Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 8/10/2010
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The Dow Jones Local Media Group has gotten ad production exactly right.

Author: Jim Rosenberg, Editor & Publisher Magazine - August 2010 issue
Date: 8/10/2010
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Still standing … but not standing still, survivor SCS pushes more products into the pipeline.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 2/22/2010
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The guiding philosophy underlying SCS’s storage management configurations is this: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS).

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 2/10/2010
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A Special Bulletin from the ANPA/RI dated April 10, 1982

Author: Martha J. Cichelli
Date: 1/10/2010
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What is "the cloud" and how might you use it?

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 12/1/2009
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When I was doing the research that led to my patent for distributing classified ads digitally, the issue of how to go from systems built for publishing in print to publishing in an electronic form was not far from my mind.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 7/1/2009
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Newspaper ads contain two kinds of attributes: attributes of an ad order and attributes of the ad content.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli and Mark Ganslaw
Date: 2/12/2009
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DSI and SCS have signed a joint marketing agreement to integrate and market the respective companies’ circulation, advertising and business software.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli and Bob Harwick
Date: 1/7/2009
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Programmers write a lot of code they probably don’t need to. We at SCS were able to replace a major module of our newspaper advertising system with a more functional solution for which the programmer wrote only 1/25 as many lines of code

Author: Richard J. Cichelli, Dan Rineheimer, and Bob Harwick
Date: 9/11/2008
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One of the fundamental concepts of REST is statelessness. Stateful applications have a context that is remembered between interactions. Stateless environments must pass context around and reestablish them between interactions. REST may be fine, even preferred, for high volume services with simple contexts, but for complex applications supporting a relatively small number of concurrent users, following REST’s rule of statelessness is counter productive.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 9/8/2008
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I think telling how we make new technology might make a good story. I don’t believe you can force innovation. What you can do is be ready for it when the time is right. This is the story of ReserveAdBoss and the Chinese interns who contributed to the project.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 9/8/2008
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Is there merit in the assertions Atex Chief Technology Offi cer Peter Marsh makes about database management systems (DBMS) for newspapers (Newspapers & Technology, July 2008)? I think what he says is just plain wrong.

Author: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, World Association of Newspapers
Date: 5/1/2007
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Global newspaper circulation rose nearly 2 percent in 2006 and the number of newspaper titles also increased significantly, according to provisional data revealed today by the World Association of Newspapers.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 9/1/2006
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Is there a perfect database? This article may help you understand the issues. It is about Information Technology (IT), but it is not written for IT staff alone.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 5/16/2006
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Spice is a collection of platform-independent software tools for developing publishing applications. This fourth generation language for database-oriented applications development includes a forms data entry package, a relational database manager, a hypertext help system, a text editor with spell-checking, a dictionary and thesaurus, a composition engine, a report writer and a graphical user interface (GUI) with a multilanguage dialog manager.

Author: Sharon J. Cichelli
Date: 11/15/2004
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I have learned the key to building a successful relationship that delivers on-time software to a happy customer: Empowerment. This article describes three ways I empower my customer to have a successful project.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 11/15/2004
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Squares (Spice Querying and Reporting Services) is a collection of software-based tools for accessing and presenting data which reside in the databases of SCS's advertising applications.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 10/25/2004
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Going with newspaper vendor gold medalists has many disadvantages The systems/products might not be that much better, but they still command a premium price. The vendor may provide good service, but to get great service, one needs the full attention of the vendor—something front runners are likely to be short of.

Author: Martha J. Cichelli
Date: 3/19/2004
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Windows and SQL may be the popular and trendy choices these days, and we can deliver applications using them, but we and our customers often make other choices, very much on purpose, to provide systems that are efficient, fast, stable, open and “Microsoft-free.”

Author: SCS Support Team
Date: 1/13/2004
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If you have an active support contract for your SCS software, you are automatically entitled to software updates when releases are ready for distribution. The new software (which may contain bug fi xes, improvements in the user interface and new functionality) is free.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 12/10/2003
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This article will help you build or choose more reliable information technology (IT) for your newspaper.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 12/11/2003
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The prior white paper gave a high-level description for preventing data loss. There are two parts to this follow-up: The first provides computational support for the advocated reliability improvement methodology, and the second discusses issues regarding technological innovation.

Author: Ole Christian Frenning and Anders Bergman
Date: 10/13/2003
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The new FotoStation PRO is better adapted for individual digital photographers and has a greater value for the user than ever before.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 6/3/2003
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An active archiving algorithm is presented for managing hierarchical storage and taking advantage of new low-cost, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) disk technology. A newspaper publishing application provides a concrete example.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 1/8/2003
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Ample, dependable, affordable storage is a critical resource for the digital ad asset management component of an ad tracking production system.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 11/25/2002
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You can divide data management tools into file and database management tools. File management solutions have their data structures internally specified within the programs that are used to maintain them. Database tools externalize the definition of the data structures.

Author:  Keith Keffer, AdMAX Department Manager
Date: 10/28/2002
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In a cross-selling situation, there are two or more separate and distinct properties, each capable of taking and producing an order. The simplest goal of cross-selling is to provide one site (the origination site) the ability to take an order and have the order produced at a second site (the destination site). The second goal is accounting for the order revenue and ensuring that the right entities are being billed for the order.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 6/27/2002
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You wonder how ABC’s Sam Donaldson does his comb-over • You are the oldest person in your company ....

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 4/3/2002
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There is only one company every newspape should fear: Microsoft. There is only one thing Microsoft fears: Linux®.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 4/1/2002
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Contract acceptance is a process which begins when a customer is using or is capable of using an application in production. Its completion signals final payment. Here is how the process should work.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli and William Bader
Date: 3/15/2002
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We like applying the best of computer science to the problems that newspapers have and providing solutions that make a real positive difference for them, their advertisers and their readers.

Author: Richard J. Cichelli
Date: 9/11/2001
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What should you expect from data warehousing? Is data warehousing simply a technology in search of a problem? This article presents a context for understanding these issues.