1. EDIT 4 - DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Sit-Moon exploitation plan (rev. April 1999)
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2. EDIT 4 - Digital publishing
Market analysis (april 1999)
According to our marketing analysis and the Adapt project, in 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.
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3. EDIT 4 - Digital publishing
Market analysis (april 1999)
The Edit 4 business plan expected to 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
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4. Old business plan (July 1998, Deliverable 6.1)
Old plan vs New plan
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2003 16
2002 14
2001 13
2000 12
1999
employees
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5. 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
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6. 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.
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7. 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.
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8. 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%
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9. 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
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