Kuala Lumpur, July 2010 - United Borneo Press, publisher of the "United Daily News", a daily Chinese newspaper in East Malaysia, has signed a contract with Miles 33 for the delivery of an integrated Asset™ Editorial and Archiving system.
The system encompass editorial workflow, picture workflow, page planning and tracking, page make up and archiving.
United Borneo Press is based in Miri city, in the northern part of Sarawak, one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. United Borneo Press also has plants located in Kuching and Sibu and editorial offices at Bintulu, Kuala Lumpur and Brunei. United Borneo Press employs a total of 300 people.
When the United Borneo Press went looking for new Press solution, they were also looking at upgrading their editorial publishing processes. After a successful staging of the Asset system in Chinese, Sim Yong Liang, the Group Managing Director of United Borneo Press signed the agreement with Miles 33. In an aggressive implementation plan, the system will be rolled out across all 7 sections with 3 editions of the United Daily News newspaper.
The Miles 33 Asset system was selected because it is a cloud based, fully integrated editorial solution with thin clients and plug-ins to third party applications such as Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop. These criteria were important to the newsroom to manage the way content is linked, authored, edited and published in a distributed organization such as the United Borneo Press.
Asset is a browser based digital workflow system for editorial workflow and content management. Designed to be media neutral, it provides fast, efficient and cost effective control of digital assets whether you are print or web based, or operate in both media spaces. The system provides an complete editorial workflow solution for both paper and web based publishing and encompasses workflow solutions for pager layout, page planning & tracking, copy authoring and workflow, picture management, media feeds, web content management, archiving and even e-commerce (for online subscriptions management).
Its unique server based licensing means no client fees. All Asset applications allow an unlimited number of users to run on one server.
At the United Daily News, editorial content is authored at branch offices located all across Malaysia and submitted electronically through its in-house intranet system. In their old system, content had to be manually gathered and entered into its legacy layout software through cumbersome "cut-n-paste" processes. When the Asset editorial system was presented to United Daily, they were quick to identify the potential of the system as it centralizes editorial content while enabling remote editorial authoring and workflow management. Tan Hhen Chee, deputy chief editor for United Daily News was also impressed with the Asset system being able to operate within mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and iPAD devices, even for managing and editing Chinese content.
The Miles 33 Asset system provides newsrooms with that kind of mobility, flexibility and editorial contents management. A thin client based system without any software client setup or installation required to access editorial contents.
"We are very excited to work with United Borneo Press towards completing this distributed Chinese editorial system", said Joe Liew, Miles 33 Director for Televisual Products Malaysia.
Miles 33 is a global software and solutions provider for the Publishing and Media markets. With over 30 years of experience, Miles 33 is one of the largest and longest serving providers to these industries. The current generation of solutions are designed to manage multi-media content and cover all aspects of Advertising, Editorial, Internet and Digital Asset Management to help publishers increase their revenues whilst lowering costs and improving productivity. Miles 33 has an innovative sales model that offers its customers exceptional return on their Investment. Miles 33 is backed by European Capital, the European affiliate of American Capital a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager with $14 billion in capital resources under management.
Miles 33 has offices in Berkshire, England; Connecticut & California, USA; Victoria, Australia; Milan, Italy; Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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