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Press Association Rolls Out Nuxeo ECM
November 27, 2007

The Press Association, the UK’s national news association, is rolling out Nuxeo’s open source enterprise content management platform to improve the way it distributes digital content. And to think just a few weeks ago we weren't even familiar with Nuxeo.

PA was looking to replace its old bespoke system with something that could handle multimedia content and reduce the number of keystrokes it took for journalists to post stories.

Nuxeo provided a happy medium for the company between entirely building a system from scratch and buying an off-the-shelf package requiring a lot of customization.

Working together, the two companies have completed the first iteration of the system and will introduce the full version in the first quarter of 2008, initially to 50 journalists and then to other sections of the editorial team.

Paul Berman, IT development director at PA, said that using open source will give the IT team far more flexibility and control to make changes without having to negotiate with suppliers or pay them license fees.

“We’re pleased with joint and agile development,” said Berman. “And we’re doing more and more open source. It’s not free, but what you do get is control over features and costs. From an editorial standpoint it’s a much more efficient, smarter system that does more for journalists and handles multimedia, while the older system was text based."

Posted by Jason Stamper on November 27, 2007 05:39 PM

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