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Everyone’s a publisher – from national and local government, through multi-national corporations and small to medium-sized businesses – and whatever their size many of the issues they face in presenting a clear message across multiple mediums remain the same.

PCS has been serving publishers for more than 35 years and has created a converging suite of products that perform brilliantly in their own right, but together represent the best in the business when it comes to managing content, workflows, brand and rights concerns and system analytics.

What’s more, the option to embrace digital media in its numerous guises as a means of delivering the message is a given. PCS’s publishing solutions are output agnostic – to print, to web, to smart phone or to tablet – separately or all at once. We call that concurrent multi-publishing and that helps promote improvements in efficiency, quicker routes to fulfilment and simpler ways of reducing production costs.

It also means taking a look at the dynamics of what employment means and how companies can reap the benefits of work-anywhere, collaborative production without compromising control or quality.

And key to much of what’s new is the ability to work remotely and to employ the solutions in a Software as a Service mode. That reduces the timescales for integration, cuts risk and allows publishers to better forecast their budgets while removing a major IT headache.

For businesses 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 writers and editors 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.

For more information on Knowledge and other PCS solutions contact us.