auspices. Newsassetcustomer and partner portfolio spans in many countries worldwide.

8 multimedia NEWS AS AN ASSET 10 Rizariou Str., Halandri, Athens, Greece Tel.: , Fax: Flitcroft Street, London, WC2H 8DH, United Kingdom Tel: MediaAsset Solutions FZ LLC, DMC 02, Second Floor, office EO121, Dubai Media City, P.O. Box 75299, Dubai, UAE