New Daily Newspaper Launches in Indonesia with WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise

New Daily Newspaper Launches in Indonesia with WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise

February 27, 2007

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
One of the largest publishers in Southeast Asia has
selected WoodWing Software's industry-leading Smart
Connection Enterprise solution for its new daily newspaper,
as well as its existing weekly and monthly magazines.

    Kontan, part of the Kompas Gramedia Group, has been the
leading Indonesian-language monthly and weekly financial
magazine for years.  On February 26, 2007, a new daily
newspaper was launched, also called Kontan, using Smart
Connection Enterprise as its editorial system.  The new
newspaper contains business, investments and lifestyle news
targeting the upwardly mobile financial executive.  The
circulation will be between 70,000 and 100,000 copies per
day.

    The Kompas Gramedia Group, Indonesia's leading
publishing group, publishes other popular titles, such as
Kompas, Warta Kota, Bola, and around 100 national and
regional newspaper and magazine titles.

    "We are very pleased that Kontan has chosen
WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise after having done
extensive research into the best solution for both their
existing magazines as well as their newly launched daily
newspaper," said Remco Koster, Managing Director of
WoodWing Asia Pacific.  "Kontan is also the first
customer in the Asia Pacific region that uses our recently
launched Smart Hyphen and Smart Speller for the Indonesian
language, guaranteeing accurate hyphenation and
justification as well as greatly reducing spelling
errors."

    Officials at Kontan said the decision to install Smart
Connection Enterprise was an easy one.

    "It was clear to us that Smart Connection
Enterprise is the solution for the future because of its
complete functionality, open architecture, and usage of the
latest technologies, such as Adobe InDesign Server, enabling
us to subedit and copyfit via the Web," said Yopie
Hidayat, Managing Director and Managing Editor of Kontan. 
"We were equally impressed by the amazing speed of
implementation, which made it possible to get our new daily
newspaper off the ground so quickly, while at the same time
moving the existing magazines to the new system as
well."

    Serious Technology, the WoodWing partner for Indonesia,
Malaysia, and the Philippines, is handling the entire
project management, including training and installation. 
Serioustec's professionals trained the Kontan staff on the
use of InDesign and InCopy, as well as Smart Connection
Enterprise.

    "I am very impressed and pleased with John Fong
and the other Serioustec project members who have done an
excellent job with this project," Koster said. 
"They set up the magazines in a very short time, while
setting up and testing the brand new newspaper and its
complex workflow processes at the same time.  Everything
took only two months from start to finish - several
magazines and the brand new newspaper - and everything is
running very smoothly."

    "Smart Connection Enterprise offers a host of
benefits to any newspaper and magazine operation, and that
will certainly be the case with Kontan," Koster added.
 "Their newspaper workflow will be highly efficient
right from the start, which will help make the new
newspaper a success.  At the same time, the workflows of
the existing magazines have been streamlined for efficiency
and improved design quality."

    About WoodWing

    WoodWing Software specializes in software solutions for
the publishing industry.  WoodWing excels in innovative and
flexible editorial solutions that help efficiently produce
print and online publications.  The company's flagship
product, Smart Connection Enterprise, differs from
traditional editorial solutions because it has been
engineered from the ground up, utilizing the latest
technologies offered by the Internet age.  Newspaper
experience that goes back more than 20 years, combined with
the latest technologies, has led to a powerful editorial
system with a core based on XML and open technology. 
WoodWing has offices in The Netherlands, Malaysia and the
United States.  Customers are served through select
partners, and in the U.S. through WoodWing USA.

    For more information, please contact:

     Remco Koster
     WoodWing Asia Pacific
     Email: [e-mail]


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