Newspaper & Mailroom
Zeitungsverlag Aachen GmbH relies on DTI
Wednesday 09. March 2011 - " - to produce our contents out of a high performance database across all platforms." - Andreas Müller, Managing Director.
Digital Technology International (DTI) has today announced that the Zeitungsverlag Aachen GmbH publishing group (ZVA GmbH) will produce its daily newspapers Aachener Zeitung and Aachener Nachrichten as well as its weekly papers Super Sonntag and Super Mittwoch with DTI ContentPublisher.
Both daily newspapers are published in 17 local editions with a circulation of around 140,000 in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen) region of Germany. The free weekly papers are published in the same distribution area with a total circulation of 750,000.
Approximately 150 users will work with the DTI system to create the print and also (partially) the online products.
“With DTI we will be able to produce our contents out of a high performance database across all platforms. DTI was able to incorporate proven standard components from Adobe into the workflows of a modern media house. With this, we’re optimally positioned for the future,” ZVA’s Managing Director Andreas Müller explained. “With DTI we will, if needed – by operating the system in a cloud – increase our productivity even more.
“Furthermore, from the cooperation in the project so far, we are convinced we have chosen a competent, flexible and customer-oriented partner that has developed the right tools for our industry.”
Ernst-J. Komberg, managing director of DTI GmbH stated, “We are delighted to have been awarded this prestigious contract. It further strengthens our position as the trusted technology partner for the many successful newspapers in and around Germany.
“DTI ContentPublisher provides unlimited sharing of information and digital assets throughout an entire enterprise – regardless of platform. It eliminates duplication, and by removing newsroom walls can build a completely collaborative and efficient publishing environment. This is exactly what Zeitungsverlag Aachen wishes to achieve.”
DTI ContentPublisher enables a modern journalist to create everything they might need and includes automated pagination and digital publishing to Web, mobile and SMS. It manages the seamless flow of content from a full spectrum of news sources, including remote writers and citizen journalists, to any platform.
Based on InterSystems Corporations Caché, the worlds fastest multidimensional object database and Adobe InDesign, DTI ContentPublisher has unbelievable performance, is highly scalable, and is able to easily manage the data volumes of today – and of tomorrow.