A cost-effective platform model: streamlining production and editorial processes
- 1. A cost-effective platform model: streamlining production and editorial processesPresented by Ian Eckert
- 2. Abacus e-Media System integration in online since 1983Web development since 1995Media 70%, government and recruitment 25%, ecommerceSoftware products, design, development and hosting50 UK staff, 10 offshoreLocations in London and PortsmouthSubsidiary of Bond International Software PLC
- 4. Why do we need to streamline?“The web is no longer just linking information, it is linking people… people sharing, trading, collaborating…”Michael WeschAssistant Professor of Cultural AnthropologyKansas State University
- 9. A typical Web 1.0 platform
- 10. A typical platform today
- 11. The publishing CMS challengePublishers need a platform approach across highly diverse portfolios – title by title solutions are not cost effectiveMedia sites are design driven, infinitely variableSo control and flexibility is required by editors and notfiltered by the web teamAnd buy-in from the journalists and editors is important, especially those coming from print backgroundsNevertheless speed and cost of roll out and maintenanceare key factorsAn open approach is demanded, no one wants to be locked in
- 12. The Webvision approachProvides A tool editors want to use Which can accommodate other applicationsSupport for design variation but within a standard approach With publishing flexibility, empowering the editorOne that can support fast, low cost roll outs and cost effective on-going developmentJust as relevant for B2B as it is for B2C
- 13. A typical platform today
- 15. Our online publishing tools
- 16. Third party publishing tools
- 17. A typical site structure