37. Olive Software Inc.: The result of the search for the word "Hitler" in an ActivePaper Archive produces not only the headlines in their original typefaces, but can also display the entire story in its original format, with the search terms highlighted.

41. Purup-Eskofot Inc.: The company's latest full-page scanner, the EscoScan 2024SE, can scan to a resolution of up to 2450 dpi, providing high-quality digitization of camera-ready advertising artwork.

35. News-Net: This Canadian company is a longtime integrator of classified systems for newspapers, having installed Suntype and Cams systems over the years. Eighteen months ago it acquired the Cams product from Multi-Ad (now AdBuilder) and once it got a look under the hood, elected to write a new classified system from the ground up. AdWorks is cross-platform and highly scalable (down to one seat). (905) 844-0524; e-mail: sales@news-net.net.

36. NewsView Solutions: A division of the company that owns the Salt Lake Tribune, NewsView is promoting its redistribution technology and e-commerce hosting module, which it says its newspaper sibling has used to gross more than $50,000 in the last 10 months. Based on NIFT and XML, NewsView technology was born as an "electronic library" (and NewsView still sells digital asset management systems) and has expanded to handle a variety of tasks, including interfaces with wireless publishing systems. (801) 257-8810; e-mail: info@newsviewsolutions.com.

37. Olive Software Inc.: We have liked the basic ideas behind Olive's ActivePaper technology ever since we first saw them at a NEXPO long ago and far away (see The Cole Papers, September 1994). This year, Olive will bring the fruition of nearly a decade's worth of work to New Orleans, showing the stuff that ActivePaper can do, which is two-fold: first, it can take decades of newspapers archived on microfilm and convert them to a digital format (the company says that it can convert a million pages in six to eight months); second, the information can be displayed in a revolutionary method that displays either a "quick" version that uses web-browser fonts, or a slightly less "quick" version, that reproduces the page as it actually appeared. Good stuff. (720) 747-1250, e-mail: info@olive-soft.com.

38. Pongrass Newspaper Publishing Systems: New this year from this Australian company is a "substantial rewrite" of Ad Juggler, Pongrass' ad tracking and workflow application. The product now integrates with XPress more closely, as well as working better with SQL databases. This latest version now incorporates the BondiPro Quark XTension, which provides a variety of features, including autoflow of text or graphics into predefined text or graphics boxes, a grid function, a divide-and-multiply function and dynamically resized text boxes (the bane of the existence of display-ad-makeup people). {61} 2936-93111; e-mail: sales@pongrass.com.au.

39. ProImage America Inc.: Page-tracking and page workflow are key components of any computer-to-plate environment and this U.S. division of an Israeli company has developed one of the best. NewsWay is a modular product that the company says is easy to configure, maintain and enhance; it also scales up well. Version 4.0 of NewsWay, new for NEXPO 2001, supports a full PDF workflow, with PDF imposition and PDF page pairing, as well as allowing for "double-burns" to change folios or add registration marks. The company says it is also releasing a "lite" version of the product for smaller papers. (609) 844-7576; e-mail: proimage@newsway.com.

40. Publishing Business Systems Inc.: While the rest of the circulation and business software world pretty much goes through either upheaval or stagnation, PBS just keeps chugging along. New this year from PBS is its MediaPlus Household Management, a single-address database that is integrated with the company's other MediaPlus modules -- advertising management and circulation management. This new product offers publishers a single source for maintaining customer relationships, lifestyle preferences and household demographics. And if you want just plain old circulation software, they have that too. (847) 981-9950; e-mail: marketing@pbs.com.

41. Purup-Eskofot Inc.: For many publishers, one of the largest drawbacks to going computer-to-plate (CTP) is the handling of camera-ready materials (aka Veloxes). Purup, a Danish company with offices in the United States that provide a full suite of CTP products including workflow management and platesetters, will be showing its EskoScan 2024SE scanner, which handles material up to 20-inches-by-24-inches and up to 2450 dpi. The 2024SE can handle transparencies or reflective material, continuous tone or line art, black-and-white or color, and it comes with the company's CopyDot software, which makes it ideal for handling Veloxes. (770) 427-5700; e-mail: america@pe.dk.

42. QuickWire Labs: There comes a moment in the life of a legacy front-end system when you have to decide whether to put a bullet through its head or merely pull the plug. But just before that point, when you're trying to keep it running on its last legs, one of the great things to do is to remove all the wire services and put them somewhere else. That somewhere else could be a QuickWire system, initially developed as a method of collecting wire for Quark Publishing Systems. In addition to its stand-alone and QPS modes, QuickWire (available in both Mac and Wintel flavors) has now been integrated with InDesign, and on the horizon are agreements to integrate it into a couple of front-end systems. (905) 562-3217; e-mail bmuir@southam.ca.

