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Unisys Wins Contract For Publishing Solutions From France's Le Telegramme de Brest
BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--Unisys Corp. Tuesday announced an agreement to provide the Unisys Publishing Solutions Hermes and WireCenter to Le Telegramme de Brest, one of the most important regional newspapers in France.
The solutions will enable 270 staffers to produce multiple editions of the daily newspaper.
Headquartered in Morlaix, in the western region of Brittany, Le Telegramme de Brest is one of the largest regional newspapers in France, with a total circulation of 225,000 copies, seven days a week. The newspaper produces 17 zoned editions daily and is newspaper of record for the region.
Based on client/server technology, the Unisys Publishing Solutions will provide Le Telegramme de Brest with a highly integrated and flexible publishing system that will give journalists, editors and production staff better control over the entire production process.
The system permits exceptional editorial flexibility, so print deadlines can be postponed to incorporate late-breaking news, enabling the paper to deliver timelier and more comprehensive news coverage. In addition, the solutions will improve the newspaper's capability to manage local stories, photos and graphics for multiple editions, including those zoned for specific parts of Brittany.
The terms of the contract call for the installation of version 4.0 of the Hermes publishing system, which uses an Oracle database, and WireCenter, the external communications management system. Both run centrally on two Sun E3500 servers.
''After a thorough search and assessment of Unisys and its competitors, we selected Unisys for its leading solutions, industry knowledge and company reliability. We especially stress the company's experience with large publishing installations in France, and the company's ability to deliver and maintain the system locally,'' said Bernard Chancerelle, Technical Director of Le Telegramme de Brest.
''Furthermore, we believe that Unisys is moving its solutions forward in the right direction in terms of technology and functionality.''
''We are proud and happy to be selected by one of the major regional publishing companies in France and to reinforce our success in the sector,'' commented Gerard Perrier, the Unisys Publishing Program Manager for France and Benelux.
''After La Provence and Le Courrier Picard, Le Telegramme de Brest is the third major French publisher to select Unisys in 1998. In the competition, our mature solution and our project implementation capabilities make the difference.''
Unisys Publishing Solutions
Unisys provides one of the most comprehensive newspaper publishing solutions available with a complete editorial, electronic pagination and archiving system. The solutions run on several server platforms with mainstream databases and use PCs as clients with applications running in Windows 95 and NT.
Unisys systems integration expertise and capabilities allow the integration of existing proprietary and off-the-shelf specialty packages with the Unisys Publishing Solutions.
In the publishing industry for over 20 years, Unisys has experienced significant growth in its publishing systems business, with 70% of the new clients signed in the last three years.
Unisys success in the publishing market is based on the unique approach the company brings to the industry -- combining the strengths of a leading-edge solution with technology and systems integration services to offer newspapers a total solution from a single source.
The Unisys Publishing Solutions have been selected by over 100 newspapers in 11 countries around the world. Among them are Wegener Arcade in the Netherlands; top Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera and La Gazzetta dello Sport; and Newsday and The New York Daily News in the USA.
In France, Unisys Publishing Solutions produce La Voix du Nord and other the newspapers of La Voix du Nord Group, Le Midi Libre, L'Independant du Midi, La Republique du Centre, La Provence, and Le Courrier Picard, among others.
About Unisys
Unisys (NYSE:UIS - news) is more than 33,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems.
Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including systems integration, outsourcing, ''repeatable'' application solutions, consulting, network integration, remote network management, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage.
Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, government, publishing and other commercial markets.
Headquartered in Blue Bell, in the Greater Philadelphia area, Unisys 1997 annual revenue was $6.6 billion. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- unisys.com -- for further information. |
