CurtCo Media Selects CrownPeak's Advantage CMS As Turnkey Web Publishing Solution for All Magazine Properties; Robb Report, Worth, Home Entertainment & Design Are First to Launch.Business Editors Jupiter Content Management Conference Expo Booth #13 MARINA DEL REY Del Rey may refer to:
Delivering a turnkey See turnkey system. solution for publishing magazines on the web, CrownPeak Technology, the leader in hosted content management, announced today that it will be providing its Advantage CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. (TM) system to all of CurtCo Media's current titles, including Robb Report The Robb Report is a magazine about luxury life, featuring products of the lifestyle, such as cars, watches, and real estate. It was originally started by Robert White as a magazine to complement the purchase of a Rolls-Royce automobile. (www.robbreport.com), Robb Report Home Entertainment & Design (www.hedmag.com), Worth (www.worth.com), The Robb Report Collection, Robb Report Motorcycling and CurtCo's Digital TV. With offices in Malibu, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Boston, CurtCo Media is parent to a family of publications that are uniquely targeted to the world's most affluent readers. CrownPeak has teamed with CurtCo Media to deploy a sophisticated publishing system that is also portable. CurtCo was initially looking to quickly integrate a unified content management solution across all of its current web properties. With eCommerce, site search, bulletin boards and classified banner ad A graphic image used on Web sites to advertise a product or service. Banner ads come in numerous sizes, but are often rectangles 460 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. Also 460 x 55 and 392 x 72 sizes are commonly used. management already driving revenue for the online magazines, CurtCo required an exceptionally flexible and powerful solution. Additionally, with an eye toward acquiring new magazines, CurtCo required a solution that would be easy to deploy and manage for new magazine acquisitions. Advantage CMS fit both of those requirements and, with an average deployment time of five weeks, is now handling all content management responsibilities for both Robb Report and Robb Report Home Entertainment & Design. Worth is scheduled to launch by the end of February. For all of the publications, Advantage CMS manages the diverse designs and separate workflow for the authors at both magazines -- but administrators at CurtCo enjoy a singular back-end for web site administration. Over time, CurtCo Media anticipates expanding the CrownPeak CMS implementation across the remaining three titles for a comprehensive, enterprise-wide solution. CrownPeak is also supporting eCommerce for ad space through Advantage CMS. CurtCo developed a special version of classified ads -- known as "e-brochures" -- that enable users to upload images and content for ad space on the web site. Advantage CMS has been integrated with CurtCo's eCommerce engine to automatically accept these ads and the associated photos via email, forwarding an email to accounting -- which then approves ad content -- and automatically publishing the ad to the web site, at the appropriate time. "The improvement in our web presence has been nothing short of enormous," said Irini Koursaris, Director of Web Development, CurtCo Media. "Frankly, we can't recall being this excited about the web, because our presence now works from a host of perspectives -- content presentation, self-maintenance, advertising revenue generation, overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness. For us, this is just the beginning." "CurtCo Media truly understands how publishing a magazine on the web is distinct from traditional print publishing," said Jim Howard, 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. , CrownPeak Technology. "CurtCo has successfully turned its web properties into profit centers instead of cost-centers. CurtCo recognizes that the only way for a publishing company to have a successful online property is to treat its online presence as a core business goal, which is precisely what has happened here. And the results speak for themselves." CrownPeak's Advantage CMS provides CurtCo Media with all of the features of an enterprise-level web content management system: 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. editing, visual versioning and rollback A DBMS feature that reverses the current transaction out of the database, returning the data to its former state. A rollback is performed when processing a transaction fails at some point, and it is necessary to start over. See two-phase commit. , spell checking, link management, comprehensive workflow, security monitoring, database management, and wireless compatibility, in a 100 percent browser-based interface. About CurtCo Media CurtCo Media is operated by CurtCo Media Labs, which, since 1987, has operated as a developer of publishing businesses. Over that period, the company has acquired or launched publications that address clearly identified vertical niches, creating powerful brands that lead their respective markets. With offices in Malibu, New York and Boston, CurtCo is parent to a family of publications that are uniquely targeted to the world's most affluent readers. These titles include Robb Report, The Robb Report Collection, Robb Report Home Entertainment & Design and Worth. CurtCo's aggressive expansion plans include the launches of two additional publications in 2004: CurtCo's DigitalTV and Robb Report Motorcycling. About CrownPeak Technology Based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CrownPeak Technology is the first company to provide world-class Web content management software as a service. The company's Advantage CMSO CMSO Center for Medicaid and State Operations CMSO Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas CMSO Canada on the Move: Step One CMSO Computer-Integrated Manufacturing for Multi-Supplier Operations platform is the only solution that combines enterprise-level power and flexibility with the cost and speed-of-implementation of a hosted software application. Advantage CMSO features the easiest-to-use interface of any CMS, and is the only hosted CMS to offer a full API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. and developer environment. Serving such clients as Crain Communications, Honeywell, The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , and the State of Virginia, Advantage CMSO manages and publishes hundreds of thousands of Web pages. CrownPeak has been named to eContent's 100 most influential companies list, has won eWeek's prestigious Analysts Choice Award, and is a 2003 and 2004 SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property Codie Award finalist in the Best Content Management System category. |
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