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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch installs SCC's Budgeting & Assignment workflow October 16, 2009 ALPHARETTA, GA., October 16, 2009) -- SCC is pleased to announce the installation of their SCC MediaServer Budget, Assignment and Scheduling module at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 287k [m-sat], 468k [sun]). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has been a user of SCC’s MediaServer system since 2004, and the inclusion of the new module adds a comprehensive set of web browser enabled tools for story planning and scheduling as well as multimedia request, assignment and fulfillment. Each step in the workflow is highly configurable, with customizable forms and displays, options for mandatory input and form validation as well as triggers for email alerts and notifications. "Repurposing content is a good catch phrase, until you try to keep track of it", says Gary Bohn, SCC systems administrator for the Post-Dispatch. "Our new SCC Budget/Assignment system allows editors to track a story from proposal to publication, online or print, with or without visuals, all in one package. It's easily customizable to accommodate any number of remote sites or publications, and because it’s fully integrated with our existing SCC archive, it makes an invaluable one-stop tool for the whole newsroom." The top level budget record, is essentially a job ticket that acts as a parent to other child records, i.e. requests for multimedia production, and in turn each request once assigned, becomes a parent to submitted child objects i.e. photos, videos, graphics and stories generated for that request. As part of the system configuration, and at each step in the workflow, any part or all of the data entered into a parent object (e.g. budget record) automatically flows into every child assignment request generated from that budget record, and ultmately into every submitted high-resolution multimedia object. This guarantees that all multimedia content entered into the SCC system becomes automatically enriched with valuable and fully searchable metadata. In addition to providing email notifications at various stages of the production workflow, the SCC MediaServer system also provides sophisticated syndication tools allowing for any multimedia item within the content package or pyramid as it’s also referred, to be automatically and simultaneously delivered to any number of target systems, resales vendors and content aggregators, where each delivered content item is formatted to suit the particular target. About SCC SCC is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and develops and markets a suite of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh media management tools and utilities world-wide. SCC’s products are used by newspapers, magazines, TV networks, photo agencies, Internet content providers and various corporations. In the USA, SCC's customers include The National Enquirer, Star and Globe Magazines (American Media Inc.), Sports Illustrated and People Magazines (AOL Time Warner), InTouch Magazine (Bauer Publishing), The Dallas Morning News, The Detroit Free Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Seattle Times, The Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Associated Press, McClatchy/Tribune Information Services, Reuters, UPI, Dow Jones, ABC Television, NBC Television, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Television, US News & World Report, USA Today, The White House, Camp Fallujah (Iraq), the Marine base at Quantico, and many more. Outside the USA, SCC has distributors covering Australia, Europe, the Far East, and Central and South America. Technical Contact: SCC Lee Funnell, Vice President |
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