Collabria, Inc. and Indocs to Collaborate On Creative and Print Workflow Integration.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 New Service Will Enable Unprecedented Abilities to Edit and Manage Print Projects Among Creative Staff, Printing and Production Managers, and Clients Via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
Highlights:
-- Companies to develop integrated service available in third
quarter 2000
-- Allows for significant time and cost savings and immediate,
improved communication between creative professionals and clients
-- Offers printers access to the design files to ensure printability
and on-time delivery
Robert Hu, Vice President, Product Strategy of Collabria(TM) and Doris Brown, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Indocs(TM) Online announced today at Seybold Boston 2000 the companies will work together to facilitate an eProduction environment that bridges the workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. gap between content creation and the printing/publishing process. The joint effort of the two Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. will enable content originators, designers and creative professionals to edit, annotate annotate - annotation and correct page and page elements online via Indocs and then track the final output and printing through Collabria. This integrated workflow allows for significant time and cost savings, immediate and improved communication between the creative professional and the client, and elimination of unnecessary changes. In addition, it will give the printer access to the design files to ensure printability and on-time delivery. The joint service is scheduled to be available in the third quarter of 2000. &uot;Indocs and Collabria together will close the publishing workflow loop in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use solution,&uot; says publishing workflow consultant and writer Ira Gold. &uot;Collabria streamlines management of print procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. and all of its trappings in an open, web-based environment, while Indocs offers corporate clients and graphic designers real control of their digital assets without investing in expensive, proprietary hardware or software. The deliverable is powerful: highly cost-effective brand control.&uot; Collabria will begin development with Indocs Online immediately.
Collabria's service-based system was developed to address the
following problems that typical corporate print buyers face:
1. Coordinating a print project with multiple team members,
agencies and suppliers
2. Automating the procurement of catalogued items
3. Customizing print documents for 1on1 Marketing
4. Decentralizing print purchasing while maintaining control
5. Ensuring the integrity of production-ready documents
Collabria addresses these problems with the following features:
1. An online project management and tracking system with centralized
project specs, automatic milestone alerts and job archiving
2. A customizable catalog for proofing and reordering templated
documents with static and variable data
3. The ability to change specific data items on-the-fly then
distribute on demand
4. Automatic routing of approvals, inventory management and online
billing
5. Built-in technology to create and pass on to your printer
production-ready files
Altogether, these features make up Collabria's Intelligent Print Workplace(TM), a system designed to integrate all functions and players, returning tangible cost savings throughout the total print process. Indocs Online offers a new eProcess solution focused on an Internet-based production environment, enabling WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. dynamic editing and access to jobs from design through production, via any standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Together, the two companies will provide an open solution that will offer a comprehensive and dynamic communication between all parties, from conception through output. A Single, Trackable, Accessible, Publishing Workflow Collabria and Indocs' complementary solution will provide corporate clients with the next generation of Internet-based production environment tools for pre-press and print materials. Indocs gives corporate headquarters the ability to provide authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: personnel with access to print designs for editing (including multi-lingual capabilities), approval, tracking, and print procurement from any internal or external resource-from anywhere in the world. Updates to text and images will be immediate. Collabria's network of users will have access to these job files (e.g., to inform design of a change to the press profile) from the start, as the document information is accessible through client authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. and data transfer between systems. Once files are completed, clients will be able track the print jobs through production, printing and delivery using Collabria PrintCommerce(TM). After the job is completed, files, including digital assets, may be archived for future use. About Collabria, Inc. Founded in 1997, Collabria is the creator of the Intelligent Print Workplace, a comprehensive set of Internet-based solutions for the Print industry. From job creation to job production, Collabria offers the only complete solution for handling enterprise-wide printing and addressing its inherent inefficiencies. Focused on relationship-centric solutions, Collabria provides a no-conflict system designed to enhance existing relationships between corporate customers, their printers, and their print resellers. Marketing and Purchasing Managers A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. realize significant savings from on-line project management, print ordering and distribution efficiencies. Printers and Resellers take advantage of these solutions to expand and strengthen their customer relationships while realizing hard dollar savings from simplified and automated business processes Many computer systems are available in the commercial marketplace that address the various aspects of Business Process Management. Most address one specific set of functionality; for instance, some allow the processes to be mapped (see Business Process Mapping) and documented (such as . Founded by marketing and printing industry veterans with an insider's clarity of the pains and challenges, Collabria is funded by premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , Weiss, Peck peck: see English units of measurement. &Greer, the Internet Capital Group and ABS (Automatic Backup System) See backup program. Ventures. About InDocs Online Ltd. Indocs Online, Inc. is an innovative application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) for the printing &publishing industry. A revolution is underway that is changing the global corporate environment -- the Internet is leading key changes in the way corporations conduct business. Company strategies subsequently call for the expansion of e-commerce initiatives to achieve higher efficiencies and provide value-addedservice offerings to their customers. Indocs leaps into this &uot;e-Process Revolution&uot; by providing corporate clients with the next generation of Internet-based production environment and tools, from inception of creative content -- through the approval cycle -- to final output. The Indocs system allows immediate access to the various elements at any stage of the process. Indocs' unique solution enables marketing staff, designers, and print houses to edit, manage, and produce graphically-enhanced documents online. Using a standard web browser, global organizations easily access Indocs' technology, empowering them to frequently produce, revise, and re-print marketing materials. In fact, the technology even supports multiple languages, thereby ensuring consistency and brand accuracy in the worldwide marketplace. This business-to-business e-service simplifies the process while reducing time and money spent on document production. Note to Editors: All company and brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Data subject to revision without notice. |
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