Managing Editor Inc. - MEI, eMerge Sign Co-Marketing Agreement

Jenkintown, PA (May 5, 2009) — Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear a collective accomplishment with eMerge Consulting to bazaar and abutment affiliation amid the vjoon K4 Publishing System and Scriba™ XML workflow engine.

MEI is the absolute benefactor of K4, the arch beat workflow arrangement for Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe InCopy®, in the Americas. K4 has been chip with Scriba back 2007, if the arrangement was developed by PCI. eMerge is now the benefactor of Scriba and is administration advancing analysis and development responsibilities. As allotment of the new co-marketing acceding with MEI, eMerge will aswell accommodate K4 training and accession casework to both new and absolute customers.

“Publishers admit that carrying agreeable to a advanced array of cyberbanking formats is no best an option, but a necessity,” said Michael Sweet, managing accomplice at eMerge. “K4-Scriba affiliation provides a able-bodied band-aid that supports all aspects of XML workflow, including print-to-Web, Web-to-print, agreeable accession and cyberbanking delivery.”

The able K4 database provides a managed, collaborative workflow during the content-creation process. With the configurable K4 XML Exporter, users can adapt and consign alone online autograph or complete issues to XML anon from the database. Scriba’s rules-based processing engine complements the K4 XML accoutrement by applying adult transformations and formatting to XML exports.

eMerge has implemented the K4-Scriba band-aid at several publishers, including Christian Science Monitor, McGraw-Hill and AARP. These barter use Scriba to automate XML transforms, to upload bales to the Web or digital-asset-management systems and to automate the accumulation of amalgamated agreeable to agreeable aggregators.

As allotment of its new development, eMerge has fabricated Scriba even easier to arrange through the addition of its new software-as-a-service (SAAS) model. This offers barter a awful customized XML workflow band-aid with a low upfront amount and an affordable account cable charge. Scriba aswell charcoal accessible beneath accepted licensing agreement for those who ambition to arrange on site.

“Scriba plays an important role at some of our K4 customers, so we are captivated to be alive with eMerge to accomplish it added broadly accessible,” said Mark Walter, administrator of business development at MEI. “The XML ability and K4 acquaintance of the eMerge aggregation are absolute assets to the K4 community, and this acceding reinforces MEI’s charge to accompany commutual technologies into the K4 ecosystem.”

Visit www.maned.com/news/webinars/scriba to appearance a pre-recorded webinar demonstrating how K4 and Scriba can be affiliated to facilitate multi-channel publishing workflows.

About K4
The vjoon K4 Publishing System, chip with Adobe InDesign and InCopy, allows publishing professionals to administer architecture and beat workflow and to ascendancy the absolute assembly process. With its multi-level aegis controls, accessible SQL architectonics and able-bodied customization options, K4 supports a cellophane and defended assembly workflow for alone workgroups or absolute publishing enterprises. K4 is a artefact of vjoon GmbH (formerly SoftCare) of Hamburg, Germany. With added than 300 systems installed in publishing houses, agencies and magazines worldwide, K4 has already revolutionized the beat workflow for added than 16,000 users. MEI is the absolute benefactor of K4 in the Americas, with 140 installations managing about 9,000 users.

About eMerge
eMerge Consulting is an industry-acknowledged able in the Editorial Systems Integration and XML Workflow marketplace. Specializing in systems affiliation and support, the eMerge aggregation has a continued history of accouterment barter with the accomplished akin of account possible. eMerge agents are leaders in the agreeable engineering field, alms best-in-class XML articles and casework to agreeable creators. eMerge applies its ability and avant-garde technology to advice companies accommodated today’s circuitous cyberbanking agreeable accumulation demands and adapt them for tomorrow’s challenges. The aggregation provides customer-centric, scalable solutions that accumulate the administration and breeze of information, acceptance audience to alleviate the ability and amount of their content. Visit www.emergeconsulting.com for added information.

About MEI
Managing Editor Inc. is an industry baton in the development of quality, accurate software solutions for the evolving publishing industry. The Page Director® Series of Advertising and Classified Layout Systems, K4 Publishing System, Integrated Production Suite (IPS) and IPS AdTrac bear automated pagination, workflow and agenda asset administration solutions to bi-weekly and annual publishers, as able-bodied as to added book and cyberbanking publishing markets. MEI is an Adobe arch development accomplice and has alert been called a laureate of the Computerworld Smithsonian Collections. Additional advice apropos MEI’s articles and casework can be begin on the company’s Web website at www.maned.com.

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