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Concentra Media in Belgium Chooses DTI’s Editorial Publishing System

June 20, 2006 Digital Technology International (DTI) announces that Concentra Media in Belgium has chosen DTI�s editorial suite to implement across its three daily newspapers, Het Belang van Limburg (circ. 114,193 copies), Gazet van Antwerpen (circ. 140,351 copies) and Metro, which is published in Dutch and French (275,000 copies).

With the Adobe InDesign and InCopy-incorporated DTI system, which runs on a robust, multi-dimensional Cach� database, Concentra Media is looking to streamline the business processes in the newsroom and achieve a new level of efficiency. Stefan van Reeth, business architect and DTI project manager at Concentra Media, says: “DTI’s NewsSpeed provided the best answer for the business processes that we are on target to achieve. The workflows (mixed text/lay–out driven) will become more efficient in the newsroom and provide an improved overview of production, enabling us to more efficiently track all elements of a publication. We have been impressed with the system which is solid and stable, with transparent software architecture.”

Paul Verwilt, ICT director at Concentra Media, continues: “With our previous Quark-based system, editorial staff had no access to lay-outs and pages. DTI�s editorial system enables us to move to a modern, newsroom organization with multi-functional users and an open view towards the more optimal repurposing of our content.”

A total of 118 seats have been ordered for Het Belang van Limburg, 23 seats for Metro and 131 seats for Gazet van Antwerpen. The suite consists of:

PageSpeed – page design and layout application

SpeedWriter – text editing system

PlanSpeed – planning and pagination software which unifies the planning of both editorial and advertising content

Wirespeed/PhotoWirespeed – applications that handle incoming text and photographs

AdSpeed – a solution for managing and building display ads

ImageSpeed – graphics management system

SpeedLibrarian – a solution for providing control over the organization, key-words and grouping of images in the database

eWriter – easy remote story filing � journalists and outside news contributors can submit stories to the news database remotely using a web browser

About Concentra Media

Established in 1879, Concentra Media employs 900 staff across five offices in Hasselt, Antwerp, Brussel, Beringen and Dendermonde. A publisher and a printer, Concentra Media produces newspapers and magazines as well as TV, radio and online news.

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