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DTI Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation and Industry-Firsts

Kevin McCourt — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:03:00 GMT

Grown from one local newspaper to a multinational software company

Springville, UT-March 02, 2011-Digital Technology International (DTI™) is celebrating its 30th anniversary as a global publishing-technology innovator and thought-leading software company.

Don Oldham, chairman and CEO of Oldham and Associates LLC, founded Digital Technology International in 1981. Oldham and Associates were newspaper publishers who had ideas to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality in newspaper creation and production. The original software was developed for use in their own newspaper, the Utah County Journal.

The company has since grown to become a global market leader in news media technology, circulation, content management and advertising solutions to newspapers worldwide. Every day, more than 2000 news titles publish using mission-critical DTI solutions.

"We have reached a major company milestone while also marking another profitable year in 2010. I am thankful to all our customers and staff, and especially to those who have remained with us since the very beginning," said Don Oldham, CEO, DTI. "The news media industry is going through the most significant transformation that I have seen in our 30 years. It is also a time of unprecedented new opportunities with the proliferation of new digital platforms and emerging personalization technologies. I am as excited about what's next as I was when we first adopted the Apple Macintosh to pioneer newspaper pagination. Fresh thinking and transformative technology remain at the heart of what we do."

Looking forward, DTI is building on its reputation for innovation with the development of a new generation of solutions that address the major challenges and business opportunities facing the news media industry.

DTI is headquartered near Salt Lake City, USA, and now has offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Panama, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

DTI FIRSTS:
The publisher's perspective infused the company's business strategy that has yielded many industry breakthroughs during its history. Some of DTI's industry-firsts include:
•    First to integrate the Apple Macintosh in large news
       publishing systems
•    First news publishing system to output Adobe® Postscript®
•    First publishing database to use XML structured data
•    First to adopt Adobe® InDesign®
•    Awarded US patent for print-to-Web link technology
•    First to adopt InterSystems Internet-ready Caché database for publishing
•    Acquisition of Publishing Business Systems (PBS) the leading circulation systems
        provider, to create integrated audience/circulation/marketing solutions for
       publishing.
•    First to deploy a private-cloud computing model for mission critical publishing.

About Digital Technology International: Digital Technology International (DTI™) delivers audience-centric Web, print, mobile, and tablet solutions to publishers around the world. The company's unique technology and professional services help news media organizations engage audiences by delivering personalized content with targeted ads. Whether onsite or via DTI Cloud (Software as a Service), DTI software helps customers generate new revenue, reduce costs, manage resources, and make more informed business decisions. Its solutions are successfully implemented at more than 2,000 customer sites around the globe with more than 200 publishing in DTI Cloud. DTI is headquartered near Salt Lake City, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Panama, Sweden, the United Kingdom and USA. DTI may be found on the Web at: www.dtint.com.

Media Contact:
Lisa Speth
DTI
Manager, Marketing Communications, Americas
801-853-5068
lisa.speth@dtint.com

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel commits to 100% DTI SaaS Solutions

Kevin McCourt — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:24:00 GMT

Colorado publisher is first to select all DTI software via DTI Cloud

Springville, UT-January 25, 2011-Digital Technology International (DTI™) has announced an industry first, ground-breaking agreement with The Daily Sentinel, in Grand Junction, Colorado. The newspaper, owned by the Seaton Group of Manhattan, KS, will be the first publisher to implement the entire suite of mission-critical DTI publishing solutions as SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service. All solutions will be served via DTI Cloud, which has been engineered as the industry's fastest, safest publishing cloud.

The Daily Sentinel is a long-term DTI customer for previous generation publishing products. Under this new agreement, their existing DTI ContentPublisher and DTI Advertising software will move from on-premises to DTI Cloud. The Daily Sentinel's commitment to the cloud publishing business model will expand, adding DTI Financials and DTI Circulation, the industry's leading newspaper circulation system with more than 1,000 installations worldwide, completing the DTI solution suite in DTI Cloud.

"We appreciate DTI's continued commitment to developing the next generation of publishing software and making it available today," said Daniel Humphries, publishing systems administrator, The Daily Sentinel. "We know that with DTI Cloud, we will be able to better adapt to the rapidly changing realities of newspaper production in today's economy."

Before selecting DTI, The Daily Sentinel completed a year-long evaluation of competitors' solutions. The evaluation requirements included experiencing all applications in action, assessing cost-effectiveness, and adhering to an overall best-practices approach.

"The Daily Sentinel's relationship with DTI spans almost two decades and we're proud to be able to continue our partnership," continued Humphries. "We embarked on a project to examine options from vendors that would provide a holistic approach to newspaper production. In the end, our team was impressed with not only the improvements to the DTI suite of software, but also the technology behind it. It was clear that putting the entire suite in the cloud will better suit our long-term needs."

"When selecting our cloud publishing solution, a major strategic factor for The Daily Sentinel was the vast reduction in their own hardware needs, and therefore their capital cost requirement," said Dan Paulus, vice president, Sales, Americas. "The Daily Sentinel did an in-depth ROI analysis to confirm that DTI Cloud would save them money overall. DTI Cloud will eliminate their on-site servers, and also decrease their future workstation cost. In addition, having their solutions in DTI Cloud ensures they will always enjoy the very latest version of each DTI solution, which was one of the group's main goals - and provides them with a major benefit."

