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NEWSPAPER AGENCY COMPANY SELECTS PBS MEDIAPLUS® BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR SALT LAKE TRIBUNE AND DESERET MORNING NEWS
PBS Business Solutions Will Increase Operational Automation
Minneapolis, MN – July 12, 2006 – Publishing Business Systems, North America's leading source for integrated enterprise-wide newspaper business software systems, today announced that Newspaper Agency Company, LLC, has agreed to license MediaPlus® Business solutions Financial Management and Materials Management. The applications will be installed at its corporate location.
The Salt Lake Tribune, with a daily circulation of 133,025, and the Deseret Morning News, daily circulation 72,008, are produced by NAC under a joint operating agreement. NAC performs circulation, advertising, business, production and printing functions for both newspapers, which are editorially separate. The MediaPlus Business solutions that NAC licensed include General Ledger, Budgeting, Project Accounting, Accounts Payable, Bank Book, Purchasing, Requisitions and Inventory Management.
Rulon Hemingway, NAC senior vice president and chief financial officer, headed a selection committee composed of potential users. After reviewing a number of offerings, the committee chose the PBS products because they had all the core functionalities the committee was looking for. PBS also established its commitment to working with NAC on its particular budgeting needs, which is of primary interest to stakeholders. “I am convinced we'll receive a high level of involvement from PBS, from initial planning all the way through to a successful implementation. And I was pleased to find a package that wasn't generalized - the PBS business solutions already ‘talk’ the newspaper language,” Hemingway said.
Working closely with PBS in demonstrating the software was Software Business Systems, a development partner of MediaPlus Business solutions. Hemingway added, “SBS has a great deal of experience converting data from an existing system to PBS applications, which adds to our comfort level.”
