Automation tool for Newspaper Company

Executive Summary

This is a NewsPaper Enterprise Product which completely automates the workflow for a newspaper publishing house. This has support for Content & Task Planning for a daily newspaper. This lets you Plan, Schedule, Assign Work/Resources, Manage & Track Resources/Work, Work, Edit (with multiple industry-leading applications), Publish etc. Completely configurable, this supports access privileges, work-sharing/synchronization etc.  This is a client-server application based on n-Tier architecture. The system uses PostgreSQL database but has an architecture that makes it open to use any kind of SQL databases. The client is a thin-client which runs on both Windows and Macintosh (OS X). It shares a common code base for both the platforms.  This has multiple clients, Mac/Windows and support for working with Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign. The client server setup is service oriented, based on ASP.NET services (DotNet on WindowsXP).

About our Client

News Paper Company

Industry

Publishing Business Domain Products Industry

Technologies

Mac OSX, WinXP, WxWidgets, C++, C#, XML, COM, UML, TCP/IP, PostgreSQL DB, Codewarrior, Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign/InCopy, ASP.NET, CVS