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Syracuse
Newspapers selects SCC MediaServer Content Management System ALPHARETTA, GA., (December 11, 2007) -- The Software Construction Company (SCC) is pleased to announce the sale of their SCC MediaServer multimedia content management system to Syracuse Newspapers (circ. 120k [m-sat], 177k [sun]) The SCC MediaServer system replaces a NewsBank SAVE (formerly MediaStream) text archiving system and will serve as the publisher's primary news budgeting system, photo, video, graphics and story assignment system, photo desk for wire and staff generated photos and graphics, and archive of photos, graphics, stories, multimedia and complete newspaper pages in Acrobat PDF format. The MediaServer system supports concurrent client access to SCC MediaGrid and Web Browser users on both Windows and Macintosh OSX workstations and will be integrated with the newspapers MediaSpan (formerly Harris) editorial system. The MediaServer system also includes the following optional modules: SCC MediaServer RSS Module, which automatically imports content from one or more RSS enabled web sites into the MediaServer repository by automatically retrieving and interpreting new content, inserting it into one or more MediaServer libraries, and making it accessible to clients via the same sophisticated search and retrieval techniques available for other MediaServer content. SCC MediaServer Delivery Module, which supports automatic reformatting and delivery of files stored within the MediaServer database to a variety of destinations including web sites and online vendors such as NewsBank and Lexis- Nexus. SCC MediaServer Assignment Module, which provides tools for the creation, editing, tracking and auto-linking of budgets and assignments with their corresponding photo, graphic, video and story objects, as part of the production workflow. The SCC MediaServer system will be installed on a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Cluster with the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 relational database management system. The Syracuse Newspapers
installation will be SCC's seventh MediaServer system sale to the
Newshouse/Advanced Publications Group. SCC has existing MediaServer
installations at The Newark Star Ledger, The New Orleans Times-Picayune,
The Grand Rapids Press, The Flint Journal, The Saginaw News and The
Ann Arbor News. About SCC SCC is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and develops and markets a suite of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh media management tools and utilities world-wide. SCC’s products are used by newspapers, magazines, TV networks, photo agencies, Internet content providers and various corporations. In the USA, SCC's customers include The National Enquirer, Star and Globe Magazines (American Media Inc.), Sports Illustrated and People Magazines (AOL Time Warner), InTouch Magazine (Bauer Publishing), The Dallas Morning News, The Detroit Free Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Seattle Times, The Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Associated Press, McClatchy/Tribune Information Services, Reuters, UPI, Dow Jones, ABC Television, NBC Television, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Television, US News & World Report, USA Today, The White House, Camp Fallujah (Iraq), the Marine base at Quantico, and many more. Outside
the USA, SCC has distributors covering Australia, Europe, the
Far East, and Central and South America. The Software Construction
Company, 3810 Hamby Road, Alpharetta, Georgia (USA) 30004 |