Asia PR News

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

One of the largest publishers in Southeast Asia has selected WoodWing
Software’s industry-leading Smart Connection Enterprise solution for its new
daily newspaper, as well as its existing weekly and monthly magazines.

Kontan, part of the Kompas Gramedia Group, has been the leading
Indonesian-language monthly and weekly financial magazine for years. On
February 26, 2007, a new daily newspaper was launched, also called Kontan,
using Smart Connection Enterprise as its editorial system. The new newspaper
contains business, investments and lifestyle news targeting the upwardly
mobile financial executive. The circulation will be between 70,000 and 100,000
copies per day.

The Kompas Gramedia Group, Indonesia’s leading publishing group, publishes
other popular titles, such as Kompas, Warta Kota, Bola, and around 100
national and regional newspaper and magazine titles.

"We are very pleased that Kontan has chosen WoodWing’s Smart Connection
Enterprise after having done extensive research into the best solution for
both their existing magazines as well as their newly launched daily
newspaper," said Remco Koster, Managing Director of WoodWing Asia Pacific.
"Kontan is also the first customer in the Asia Pacific region that uses our
recently launched Smart Hyphen and Smart Speller for the Indonesian language,
guaranteeing accurate hyphenation and justification as well as greatly
reducing spelling errors."

Officials at Kontan said the decision to install Smart Connection
Enterprise was an easy one.

"It was clear to us that Smart Connection Enterprise is the solution for
the future because of its complete functionality, open architecture, and usage
of the latest technologies, such as Adobe InDesign Server, enabling us to
subedit and copyfit via the Web," said Yopie Hidayat, Managing Director and
Managing Editor of Kontan. "We were equally impressed by the amazing speed of
implementation, which made it possible to get our new daily newspaper off the
ground so quickly, while at the same time moving the existing magazines to the
new system as well."

Serious Technology, the WoodWing partner for Indonesia, Malaysia, and the
Philippines, is handling the entire project management, including training and
installation. Serioustec’s professionals trained the Kontan staff on the use
of InDesign and InCopy, as well as Smart Connection Enterprise.

"I am very impressed and pleased with John Fong and the other Serioustec
project members who have done an excellent job with this project," Koster
said. "They set up the magazines in a very short time, while setting up and
testing the brand new newspaper and its complex workflow processes at the same
time. Everything took only two months from start to finish - several magazines
and the brand new newspaper - and everything is running very smoothly."

"Smart Connection Enterprise offers a host of benefits to any newspaper
and magazine operation, and that will certainly be the case with Kontan,"
Koster added. "Their newspaper workflow will be highly efficient right from
the start, which will help make the new newspaper a success. At the same time,
the workflows of the existing magazines have been streamlined for efficiency
and improved design quality."

About WoodWing
WoodWing Software specializes in software solutions for the publishing
industry. WoodWing excels in innovative and flexible editorial solutions that
help efficiently produce print and online publications. The company’s flagship
product, Smart Connection Enterprise, differs from traditional editorial
solutions because it has been engineered from the ground up, utilizing the
latest technologies offered by the Internet age. Newspaper experience that
goes back more than 20 years, combined with the latest technologies, has led
to a powerful editorial system with a core based on XML and open technology.
WoodWing has offices in The Netherlands, Malaysia and the United States.
Customers are served through select partners, and in the U.S. through WoodWing
USA.

Contact: Remco Koster, WoodWing Asia Pacific, remco.koster@woodwing.com

SOURCE: WoodWing Software

CONTACT: Remco Koster,
WoodWing Asia Pacific,
remco.koster@woodwing.com

Web site: http://www.woodwing.com