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On June 15, 2010, Miles 33 completed the acquisition of Tera Digital Publishing, the Milan, Italy-based supplier of editorial content management systems.
Tera is widely recognised as one of the leading multi-media content management system suppliers with over 300 customers around the world.
We would like to welcome all those customers into the Miles 33 group.
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We are proud to announce the launch of our completely redesigned miles33.com and miles33.co.uk websites.
Driven by the company's growth during the past few years and the multiple corporate acquisitions, the new site brings together all product and solution offerings across all the industries that Miles 33 serves.
Whether you know exactly what product you are interested in or whether you simply want to explore what Miles 33 has to offer, you will be able to find your way on the site.
Many readers will be interested to learn that the new site was built with Drupal, an open source web CMS. Drupal is widely recognized as the best web infrastructure solution for medium and large websites and powers hundreds of thousands of websites around the world. Drupal is also one of the options to use in conjunction with either Asset or WorkFlow, the two Miles 33 editorial content management solutions.
If you already use Drupal, you may want to find out how Asset or WorkFlow can complement your website by adding newsroom management, workflow automation, archiving and of course, print publishing.
Drupal's strong programming interface, extremely rich feature set and outstanding architecture make it the perfect choice for today's media companies. Perhaps best of all, Drupal is free.
Drupal offers many benefits besides its cost and huge installed base. Consider:
Flexible Application framework with clean, extensible code and robust architecture.
High performance and very scalable
Feature rich with many, many high quality modules available.
Powerful theming engine that separates content from presentation
Built-in SEO with meta descriptions, friendly URLs, permalinks and easy Google Analytics integration.
Unique and powerful taxonomy system for categorizing content.
Introducing "Reports SUV"
A new product in the Miles 33 portfolio is the Reports SUV (Single Unified View) which is a module designed to make it even easier for sales managers to interrogate their advertising database.
Built with Microsoft Silverlight technology the module has an intuitive, browser-based interface that allows users to quickly and easily generate a variety of reports and charts.
Reports, or ‘views’ are broken down into individual, team, group or publication level so the information that you require is never more than a few clicks away.
Should it be necessary to change a parameter, such as sales rep or date range then these can be altered ‘on the fly’ without having to regenerate the whole report. Date values can also be saved so that other reports can be run using the same parameters.
Data such as sales rep or title can be cherry-picked and overlaid to identify trends and potential issues.
The new Dashboard Module also allows a user to configure a variety of reports so that they are always to hand and with automatic refresh Reports SUV can deliver real time sales data to your team.
Should new users need to be added to the system, then, unlike conventional reports, no additional configuration is required. Pointing directly to the SQL database, Reports SUV will dynamically update to bring in any changes that are made.
With no datacubes to configure, Reports SUV can be quickly deployed on-site and provides a cost effective alternative to other business intelligence tools.
