EDIT 4 - DIGITAL PUBLISHING Sit-Moon exploitation plan (rev. April 1999) EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing Market analysis (april 1999) According to our marketing analysis and the Adapt project, in 1999 Edit 4 customers begin to ask new services in MM production. Three publishers have seen the Sit-Moon environment and they are interested to buy the system or services provided by Edit 4. Edizioni San Paolo is another Edit 4 customer that is interested to buy MM services. EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing Market analysis (april 1999) The Edit 4 business plan expected to 1999-2003 has been revised because there is a new interest by the traditional publishers in MM products. Market analysis demonstrates that in Italy there is a strong increment of home computers The Minister of Public Instruction has released a big program of computer diffusion in all italian schools EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

Old business plan (July 1998, Deliverable 6.1) Old plan vs New plan Old business plan (July 1998, Deliverable 6.1) 17 2003 16 2002 14 2001 13 2000 12 1999 employees EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

New business plan (April 1999) Old plan vs New plan New business plan (April 1999) 19 2003 18 2002 17 2001 17 2000 15 1999 employees EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing Edit 4 advantage with Sit-Moon In this moment Edit 4 has an advantage vs. competitors because it can produces traditional page layouts, MM off-line and on-line applications. Edit 4 competitors (at Milan) have skills only in one or two publishing sector, but publishers prefer only one contact for all services. EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing An example of Sit-Moon application McGraw-Hill Italy has entrusted Edit 4 to realize the italian version of a color book, development of enclosed CD-ROM and the related Web Site. Starting with high-res images and texts for printing, Edit 4 re-uses the same materials to produce CD-ROM and Web site. Using Sit-Moon environment it’s expected to gain about 20% of production time. EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing The Edit 4 production 1998 vs. 1999 Production 1998: 81% film for offset printing 4% CTP 3% PDF - Web 2% digital printing 6% multimedia 4% others uses Production 1999 (4/99): 73% film for offset printing 5% CTP 6% PDF - Web 4% digital printing 10% multimedia 2% others uses –8% +1% +3% +2% +4% –2% EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide

EDIT 4 - Digital publishing Edit 4 Sit-Moon configuration Optimized installation EDIT4 Mirror server NT Server Oracle Workgroup Server Video Encoding - Archive Router Sit-Moon Client ISDN ADSL Customers Sit-Moon Clients Editing tools Authoring tools AIT Backup System (Alexandria) DAT Backup System (Retrospect) Sit-Moon Client EDIT 4 - Digital publishing slide