Deutscher Fachverlag chooses CCI NewsGate

After a thorough analysis of the market, Deutscher Fachverlag, one of the largest trade media companies in Germany and Europe, has chosen the CCI NewsGate system. The objective is to provide the editorial staff with a comfortable, efficient and future-oriented working environment for cross-media publishing

With the dramatic changes in the current media landscape, the demands on the editorial workplaces and their environments have increased considerably.

Against the backdrop of these changes, Deutscher Fachverlag has entered into an agreement for CCI NewsGate after having examined a number of alternative system vendors. Another decisive factor for this decision was the interfaces to SAP and other systems at Deutscher Fachverlag.

A key criterion for Deutscher Fachverlag when selecting a new editorial system was to have editorial staff produce content for multiple media in the most comfortable and efficient manner from one single platform.

“Our objective to serve all publication channels out of one system, thereby efficiently meeting future requirements, has lead us to this decision. Following the extensive development undertaken in the pre-press area, the new system from CCI first of all provides us with a planning tool that supports an increasingly complex daily editorial operation,” said Peter Kley, CFO at Deutscher Fachverlag.

The concept of a single platform for publishing to both print and online media is not new in the market. However, a decisive factor for Deutscher Fachverlag was the fact that CCI NewsGate offers a mature solution already in operation in a number of media houses.

“It is greatly satisfying for us to see that the concepts and functionalities of CCI NewsGate match closely the demands of modern media houses like Deutscher Fachverlag. Success for us means providing the technological platform that allows our partners to develop their business also in times of great changes in the marketplace,” said Dan Korsgaard, CEO of CCI.

Deutscher Fachverlag produces many products and finding a same system environment that embraces the variations in their editorial workflows, as CCI NewsGate can, was a priority when selecting an editorial content management system. Moreover, NewsGate is considered by Deutscher Fachverlag to be the flexible and future-oriented platform that will enable them to publish to media channels that may not even exist today.

The CCI NewsGate system will be implemented at Deutscher Fachverlag in three phases starting with print, adding online and in a final step implementing a fully converged workflow.

Verlagsgruppe Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main, has a staff of 865 in Germany and in a number of subsidiaries abroad. With a portfolio of more than 90 trade publications, more than 60 online sites, a huge number of trade book titles and a turnover of 135.7 million Euro in the financial year of 2008, the publishing group is among the largest independent trade media companies in Germany and Europe.

Shareholders: Andreas Lorch, Catrin Lorch, Anette Lorch, Britta Lorch
Supervisory Board: Klaus Kottmeier (Chairman), Andreas Lorch, Catrin Lorch, Peter Ruß
Executive Management Board: Dr. Rolf Grisebach (Speaker), Peter Kley, Michael Schellenberger
Divisional Managing Directors: Peter Esser, Florian Fischer, Markus Gotta, Holger Knapp

CCI is part of the Stibo Group and today the leading provider of editorial and advertising solutions for multimedia news environments. Our CCI AdDesk, CCI NewsGate and CCI NewsDesk products are the most robust and powerful systems in the industry, and are implemented in news organizations across five continents. We provide the platform to support evolving needs of the world´s largest news organizations, and scalable solutions to help growing media brands optimize their business strategies. Constant innovation and strong customer commitment remain the cornerstones of CCI´s business model. CCI is an Oracle Certified Partner and an Adobe Gold Solution Partner.

CCI NewsGate is a cross-media editorial collaboration platform supporting the entire process from idea and research through planning to publication in print or digital media. CCI NewsGate is a solution matching a great variety of requirements: CCI NewsGate may be deployed in large consolidated data centers hosting multiple titles within a corporation, an example being the McClatchy data center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Or CCI NewsGate may be deployed in smaller single-site environments with heavy focus on centralized content creation for multiple print and digital media like TV and web-TV, an example being the Norwegian regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen.