CASES

The Association of Arts and Auto, VvAA, was looking for an IT partner who could support the editorial and design processes both functionally and IT-wise. Qonqord has guided VvAA in implementing a tailor-made editorial workflow with an image bank from the cloud.

KARL LAGERFELD has asked Qonqord to set up a central server environment for her design studio.

Casa has an internal design and photo studio that creates all promotional content for the website and door-to-door folders on a daily basis. Given the large and ever-changing range, it was essential to set up an image bank, or a digital asset management system, to manage and publish all the content for the website, the folders and for the Point of Sale material.

Nike organizes sales events four times a year, where the new collections are presented. All kinds of printed matter such as price lists and brochures were produced for briefing the sales teams. Read how Nike solved these briefings with an app instead of print.

Read in this case how Qonqord, together with Elsevier, opted for an unambiguous multichannel publishing method. Articles can now easily be placed on the websites from the editorial process for the magazines. An important requirement was that they wanted to outsource the entire IT management of the platform to Qonqord.

Prelum Publishers has successfully implemented the PublishOne content platform in collaboration with system integrator Qonqord. With this, Prelum has streamlined its production process as optimally and efficiently as possible.

New Skool Media uses Woodwing Assets to support its editorial and design processes.
NSM’s portfolio now consists of 19 nationally known, special interest brands, including Fiets, EWMagazine, Beleggers Belangen, Columbus, KnipMode, Vorsten, KIJK and delicious.

Ter Steege is a wholesaler of a large and diverse range of pots, lifestyle items and souvenirs. All products are our own design and are manufactured at our own locations in Asia and Portugal, among other places.

Recently, the name ‘Multimediale Uitgeverij VPRO Gids’ was created. This expresses an ambition: in addition to the paper guide, this branch of the VPRO also wants to develop digital activities. This turned out to require a multichannel platform for content creation, publishing and management.

Managing, worldwide access to digital marketing content and monitoring the corporate identity of all online and offline communication is essential for Bavaria’s global marketing campaigns and brand consistency. Read here how Digital Asset Management helps the Global Product Management department with this.

NCOI was looking for a content orchestration platform to orchestrate all marketing content for digital and offline (print) independent of the channel and independent of the brand.

Gassan has an internal DTP studio that develops all kinds of communication tools, such as brochures and price lists. Drawing up these price lists was a very laborious process with many correction rounds. Due to the increasing use of mobile, social and internet, the DTP studio was increasingly short of time. Read how Paginator (EasyCatalog) now takes care of automating the repetitive formatting work.

Recently, Altavia Unite reactivated an existing relationship with Rabobank, one of the largest cooperatives in the Netherlands with almost two million members, to take on the production of its member magazine Rabo & Co.

“With Woodwing as our new publishing system, we have the flexibility to handle the production of all current and future titles in print, online and digital in an efficient and transparent manner”

CRV creates a lot of rich content that appeals to the imagination, such as catalogs, videos and infographics. But the organization lacked a strong tool that gives a grip on these productions. “We wanted to work effectively with our foreign colleagues and distributors and roll out our material to them in a coordinated way,” explains Mirjam.

Misset has opted for the Woodwing best of breed multichannel publishing solution to enable its editorial teams to work “web first”. The platform implemented by Qonqord is at the heart of content creation for web and print.

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague is committed to digitization. An app on which readers can borrow sixteen magazines – from Vrij Nederland and Psychologie Magazine to Margriet – is part of this.

Bol.com is one of the most popular (web) stores in the Netherlands and Belgium and is also the market leader in the online sale of books, entertainment, electrical appliances and toys.

Albelli offers its customers personalized photo products such as
photo albums, wall decorations, cards, mugs and calendars. To manage all graphics in all photo albums, Albelli was looking for a DAM solution from which all graphics could be automatically accessed to the website.

Within the marketing campaign, GRS Retail and GroenRijk offer their members various marketing communications (including folders, advertisements, social media messages) in digital and printed form. GroenRijk also manages its own webshop. In order to be able to roll out the marketing campaigns properly, there are the necessary wishes. The webshop must be lifted to a higher level, designers want to be able to work more efficiently and the members of GRS Retail want to connect their marketing resources more closely to the local market.

Every week, Hoogvliet Supermarkets distributes a door-to-door brochure containing all the weekly offers. Read in this customer case how Hoogvliet, together with Qonqord, has largely automated the publication process of its weekly campaigns both online and offline through content orchestration, digital asset management and workflow management.

Detailresult has chosen Woodwing Assets to manage and distribute all visual material and artwork.
In addition, the door-to-door folders are created semi-automatically using Adobe InDesign and Paginator (EasyCatalog).

Artis is in possession of many rich digital files. Qonqord has helped Artis to store, manage and manage all their visual material in a structured way so that they can quickly and efficiently tell their beautiful stories to the public. Both in the park and on the website.

Yamaha Motor Europe, with its platform for content orchestration, Publication Organizer, serves distributors and dealers in 27 European countries with fully localized marketing materials 24/7. In addition, all visual content is managed in the integrated Digital asset management module and made available to the website and the press room. By using the platform, Yamaha has been able to save enormously on operational costs and the time to market of product releases and campaigns has been drastically shortened.

The Netherlands Open Air Museum was looking for an image bank that meets the requirements of the current market and that also offers possibilities in terms of links with existing systems such as Adlib and the public website.

The starting point of the ANWB was to set up a media neutral editorial workflow with which both web publications and print publications can be controlled.

The goal of Hearst was to implement an Online Editing platform in addition to a Digital Asset Management solution, with which all Hearst titles can be formatted. Editing and design work seamlessly together in a streamlined workflow and integrated DAM environment from Graphit.

Next Retail is a multinational British retailer of clothing, footwear and homewares, headquartered in Enderby, England. With the expansion with new brands and the continued international expansion and growth of e-commerce, the amount of digital asset has exploded .

When the police decided to partly centralize their communication activities, they also took a closer look at their processes. They wanted to make the editorial processes of the communication department easier, better and faster.

Sky’s editorial team is responsible for the management and distribution of all program images for SKY and NOW TV.
The digital asset management solution not only enables teams across the organization to work much more efficiently and effectively, it also frees up the editorial team, allowing them to significantly accelerate the creation of new program images.

Quantore is a cooperative and the private label of more than 400 office stores in the Netherlands.
The range includes more than 24,000 office supplies. Various catalogs are drawn up each year to support sales. Read how Qonqord helped with the automatic layout of their various catalogs in InDesign.

Creative Zoo – a leading branding agency in Denmark – an example of an agency focusing on sustainable revenue streams. Thomas Brovst, Digital Transformation Specialist, and Hans-Georg Hansen, Senior Adviser on Communications, explain how Creative Zoo meets challenges and thrives in a competitive environment.

To be able to work quickly and flexibly, Audax Publishing turned to Qonqord to set up an editorial workflow for multichannel publishing. The need was for editors, designers and publishers to work better together, both at the office and from home.

Find out how Porto Editora is giving its authors, designers, photographers and proofreaders more time to focus on content quality with the help of the Woodwing publishing platform.