CoMPANY PRoFILE
Table of content About us 4 MARKET AREAS 5 publishing 6 BRAND & MARKETING COMMUNICATION 7 BUILDING MANAGEMENT 8 PLATFORMS, modules and SOLUTIONS 11 OUR BUSINESS APPROACH 12 our services 13 our LABs 14
1998 1999 The company "Digital Archive" project begins Launch of the Chalco.net digital asset management platform Acquisition of the Hyphen-Italia brand 4 About US Since 1998, Hyphen-Italia has designed and developed IT solutions, systems and software applications for Corporate, Brand and Product marketing communication as well as the publishing market. We provide content to media solutions to leading international brands in the fashion, luxury, interior design and home decor industries as well as the retail market. Our technologies support all roles and players contributing to our client marketing communication, sales and content-to-media production. We partner with our clients IT teams, supporting them throughout the design, planning and execution of projects - the application of our technologies to their company reality. We also assist our clients with our market-specific business practice and process expertise of the Corporate, Brand and Product marketing communication market environment as well as our deep knowledge of its functions and players. To serve the needs of an efficient multi-channel marketing communication, product promotion and sales strategy, our solutions encompass the implementation and management of a Product Database providing the Product Master Data-Sheet/Record. This includes up-todate marketing and technical specification data for the product as well as its visual content such as images, video and other web content. The Hyphen-Italia Chalco.net platform can be integrated with the leading ERP, PLM and PDM systems and applications. Pertinent product data can be collected and transferred to/from the Calco.net Product Database's product marketing master data record. From there, Chalco. net manages the life-cycle of your products marketing content, from concept through editing and approval to distribution to the intended media. All this, while maintaining up-to-date bi-directional data exchange with all other interested back-end systems through the management of the product life-cycle and its data. Our offer combines innovative IT knowledge, software development, and market-specific business practice and process expertise along with the adoption of our unique business approach and project implementation methodologies. 01 Hyphen-Italia main office: our open space work environment. 02 A space for networking and sharing of ideas among both our team members and clients. 02 01
2000 The Pincushion project begins: development of the web platform for facility & building management Hyphen- adopts the Theory of Constraints as project management strategic tool The Milan based Lowe Pirella international Ad Agency adopts Chalco.net MARKET AREAS 5 The Hyphen-Italia solutions are constantly evolving to help your company turning your data into value. Successfully adopted by many international brands, ad agencies and publishers, they offer scalability and easy to use tools and functions to build content-to-media systems and applications delivering content across media in a synchronized fashion. building management hyphen-italia ~ MARKET AREAS PUBLISHING BRAND AND MARKETING
2001 2002 Hyphen-Italia opens new headquarter in Affi, Verona Release of Chalco.net 3.0 content-to-media platform for brand management & marketing communication 6 PUBLISHING Building on our field proven applications for the pre-media production, workflow automation, digital asset management and data archival of publications, over time we have added an array of software applications and services addressing the complete book publishing supply chain, from content management to final output to the intended destination media: print, e-book platforms and formats, or other web applications and digital media. Through a pragmatic approach to publishing content management and production needs we have gained the trust of leading publishers such as DeAgostini, Hachette, Pearson, Giunti, Gruppo Editoriale L Espresso and RCS. Our solutions and applications support publishers of all sizes through the difficult transition towards a media-independent content editing and management workflow, enabling them with efficient cross-media publishing capabilities, while enhancing and adapting the traditional book publishing processes, thus preserving the value of the traditional publishing products. By combining and integrating the Hyphen-Italia Chalco.net PublisherSuite applications and the Hyphen- Book System cross-media publishing platform with third party modules and plugins for the standard authoring applications, Hyphen-Italia creates a comprehensive content-to-media publishing solutions streamlining all activities of the publishing workflow. These includes planning, content management and editing as well as pre-media production, content porting and formatting to concurrent destination media.
2003 2004 The Mediachain project begins: Ad campaign planning and management BRAND & MARKETING COMMUNICATION 7 Hyphen-Italia designs and develops cross-media solutions, systems and software applications for the Corporate, Brand and Product marketing communication market. Digital asset management, pre-media production portals and workflow automation software applications for pre-media, printing and publishing markets have been our traditional core business. Building upon our core technologies and productivity automation tools we have gradually extended our offering to corporate marketing communication, brand-owners and advertising agencies through a variety of crossmedia enabled vertical market solutions. These include: brand & digital asset management applications; point of sales portals for brand & marketing resource management and collateral personalization and distribution; retail portals providing content management for cross-media production of catalogs, inserts, product sheets, etc; ad campaign management applications for marketing and brand managers; brand and production management portals for packaging production Our solutions streamline content management and media production while greatly improving speed to media and reducing costs. They are designed as crossmedia applications in essence, allowing for the most efficient publishing of content to the intended media throughout the client multi-channel media ecosystem. Chalco.net is the software platform upon which we have built our Corporate, Brand and Product marketing communication solutions.
2005 2006 Hyphen Still Life (HSL) is launched: automation of product photography & product marketing communication 8 BUILDING MANAGEMENT Hyphen-Italia designs and develops facility and building management systems and solutions providing security, access management and energy management services for any type of company, public agency or institution. Our solutions are highly scalable, well-versed and field-tested as they serve and fit the needs of companies of all sizes: from SME businesses to highly structured corporations operating large multisite facilities with a wide variety of buildings, working or public environments, industrial or commercial estates, requiring many environmental and security services Hyphen-Italia facility and building management services include: centralized access management and security for people and vehicle access to any facility, including remote and unmanned locations; data centers access control, security and environmental services; energy management / energy efficiency services As operational cost reduction and resource optimization have become paramount in today s business environment Hyphen- Italia facility and building management solutions provide the functions and services to create security and efficiency to any type of environment. Pincushion is the software platform upon which we have built our facility and building management solutions.
