Caxton and CTP Publications has sign an enterprise license agreement for an editorial and production system which will cover all of the Caxton properties, which include 120 newspapers and magazines across South Africa. The initial order includes 500 seat licenses and the new installations will integrate with the existing Caxton ad booking system.
The first installation has gone live at George on the west cape of South Africa, where seven community papers in the area, with the continuing throughout 2012.
Caxton IT director Tony Rorke says a key was the flexibility of enterprise technology agreement with backup from Pongrass as required: “We have dealt with Pongrass for ten years with the classified pagination product which we integrated at our sites.
“Purchasing their editorial and production technology allows us to roll out the technology ourselves. Pongrass software uses an open interface and is definitely easy to install and train. The first installation at Group Editors in George was completed in two weeks with two staff from Pongrass onsite.”
The Pongrass relationship with Caxton extends to 2000 when they bought their classified pagination product for the group. Introduction now of the InDesign based ad production and editorial solution was inline with their technology vision. The group one of the largest publishers of newspapers and magazines in the country, and includes community newspapers and Johannesburg national daily ‘The Citizen’.
Ten monthly magazine titles cover a wide variety of topics including fashion and beauty, food, décor, parenting, travel, entertainment and celebrity.