Dow Jones & Company Selects Unisys for Flagship Publication; The Wall Street Journal to Utilize Unisys Publishing Solutions.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999-- Unisys Corporation today announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Dow Jones & Company, publishers of The Wall Street Journal, as part of a comprehensive business re-design initiative for the editorial and pagination (1) Page numbering. (2) Laying out printed pages, which includes setting up and printing columns, rules and borders. Although pagination is used synonymously with page makeup, the term often refers to the printing of long manuscripts rather than ads and brochures. processes of the newspaper. The Unisys Publishing Solutions will provide The Wall Street Journal with improved editorial workflow, electronic pagination, extensive zoning and editions, Web publishing capabilities and operational flexibility. An ability to leave pages open longer in the production cycle will allow for the inclusion of late-breaking news and afford readers more timely news coverage. "We are excited about the Unisys publishing solution," said Paul E. Steiger, the Journal's managing editor. "It clearly is the best approach to provide the latest news to our readers." Phase I of the project has already begun - including the installation of the Hermes editorial and pagination system and the WireCenter wire services management system on nearly 300 workstations at both The Wall Street Journal's main newsroom in New York and at Dow Jones' South Brunswick, N.J., facility. The Unisys solutions replace a custom developed Global News Management System. "Given the scope of the project and our need to install a complex system quickly, Unisys was our choice," said Jim Pensiero, a Journal assistant managing editor responsible for the project. "We saw the Unisys solution at work at several large newspapers in the U.S. and Europe, and it has the right tools to handle the job. Our staffers who have worked on the system like it." The agreement for the publishing solutions is the latest development in a long-standing relationship between the two companies, with Unisys having provided technology-based solutions and implementation services to Dow Jones for over 20 years. Unisys Chairman and 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. Lawrence A. Weinbach said, "We are thrilled to expand our long-term relationship with Dow Jones by helping them further improve what is already a benchmark publication around the world. We also are eager to showcase the capabilities of our proven, repeatable publishing solutions, which can be quickly customized and implemented." The Hermes and WireCenter systems will be powered by Sun Microsystems E6500 High Availability clusters, Windows NT clients and Oracle's Enterprise Edition software as the database engine for Hermes. Additional project services include integration with Dow Jones' Page Delivery System. Editorial content will also be exported to a number of other Dow Jones systems and partnerships. Unisys Publishing Solutions Unisys provides one of the most comprehensive newspaper publishing solutions available with a complete line of editorial, electronic pagination, wire management, archive and advertising systems. The solutions run on several server platforms with mainstream databases and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows NT. Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialist packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions. A major vendor in the publishing industry for 25 years, Unisys continues to experience significant growth in its publishing systems business, with over 70% of the new clients signed in the last three years. Unisys success in the publishing market is based on the unique approach the company brings to the industry -- combining the strengths of a leading-edge solution with technology and systems integration services to offer newspapers a total solution from a single source. Unisys has also recently purchased Publishing Partners International of Bedford, New Hampshire Bedford, founded in 1750, is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 18,274. A suburb of Manchester, Bedford has one of the highest average personal incomes in the state[1]. , adding a Classified and Run-of-Paper (ROP (1) (Raster Operation) An instruction that manipulates the bits of a bitmapped image in some manner. (2) (RISC Operation) An instruction in a RISC processor. ) advertising component to the portfolio of publishing solutions. Over 170 newspapers in 16 countries around the world have selected Unisys Publishing Solutions. U.S. clients include The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. , and Investor's Business Daily Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy. Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil, its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California. . Selected international clients are the News International Group, which includes the UK's The Sun, The Times of London, The Sunday Times, News of the World and other titles, Brazil's O Estado de S. Paulo, France's La Voix du Nord La Voix du Nord (lit. The Voice of the North) is a regional daily newspaper of the North of France. The paper sponsors the GP de Fourmies bicycle race. See also
(German; “Frankfurt General Newspaper”) Daily newspaper published in Frankfurt am Main, one of the most prestigious and influential in Germany. and Spain's El Pais and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . About Dow Jones & Company In addition to The Wall Street Journal and its international and Interactive editions, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ www.dj.com) publishes, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , dowjones.com, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner of Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , and of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Europe and Asia. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. About Unisys Unisys is 35,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their buio of global information services including electronic business, systems integration including custom and "rupport, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage. Repeatas.com. Investor information can be found at wwwe acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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