SII and Cybergraphic Form Worldwide Strategic Partnership; Next Generation System to Ship this Year.SACRAMENTO, Calif./MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1996--System Integrators, Inc. (SII SII Servicio de Impuestos Internos (Chile) SII Seiko Instruments, Inc. SII Strong Interest Inventory SII Standards Institution of Israel SII Securities and Investment Institute (UK) ) and Cybergraphic Systems Pty Ltd (Cybergraphic) today announced a strategic long-term partnership agreement. The two companies, which have a combined forty year history of providing computer systems to the publishing industry, will distribute a new generation of systems incorporating core technology from Cybergraphic. The Cybergraphic Genera family of products deliver an integrated Client-Server publishing system. The products are built with Object Oriented Microsoft technology (MFC/OCX) including a 32-bit Windows client, the Windows NT operating system and SQL Server relational database. Genera software is designed to run on any hardware server capable of supporting Windows NT. Today, Windows NT servers range from low cost Intel Pentium-based PC servers to multiprocessor clusters from Digital Equipment and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . Such scalability means that Genera products can reach a broad market ranging from small weekly newspapers to larger circulation daily newspapers. For SII, the Genera products will complement its existing large scale System/66 product line which is based on Tandem Computers' NonStop architecture and is targeted at major newspapers with daily circulations above 100,000. "This strategic partnership between two pioneers in the publishing arena is a natural fit. This is the rare strength-plus-strength scenario where SII with our large scale Tandem solutions combined with Cybergraphic's Genera products can deliver innovative publishing solutions to any size newspaper in all of the major markets," said Erika Williams, SII's chief executive officer. "The combination of Cybergraphic's Genera technology, Microsoft's Windows NT, SQL Server platforms and SII's market and Internet expertise is the kind of exciting new solution that the industry has been waiting for." Under the agreement announced today, SII will sell, support and integrate Cybergraphic's Genera client-server publishing systems in North America, South America, Central America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East and South Africa. Cybergraphic will retain exclusive marketing rights in its home country of Australia as well as the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Pacific and Asian markets. Cybergraphic will continue to market and support its products in North America (through its wholly-owned subsidiary Cybergraphic Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts) and the United Kingdom. "Our partnership with SII will be the catalyst for accelerating the adoption of our Genera technology, especially in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and European marketplaces where SII has significant experience and a successful track record," said Bernard Grinberg, Managing Director, Cybergraphic. "We are committed to this long-term relationship with SII to deliver world class publishing solutions." By creating a worldwide marketing partnership, the two companies, will have a combined employee base of more than 350 and a customer base in excess of 500 publications. SII will leverage its international sales, marketing and GlobalNet support capabilities to provide Genera-based systems to newspapers in its designated markets. Cybergraphic brings to the partnership a proven ability to design, develop and deploy innovative, high throughput, integrated 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. systems. The initial Genera product release will be a newspaper advertising sales system -- Cyber$ell, previewed at Nexpo `95. The first Cyber$ell system is scheduled for shipment to The Melbourne Trading Post trading post See post. in the second half of 1996. A full NT/SQL Server editorial product will be the second major release. The Windows editorial client software products (CyberNews and CyberPage) are backwards compatible with existing Cybergraphic installations, with the first deployment of CyberNews having occurred at the News International 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 bureau. Cybergraphic will feature the new system at the PANPA PANPA Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association conference in Hobart, (Australia) from April 30 to May 3 and both companies will feature the Genera products, in June, at Nexpo `96 in Las Vegas. SII's technical contribution includes the localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. of the Genera technology for German, Spanish and other languages and the addition of Internet and Intranet capabilities. SII plans to configure every Genera-based publishing system with the internal infrastructure of the Internet and every desktop with a 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. to create a publishing "Intranet" for a newspaper enterprise. SII has formed a product team for Genera which will be headed by Steve Nilan, vice president, business planning and development. "This is a breakthrough product that brings the WOW factor back into publishing systems. Cybergraphic's Genera technology and the Internet give newspapers the power to dominate their local media markets for years to come," said Nilan. SII said it would also immediately begin incorporating the Genera core technology into its custom development contract with WAZ WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (German newspaper) WAZ Wireless Access Zone , the German publishing concern. The SII-Cybergraphic partnership also includes collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. and joint marketing activities such as trade shows and regional seminars. About Cybergraphic Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Cybergraphic Systems Pty. Ltd. supplies high-performance networked publishing systems to the newspaper publishing industry. Over the last 3 years Cybergraphic has grown more than 400% to become the major supplier in the Pacific Region, both in size and installed customer base. Consequently, Cybergraphic now boasts the largest development and application support group in Australia and New Zealand. Cybergraphic systems offer industrial strength features, full page pagination, an open Client/Server architecture and unsurpassed price/performance ratios. A number of large metropolitan newspapers in Australia This is a list of Australian newspapers - see also * Australian Newspapers Online. Try searching Libraries Australia (the Australian national bibliographic database) to see which carry which newspaper/s. have now achieved full page pagination using Cybergraphic solutions. On the strength of this, Cybergraphic counts among its major newspaper customers around the world, Rupert Murdoch's News Limited and Conrad Black's Canadian Southam Group. Cybergraphic also offers enterprise-wide management and plug-and-play support for shrink-wrapped applications such as QuarkXPress, MultiAd Creator and PhotoShop. About System Integrators Headquartered in Sacramento, System Integrators, Inc. designs, markets, integrates and supports computer technology solutions for news and commerce worldwide. Its customer base includes The Sacramento Bee, The Washington Post, the Washington Post, The Morning daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the dominant paper in the U.S. capital and one of the nation's leading newspapers. Established in 1877 as a Democratic Party organ, it changed orientation and ownership several times and faced Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Toronto Star, The Toronto Star, The Canadian newspaper, generally ranked as the country's largest. Established in 1892 by 25 printers who had lost their jobs in a labour dispute, it became prosperous after its purchase in 1899 by a group of leading citizens and maintained a liberal editorial Miami Herald, Le Monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. (Paris), the Evening Standard, the Daily Mail and The Financial Times (London), Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), Die Welt (Germany), the Cairns Cairns, city (1991 pop. 64,463), Queensland, NE Australia, on Trinity Bay. It is a principal sugar port of Australia; lumber and other agricultural products are also exported. The city's proximity to the Great Barrier Reef has made it a tourist center. Post and the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), the Japan Times and the Straits Times (Singapore). The company has installed more than 300 systems that publish approximately 500 newspapers, magazines and wire services throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific. World Class Solutions for Worldwide Media. -0- Notes to editors: The "S" logo, "System Integrators, Inc.", and "SII", are registered trademarks of System Integrators, Inc. "Cybergraphic" and "Cyber$ell" are registered trademarks of Cybergraphic Systems Pty Ltd. Other companies or product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: System Integrators, Inc. Steve Nilan, 916/929-9481 nilan@sii.com or Cybergraphic Systems Bernard Grinberg, 011 613 9819 4022 bgrinberg@cybergraphic.com.au |
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