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2007 2008 Hyphen-Italia starts partnership with Telecom-Italia Hyphen-Italia is a ISO90001 certified company PLATFORMS, modules and SOLUTIONS 11 Combining the applications and software modules of the Chalco.net and Pincushion platforms Hyphen-Italia designs and builds systems and solutions addressing the needs of a variety of vertical markets. Each solution is built to deliver true value through the effective management of data thus streamlining the client processes throughout the entire supply chain or media eco-system. The many Chalco.net and Pincushion applications and add-on modules are the result of a twenty year experience in managing digital content and data. Similar to the colorful blocks pieced together to form objects of different shapes, our solutions are combinations of modules tightly integrated to address the needs of our clients media production workflows Our offer includes SOLUTIONS and PRODUCTS (Hw, Sw and services) Multiple software MODULES are integrated and configured through their standard features and functions or customized to suit the client specific needs All our solutions and products are based on our Chalco.net and Pincushion WEB PLATFORMS
2009 2010 Hyphen-Italia becomes leader in Brand & Marketing resource management Hyphen Book System (HBS) is launched: a cross-platform solution for digital publishing 12 OUR BUSINESS APPROACH Our technical and business approach has been guided by the idea that technology is the tool to build the solution, it is not the solution itself The application of cutting-edge technology is essential to build solutions that are fully capable of turning your data into value. Understanding and applying new technologies to impact the effectiveness of our solutions is a major part of our work at Hyphen-Italia. Innovation is a key word in our vocabulary. To achieve the goal of constantly innovating and broadening our offers and improving our business methods and practices we have created the Hyphen-Labs. Our Labs are breeding grounds of ideas where the passion, knowledge and expertise of our team members is transformed into new tools and solutions. We also believe that understanding the business DNA of each of our clients is a fundamental requirement for the implementation of any solution we build for them. This is why we devote great attention to the understanding of their business processes, ensuring that a full assessment of the client needs translate, through the project design, into the most effective solution. Finally and most importantly, the primary focus for our solutions design remains the end user; the person and individual using our technologies.
2011 The 118 Project begins: Hyphen-Italia increases focus on the Brand and Marketing communication market Hyphen-Italia becomes a lead provider for the Italian Fashion industry Hyphen Store Management The Chalco.net and Pincushion platforms are combined to create a new solution for the retail market. our services 13 Hyphen-Italia technology solutions and services are offered through the following purchasing options: DIRECT PURCHASING OF SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND SERVICES PURCHASING OF SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND SERVICES THROUGH A LEASING CONTRACT ASP (APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER) LICENSE USE CONTRACT Hyphen-Italia 360 Support & services easy package An entry level offer to make our knowhow and expertise accessible also to small businesses TRAINING On-line or on-site training sessions for client s users on the solutions, systems and applications provided by Hyphen-Italia CONSULTING / PROJECT DEFINITION Strategic and operations management consulting as well as application & software engineering consulting for all phases of a project implementation. CUSTOM SETUP Customized setup and configuration of Hyphen- Italia s systems and applications to address the specific client s needs and requirements SOFTWARE CUSTOMIZATIOn Software development of customized modules and functions addressing specific client s needs SYSTEM INTEGRATION Software development and related services for the integration of Hyphen-Italia solutions with the client s systems and applications or 3rd party solutions hotline Phone and web-base help desk services for the client user SYSTEM ROLL-OUT AND TUTORING Help-desk, tutoring and application and tech support services provided during the roll-out phase of a solution implementation or upon client request i.e. new users tutoring support TECH SUPPORT Phone and on-line tech support services per client s System/Solution tech support contract ZERO-MILES SUPPORT Hyphen-Italia offers the Zero-km/Zero- Miles Support & Services Program, to maximize your Return On Investment on tech support, solution customization, training and service packages bought from Hyphen
2012 future Hyphen-Italia becomes exclusive Woodwing Software distributor for the Italian Market Hyphen-Italia enters new markets in which its solutions can turn customers data into value 14 our LABs Hyphen-Italia Labs are constantly at work on research and development projects aimed at improving and expanding our technology solutions and services. Curiosity for new technology, spirit of innovation and initiative along with the passion for what we do spring up the work of our Labs. Hyphen-PhotoLab Combining our passion for photography with our long term experience in digital asset management technology and practices for both brand and marketing communication and publishing the Hyphen-PhotoLab works to improve the Hyphen Still Life platform (HSL). Hyphen-videolab A team of video production experts working with the Chalco.net development team to create cutting edge video management functions for the Chalco.net platform that are geared toward cross-media video applications deployment. Hyphen-packaginglab Taking packaging life-cycle management to the next level of functionality and automation in the application of brand management and workflow automation technologies as they apply to packaging production. Hyphen-MusicLab The great passion for music combined with the know-how and expertise in building management has brought to life the Hyphen-MusicLab. The Lab research focus on innovative audio reproduction solutions. Hyphen-passionlab The Hyphen-PassionLab was created as a recruiting tool for young talent willing to explore their affinity with our company DNA and our interest and passion for technology. It was born as an open space and breeding ground for ideas for both our employees and others interested in what we do. It was created with the spirit of investing and facilitating the development of ideas and projects spuring from individual or common interests and passions. The first Hyphen-PassionLab project was the Pro-Fashion project. 01 Hyphen Still Life platform testing at the Hyphen- PhotoLab. 02 Pro-fashion team at work. 02 01
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