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For publishers to put their enterprise systems in the hand of a third party requires trust and, often, a leap of faith. That’s why PCS takes pride in offering robust solutions with built-in resilience and has a dedication to improving processes that has been rewarded with ISO9001 accreditation. PCS also has a dedicated Managed Systems division which knows the publishing industry and is aware of the absolute importance of deadlines and the need to eradicate downtime wherever possible.

PCS works with publishers to ensure their requirements are met, will advise where necessary and work hard to accommodate customers’ specific needs where requested.

PCS works with industry leading technology suppliers, including companies whose database technologies are used in mission critical financial and healthcare operations the world over and internationally acknowledged pagination tool suppliers. And PCS continues to seek out innovators who help to keep its products at the leading edge, pushing the bounds of what’s possible in publishing.

Concurrent multi-publishing is the art of automatically delivering must-have content across different media, each in the appropriate format – when, where and how it is required, combining the use of text, images, sound and video to retain brand consistency and house style while reducing costs and maximising revenue opportunities.

Browser-based, Knowledge has been built from the ground up to free creative people from the constraints of geography, promoting intelligent collaborative workflows to give publishers a true route to concurrent multi-publishing. It also uses high-end pagination tools, Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress, either in the data centre or on the desktop.

What’s more it’s available hosted in a Software-as-a-Service option, promoting savings in infrastructure costs alongside simplified budget forecasting, backed up by real-time system analytics.

NCS is a comprehensive circulation and subscription management tool, designed to save publishers time and money by using the information they create and gather every day to build and strengthen their relationships with the people at the sharp end of their businesses, their customers.

Key to the overall solution is its ability to handle the full scope of print publishing options – Paid For, Retail and Wholesale; Frees and Leaflets; and Home delivery, plus the wider opportunities of Subscription Management, Coupon Management and Canvassing for both print and digital.

ABS combines its modules: Sales Advantage, Advance, Financials, Self-Service and Directories to represent the paradigm in developing advertising customer relationships.

It gives a publisher the means to build and quickly access clear and accurate information about advertising customers – who spends what and when – and the power to sustain and retain existing revenues and create opportunities built on real knowledge of what makes advertisers tick.

It gives customers clever tools to make it easier for them to maximise their advertising spend, matching their aspirations with a publisher’s abilities and creating for them previously unexplored advertising opportunities.

Nowhere else is that relationship better illustrated than in the Directory function. Here information about advertisers is aggregated directly from the ABS database, then integrated with an interactive online listings facility, fully searchable and dynamically updated, giving publishers a quick “no-effort” route to web integration and a bonus for advertisers that’s only one click away.

Property advertising is crucial to publishing revenues, but there can be tensions between publisher and estate agent. Agents want flexibility, later deadlines, greater control and a more efficient route to print. Publishers want all that, plus reliability and consistency of quality from their advertisers. But whoever said they were mutually exclusive?

Importantly, PropertyNet is available hosted as a Software as a Service option, promoting savings in infrastructure costs alongside simplified budget forecasting, which is a benefit to the publisher who us freed from costly and time-consuming IT.

PropertyNet’s smart browser functionality again means that advertisers are guided through making up their ads at any point, either through online tutorial video, contextual help panel, or dynamically as they prepare property listings for publication.

PropertyNet talks directly to leading third party estate agent data feeds, which means agents don’t need to re-key their information. It’s a bonus for them and a selling point for you.