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Quark Launches Dynamic Publishing Solution and Outlines Long-Term Vision
Company to Complement Existing Desktop Publishing Products with Expansion into Dynamic Publishing Technology, Combining Professional Design Expertise with Automated Publishing and Multi-Channel Output
BOSTON - 3/4/2008 -
Quark Inc. announced today
that it is leveraging its existing desktop publishing, server and collaborative
workflow expertise to launch a new enterprise solution in the emerging dynamic
publishing market. Called Quark® Dynamic Publishing Solution (DPS), the
enterprise-scale publishing solution combines flexible layout with automated
publishing to create and deliver accurate, relevant, and attractive
communications across multiple types of media, including print, the Web, mobile
and electronic devices. Quark’s expansion into dynamic publishing addresses the
increasing multi-channel challenges faced by publishers and complements its
desktop publishing software, QuarkXPress®.
Ray Schiavone, Quark CEO, said, “Over the past year I have visited at length
with key customers across Europe, North America and Asia. These customers – some
of the largest and most well-known publishers and creative groups in the world –
confirmed that their publishing requirements are changing dramatically.”
Schiavone continued, “We are solving these challenges with Quark Dynamic
Publishing Solution by helping our customers improve automation, create reusable
content, and more efficiently publish to multiple channels. This is the basis of
dynamic publishing, the next revolution in publishing.”
Defining Dynamic Publishing
Dynamic publishing automates the creation and delivery of information
across multiple channels, from print to Web, email and beyond. It allows users
to create reusable components of information that can be combined to create
various types of documents for any audience. Dynamic publishing automates the
page formatting process allowing for the production of print, Web, and
electronic content from a single source of information.
Michael Mendoza, global IT director of Metro International, publisher of the
world’s largest international newspapers, said, “As a publisher of daily
newspapers produced for local markets around the world, we understand first-hand
the importance of streamlining our workflow with automated processes. Metro has
worked with Quark to implement both desktop and server technology, and based on
our insight into Quark DPS we consider it a promising solution. We look forward
to working with Quark to leverage dynamic publishing to solve new business
challenges we face as a publisher.”
Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution
Quark DPS consists of multiple software components, including desktop
tools for creating content, and server-based technology for automating
publishing workflows. It is based on open standards to allow for easy
integration with enterprise content management systems and other business
applications.
Quark DPS is a complete solution for any organization that relies on rich,
formatted content that needs to be published efficiently and quickly in multiple
places while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and brand integrity.
The benefits of Quark DPS include increased operational efficiencies, better
customer communication and improved publishing processes for:
--- Professional publishers that produce newspapers, magazines, books,
periodicals, etc.
--- Publishers that have both print and online titles
--- Marketing communications departments and their agencies in
manufacturing, retail and other industries that produce data sheets, white
papers, brochures, product labeling and manuals, and other marketing
communications materials
Melissa Webster, program vice president at IDC, comments, "Organizations need
publishing solutions that help them engage their customers with personalized
content and deliver it via the customer's preferred channel -- print, Web,
e-mail, PDF, SMS messaging, and so on. This need is fueling the rapid growth of
the dynamic enterprise publishing market." Webster continued, "Dynamic
enterprise publishing solutions let organizations automate the assembly of new
publications via rules, leveraging the content and information assets that
already exist in their content management systems and enterprise applications.
The ability to integrate personalized, multi-channel publishing with the
organization's broader business processes is key to transforming the customer
experience."
What Does Dynamic Publishing Mean for Designers?
Dynamic publishing is built on the foundation of rich design tools, like
QuarkXPress, that designers and creative professionals will continue to rely on
for years to come. However, the component-centric publishing process allows
designers to reduce time spent managing manual and repetitive processes. With
Quark DPS, designers are able to maintain creative freedom while automating the
process of customized document production.
“QuarkXPress is a valuable and widely-used graphic design and page layout
tool in its own right, and will play an integral role in Quark DPS,” continued
Schiavone. “QuarkXPress is and always will be the foundation of our product
portfolio and we will continue to invest in it to meet the needs of individual
designers and large organizations alike.”
Quark is presenting Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution at AIIM/OnDemand in
booth #725. For more information, please visit www.quark.com. Following
AIIM/OnDemand, Quark will host a series of exclusive events to show Quark DPS in
London, Frankfurt, Paris and New York. The events will be by invitation only. To
request an invitation please contact Sarah Rector at srector@quark.com.
About Quark
Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) provides both desktop publishing and dynamic
publishing software that helps customers design and publish richly designed
communications across a broad spectrum of media. Two decades ago, our flagship
product — QuarkXPress — changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, not
only does QuarkXPress continue to innovate in the desktop publishing market, but
now Quark is revolutionizing publishing again with Quark Dynamic Publishing
Solution, helping customers cost-effectively meet enterprise-scale publishing
challenges by extending the benefits of advanced technologies across the
publishing process. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.
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Contact:
Sarah Rector Quark, srector@quark.com (office) 303-894-3753, (cell)
303-520-2993
Terry Welty, Quark, twelty@quark.com, (office) 303-894-3089, (cell)
720-224-2389