PLS and Stouls Nouveau Media create a powerful Intranet solution for The International Herald Tribune.ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1997-- PLWeb Turbo Allows Access to Internal Archives for the "World's Daily Newspaper" Personal Library Software Inc. (PLS See playlist. ) and Stouls Nouveau nou·veau adj. New and different, often fashionably so: "The perfect [Los Angeles] combination: a gas station that is also a nouveau convenience store" Media announced Tuesday that PLWeb Turbo(TM), PLS's Intranet publishing solution, is being deployed by the International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. to provide rapid search and retrieval throughout a vast amount of archival information. The Intranet solution will allow employees at International Herald Tribune sites all over the world instant access to all the information and articles published by the newspaper from 1990 to the present. PLS technology will also be an integrated part of The International Herald Tribune's editorial system. "Publishing a daily newspaper for distribution throughout 181 countries doesn't allow much time between deadlines" said Dan Reasor of the International Herald Tribune. "In this fast-paced environment, employees need to quickly reference and locate past articles related to a given subject in order to present a full picture of current events in new story development. "PLS's Intranet solution provides a simple way for employees to find and retrieve the information they need to meet demanding deadlines." The new Intranet system will be implemented and customized by Stouls Nouveau Media, a PLS Business Partner in Europe, to meet the specific requirements of the International Herald Tribune. With PLWeb Turbo, employees can locate articles and information by submitting a query by article, name, date, subject, keyword or concept. In addition, PLWeb Turbo will allow the International Herald Tribune to automatically index and update information from live news feeds. The PLS/Stouls Nouveau Media Intranet solution provides reporters with immediate access to news as it is posted to the wire. "The International Herald Tribune needed a solution that could handle the large volume of information required to publish a daily newspaper for worldwide distribution," said Olivier Passas, marketing manager for Stouls Nouveau Media. "At the same time they needed a system that could grow with them and provide searchable access to information to reporters in different locations. PLWeb Turbo allowed us to create exactly the kind of scalable Intranet solution the International Herald Tribune required." "PLS is determined to develop and offer products that fit the requirements of global communications with support for local languages," said Lejo Duivenvoorde, director of European Operations for PLS. "Once again, the customizability of our products has proven to be valuable to one of our customers. We are pleased that our technology is helping the International Herald Tribune deliver relevant news internationally." The International Herald Tribune is the first daily newspaper to be electronically sent from one continent to another, and simultaneously available to readers on opposite sides of the world. The paper's distribution network and its international circulation were further enhanced with the opening of nine other printing sites around the world: Singpore, Tokyo, 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 , The Hague, Marsielle, Bologna Bologna (bōlô`nyä), city (1991 pop. 404,378), capital of Emilia-Romagna and of Bologna prov., N central Italy, at the foot of the Apennines and on the Aemilian Way. , Frankfurt, Toulouse. In March 1997, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (kwä`lə l  m`pr), city (1990 est. pop. was added, to be followed soon by Bangkok Bangkok (băng`kŏk'), Thai Krung Thep, city (1990 pop. 8,538,610), capital of Thailand and of Bangkok prov., SW Thailand, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the Gulf of Thailand. . Simultaneous printing in fourteen sites, including five in Asia, makes it possible for the newspaper to be delivered to over 180 countries. The International Herald Tribune is on the World Wide Web at www.iht.com. Stouls Nouveau Media S.A. is a consulting and service company with expertise in the areas of information delivery and processing. Specializing in system design/development and project management, Stouls Noveau Media offers expertise in full-text retrieval, document architecture, multimedia applications and electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. Stouls Nouveau Media is headquartered at 9/11 rue de l'Orme Saint Germain, 91160 Champlan, France. Stouls Nouveau Media can be reached by telephone at +33 1 69 10 10 70 or by fax +33 1 69 10 10 79 or via email at stoulsnm@micronet.fr . PLS is a leading developer of information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. and intelligent agent technology. PLS software is well known for its power and speed, automatic concept searching, ease of use, robustness, dynamic updating, and scalability. The PLS family of products, introduced in 1983, is used by several thousand organizations and several million individuals in electronic publishing as well as in workgroup and enterprise applications. PLS technology is at the core of products and services from leading information companies, including America Online See AOL. , Prodigy An online information service that provides access to the Internet, e-mail and a variety of databases. Launched in 1988, Prodigy was the first consumer-oriented online service in the U.S. , EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. Bertelsman, Netscape, Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance , Financial Times, Johns Hopkins University Press The Johns Hopkins University Press is a publishing house and division of Johns Hopkins University that engages in publishing journals and books. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. , Knight-Ridder, Phillips Publishing and The Washington Post Company. PLS can be reached at its headquarters at 2400 Research Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850, 301/990-1155. PLS can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.pls.com. E-mail can be sent to info@pls.com. -0- PLWeb Turbo is a trademark of Personal Library Software Inc. All other product and company names may be trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Personal Library Software Joseph Haley, 301/990-1155; joeh@pls.com or Stouls Nouveau Media Marek Zabicki, (31 1) 69 10 10 70; zabicki@micronet.fr or International Herald Tribune David Blackburn, (33 1) 41 43 93 21; dhblackburn@iht.com |
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