KnowledgeView and Ifra have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in providing Ifra Newsplex training workshops in the Middle East region.

The two entities will jointly host these events, while KnowledgeView will manage and market them.

The training course will initially comprise the following:

Okaz is the leading newspaper publisher in Saudi Arabia. The publishing and archiving system from KnowledgeView is a central component of Okaz board’s plan to modernize its entire operations. The system will be used by the Arabic language daily Okaz, the English language daily Saudi Gazette and other publications.

Awan, part of the Hiwar Media Group of Kuwait, where the RAPID Browser and RAPID Archive systems will form the foundation for a modern convergent newsroom, publishing to paper, web, TV and mobile.

More than 220 media groups took part in Ifra’s 6th International Newsroom Summit, for which KnowledgeView was one of the key sponsors.

Participants at the summit, held on 19-20 April in Paris, listened to speakers from major media companies that have embarked on the path of convergent Newsroom as a way of increasing interaction with new kinds of information consumer at the age of the Internet and generating new revenues. Participants entered into lively discussions on best ways of managing this major change in the methods of work, investment needed, returns on investment and conditions for success.

KnowledgeView and its integration partner in Dubai, Giffin Graphics, organized a workshop in Dubai, targeting Arab newspapers. The workshop took place in the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai on the 25th of March 2007, and it offered an insight on the media-convergent newsroom and challenges for publishers nowadays.

Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading provider of real-time financial news, has appointed KnowledgeView, a leading news management and technology company, to provide the delivery infrastructure and translation support for its new Arabic-language Middle East service.

KnowledgeView/WoodWing joint press release

KnowledgeView’s RAPID Browser provides advanced news management to WoodWing’s Smart Connection Enterprise.

KnowledgeView of the UK, developer of news management software and WoodWing of the Netherlands, developer of publishing systems, have teamed up to provide newspaper publishers with state of the art editorial and cross-platform publishing solutions.

KnowledgeView and its integration partner in Riyadh, ATP, have successfully completed in December 2006 the installation of an integrated news management, editorial production and archiving system for the Al-Riyadh Arabic Daily newspaper, published by Al-Yamama Press Establishment. The successful completion of this installation has transformed editorial production in Al-Riyadh to digital workflow with immediate benefits of improved editorial efficiency, in excess of 20%, and better editorial quality.

KnowledgeView has successfully installed integrated news management, editorial production and archiving systems for the Al-Wasat and Al-Jarida newspapers of Kuwait.

The new integrated system is designed to transform the editorial production to digital workflow with the benefits of improved editorial efficiency and ability for cross-media publishing

The two new Kuwait titles were both launched with substantial investment, with the aim of acquiring a significant share of the lucrative newspaper advertising market in Kuwait.