43. SAXoTech Inc.: Despite erroneous claims here, SAXoTech has always used its own word processor -- or at least it has until now. The latest for this Danish company is to integrate Quark CopyDesk SE text editor into the SAXoPress system, giving reporters and editors the ability to do true WYSIWYG write-to-fit. The CopyDesk integration comes as part of an overall upgrade to SAXoPress, which the company will be previewing at NEXPO 2001. Other changes include a new asset management module, a "major update" of the planning module and improved integration with the Publicus on-line publishing system. (301) 294-0805; e-mail: rlazlo@saxotech.com.

44. The Software Construction Co.: I was chatting with someone about a particular newspaper's image archiving environment. "Oh, they use Software Construction's MediaServer," said I. "Not for pictures," came the reply. "Just text." That's not bad for a company that got its start in the archiving business (it's now called digital asset management) on the picture side. SCC will be showing the latest version of the MediaServer product (which the company calls a "multimedia production and archive database"), as well as a new e-commerce module (which integrates with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 to provide a variety of tools for business web sites) and updates to the Web access, assignment and delivery modules. By the way, note the new phone number. (770) 205-5756; e-mail: sales@swcc.com.

45. Sybase Inc.: Whether you call it data warehousing or database marketing (and we realize that those are two distinctly different things), the collection of large amounts of information about customers -- be they advertisers, subscribers or buyers of single copies -- will probably be a defining function of the successful newspaper of the 21st century. Toward this end, Sybase -- the longtime maker of database software -- introduces its Industry Warehouse Studio (IWS) for Media. Based on open architecture (you can even use Oracle if you so desire), IWS is designed to deliver an analytic infrastructure company-wide, as well as customer-relationship management and Web analytics. And to prove they know what they're talking about, Sybase executives will be announcing a sale to an East Coast newspaper group. (813) 637-7211; e-mail: cnoren@sybase.com.

46. Unisys Corp.: Well, first and foremost, all the names have changed: it's now Advertising Manager (instead of AdCenter), Media Asset Manager (instead of DocCenter), News Content Manager -- Hermes (previously, merely Hermes) and News Gathering Manager (in a previous life, WireCenter). Each of these publishing system components has an update or two, making a visit to the booth important. (716) 742-6780, ext. 731; e-mail: william.wenger@unisys.com.

47. Vertis Newspaper Premedia Services: Formerly known as AdOut, this division of Vertis (formerly known as Treasure Chest, the printing and advertising firm) provides newspapers with not only outsourced display-ad-makeup services, but also with "spec" ads that can be downloaded from the Internet, customized in your shop and handed to a retailer for OK'ing. This service, called TheSpecDept.com, also provides access to two different clip-art archives (Dynamic Graphics and ArtToday). In addition, Vertis will be talking about its Adout.com, a web site that provides templated display-ad and on-line banner-ad creation services. (309) 682-6331; e-mail: specsales@vertisinc.com.

48. World Choice Travel Inc.: A Web product that provides on-line publishers with free on-line travel channels and booking services, World Choice splits revenues generated through publication-branded sites with its publisher affiliates. The company's booking tools include hotel, airline, car-rental, resorts and villas, cruise, golf vacation and travel-insurance engines. In addition, the company provides more than 1600 streaming videos, on-line guides for leading cities, maps, restaurant and shopping information, and World Choice's exclusive "family-friendly travel guides." (561) 845-8856; e-mail: suzanne@wctravel.com.

49. Xitron Inc.: This company has always found little niches within the output world -- it originally developed interface boxes for typesetters. Its latest idea is XiCopy, an interface for the Xitron Harlequin raster-image processor that drives Canon and Minolta color photocopiers. Xitron says that its methodology of driving color copiers is superior to PCI card-based solutions because the Wintel box isn't involved in the real-time output, so it's free to perform other tasks; the company also emphasizes that setup is as "easy to install and use as a Zip drive." Also in the booth with XiStrip is the company's digital stripping and post-raster-image processing imposition software. (734) 913-8080; e-mail: xitronsales@xitron.com.

50. Xpance: This longtime supplier of advertising management software -- previously known as Morcor Solutions Inc. -- will be showing its XpanceNet at NEXPO for the first time. XpanceNet allows sales representatives and advertisers to view proofs of ads through any browser for approval. The company will also show the 4.0 version of Xpance, its production, asset management and ad-tracking system with EPS and PDF workflow options. (613) 354-2912; e-mail: kmorrison@morcor.com.

-- dmc

From THE COLE PAPERS, June 2001, Copyright © 2001, All Rights Reserved.