Features and Technology

Import of Data from Third-Party Systems

• Fully automatic import of product range and information in structured catalogs, i.e. automatic change of price information up to the last minute
• Insertion of single data sets, such as customer data via drag and drop
• Integration of product master data from Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP® or Navision®
• Automated personalization of print documents via customer profiles from CRM or booking systems
• Automatic or manual placing of media assets via drag and drop
• Comprehensive search functions for external data integrated directly in the editor (i.e. searches in tree structures, full text searches, metadata, key word searches)
• Import of creative texts/contents from editing or content management systems via drag and drop

Collaboration

• High-performance system for numerous parallel tasks
• Comprehensive workflow management with numerous automations
• Detailed definition of processes and automations in a graphical interface
• Editing enabling according to a checkin/checkout principle in order to avoid conflicts
• Multi-dimensional rights management down to the text box and/or element levels
• Perfect coordination by means of detailed task management and list views for workflow status
• Automatic notification and version management for a very high level of transparency

One-to-One Communication

• Creation of high-quality flyers, catalogs, and brochures according to the form letter principle
• Individual product combinations in print documents according to customer profiles
• Import from external data stocks, such as address lists
• Automatic import of data from third-party systems such as SAP® or Navision®

Corporate Branding

• Creation of corporate design templates in a central location either via InDesign or directly in the CS Creation-Suite
• Localization, customization, and translation of templates under the fixed specifications of the layout
• Central approval and release management in order to safeguard the corporate design guidelines
• Standard specification of color schemes, formatting templates, text samples, etc.
• All formatting options can be activated individually and/or user-related
• Finished layout snippets can be inserted from a library directly into the layout, i.e. address blocks, images and image captions, and tables

Translation Management

• Integration of dictionaries for checking spelling
• Visual comparisons of language versions and tracing of changes
• Workflows for the coordination of the translation process
• Re-use of already translated text building blocks and editing system and/or semantic records
• Connection to translation memories such as Trados or Across
• Support of non-European characters, i.e. Japanese

Further Information

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