Finnish systems developer Anygraf is pushing into India via a sales and distribution partnership with established vendor Cadgraf Digitals.

The 19-year-old asset management and publishing systems developer which has subsidiaries in Sweden and the USA, and partners in Germany, in The Netherlands, the Caribbean and Central and South America, claims about 15,000 users at more than 400 user sites.

Based in Chennai, Cadgraf Digitals is focussed on the Indian press and prepress market with publishing and workflow systems, colour management and specialist areas such as Indic fonts. Its customer list has included The Hindu, Anandabazar Patrika, Daily Thanthi, Eenadu, Vasan Publications and Malayala Manorama.

The partnership will see Anygraf's complete line of publishing solutions - which include the AProfit display and classified ad management system, Neo multichannel print, web and mobile CMS, and CProfit content access and subscription management system.

Cadgraf managing director A Elangovan says his customers have been looking for a solution to facilitate true multi-channel publishing: "We found Anygraaf's Neo to be the most versatile solution that allows for page and edition planning, integrated archives and feeds and automatic pagination for ads and editorial content.

"Our customers have loved Neo's write-once, publish-many environment for content management in English or Indian languages."

He says Anygraaf offers the most comprehensive array of products evaluated for Indian publishers with its specific modules.

Anygraaf managing director Hannu Inberg sees tremendous growth potential for newspapers in India says he is looking forward to helping meeting their needs: "Anygraaf strives to be our customers' strategic media solutions partner... and in Cadgraf we see a company that shares this philosophy. In this we see a long lasting relationship."

Cadgraf's partners include 4C Plus, Adobe, Vjoon, ProImage and Australia's Serendapity Software.