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vjoon at BCP Award Show in Berlin
Monday 15. June 2009 - Corporations are increasingly opting to produce their company publications using the K4 Publishing System.
And theyre doing it successfully: A jury of experts selected the best of over 600 submissions to this years Best of Corporate Publishing (BCP) Award competition, nominating for the finals eight employee newspapers, magazines, and financial statements produced with K4. These are atrium, a magazine that caters to the TOTAL service station chains employees, Bosch-Zünder, DB Welt, Commerzielles, Credit Suisses Bulletin and Global Investor, Gewürzmüller GmbHs Gewürzreporter, and Roche Nachrichten. A sponsor of the BCP Award, vjoon will present its professional publishing solution K4 at the BCP Congress on June 24 in Berlin. The companys integration partner SNAP Innovation will also be there, as will vjoons development partner Digital Collections, its digital asset management system DCX in tow.
These magazines editing teams are all connected via K4 to their communication and design service providers, the agencies KircherBurkhardt, SIGNUM communication, and Arnold. Inhalt and Form, respectively. SIGNUM communication, for example, streamlined the production processes for Roche Nachrichten by integrating Roche Nachrichtens editorial department into the workflow simply with browser-based K4 Web Editor.
“With K4, we can collaborate across different locations using a common database, and all participants always remain aware of the current production status,” notes Jens Johansson, managing director of SIGNUM communication GmbH. “In contrast to coordinating by phone and email, this has made the production process far more reliable.” Aiming to re-launch Roche Nachrichten, SIGNUM communication totally revamped the employee magazine, which is published ten times a year. The new magazine now caters specifically to the healthcare companys different focus groups, which SIGNUM communication and Roche pinpointed in a joint workshop.
Saving time with K4
Further K4 candidates for the coveted BCP gold are atrium, Bosch-Zünder, DB Welt, and Gewürzreporter designed by KircherBurkhardt, a multiple award-winning media agency based in Berlin. This agency also capitalizes on the time-saving advantages of a workflow defined in K4. “K4 and our Virtual Newsrooms connected systems make up the hub of our CP productions,” says Rainer Burkhardt, managing partner at KircherBurkhardt. “This is the only way we can realize elaborately collaborative and extensive publications quickly and economically, such as Bosch-Zünder, which appears in nine languages.” Bosch-Zünder has one of the richest traditions among German employee newspapers. A globally uniform medium, it collectively addresses some 280,000 employees at about 290 locations. DB Welt was relaunched by KircherBurkhardt and has been awarded gold at BCP Award three times already. Therefore it has been admitted in BCPs hall of fame since 2007.
Credit Suisse, with its Global Investor and Bulletin customer magazine, represents K4 users in Switzerland. The companys design agency Arnold. Inhalt and Form began using K4 back in 2004. When the editors of Bulletin and Global Investor decided to adopt Adobe Creative Suite 2 in May 2006, they also opted to use the vjoon K4 publishing system to collaborate with the agency. “With K4 and its leaner processes, we gain valuable time that can be put to use for creative ideas,” notes Lukas Huggenberg, senior art director and IT manager at Arnold. Inhalt and Form.