Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Selects Unisys Publishing Solutions For Newspaper Production.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1997--Unisys Corp. Wednesday announced an agreement with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) (German; “Frankfurt General Newspaper”) Daily newspaper published in Frankfurt am Main, one of the most prestigious and influential in Germany. to install the Unisys Publishing Solutions, adding another prestigious title to the distinguished group of over 60 newspapers in 10 countries that have selected the Unisys industry-leading Publishing Solutions. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Embraces Unisys Publishing Solutions The agreement between Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) and Unisys calls for the installation of the Unisys Hermes editorial software in over 350 seats throughout the organization. F.A.Z. also entered into a consultancy and support contract with Unisys. Founded in 1949, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is a prestigious German national daily newspaper with a circulation of over 400,00 copies. The F.A.Z consortium, the seventh largest publishing group in Germany, also includes Markische Allgemeine Zeitung
The Allgemeine Zeitung was in the first part of the 19th century the leading political daily journal in Germany. in Potsdam (circulation 220,000) and Frankfurter Neue Presse, whose circulation is 115,000. Further F.A.Z. publications include the financial paper, Blick durch die Wirtschaft, popular among the German business community, and the local Sunday paper Sunday paper n → (periódico) dominical m Sunday paper n → journal m du dimanche for the Frankfurt Rhein Main region, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Embracing new Technology The Unisys Publishing Solutions (UPS) will bring the latest in client-server technology to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The newspaper will replace its Atex system. After a prolonged selection period during which Unisys faced stiff competition, UPS was selected because of its flexible, integrated Hermes text editing The ability to change text by adding, deleting and rearranging letters, words, sentences and paragraphs. Text editing is the main operation users perform in word processors, which typically also handle graphics and other multimedia files. See text editor and word processing. and electronic 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. solution, its client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. , and Unisys expertise in the German publishing market. Rapidly Gaining Clients - in Germany and Worldwide Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is the third large German publishing company which has selected the UPS in recent months, bringing the total to over 60 newspapers worldwide. Earlier this year Unisys announced agreements with Medien Systemhaus Rechenzentrum Sudwest (MSH MSH melanocyte-stimulating hormone. MSH abbr. melanocyte-stimulating hormone MSH, n See hormone, melanocyte-stimulating. MSH melanocyte-stimulating hormone. ) of Stuttgart to install 510 seats at Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Sudwest Presse and Sonntag Aktuell and with the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, a Dusseldorf based media group, to install the UPS at their financial newspaper, Handelsblatt. Other German clients include Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Nordwest-Zeitung, Muenchberg-Helmbrechtser Zeitung, Wilhelmshavener Zeitung and Deutsche Journalistenschule. The Unisys Publishing Solutions The Unisys Publishing Solutions are among the most comprehensive newspaper publishing solutions available, providing a complete editorial, electronic pagination and archiving system. The solutions includes three components - Hermes, WireCenter and DocCenter - which can also be implemented as stand-alone systems. The solutions run on the Sun Solaris platform and Sybase database See SQL Server. and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows 95 or NT. Besides running on the Sun Solaris platform, Hermes and WireCenter also run on both DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. and Intel servers using Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and the MS-SQL Server database from Microsoft. Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialty packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions. Unisys Information Services See Information Systems. As one of the three core businesses of Unisys Corp., Information Services designs, builds, and integrates business solutions that help clients improve their competitive edge and responsiveness to customers. To learn more about Information Services, access www.unisys.com/isg on the World Wide Web. Unisys -- The Information Management Company Unisys is one of a select group of companies with the portfolio of services, technologies and third party alliances needed to deliver the benefits of information management -- helping clients use their information asset to enhance their competitiveness and responsiveness to customers. Our expertise in information management is founded on the strengths of our three global businesses: consulting, solutions and systems integration; industry-leading technologies; and comprehensive services and products supporting distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks . Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com -- for further information. Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corp. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Unisys by Copithorne & Bellows Lisa Hahn/Lisa Spellman, 617/450-4300 Internets: lisa.hahn@cbpr.com/lisa.spellman@cbpr.com |
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