Tampa Fla. – January 23 2012 – SAXOTECH a leader in content management circulation and advertising technology today announced The Observer Group has selected the SAXOTECH Mediaware Center the company’s multi-channel workflow and content management solution to centralize publishing operations across its weekly publications including Sarasota Longboat East County and Palm Coast Observers Pelican Press and the Gulf Coast Business Review.
The SAXOTECH Mediaware Center will enable The Observer Group to greatly improve its print and digital workflow. By centralizing the newsroom news producers will have real-time visibility to the latest version of every production page and its elements across the enterprise. Content can flow to any digital channel and to multiple properties. The Observer Group s multiple Web properties will be consolidated into one single managed environment empowering both the newsroom and bloggers to manage their own content and Web strategies. All content images text video and other multi-media assets will be easily located with the SAXOTECH Mediaware Center s high performance repository.
“One Touch Publishing really resonates with us as we look to achieve greater efficiency while also publishing to new channels that we can further monetize " said Emily Walsh associate publisher The Observer Group. "With SAXOTECH we will have control of our content on all channels and that was very appealing. We look forward to being able to take full advantage of content and associated ad revenue by leveraging mobile and tablet devices and social media. And operating in the SAXOTECH cloud will increase our productivity even more."
SAXOTECH’s Managed Hosting in the cloud will power the newspapers’ three digital products (yourobserver.com review.net and palmcoastobserver.com) ensuring uninterrupted access to news and information that is published by its editorial staff. By migrating to a fully managed Web services platform publishers will have access to the technologies that simplify and improve the speed of publishing the freedom to focus IT resources elsewhere and the comfort of knowing additional capacity is always available to handle any spikes in traffic that could occur. The Observer Group s weeklies will be able to publish content remotely 24/7 creating a more mobile workforce and giving its editorial staff the freedom and flexibility to focus on content and deliver more timely news.
"By integrating its newsroom operations with one vendor solution The Observer Group has built a completely collaborative publishing environment " said Anders Christiansen CEO SAXOTECH. "The SAXOTECH Mediaware Center will enable all content producers on assignment or in the newsroom to have real-time access to media assets creating better efficiencies with the editorial and online workflow. The Observer Group has taken a leap forward in digital publishing and will have new opportunities to create additional revenue."
About The Observer Group
Formed in 1995 with the acquisition of the Longboat Observer The Observer Group Inc. has grown into a family-owned and operated multimedia company with six newspapers three websites a quarterly arts and social magazine and more than 80 employees serving multiple communities around Florida.
The company s portfolio of newspapers includes four free community weeklies serving the Sarasota-Bradenton Fla. market — Sarasota Observer Longboat Observer East County Observer and Pelican Press; Palm Coast Observer a free weekly serving the east coast market of Palm Coast/Flagler County; and Gulf Coast Business Review a paid-circulation weekly with subscribers extending from Tampa to Naples. The company’s associated websites include YourObserver.com PalmCoastObserver.com and Review.net. Season magazine is the quarterly arts and social guide. Altogether the company’s newspapers and websites reach more than 200 000 readers a week.
About SAXOTECH
SAXOTECH helps media companies meet current and future challenges in the media landscape by providing cost efficient solutions for new business models based on multimedia multi-channel consumer interaction. Our scalable easy-to-implement solutions are used to plan create edit design and publish content as well as drive online directories and serve display advertising through multiple channels. Our customers receive world-class implementation training and support complemented by ongoing development of products and best practices.
SAXOTECH Circulation tracks subscription revenue distribution agent billing promotions campaigns demographics and non-subscribers. Flexible reporting and decision making tools enable newspapers to improve retention and increase their subscriber base as well as empower marketing executives to make quicker smarter and more profitable circulation management decisions.
SAXOTECH’s corporate headquarters reside in Tampa Fla. with European headquarters based in Aalborg Denmark; additional offices include Maryland Norway and Sweden. SAXOTECH s solutions are in use by more than 700 news organizations around the world. For more information visit www.saxotech.com.
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