Woodwing News & Articles

WoodWing Software (news, site) just updated their Smart Catalog productivity plugins. The tool, which is used for the rapid distribution of publications that rely on external data (TV guides, price lists, etc.) can now utilize the formatting power of Adobe inDesign and InCopy.

WoodWing (news, site) showed their love for Apple yesterday by announcing the development of a set of iPad-friendly tools.      

Firstly, WoodWing's Content Station for planning and publishing content has been extended to support the iPad's special type of digital publication. The support will allow everyone to get involved with Apple's new toy, as in addition to smoothing out the workflow for creating such content, the team will also offer a native iPad app for consumers to enjoy it. 

"Apple's iPad is most certainly going to boost the success of media consumption through handheld devices," explained Hans Janssen, CEO of WoodWing Software. "This offers a host of possibilities for publishers to create new sources of income. It's our task as a software supplier to provide them with the right tools for that job."

The new iPad tools will be unveiled on March 3 during the first stop of WoodWing's World Tour at the New York City. Can't make it? We got you. 

You can't afford to ignore the issue of Digital Asset Management, or DAM. It's more than a fun acronym. Solid DAM can make your business more efficient. Poor DAM can result in waste, confusion and many lost opportunities.

WoodWing (news, site) launches the latest version of its Enterprise 7 Publishing System, packing in improvements for search and production, and adding a much-evolved Content Station to make managing media less of a chore.

Some web publishing and content management vendors choose to develop their native DAM products, others acquire DAM companies, and some choose to integrate.

WoodWing Software (news, site) followed the latter path and partnered with celum to add some Digital Asset Management capabilities to its web publishing platform Content Station.

A new partnership between publishing software giant Woodwing (news, site) and visual search technology developer Imprezzeo (news, site) will add image recognition search capabilities to Woodwing’s enterprise content management system.

WoodWing (news, site) adds social media integration, ad hoc editorial planning and social publishing features to its due-in-December enterprise publishing system, Enterprise 7.

Just a few weeks ago, WoodWing (news, site) announced that it had extended its enterprise content publishing platform with its Brand Station, a web-to-print publishing extension. Now they are focused on Content Station, its publishing tool for content producers.

The announcement that WoodWing (news, site) has extended its enterprise content publishing platform with Brand Station web-to-print publishing extension underlines the Dutch-based provider’s move from collaboration tools to pushing the boundaries of its v6.0 publishing platform.

Brand Station focuses primarily on ensuring brand and site consistency across published material by establishing unshakable templates that will not be moved.

Vjoon (news, site) is a German company offering a "for-rent" web publishing solution for those in the media.

WoodWing (news, site) released two updated versions of its language-improving Smart Speller and Smart Hyphen plug-ins for Adobe's Creative Suite 4.

With eZ Systems (news, site) starting its eZ Conference and Awards bash today, it warms up with news of a new integration deal for its open source web CMS eZ Publish with WoodWing's (news, site) publishing solution.

WoodWing (news, site)  helps new and traditional media to work smarter through the use of technology. Its latest content manager sees the company open its arms to the new generation of browsers.

WoodWing Software (news, site) has a list of clients that reads like an international Who’s Who of the print industry. Acquia (news, site) is the commercial arm that offers products and support for the open source software web content management system Drupal (news, site).

Last week, the two companies announced a new partnership that will see WoodWing's Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform ship with Acquia Drupal as the default content management system.

The result is an integrated package that gives publishers a tool that is simple to use as well as the ability to adopt print content for web users who are looking for interactive and engaging online experiences.

Stirring up the vibrant web publishing game is WoodWing, a company we haven’t mentioned in a while. The last time we spoke of them they were playing around with Alfresco and partnering for Smart Newspapers.

This time they’ve brought to the table the latest version of their flagship product, the somewhat awkward to pronounce Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform and they are building new and interesting bridges with their pluggable repository architecture. Let's take a quick look at how they're evolving the web publishing side of our landscape.