OUR PHILOSOPHY:

How do you achieve computer-integrated publishing without locking yourself into yesterday's business models?

One thing you know for sure is that whatever business model you consider, changing requirements will make it obsolete eventually in the ever more competitive advertising market. You need to be agile to stay alive in today’s media business.

SCS's newspaper advertising and editorial production systems can help you.

This is our approach:

• Pluggable modules with self-contained, task-oriented databases


• A Web 2.0 backbone to plug selected modules into, providing single or multi-site ad production systems


• Network message-oriented integration of SCS's own and third-party applications


• Commodity and open-source utility software with a minimum of third-party layered products


• Thin-client and web browser interfaces using Web 2.0 standards


• Agile development with Scrum


• Incremental deployment with early and frequent new releases


• Application upgrades delivered electronically and self-installed in less than an hour


• U.S.-based developers and support staff


• Commodity hardware sized to each function or module.

Software Consulting Services, LLC (SCS) is a 30+ year-old systems integrator that serves the newspaper business worldwide. More than 300 newspapers in the United States and abroad use SCS systems every day. While SCS is best known for Layout-8000™, the leading newspaper ad dummying system, 75% of SCS revenues come from other newspaper applications. SCS prides itself on the completeness of its offerings. SCS offers an enterprise-wide solution with multiple SCS and third-party developed applications. Our advertising systems include AdMAX for retail and classified advertising management and accounting, SCS/ClassPag for rapid classified pagination and SCS/Track for integrated ad tracking. Our newsroom systems include SCOOP, developed by Wilkenson SCOOP AB of Sweden, for editorial and news pagination and Fotoware’s products for image archiving.

SCS is a limited liability company owned by Richard and Martha Cichelli. The owners take a keen interest in the day to day affairs of SCS. Richard is active in the organization, assuming the role of president. Martha, Richard's wife and founder of SCS, earned an advanced degree in psychology in 2000, but has now returned to SCS in sales support. Richard has been instrumental in the development of newspaper software almost since newspapers began using computers. He is an acknowledged leader in the industry and is on a first-name basis with many of the senior management at most of the larger newspapers in the country. He has developed relationships throughout Latin America and Europe as well.

SCS specializes in software development, systems engineering and integration, technical support and training. SCS is a value-added reseller for equipment suppliers like Dell and software suppliers like Red Hat, Microsoft, the SCO Group, Apple, Sun, Quark and Adobe. SCS applications run on various networked computer platforms, including Linux®, Unix and Windows® servers with Windows® XP/NT/2000, Macintosh, Linux and Unix clients.

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