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Editorial system: RAPID Browser – version 1.4.5 available since 2003.

Some references: Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, Washington Post, Al-Hayat, The Enquirer

Recent installations: The Enquirer (UK), Independent News and Media (UK), Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Al-Watan (Bahrain), Al-Yaum (Saudi Arabia)

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:

newspaper techniques: In your opinion, where is technology development going?

KnowledgeView: RAPID Browser is very much a light-weight but powerful cross-platform publishing system, with development towards offering it as a hosted solution to small publishing groups as well as large. The Enquirer is the first newspaper, 20 editors, to use the hosted version.

nt: What are the highlights of your present system?

KnowledgeView: Cross-platform publishing and syndication with RSS, Web based, low cost hosted option, integrated with Adobe InCopy and InDesign, Open Java and XML technology, has 1500 seats already.

nt: What can we expect in the near future (e.g. at IfraExpo)?

KnowledgeView: Highlight the low cost hosted option with Adobe integration. Rich-media archiving on top of IxiaSofts TEXTML server.

nt: How do you judge the economic development of the newspaper market in general?

KnowledgeView:. Very active at present, especially for our Middle East market. Publishers would like to cut costs by consolidating their editorial from multi-platform. KnowledgeView seeks to help satisfy this need.

nt: How do you estimate the willingness of newspapers to invest in editorial systems?

KnowledgeView: We estimate 40% of newspapers groups in Europe would like to invest in modern publishing systems. In the Middle East this goes up to 80%.

nt: How do you see the suppliers overall, and your market share in particular?

KnowledgeView: We would like our presence with the small newspaper market to expand, taking advantage of our very low cost hosted option, in collaboration with Adobe. We aim to capture 1-2% of this market over the next 3 years.

nt: Any other comment on the topic of editorial systems?

KnowledgeView: I think the time of expensive editorial systems is reaching its end, much like what happened with Web CMS. Publishers are back again to serious considerations of Web publishing and advertising, and for good reasons, hence the importance of editorial systems geared for cross-platform publishing.

LINKS:

> The KnowledgeView entry in the Ifra Suppliers Directory

> KnowledgeView Home page