Save Money

We fully understand that for any organisation to adopt any new system or technology there must be benefits, either in quality, service or price. We are confident we can offer considerable savings in all three.

You do not need to invest in expensive hardware, software or the IT structure and personnel to manage it. You only need a working Internet connection to access the WorkFlow Solution. From anywhere at any time.

Your staff will be able to handle considerably more work with reduced stress and increased efficiency. A win-win situation if ever there was one.

We are confident that with the centralisation of all data combined with automation (see e-mails & Preflighting) and the vast reduction in hard copy printouts possible with this system any user will not only see great savings in money but in time as well and, we all know, time is money.

The biggest concrete savings will be in time, probably the most expensive commodity in any modern Publishing House. The levels of automation possible make many jobs that are extremely time intensive become much less so, since the system will simply take care of them for you, freeing up your time to Manage.

Obviously, as with any system, the more effort that is put in at the front end will bring huge benefits down the line. The better you can prepare any new project at the beginning the better the system will run as a whole. That is not to say that you cannot make adjustments as you go, you can easily alter anything at anytime, it just seems more logical to get as much set up correctly as early in the process as possible to allow the system to handle the routine aspects with little or no intervention.

You do not need tosend reminders continually to production personnel or out workers, the system will do that for you, see Automated e-mails for more details on this function.

The interactive calendar function (see Online scheduling) allows every user on the system to clearly see the time-line allowed for any individual project. Only power users can make amendments to the time-line but all can see it. The system keeps on working when you are in meetings, at home in bed, away sick or on holiday, it never sleeps and does not know what a time zone is.

Imagine how much time could be saved on a 1000 page contributed title with 250+ authors. All notifications can be sent out to each author the instant something is uploaded to the system that is relevant to them. You do not need to set up FTP permissions, you do not need to attach hundreds of PDF files to individual e-mails. All is done on the system for you.

Imagine how much time you could save if you could create a compiled set of proofs from the authors', publishers' and proofreaders' sets at the touch of a button (this function is dependent on users marking up their sets in Acrobat).