UK Property Leader, Land Securities, Selects Percussion Software's Rhythmyx WCM Solution as Cornerstone for Major Online Redevelopment.LONDON -- FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. 100 listed, Land Securities, which boasts a [pounds sterling]14.4 billion UK property portfolio, is placing Percussion's Rhythmyx web content management system at the heart of exciting plans to regenerate and extend the reach of its online assets. More than fifty internal and external websites will ultimately be served by Rhythmyx, including the company's Intranet, micro-sites for the company's shopping centres (including The Bridges in Sunderland and the White Rose Centre in Leeds), and a brand new community portal serving the occupiers of Land Securities' London Portfolio of over 200 buildings. Rhythmyx 6 is the latest version of Percussion's award-winning, enterprise-ready WCM WCM Web Content Management WCM World Class Manufacturing WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist WCM Wireless Connection Manager WCM Wavelength Channel Module WCM Württembergische Cattunmanufaktur (German cotton manufacturer) system that provides a robust platform to easily manage customer-centric content across multiple sites and channels and different lines of business. "Rhythmyx puts total control of content from creation to archive at our fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ", comments Land Securities Programme Manager, Wendy Antaw. "Not only are we saving on the cost and time taken to create new sites but we're also empowering individual business units to create, manage and reuse content far more efficiently. Because we can monitor everything in one place, the lines of business get the autonomy they need without any compromise in the standard and consistency of web delivery across the business. Now we're truly in a position to maximise return on content at every stage in a website's lifecycle; From communicating with key stakeholders and investors during the earliest stages of a development, to leasing commercial units, to maximising footfall in a shopping centre to creating a community of tenants around a major development", says Antaw. Land Securities' implementation began in November 2006 with the launch of six new shopping centre websites and the launch of its community portal to the London Victoria Community which includes Cardinal Place Cardinal Place is a retail and office development in London SW1 near Victoria Station and opposite Westminster Cathedral. The site consists of three buildings covering over a million square feet on Victoria Street next door to Portland House, and was designed by EPR Architects and ; the prestigious, 100,000 ft2 office, retail and restaurant development. The corporate intranet will follow in 2007 along with the development of further marketing websites and migration of existing websites. Percussion Software was appointed to work with Land Securities following a competitive tender. Key reasons for the selection of the Rhythmyx WCM system include: * Ability to clone sites and sections and leverage design templates to accelerate new site creation, and enforce corporate standards whilst allowing for localised localised - localisation branding and design. * Empowering the lines of business, with greater control of content, increasing content freshness, enabling seamless content reuse and delegation of content creation within individual business units (inbuilt in·built adj. Built-in; inherent. inbuilt Adjective (of a quality or feeling) present from the beginning: an inbuilt prejudice Adj. 1. templates and approval mechanisms ensuring corporate standard and consistency are maintained). * Simple and intuitive content creation and editing interfaces that reduce the need for technical support, enabling content management to be brought in-house in several business units where this is currently outsourced. * Simple scheduling of new content for publication. Ability to plan ahead for communications updates and releases that can be instantly and simultaneously posted to multiple channels at a pre-scheduled date and time. Pete Atkinson, Managing Director, European Operations commented, "Land Securities is a prime example of an organisation with the web at the very core of its business and where the value of online content goes far beyond marketing. Rhythmyx allows organisations to maximise return on their online assets by delivering seamless support for multiple web properties combined with easy content reuse. It's the ideal solution for the UK's dynamic property industry, providing a robust foundation to build websites with frequently updated, persuasive content of a consistently high quality that is engaging to multiple audiences with very different information needs - from investors to tenants and co-workers to shoppers." About Percussion Software Percussion Software's family of practical software solutions enables customers to maximise both the value and quality of their enterprise content. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Rhythmyx 6, is an enterprise-ready Web Content Management (WCM) system for creating customer-centric business applications. Rhythmyx 6 enables organisations to achieve a higher return-on-content by delivering dynamic, frequently changing content to customers. Based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , it provides organisations with a robust platform that allows customer-centric content to interoperate with other enterprise content, regardless of repository or ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. system. With Rhythmyx 6, content can be easily managed across multiple sites, multiple channels and multiple lines of business in order to ensure consistency of brand and customer experience. Percussion's portfolio of over 2,500 global customers includes, Bayer, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , MasterCard International, Motorola and Toshiba. Its UK customers include, Alliance & Leicester, ARM Ltd, the British Library, DLA Piper Rudnick, ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Paints, National Express, NESTA NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (UK) NESTA National Endurance Sports Trainers Association , Newcastle Building Society The Newcastle Building Society is a UK building society, which has its head office in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was formed in 1980 as a result of a merger between the Grainger and Newcastle Permanent Building Societies. , NSPCC NSPCC (in Britain) National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children NSPCC (Brit) n abbr (= National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) → Kinderschutzbund m , Natural History Museum, Nottingham Trent University, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Symbian, Tate, the University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies and the V&A. More information can be found on the Web at www.percussion.com. Percussion Software is a registered trademark and Rhythmyx and Lyrix are trademarks of Percussion Software. All other registered trademarks and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Land Securities Group PLC Land Securities is a FTSE 100 company, quoted on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. . It has been at the forefront of the UK's commercial property industry for over 60 years. Today, the Group maintains its market leading position as the UK's largest quoted property company by providing commercial accommodation and property services to a wide range of occupiers, owing and managing six and a half million m2 of property across the UK. The Group's objective is to create attractive and sustainable returns for its shareholders through its activities, which include property investment, development and property outsourcing. Land Securities holds a market leading position in three areas of the UK commercial property market: * Retail, * London offices and * Property outsourcing The [pounds sterling]14.4 billion investment portfolio includes office and retail space in Central London, 30 shopping centres, 30 retail parks and 10 supermarket properties located across the UK. It has a substantial development programme including major retail-led urban regeneration schemes and Central London mixed-use developments. The Group is also master planning one of Europe's largest regeneration schemes in Kent Thameside. The Group leads the market in property outsourcing where, through Land Securities Trillium, it provides accommodation and property-related services to the Department for Work and Pensions The Department for Work and Pensions (or DWP) (Welsh: Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau) is the largest government department in the Government of the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001, from the merger of the employment part of the Department for Education and , Norwich Union, Barclays Bank, DVLA DVLA Brit Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency DVLA n abbr (BRIT) (= Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) → organismo encargado de la expedición de permisos de conducir y matriculación de vehículos and through Telereal to BT. The Group is committed to environmental initiatives and community involvement recognised by the Group's inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the awarding of a 'Big Tick' by BiTC. For more information on Land Securities visit www.landsecurities.com |
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