Managing Editor Inc. - MEI Installs K4 Publishing System at Harvard Business Review

Jenkintown, PA (November 18, 2008) – Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear that Harvard Business Review has installed the vjoon K4™ Publishing System. The affecting business annual will use K4, the arch band-aid amalgam Adobe® InDesign® and InCopy®, to administer its architecture and beat workflow.

Harvard Business Review’s K4 bureaucracy includes 22 seats, alternating with the K4 Web Editor and XML Exporter add-ons to enhance its functionality. The magazine’s agents acclimated QuarkXPress afore switching to InDesign 18 months ago and afresh absitively to advancement its workflow to a added able-bodied database solution.

Along with MEI’s account aggregation for accession and arrangement agent training, K4 integrator Technology for Publishing played a key allotment in bringing the accomplishing to fruition. TFP’s roles included accouterment Harvard Business Review’s agents with InDesign, InCopy and K4 training, allowance advance a new assembly workflow and configuring the arrangement to accommodated the site’s exact needs.

“Harvard Business Review is a awful admired advertisement with ambitious requirements to advance their akin of quality,” said Technology for Publishing President Margot Knorr Mancini. “K4’s adaptability is acceptance them to access a new workflow from a amount of angles to accomplish abiding they can get it right.”

Harvard Business Review (www.hbr.org) is appear account by Harvard Business Publishing. Recognized for its access on administration cerebration and business, the annual has a all-around apportionment of 245,000 business admiral and added assessment leaders.

Harvard Business Review’s accession aswell includes the K4 XML Exporter for managing agreeable to broadcast online. TFP is alive on approaches to advance XML Exporter to accumulate assorted print-to-Web processes. Additionally, HBR beat agents will be application K4 Web Editor, which allows check-out, check-in, autograph and alteration of K4-managed InCopy online autograph via any Web browser and an Internet connection. Its automatic interface provides limited acceptance to the database and accurate representations of K4 articles, complete with styling, chantry mapping, blueprint geometry and page previews.

“Like so abounding added K4 sites, Harvard Business Review has accustomed the allowances of implementing industry-leading software and a smarter, added able workflow,” said Dennis McGuire, CEO and admiral of MEI.

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 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.

About Technology for Publishing
Technology for Publishing has been accouterment action and abstruse consulting to publishers in the magazine, book, bi-weekly and accumulated arenas for about 20 years. With a notable account of abiding clientele, Technology for Publishing is a accustomed baton in allowance companies transform their agreeable publishing strategies, processes and systems from traditional, resource-heavy, paper-based models to fluid, automated agreeable flows. Visit www.tech4pub.com for added information.

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