All of DTI's publishing solutions are in live daily production via DTI Cloud at more than 200 newspapers. Some publishers are running from one to three DTI applications. The Daily Sentinel was the first to choose to deploy all DTI solutions via DTI Cloud. DTI's publishing data centers are located in Arizona and New York, serving publishers across North America, and in Frankfurt, Germany where it can serve customers across Europe, including the United Kingdom and Ireland.

About Digital Technology International: Digital Technology International (DTI™) delivers audience-centric Web, print, and mobile solutions to publishers around the world. The company's unique technology and professional services help media organizations engage audiences by delivering targeted news, ads and entertainment. Whether onsite or via DTI Cloud (Software as a Service), DTI software helps customers generate new revenue, reduce costs, manage resources, and make more informed business decisions. Its solutions are successfully implemented at more than 2,000 customer sites around the globe with more than 200 publishing in DTI Cloud. DTI is headquartered near Salt Lake City, with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Panama, Sweden, the United Kingdom and USA. DTI may be found on the Web at: www.dtint.com

Media Contact:
Lisa Speth
DTI
Manager, Marketing Communications, Americas
801-853-5068
lisa.speth@dtint.com

SAXOTECH Exceeds 2010 Goals with Strong Product Momentum in Digital and Print Publishing, Advertising and Circulation

Kevin McCourt — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:21:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAXOTECH Media Contact:

Wendy Mozingo
+1-813-784-2119

wmozingo@saxotech.com

SAXOTECH Exceeds 2010 Goals with Strong Product Momentum in Digital and Print Publishing, Advertising and Circulation

Tampa, Fla. - January 31, 2011 - SAXOTECH, a leader in content management, circulation and advertising solutions, announced today it ended 2010 exceeding its revenue target and grew business through key product launches and enhancements, improved customer service and the acquisition of Data Sciences, Inc., adding circulation solutions to its existing suite of print and digital publishing products.

In 2010, SAXOTECH added more than 130 newspaper sites while serving one billion page views per month for more than 1,500-plus web sites on SAXOTECH's U.S. and European clouds. Throughout the year, SAXOTECH focused on its customers and the development of its product suite; providing solutions to enable media companies to better manage their limited resources, increase efficiencies and reduce operational costs. SAXOTECH added key product functionality and a second international cloud to provide publishers the tools they need to have the ability to connect more with their communities.

"2010 was a good year for SAXOTECH, and despite a struggling economy, I am very pleased with our results," said Anders Christiansen, CEO, SAXOTECH. "We have an exciting product portfolio and we are playing a key role in delivering the tools and technologies that make the publishing industry more accessible."

New Products and Enhancements

SAXOTECH introduced One Touch Publishing, extending audience reach to multiple platforms.

Publishers can create content once and not only distribute to print and web, but also to multiple digital channels such as mobile devices, tablets like the iPad and e-readers. These extended capabilities not only save much needed time and resources but also allow media companies to reach new audiences that they were never before able to capture.

SAXOTECH also launched a new Directory Publishing Center with greater flexibility to meet specific branding requirement, intuitive self-service features to create rich and interactive premium listings, payment processing to serve both businesses and consumers, data integration for immediate building of business listings, and relevance targeting for tying ads to editorial content, categories, keywords and geographic regions.

History has proven that SAXOTECH provides experienced customer service professionals that know the media industry. Customer satisfaction continues to increase year-over-year and in 2010, the implementation teams launched more than 30 successful go-lives in the United States, Canada and Europe.

In June, SAXOTECH responded to customer demand and added a second SAXOTECH cloud to support its global customer base. With more than 400 customer sites already in live use within SAXOTECH's North American cloud, a second SAXOTECH cloud was created to meet the growing international demand for its hosted solutions. The highly scalable new hosting environment provided media companies with greater flexibility to adapt to advances and changes in the digital environment.

Christiansen added, "As we look to 2011, there are three critical areas for us that lay the foundation for long-term growth and future success - a product portfolio that is stronger than ever, our commitment to cloud computing and an employee base that is innovative and customer-focused. We are confident in our business strategy and look forward to an exciting new year."

About SAXOTECH
SAXOTECH helps media companies meet current and future challenges in the media landscape by providing cost efficient solutions for new business models based on multimedia, multi-channel consumer interaction. Our scalable, easy-to-implement solutions are used to plan, create, edit, design and publish content as well as drive online directories and serve display advertising through multiple channels. Our customers receive world-class implementation, training and support complemented by ongoing development of products and best practices.

SAXOTECH's DSI Circulation Division tracks subscription revenue, distribution, agent billing, promotions, campaigns, demographics and non-subscribers. Flexible reporting and decision making tools enable newspapers to improve retention and increase their subscriber base, as well as empower marketing executives to make quicker, smarter and more profitable circulation management decisions.

SAXOTECH is headquartered in Tampa, Fla. and Aalborg, Denmark with additional offices in Maryland, New Hampshire, Norway and Sweden. SAXOTECH's solutions are in use by more than 600 news organizations around the world. For more information visit www.saxotech.com.