Breakthrough Applications
Press Computer Systems Sets New Competitive Bar
in Publishing World
Shrinking revenues and dwindling readership have combined to create one of the greatest challenges ever faced by newspaper publishers. Press Computer Systems (PCS), part of the U.K.-based Claverly Group, has done more than overcome the challenge—they’ve leveraged InterSystems’ technologies to create an entirely new competitive publishing landscape. PCS has launched Knowledge, a completely new InterSystems-CACHÉ-based publishing platform that meets consumers’ demands for news availability anywhere, any time and on virtually any device. Now being used by publications throughout the Claverly organization and available internationally via traditional licensing or an SaaS approach, Knowledge:
- Enables publishers to use elements of content as objects, changing the way that news operates so that news updates can happen even while newspapers are being produced and can be made simultaneously available across multiple markets and verticals
- Uses InterSystems Ensemble for messaging, providing a business rules engine, business process orchestration, workflow, and integration with third-party systems for a publishing system where stories remain dynamic
- Takes advantage of InterSystems iKnow semantic analysis technology that associates and stores related content including text, sound, video, images and sources so that a story or its elements can be easily and rapidly retrieved based on queries and associations
PCS has been recognized with an InterSystems 2011 Breakthrough Application Award for the Knowledge system, reflecting the fact that it’s enabling new ways of working in an industry sector that relies on innovation for competitive success.
“Using Ensemble will enable us to focus our publishing domain expertise on system design and coding– and not on becoming BPL developers or integration specialists.”
Peter Cole
PCS product group manager
