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Stability is key to software selection

Published:
2013-05-15
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Community Display Services™ (CDS) From SCS Helps Dow Jones Local Media Group Centralize Ad-Building

One of the things we enjoy most at Software Consulting Services (SCS) is when one of our clients uses our applications to their fullest capacity and pushes us to find new ways to adapt and expand our software to meet needs that we might not have even considered.
Published:
2013-02-08
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New Hampshire Union Leader Leads The Way In SCS Integration

As the primary news source for the state of New Hampshire and a newspaper with a national audience, the Union Leader is a complex operation.
Published:
2013-01-07
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Color Factory's Automated Toning Center Cuts Costs, Improves Photo Quality

Color Factory with SmartColor supports automated work flow in the toning area for multiple publications. The biggest benefit coming down the pike is for consolidation efforts.

With eight daily newspapers in northeast Pennsylvania and almost a half-dozen alternative publications spread across the eastern United States and Saint Thomas, Times-Shamrock Communications needed a robust toning center to handle its growing workload.

They found it in Color Factory, provided by Software Consulting Services, LLC (SCS).

Published:
2012-10-31
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Save Money With Consolidation - Not Overseas Outsourcing

The Dow Jones Local Media Group has gotten ad production exactly right. It may be luck or it may be consummate skill, but I believe the DJLMG has gotten ad production exactly right.

It would be easy for SCS to claim credit for the success of their deployment, but the success is really theirs. They defined the solution and we implemented the enabling technology. They, however, conceived the solution and made it happen.

Published:
2010-10-01
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Faceted Search And How It Applies To Searching Classifieds

What is Faceted Ad Search?

Newspaper ads contain two kinds of attributes: attributes of an ad order and attributes of the ad content. Attributes of an ad order include the ad number, classification, customer id, name, and address, run schedule, cost of the ad, and so on. The relational database system allows ads to be indexed for quick search on these attributes. Such searches are useful to newspaper personnel for providing management information through queries and reports.

Published:
2009-07-01
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The Raspberry Pi - the next big thing?

If you are a technology geek, you are going to enjoy this article.
Published:
04-30-2013
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Five-Level Redundancy

The guiding philosophy underlying SCS’s storage management configurations is this: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS).
The bulk of storage managed by SCS/Track™ holds ad documents. These are what are used to generate the images of the ads. They are usually created with desktop tools like InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Multi-Ad Creator® and PhotoShop®. Most mid-market newspapers require 100 to 200 gigabytes of storage to hold ad documents during production and publishing.
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Richard speaks at Lehigh University

Below are the links Richard referred to during his session on September 24 at Lehigh University.

ColorAdBoss
Generative Programming
Smart Programming
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Hurricane Sandy: A Shared Success Story

Hurricane Sandy represented a difficult challenge for our company. We publish three community weekly papers on the East End of Long Island.
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Stability is key to software selection

Community Display Services™ (CDS) From SCS Helps Dow Jones Local Media Group Centralize Ad-Building

New Hampshire Union Leader Leads The Way In SCS Integration

Color Factory's Automated Toning Center Cuts Costs, Improves Photo Quality

Save Money With Consolidation - Not Overseas Outsourcing

Faceted Search And How It Applies To Searching Classifieds

The Raspberry Pi - the next big thing?

Five-Level Redundancy

Richard speaks at Lehigh University

Hurricane Sandy: A Shared Success Story

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